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Airbus unveils transparent airplane

Airbus has unveiled a futuristic concept for a transparent plane that may be everyday air transport in 2050. With its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers of the future will get a window on the world as they fly through the sky. They will be able to see everything to the sides and in front of them.

The concept cabin unveiled at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, would be a bionic structure that 'mimics' the efficiency of the bird bone, claimed the company.

It would provide strength where needed, and also allows for an intelligent' cabin wall membrane, which controls air temperature and can become transparent to give passengers open, panoramic views.

The company believes that mid-century passengers might be able to enjoy a game of virtual golf or take part in interactive conferences, while the cabin 'identifies and responds' to travelers' needs.

In the 'interactive zone' there are virtual pop-up projections taking passengers to whichever social scene they want to be in, from holographic gaming to virtual changing rooms for active shoppers.

The 'smart tech zone' is tailored towards the more functional-orientated passenger with what Airbus describes as 'a chameleon-style offering.'

It aims to meet individual needs ranging from a simple to a complete luxury service, but all allowing 'you to continue life as if on the ground'.

"Our research shows that passengers of 2050 will expect a seamless travel experience while also caring for the environment," the Daily Mail quoted Airbus engineering executive vice-president Charles Champion as saying.

"The concept cabin is designed with that in mind, and shows that the journey can be as much a voyage of discovery as the destination," he added.

Most Expensive Car in the World

Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, probably the most expensive cars on the planet, with prices reaching £ 1.77 million.

Equipped with a capacity of 5.2 liter V10 engine, Sesto Elemento can reach speeds of 62 miles per hour in just 2.5 seconds. Superpremium car that can also reach a maximum speed of 200 miles per hour.

Unfortunately, with a body made of carbon fiber, the car was considered too light for driving on public streets. As a result, according to The Sun, the Italian manufacturer's cars can only be used in circuit race.

The plan is only 20 units Sesto Elemento manufactured by Lamborghini. Super luxury car that will be available in the market in October.

China's Jiaozhou Bay Bridge

This photo taken Wednesday, June 29, 2011 released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. China opened Thursday, June 30, 2011, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, which is 42 kilometers (26 miles) long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yan Runbo) NO SALES

China's Jiaozhou Bay Bridge

Jaguar and Williams F1 - Make Super Hybrid Cars

"I am proud to introduce C-X75, "said Brand Director of Jaguar Cars Adrian Hallmark.

Jaguar and Williams F1 - Super Hybrid Cars

Super car was first introduced at the Paris Car Show. C-X75 is designed to 'performance supercar' Williams F1 technology that combines an internal combustion and electric motors.

This car produces less than 99g/km CO2 emissions. Hallmark said the C-X75 is a 'breakthrough' vehicle CO2 emissions.

"This car will remain exclusively with the expertise of William F1," he continued.

This car is a transfer of motorsport technologies into ordinary road vehicles. This car is equipped with a traditional gasoline engine with two electric motors. This car is capable of driving more than 321 km.jam and can reach speeds of 96 km / h in three seconds.

This car is priced U.S. $ 1.15 million and will be produced from 2013 to 2015.

"C-X75 clear leader in technology and ready to drive into the future,"he concluded.

Helicopter Beast

CIA Director, Leon Panetta, said two Blackhawk helicopters used to transport the team striker Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last Monday. However, the ruins of the fallen helicopter did not show the characteristics of Blackhawk helicopters.

Photographs of the ruins of a U.S. helicopter crashed and then blown up by members of special forces Navy SEALs make a scene among aviation analysts on the internet. The remains of the tail, which shows the rear propeller, vertical fin and horizontal wings, did not show the characteristics of the tail section of MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, which is used to transport U.S. special forces.

One of the most striking difference is in the wings horizontal. At Blackhawk usual, this wing-shaped section rounded on the front like most wing aircraft, with strokes in the transverse stripes along the wings. While in the ruins of this helicopter, the characteristics of wing shape Blackhawk was not found.

Instead, the helicopter in Abbottabad is actually reminiscent of the typical form of the planes "stealth", like the F-117, namely the smooth surface of coated material is dark, with angular shapes at the sides. In the vane motor cover there is a layer-like shield. The number of propeller blades were also more than the number of propeller blades standard Blackhawk.

Instantly came the allegations, the special forces who stormed the house of Osama had come to use new tech stealth helicopter, which has never been publicly known.

"Now we know why it is difficult to identify the helicopter that dropped it. It was a stealth helicopter, developed in secret, the possibility is further modified version of the series H-60 Blackhawk," said Bill Sweetman, editor-flight magazine Aviation Week.

Not detected
Coating materials and forms distinctive angular stealth aircraft that aims to minimize the reflection of radar so the aircraft is difficult to detect radar. While the number of propeller blades are more numerous and cover the blades, according to Sweetman, aimed at reducing the typical noise of helicopters. "Propeller blades that reduce sound more 'whop-whop' (due to flick the propeller) is typical," said Sweetman.

One witness in Abbottabad, ABC News interviewed, admitted that he had not heard the helicopters approaching. The voice sounded after the new helicopter was directly overhead. The use of helicopter-tech stealth explain how U.S. forces could enter Pakistan territory far to the inland and then out to Afghanistan without being detected air defense radar system of the country.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry official said Salman Bashir, Pakistan Air Force plane flew two F-16 about 35 minutes after detecting foreign activity in its airspace. However, it proved the planes were unable to find U.S. helicopters. Use of helicopters the very secret it shows how the U.S. views this mission is very important and sensitive. However, the unfolding of this project stealth helicopter flight surprising observers.

U.S. helicopter ever develop stealth tech RAH-66 Comanche in the mid-1990s. However, the project was canceled in 2004 because the cost is too high.U.S. Defense Department at that time promised to apply the technology to complete the Comanche helicopter fleet that they already possess.

Until now there was no official confirmation from U.S. officials about the mysterious helicopter in Abbottabad that.

Future Smart Grid

Technology solutions at the level of infrastructure is less reported, but that does not mean we do not feel their impact. Let us imagine how important the role of infrastructure, ranging from energy to telecommunications, in our lives. The earthquake and tsunami that knocked out the energy infrastructure of Japan recently is proof of that.

Speaking of electric energy distribution to homes, in developed countries like in Europe, has begun to implement a technology called SmartGrid. In short, the definition SmartGrid is the electrical network using digital technology, including Internet Protocol (IP). SmartGrid arguably is the electrical grid system that is smarter and more modern.

SmartGrid provide network performance monitoring capabilities, which have a major impact on the quality of services provided. Another advantage for energy service providers located on the security and stability of service quality and ease of operation and utilization of energy is wasted.

Rudolph Mazza, APAC Marketing Director for Alcatel-Lucent Strategic Industries, to provide examples of SmartGrid technologies used to reduce electricity theft in Karachi. With the information obtained through this smart networking, will be known when and where the area missed most electricity, so that electric service providers can implement various strategies to reduce such theft.

Another example: SmartGrid used to know when the highest electric load and the home of what became the biggest burden. With detailed data obtained from SmartGrid, electricity providers will be able to anticipate and cope with various scenarios of energy crisis is going to happen.

Love from a scientific angle

Researchers from Syracuse University, Professor Stephanie Ortigue, found there were 12 areas of the brain are working when someone falls in love. The twelve areas that produce chemicals, such as dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline, and vasopression, resulting in euphoria. Her love also affects the function of psychology, metaphors, and physical assessment.

So, the love that comes from the heart or brain? "The question is always difficult to answer. I think it came from the brain," said Ortigue. "For example, a process in our brain can stimulate the heart. Some of the feelings in our hearts is actually a symptom of a process that occurs in the brain."

Another study found that increasing the amount of blood in grower factor for nerve plays an important role in how people socialize. This presents a phenomenon called the "love at first sight. " This is confirmed by the findings Ortigue which mentions that love can be present in the fifth of a second.

Ortigue explained by understanding how people fall in love and breakup, researchers can develop new therapies. "We can understand the breakup of disease," said Ortigue.

Ortigue study also found that there are parts of the brain that is different for different types of love. Unconditional love, such love of a mother to her child, the brain activity triggered by the public and in different places, including the midbrain. The passionate love between lovers engage cognitive areas, the expectation of reward, and physical assessment.

Air Liquid Used to Save Electricity

Discovery News - A British company developed a technique of storing the energy produced by wind and sunlight. This technique uses air stored in liquid form.

Renewable energy sources have a period because the sun does not always illuminate a location the whole time, and wind does not always blow. However, electricity is still needed at the time of no sun or wind.

To address that problem, Highview Power Storage develop a way to save energy dihasilan by wind and sunlight can be used as a backup for the second time these natural elements are not available.

Cryo System of Energy-owned company that uses excess electricity to power the air conditioning machine. The machine will reduce the air temperature to -196 degrees Celsius so that the air becomes liquid. The liquid was collected in a tank insulated with low pressure.

When electricity demand is high, liquid air was removed to a place that its temperature slightly warmer than -196 degrees Celsius so that turned into gas, which is used to drive turbines that generate electricity.

This system is only able to produce an efficiency of, meaning that the electricity generated only 50% compared to the electricity used for cooling systems. Efficiency increased to 70% when warm air is used. According to the Highview Power Storage, efficiency can be further increased if the system is installed in facilities that have heat dissipation.

Other systems that can be used to store energy using water. Excess electricity is used for water pumps to shelter a high position. When electricity is needed, the water flowed down through the dam and turn turbines. "Water pumping is more expensive and not seportabel CryoEnergy system," explained an article in the magazine Gizmag.

Another way to save energy is with the battery. But, the cost of storage it is U.S. $ 4.000 per kilowatt. CryoEnergy only cost U.S. $ 1,000 per kilowatt.

CryoEnergy project currently running in Scotland for 9 months. Highview plans to build commercial-scale system with a capacity of 3.5 MW. In 2014 they plan to make the 8 MW to 10 MW.

A Time Machine Has Been Invented

Science Daily - Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world's energy, has the potential to become the world's first time machine. The reason, according to a theory, this device is capable of sending materials to the past.

The theory is expressed by Tom Weiler, professor of physics at Vanderbilt University, and colleagues Chui Man Ho. Weiler and Ho based his theory on a theory called M-theory, a "theory of everything".

M-theory itself was developed by theoretical physicist who mentions the possibility that the universe is a membrane or "brane" that floats four dimensions in a multidimensional space of time called the "bulk". According to this view, the basic structure of the universe are permanently stuck on the "brane" that can not cross into another dimension.

Weiler and Ho was trying to develop this theory by utilizing the ability of the LHC. According to them, if the LHC has created a Higgs boson particle, which at the same time creating a second particle called the Higgs singlet at the same time, the Higgs singlet that will have the ability to jump into the 5th dimension, where the particle will be able to move forward or backward in time space and reappearing in the future or the past.

The interesting thing about this approach is a journey across time, according to this theory, all paradoxes can be avoided. "Because travel across time is limited only to the singlet Higgs particle, it is possible, for example, someone returning to the past and kill his parents before he was born," said Weiler.

Even so, Weiler admits that his theory still requires a long time to arrive at the proof stage. "But this theory did not violate the laws of physics or rules of any experiment," he said.

Ways To Save On Electric Bill Using Off Grid System – Solar And Wind Energy For The Home

Whether you are motivated by saving money, or because you care more about our ecological system than the average Joe, chances are you have thought about ways to save on electric bill using off grid system to power your home. There are ways and you can use them.
In some areas of the country, the solution is obvious – solar power. With the right combination of solar panels, charge controllers, and batteries, there is no reason why you could not run a normal family home off of this alone. These are known as stand-alone systems, and they are the ideal solution if you are in a more remote area.

What if you are not in our nation’s region that experiences abundant sunshine? Other options are still available to you. Wind energy is also jumps to mind when people think of alternative power. Wind also tends to be more available nationwide than sunshine.
While putting up a wind turbine on a small city lot may not be an ideal solution, there are many people living in suburban or semi-rural areas for whom this becomes an ideal and very viable solution.
It is fair to say that micro hydro electricity does not ready pop into the minds of many people. However, this is also quite an efficient source of renewable energy. Should the water supply available to you be plentiful, this can be a wonderful way to provide for lots of reliable energy for years to come. The energy produced this way is also very consistent, something which the other two alternatives are still working on.
Going the route of alternative energy and off the grid power not only frees you from the bounds of your local power company, but also drastically reduces your carbon footprint. Be sure to check out your area, consider your needs, and know your climate well before jumping into any of these. A little background research can save you more energy than you will ever know.