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Solar Impulse- Tech in operation- Oxygen System Renewable- Business Class Seats

Key Innovations – HB-SIA & HB-SIB    Read below to find out all the new things in this aircraft. 
Structure carbon fiber sheets only 25g/m² (0.8 oz./11 square feet).
– 3 times lighter than paper
Solar Cells only 135 microns thin – like an average human hair
Motors 6% energy loss versus 70% in normal thermal motors
Batteries high energy density – 260 kW/kg (348 hp)
Cockpit isolation foam – pores 40% smaller  than previous materials

For more on this go to this link.     Go here to get all the links to company web site that developed this.

Bertrand Piccard- Solar Impulse- Video- Internet- Solar Aircraft- NO GAS- Day and Night

What does it take to make available all the video for Solar Impulse ?

CBS Interview

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New CEO of American Airlines selling his Home in Paradise Valley AZ for 13 Million First Look

  Beds:6 BedBaths:10 BathHouse Size:15,000 Sq FtLot Size:4.41 AcresYear Built:2008

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45 Top Press Release on Products you might have missed at 2013 CES Show

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How to access TV news on any topic for the last three years

This is fantastic news for journalists and voters: the Internet Archive has launched the free TV News Search & Borrow service. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C.  The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.  Older materials are [...]

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book review | Human+ — smartdust, spooks, psychics, and transhumans

Each artificial neuron would communicate with the brain via electrical signals and would be able to wirelessly interface with external hardware, enabling brain-computer networking. Once such networking was established, David noted with interest, Internet telephony could be quite simply deployed. Synthetic telepathy, in other words. … Such advanced technology may be developed in a couple of [...]

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SSS

No, this is not about WWII SS, although it’s about another form of evil, maybe. This is mostly a reaction to the sales pitch from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, presenting the new Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD at a much touted press conference yesterday. I’m not talking about a new phenomenon, nor mere $$$, [...]

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book review | The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates

Howard Bloom‘s forthcoming book The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, is arguably his best book so far, a page-turner with deep thoughts and entertaining bits on every page. Is The God Problem a book on the history of science? No, more like a philosophical novel. Wait, perhaps an autobiography? Pop culture? All of the above, and none. The [...]

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Why immersive virtual reality is the next generation of gaming: part 2

At the recent E3 2012 show, I saw the future of virtual reality and gaming. It’s a robust stereoscopic head-mounted display (HMD) called the Oculus RIFT from hardware pioneer Palmer Luckey, shown off by legendary computer graphics guru John Carmack, technical director of Id Software. Using aspheric lenses and side-by-side stereoscopy, the Oculus RIFT boasts a wide field-of-view of [...]

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Why immersive virtual reality is the next generation of gaming: part 1

It’s now obvious that immersive virtual reality is finally back in the consumer market — with a vengeance. Especially with the recent advent of FOV2GO, a free DIY portable fold-out iPhone and Android viewer that turns the smartphone screen into a 3-D VR system. You can create one with foamboard and 2 cheap plastic lenses, and downloadable software [...]

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