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2012-05-13

CITE: A Scientific Ghost Town to Test Future Technology

CITE: New Mexico Ghost City Built by Pegasus Holdings Will Test Future Technology And Innovations | Technology | Sky News


A "world first" $1bn scientific ghost city will be built in New Mexico to test the latest next-generation technology.

Researchers will use the facility in Lea County, near Hobbs, to look at everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

The town will be modelled on the real city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, complete with roads, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.




CITE CITY :: Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation :: New Mexico, USA


The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE) will be the first of its kind, in scale and scope, fully integrated test, evaluation and certification facility dedicated to enabling and facilitating the commercialization of new and emerging technologies.

CITE will be modeled after a mid-sized modern American city, integrating real-world urban and suburban environments along with all the typical working infrastructure elements that make up today’s cities. This will provide customers the unique opportunity to test and evaluate technologies in conditions that most closely simulate real-world applications.

CITE Design :: Main :: Facility


CITY LAB
The hallmark of CITE is the City Lab, a full-scale, fully functional test city. City Lab will be a representative example of a modern day, mid-sized American city. It will occupy approximately 400 acres and include urban, suburban and rural zones as well as the corresponding infrastructure. City Lab will be pre-wired for data collection giving researchers the ability to simulate system-wide scenarios and then draw data from such activities.

The Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) |Services & Solutions | Pegasus Global Holdings

Pegasus Global Holdings has proposed to locate a privately financed owned & operated Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) in the State of New Mexico. With the support of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Pegasus has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state's Department of Economic Development.

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Benchmark Test & Evaluation Facilities

Green Energy

One of the fastest growing segments in energy production is focused on green technologies, but challenges still exist in the integration of these technologies into existing out dated infrastructure.  CITE will provide unique opportunities to drill down into the cost of introducing solar, wind, and Smart Grid technologies in a real world setting to help determine the next steps to success. 

Intelligent Transportation Systems

CITE will be home to a transportation highway/road network consisting of both high-speed, urban canyon, suburban and rural roads permitting testing and demonstration of new Intelligent Transportation System technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Europe and Asia. CITE will provide a highway infrastructure that will allow clients to  test and evaluate  unmanned vehicle technologies, traffic management systems, and vehicle-based applications without endangering other drivers. 

Homeland Security

Homeland security is a key component of the plan for CITE, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure.

Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure

A next-generation wireless infrastructure - terrestrial and satellite - is planned to serve  CITE, permitting the development, installation, testing and commercialization of high speed broadband technologies across all sectors of our economy, e.g. energy, transportation and security, as well as extension of such services to underserved communities

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2011-12-10

Automated Learning by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback

Learning skills like characters on The Matrix set to become a reality, say scientists | Mail Online


Scientists at Boston University and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, believe that in the future learning a new skill might involve nothing more than sitting in front of a computer screen and waiting for it to ‘upload’.

They have been studying how a functional magnetic resonance machine (FMRI) can ‘induce’ knowledge in someone through their visual cortex by sending signals that change their brain activity pattern.

This process is called Decoded Neurofeedback, or ‘DecNef’.





nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method - US National Science Foundation (NSF)


The result, say researchers, is a novel learning approach sufficient to cause long-lasting improvement in tasks that require visual performance.

What's more, the approached worked even when test subjects were not aware of what they were learning.

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The finding brings up an inevitable question. Is hypnosis or a type of automated learning a potential outcome of the research?

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At present, the decoded neurofeedback method might be used for various types of learning, including memory, motor and rehabilitation.




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2011-08-29

Bering Strait Tunnel

Mega Engineering: Building a Transcontinental Tunnel : Video : Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mega-engineering-building-a-transcontinental-tunnel.html
  • An underwater transcontinental tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia offers enormous benefits and but even greater challenges.

Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1680121.ece
  • Russia has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait as part of a transport corridor linking Europe and America via Siberia and Alaska.

     The 64-mile (103km) tunnel would connect the far east of Russia with Alaska, opening up the prospect of the ultimate rail trip across three quarters of the globe from London to New York. The link would be twice as long as the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France.

     The $65 billion (£33 billion) mega-project aims to transform trade links between Russia and its former Cold War enemies across some of the world’s most desolate terrain. It would create a high-speed railway line, energy links and a fibreoptic cable network.
Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail and Tunnel to Bridge the Bering Strait! | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
http://inhabitat.com/russia-green-lights-65-billion-siberia-alaska-rail-and-tunnel-to-bridge-the-bering-strait/2

  • The high speed railway and tunnel will be a private public partnership whose economic impact could be startling. 100 million tons of freight could be moved per year using the most efficient known way of transport. Proposed tidal energy plants could provide 10 gigawatts of energy and a string of wind power fields could churn a constant supply of clean energy, serving as a vital link to a worldwide energy grid. The tunnel alone would take fifteen years to complete — and an energy and railway network would take many more — but the project would significantly change the shipping and energy industry.
    Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
    • There have been several proposals made by various persons, TV-channels, magazines, etc. The names used for such bridges have included The Intercontinental Peace Bridge and Eurasia-America Transport Link.[1] Tunnel names have included TKM-World Link and AmerAsian Peace Tunnel. In April 2007, Russian government officials told the press that the Russian government will back a $65 billion plan by a consortium of companies to build a Bering Strait tunnel.[2] On 22 August 2011, the Daily Mail reported that the Russian government had approved a £60bn tunnel across the Bering Strait.[3][4] The £60bn comes from a rough Russian estimate of $100bn.[5]

    • Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska is on the right.

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    2011-02-04

    Valtra ANTS Tractor Concept

    ANTS – Future Tractor-Trailer Design Concept | Green Big Truck


    Designers at the Finnish tractor company Valtra have come up with their vision of the future of agricultural machinery with the ANTS machine.  This is a modular concept vehicle that can do everything from the field to delivery.  The concept was featured in Wired Magazine at Valtra’s unveiling on the company’s 60th anniversary.


    The ANTS concept is named after the Valtra’s current lineup of models: the A, N, T, and S series.  The concept is a versatile, lightweight system of modular tractor-trailer pieces that can be added or subtracted according to task need.



    Valtra

    ANTS concept

    The future of customization

    Farmers and contractors in the future will need versatile, lightweight and powerful machinery that allows them to handle tasks beyond traditional tractor usage and maintain maximum efficiency on their farm. Valtra ANTS was designed to meet these challenges while respecting Valtra’s traditions.


    Collected from: Valtra 60 years




    Concept machine Valtra ANTS looks to the future

    27.01.2011
    Valtra's 60th anniversary visualizes the future by presenting the concept machine: ANTS.

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    ANTS is a modular solution. It comprises two basic modules: The soldier, with a power of some 100 kW, and the worker, with a power of 200 kW. Both can act together or work individually. For supervisory tasks there is a cab that can be fitted onto both machines. When executing heavy work requiring the participation of an operator, the modules can be interlocked i.e. the rear wheels are adjusted to a narrow track while the front wheels of the other machine are moved abreast and the machines interlocked. In this mode a queen becomes available, with articulated steering and maximum power of 400 kW.

    The cab is a capsule that can be attached to both basic modules. It can rotate and may be placed at the front, rear or on top of the basic module. The cab may be lowered for safe access; most tractor related accidents occur when getting in and out of the cab.
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    2010-03-18

    The Internet of Things

    Clipped from:YouTube - The Internet of Things

    The Internet of Things

    Video featuring, from IBM: Mike Wing, Andy Stanford-Clark and John Tolva.

    Over the past century but accelerating over the past couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself - natural systems, human systems, physical objects - have always generated an enormous amount of data, but we didnt used to be able to hear it, to see it, to capture it. Now we can because all of this stuff is now instrumented. And its all interconnected, so now we can actually have access to it. So, in effect, the planet has grown a central nervous system.



    Clipped from:The Internet of Things | A Smarter Planet Blog

    Although Internet of Things and System of Systems are not IBM-bred concepts, they help to explain a great deal about what is happening now where the digital world meets the physical and intellectual



    Sources:
    1. YouTube - The Internet of Things
    2. IBM - Smarter Planet - United States
    3. IBM - A Smarter Planet - Overview - United States
    Related:
    1. System of systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    2. Internet of Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    3. The Internet of Things | A Smarter Planet Blog
    4. Internet of Things Explained (Video)
    5. Are Modern Web Apps Killjoys?
    6. Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Internet of Things
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    2009-11-03

    Space-Based Solar Power

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    Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space


    Japan's Wireless, Power-Generating, Solar Satellite
    Inhabitat

    Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes.

    A Step Closer to Solar Power in Space

    Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation are undertaking an ambitious project of $ 21bn. They are aspiring to design and develop a Space-based solar farm that would generate 1GW of power. This will require an area of four square kilometer consisting of rows of solar panels. This space solar farm will be housed 36,000km above the surface of the earth.
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    Bloomberg
    Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Bln Space Solar Project (Update1)


    A research group representing 16 companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., will spend four years developing technology to send electricity without cables in the form of microwaves, according to a statement on the trade ministry’s Web site today.
    MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Changes for the Better
    Space Systems
    Replicating Space on Earth

    Mitsubishi Electric's space technology includes the manufacture and implementation of satellites, satellite components, and ground systems. Over the past four decades, we have completed more than 330 satellite projects for communications concerns, government agencies, and other large-scale clients that make us the leading company of space systems in Japan.
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    space-based solar power image

    While the project might sound like science-fiction now, it likely that the landscape will be more favorable in 30 years (strict carbon emissions caps will make clean energy more cost-competitive, for example).

    space based solar power photo

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    Sources:
    1. Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space | Popular Science
    2. A Step Closer to Solar Power in Space
    3. YouTube - Space Based Solar Power
    4. Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Bln Space Solar Project (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
    5. Space Systems - MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC
    6. Japan's Moonshot? $21 Billion Invested in Space-Based Solar Power : TreeHugger
    Related:
    1. Solar Power Farms In Space - A Step Closer : Renewable Energy News
    2. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. To Install A Huge Solar Farm In Space - Green Diary
    3. Stock Watch | RCR Wireless News
    4. ISAS | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
    5. Wireless energy transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    2009-10-02

    Oogst by Tjep -- Farm of the Future

    Clipped from: Farm of the Future - Design.nl


    Farm of the Future

    Tjep. designs three new self-sustaining farm (yes farm) concepts for a self-initiated project called Oogst meaning Harvest in Dutch.

    How can we, as designers, contribute to the fundamental developments that are taking place in Dutch agricultural research? Is self-sufficiency the path towards a more ecological sustainable society? And if so, on what scale is it workable?

    These are some of the issues that Tjep. is trying to address in their new project Oogst, meaning Harvest in Dutch. Oogst comprises three new proposal for farms that combine the latest technology with regards to self-sustaining living and agricultural systems, and design. Each closed-system supplies its own energy and water supply and recycles waste and carbon, with food grown in a greenhouse and in the surrounds where possible.

    Clipped from: About Oogst

    Introduction

    In October 2008, Tjep. initiated an investigation into new developments in the agricultural sector. What we came across were radical ideas with regards to self-sufficiency, capable of getting us quite a bit closer to the concept of a sustainable society.

    [...]

    The first concept is a farm for one person:

    Oogst 1 Solo

    The second is a farm for one hundred people:

    Oogst 100 Community

    The third farm for a thousand people:

    Oogst 1000 Wonderland


    Clipped from: Oogst 1
    Oogst 1 Solo is a house for one person that provides its resident with food, energy, heat and oxygen. In principle, one could live in Oogst 1 Solo without ever having to leave the house.

    Oogst 1 Solo has a cross-shaped floor plan. The heart is the living area, with the kitchen, bathroom, storage room, living-room and at the top, the bedroom. The biggest part is reserved for the greenhouse and one section is reserved for all the recycling process such as seen in the Greenhouse Village.



    Clipped from: Oogst 100
    Oogst Community 100 is a self-sufficient farm for 100 people. The residents are all farmers. In the central greenhouse, all necessary crops are grown, the surrounding fields are for livestock.

    The central windmill provides all the necessary energy, there is a water-well under the windmill. But clean water is mainly collected condensed water from the greenhouse.




    Clipped from: Oogst 1000

    Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a self-sufficient farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park for 1,000 people per day. All food for the restaurant comes from the central structure and directly adjacent fields. Oogst 1000 combines extreme fun with extreme usefulness. One can see this amusement park as a huge people processor. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free.




    Sources:
    1. Farm of the Future - Design.nl
    2. About Oogst
    3. Oogst 1
    4. Oogst 100
    5. Oogst 1000
    Related:
    1. A Rube Goldberg Amusement Park for Sustainable Living | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
    2. Greenwala - Oogst -- Living In A Self-Sustaining Habitrail Of Happiness
    3. Dezeen » Blog Archive » Oogst 1 Solo by Tjep.
    4. Dezeen » Blog Archive » Oogst 100 Community by Tjep.
    5. Oogst 100 Community By Tjep | IGreenSpot
    6. Dezeen » Blog Archive » Oogst 1000 Wonderland by Tjep.
    7. tjep: oogst 1000 wonderland
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    2009-08-24

    Eccerobot -- The first anthropomimetic robot

    New Scientist


    Robot with bones moves like you do

    Their project, the Eccerobot, has been designed to duplicate the way human bones, muscles and tendons work and are linked together. The plastic bones copy biological shapes and are moved by kite-line that is tough like tendons, while elastic cords mimic the bounce of muscle.

    Like looking in the mirror (Image: The Robot Studio)

    "We want to develop these ideas into a new kind of 'anthropomimetic robot' which can deal with and respond to the world in ways closer to the ways that humans do," says Owen Holland at the University of Sussex, UK, who is leading the project.

    Europe's leading compliant robot research project in collaboration with

    clipped from eccerobot.org
    Welcome to the ECCEROBOT Homepage, the home of the first anthropomimetic robot!!!
    ECCCEROBOT (Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot) is a three-year project funded by the 7th framework programme of the EU (ICT-Challenge 2, "Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics") that has the goal to build and control the first anthropomimetic robot and finally, to investigate its human-like cognitive features.

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    ECCEROBOT - Test rig for the new shoulder design

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    ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot


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    Sources:
    1. Robot with bones moves like you do - tech - 24 August 2009 - New Scientist
    2. the robot studio - advanced biomimetic robots
    3. ECCEROBOT
    4. Project Description
    5. Overview
    6. YouTube - ECCEROBOT - Test rig for the new shoulder design
    7. YouTube - ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot
    Related:
    1. Prof Owen Holland : Informatics : University of Sussex
    2. ECCEROBOT emulates your musculoskeletal system, looks like Beaker from the Muppets
    3. ECCEROBOT Anthropomimetic Robot: Science Fiction in the News
    4. Eccerobot | Beyond The Beyond
    5. YouTube - eccerobot's Channel
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    2009-08-18

    Faster-Than-Light Space Travel

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    Is a Dark-Energy Fueled Spaceship Possible?

    Warp-drive
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    Warp Drives and… Black Holes?

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    Could warp drives be a bad thing for Earth?
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    FOX News.com

    Physicists: Faster-Than-Light Travel Might Be Possible

    Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

    To Bearly Go?: Baylor physicists propose way to travel faster than light

    Baylor%20Enterprise.jpg
    Baylor University physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy have submitted a paper to ArXiv.org explaining how an engine could bend the rules of physics to travel faster than the speed of light without violating Einstein’s theory of relativity.

    According to Discovery News, the proposal “involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.


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    clipped from dsc.discovery.com

    Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light

    Tapping the Fabric of Space-Time

    The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft. A beam of light next to the ship would still zoom away, same as it always does, but a beam of light far from the ship would be left behind.

    That means that the ship would arrive at its destination faster than a beam of light traveling the same distance, but without violating Einstein's relativity, which says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, since the ship itself isn't actually moving.

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    discovery channel

    Dark Energy and Surfing Spacetime

    warp speed drive richard obousy Alex Szames
    Artists conception of a warp drive spacecraft.

    robousy: The idea is as follows:

    One essentially contracts space itself in front of a spacecraft, and expands space behind.

    Because spacetime is not limited by the speed of light restriction, this provides a tantalizing mechanism to zip through space at faster than light speeds!

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    Sources:
    Is a Dark-Energy Fueled Spaceship Possible?
    Warp Drives and… Black Holes? | Astroengine.com
    FOXNews.com - Physicists: Faster-Than-Light Travel Might Be Possible - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
    To Bearly Go?: Baylor physicists propose way to travel faster than light (What's Wrong with the World)
    Warp Speed Engine Designed : Discovery News : Discovery Channel
    Dark Energy and Surfing Spacetime : Discovery Space
    Dr. Richard Obousy - Supersymmetry Breaking Casimir Warp Drive
    Related:
    To Bearly Go?: Baylor physicists propose way to travel faster than light (What's Wrong with the World)
    Warp Speed Engine Designed : Discovery News : Discovery Channel
    Richard Obousy Consulting :: Physics and Technology Consultant
    Spaceflight at warp speed? Make it so - Space.com- msnbc.com
    Traveling Faster Than the Speed of Light
    Star Trek-like 'warp drive' theorized
    Richardobousy’s Weblog
    Surfing Spacetime : Wide Angle : Discovery Space
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