Earth Based Laser Telescopes Now Seeing Better Than $1.2 Billion Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was carried into lower earth orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere by the space shuttle in 1990. Hubble has a 7.9 ft (2.4 m) aperture. Hubble’s orbit allows it to observe ultraviolet,…

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DNA Is The Next Big Data Storage Technology

Macrocosm of Data Finds New Home Finally a solution to the bailiwick of CIOs everywhere. As data continues to amass current methods of storing it will soon be mothballed. News from Harvard that bacteria in…

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Bloomberg Announces 2013 New Energy Pioneers From Around The World

Bloomberg’s sixth annual New Energy Finance Summit in New York City recognizes 10 leading companies out of more than 200 from around the world from energy sectors including bioenergy, energy efficiency, digital energy and solar…

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1 Million Square Yard Urban-Suburban Hybrid From BIG

A Lively Urban Landscape Combined With Open Views And Sunshine Danish architect Bjarke Ingels from the firm BIG announced in April 2013 that his company had won an international competition for the design of the…

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The Biggest Digging, Moving & Lifting Equipment In The World

Giant Bucket Wheel Excavator The TAKRAF RB293, pictured above is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF. It holds the record for the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history. It is…

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World’s Most Feared Submarine, The Russian Typhoon Class Ballistic Missile Submarine

The movie “Hunt For Red October” based on the novel by Tom Clancy, was a fictional hunt for a Russian Typhoon Class submarine. At issue was the “Cold War” intrigue threatening the entire world with…

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$540 Million Cable Stay Bridge Is The Longest In North America

Engineers seeking to improve vehicle and truck transportation and protect South Carolina’s multibillion-dollar container trade also had to deal with a history of huge earthquakes, 1886, nearly leveling Charlestown, mega hurricanes like Hugo in 1989,…

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Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been

In a recent IndustryTap article “Jobs Market 2045: What Will We Do When Machines Do All The Work?” professor Moshe Vardi notes that humans don’t deliberate enough about new technologies or projects and their long-term…

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A Look At The World’s Largest Trucks

There are a number of 400 short ton (363t) payload capacity, haul trucks in the world, including the Caterpillar 797F, Bucyrus MT6300AC, Liebherr T 282B, Belax 75600, Komatsu 960E-1 and the Terex 33-19 “Titan”. These…

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Can A Revolutionary New Gas Eliminate All The World’s Pollution?

Revolutionary Technology To Make Fossil Fuels “Climate Neutral” A company called HydroInfra Technolgies (HIT) based in Stockholm, Sweden has created a new patented “scrubber” process that will drastically reduce pollutants emitted by the world’s 60,000…

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