Renewable Energy Projects Aren’t Always the Solution
Over the past 40 years, 20% of the Amazon Rain Forest has been lost due to deforestation mostly by indigent farmers seeking to eke out a living; an area the size of 200 football fields…
Engineering
How Technology Keeps You Safe With Engines Spinning at 100,000 RPM
The thrust from a turbine is generated through hundreds of precision blades spinning at 100,000 rpm. These blades have to be precision machined to a precise airfoil. If even one of these blades does not…
Million-Year Data Storage Disk May Outlast Mankind
The amount of data that can be stored has increased enormously since IBM introduced the world’s first commercial computer capable of storing 5MB of data on a 24-inch diameter magnetic disk drive back in 1956.…
Groovy Toyota Changes Colors to Match Your Mood
Remember how popular mood rings were in the 70s? Happy. Sad. Mad. Mood rings supposedly read your mood and change colors to match it. Toyota has come up with, what’s basically, a mood ring on…
Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) Unveil Ocean’s Mysteries
According to scientists, 80% to 90% of the world’s oceans are unexplored. Humans may know more about the moon and outer space than oceans just 15 miles off the world’s coastlines. The Mariana Trench, the…
$100 Billion Transatlantic “VacTrain” Would Be Largest, Most Complex Project Ever
With the Seikan Tunnel connecting Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan completed in 1988 and the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994 still struggling to turn profits, it is questionable whether the $10 billion, sub-Alps, Gotthard Base Tunnel scheduled for…
Smog Eating Vacuum Cleaner to Suck Up Beijing’s Black Killer Mists
The common refrain to the young and ambitious from those who are older, wiser and more experienced is twofold: “follow your dreams” and “go where the opportunities lie.” This could mean: New York City for…
Technology Outsmarts Mother Nature’s Fiery Fury
Climate change has altered weather patterns around the world. According to researchers, as the greenhouse gases warm the earth, we can expect more wildfires across the globe in the near future. Every year, forest fires…
Safer, Smaller Helium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors at Half the Price?
Last December, IndustryTap wrote “Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years,” in which young MIT engineers started a company using modernized nuclear reactor designs developed in the 1950’s. The company, Transatomic Power, with…
Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now
Last June, we touched on the construction of Sky City in Changsha, China, a towering structure that will peak at 838 meters high. Nearing its completion, the engineers and architects are already hailing it a…
