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Here's the page on Bloom from NextBigFuture


http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/02/bloom- ... gle+Reader

I have one possible explanation for why Google wants to sell energy. I just watched a CBS report on a fuel cell company called Bloom. According to the report, Google has been testing their fuel cells on site for a while now. http://www.bloomenergy.com/news/ Let’s say Bloom can do what it claims and ...

I still like my idea if only for a manned mission to the nearest star within the next 100 years. If Von Neumann intellegent computers/robots become available, you only have to send a small ship with one or two robots to the next star with enough fuel to decelerate rapidly on arrival. The robots use...

Late last year it sounded like funding was in a holding pattern until the new administration had settled in... I believe Obama released his budget a few weeks ago. I haven't looked too closely but I was wondering if there are any hints if programs like Polywell research will receive any funding? If ...

Also, people will get over their worries about fusion reactors soon enough. Within a few years everyone will be building them anyway. The economics are too compelling. The name of the reactor may be around for a lot longer then that, possibly hundreds of years, so I think the terseness gained by dro...

"Fire up the Bussard Fusion Reactors...." too much of a mouthful.

I don't know how it is for engineers, but in the software world when a team gets started on a project, we always pick a codename for it since it has to be called something before the marketing guys get around to giving it an official name. A good example of this is Windows Vista, which was known as ...

One of the most interesting arguments on the software side is that we don't have to understand how intelligence works. All we have to do is run a simulation of the human brain on a powerful enough computer. You don't have to understand something in order to copy it. Ray K has published some estimate...

One of the stated goals for this summer was a very high level review of the results of the WB-7 experiments. Does anyone know if this meeting will go ahead as planned? If so who's on the invite list and how many have RSVP'd?

One of the things we really should be trying to achieve is a closed loop economy, where everything is recycled and we don't allow polluting materials to build up in the environment. If we had unlimited cheap clean energy this goal might actually be attainable. For example I love the idea of the fusi...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/09/branson-greenhouse.html Richard Branson's offering $25m to the first group that can remove a significant amount of CO2 from the atmosphere without adverse effects. Seems to me that would be fairly straight forward once you had an unlimited supply of gree...