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Last year the USN seemed very interested in rail-guns. Not so much this year.

Further, the rail-gun projectiles are being adapted to chemical propellant guns. Why the loss of interest in rail-guns? Anyone?

Thanks.

Not directly related to the Great Recession, but... "Prosecuting Wells Fargo Executives Won’t Solve Anything - I know. I helped prosecute the executives at the center of Enron." By Samuel W. Buell "It was revealed last week that Wells Fargo, the second-largest bank in the country, has been caught in...

Why the S.E.C. Didn’t Hit Goldman Sachs Harder By Jesse Eisinger "n the late summer of 2009, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were preparing to bring charges in what they expected would be their first big crackdown coming out of the financial crisis. The investigators had been looki...

A more detailed article:

Strongest Material Carbyne Produced Inside Double Wall Carbon Nanotubes as Pathway to Bulk Production

http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/04/strong ... duced.html

with links to other material.

Ultra-Long, One-Dimensional Carbon Chains are Synthesized for the First Time "Researchers involved in an international study, in which the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has participated, have stabilised chains of more than 6,400 carbon atoms using double-walled nanotubes. In a study, in w...

Then there's this: Researchers Develop Supercondenser That Can be Charged by the Sun "Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden, have created a supercondenser that can be charged by the sun. It contains no expensive or hazardous materials, has patents pend...

Thank you and we look forward to the remaining answers!

I hope polywells get a slice of this money:

Bill Gates and Tech Billionaires Launch Clean Energy Coalition

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/ene ... -coalition

And the other fusion candidates, too!

Solo, I thought relativistic energies would be too much of a good thing for polywell electron injection, but when I think "polywell electrons" and add "relativistic," I next think about the air-propellant cruiser/SSTO Dr. Bussard envisioned years ago. The operative phrase there is "relativistic elec...

I don't know if this is apropos: Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators Innovation could hold the key to ultra-compact machines useful for materials science and medical imaging "A new discovery by physicists could hold the key to the construction of inexpensive, broadly useful, and po...

You're welcome. When I was writing about the additive manufacturing exhibit I thought about your scientist son. He will have some competition.

As soon as I remember/figure out how to post the pictures natively here, I will correct my previous post. It's been a while since I posted a picture.

http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Robert_Peters/media/20150521_Damper.jpg.html http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Robert_Peters/media/20150521_SWFC_1.jpg.html http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Robert_Peters/media/20150521_SWFC_2.jpg.html http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Robert_Peters/media/20150521_...

I had the very great privilege to vacation in Shanghai China while my wife was working (1) in a nearby free-trade zone. I won't bore you with all of my doings while I was there (2), but I did see some salient happenings and form some impressions which might be useful. One funny thing happened after ...

Just so much time in a day. Just so, indeed. The answer to the rhetorical question: No Russian wants to spend more money on Proton (well maybe the people who build it...). V. Putin certainly does not want to spend more money on the Old and Busted when New Hotness is already a cheeping mouth demandi...

Is not Angara intended as the Proton's replacement? "Angara will primarily be launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Beginning in 2021, plans call for it to also be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome under construction in Eastern Russia.[29] This would allow the phase out of Proton, a rocket who...