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Category Archives: Science and Technology
Sci-Tech: DARPA RFI for defusing the threat of ionizing radiation
DARPA is seeking proposals for projects to investigate ways to mitigate the health effects of ionizing radiation: DARPA Seeks to Defuse the Threat of Ionizing Radiation – DARPA
DARPA releases request for information on novel approaches to mitigate immediate and long-term health damage from acute exposure to ionizing radiation and model its biophysical effects
The program is aimed at dealing with terrestrial situations but if it results in useful treatments, the would be useful for space explorers and settlers if they are subjected to high radiation doses when exposed to a solar flare event with insufficient shielding.
Sci-Tech: 3-D printing pen a big hit on Kickstarter
A tiny startup with a really cool idea – handheld 3D printing – is seeking to raise $30k on Kickstarter. So far they have a mere $281,645. And they have 33 days left…
- 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen by WobbleWorks LLC. — Kickstarter
- A 3-D Printing Pen Wows Kickstarter – MIT Technology Review
Sci-Tech: Lockheed-Martin fusion reactor project
NextBigFuture.com points to an interesting talk given at the Solve for X forum about a Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks project about which I believe little has been revealed previously. In the video below, Charles Chase of L-M discusses their compact nuclear fusion reactor design, which he believes could lead to a working 100MW prototype reactor in 5 years and go into commercial production by 2022. Charles Chase on energy for everyone – Moonshots – Solve for X.
He tells what the design does, i.e. it uses tritium-deuterium, creates a high beta configuration, provides very good containment and stability but unfortunately he gives no details on how exactly it does these things. I hope the reason he is now able to discuss this in a public forum is because they are in the process of publishing scientific papers on it but we will just have to wait and see.
“Fund me, maybe?”
Finding money for research is not easy for your average scientist: Fund me, maybe? – The Cosmic Ray Show