(old found draft post)CyberWar – Ref Links

Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:05
I will return to the topic of CyberWar sometime in the near future.
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(old found draft post) Energy News

Dec 16, 2008 @ 8:35
This was just going to an energy links roundup.
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Wireless Power Transmission test have been successful. Yeah for Tesla!
Suck it Al Gore: “Greenhouse Gas Comes from Solar Panels“
“Bjorn Lomborg Says Cool It!: Getting our priorities right on climate change and the world’s top problems“

West Allis (Milwaukee news): “Mini wind turbine proposal blows [...]

(old found draft post) biz ideas X 2

From Sep 26, 2008 @ 14:29
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What was I thinking?
asisted Living Robotics
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/a_billion_elders_by_2050in_chi.html
bio-discovery driven engineering
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/another_county_heard_from_on_a.html

Robot News (links – no post)

I was going to write a post on this along time ago. Instead, I just follow this blog – robots.net . So, I am dumping these links. I may write on robotics now and then.

I want to believe, I want to consume

Yes I do!

Source: http://nozama.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed05fc288330112798040b228a4-pi

The US case for radical energy use efficiency and for switching to alternative energy sources

I have been looking to blog on this for sometime, but it came out in a comment at TDAXP:
The best case for the US to move to radical energy use efficiency and to switch a lot more to alternative energy (while sharing or selling the techniques and technology to the rest of the world to [...]

Robot News – 12/11/2008

Danger Room reports that iRobot is “laying off ten percent of its flesh-and-blood workforce”.I am too cheap to buy a Roomba unless they can cut another $100 off the price.
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The Robot Wife story has appeared at Slash Dot and Hot Air. More appropriate would perhaps be to call this a Fembot or a (shudder) ComfortBot. [...]

The “I am too Lazy/Busy to post” Open Thread & Linkspasm

I have been both too busy at work to post or read much and also too tired/lazy in the evenings to post, so here are a bunch of issues that might interesting. I will make updates in the comments.
I will engage in comments here and elsewhere, but I most likely won’t post much if anything [...]

Robot News: “Ethical Killing Machines”

From Slash Dot:

“The New York Times reports on research to develop autonomous battlefield robots that would ‘behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans.’ The researchers claim that these real-life terminators ‘can be designed without an instinct for self-preservation and, as a result, no tendency to lash out in fear.

BTW: I think American Killbots would [...]

More Robot News: “Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots”

At FoxNews:

“The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm,” said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. “If we know there’s a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think [...]

Robot News: Frank J.’s “Do No Robo-Harm” List

It is pretty darn funny!

* Make sure they all have prominent big red buttons on them that deactivates them.
* Never give them AI by merging the minds of different serial killers.
* Make them out of Nerf™.
* Have a limit of five weapons per robot.
* Never give them access to time machines.
* Don’t have their programming [...]

Wow! Google Earth Ancient Rome!!!

I found a reference to “Google Earth Ancient Rome” via Rachel Lucas.
Wow that looks fun!
Here’s a YouTube promotion:

Energy Entrepreneurship: Plasma Gasification of Trash

I found this (with photos) via Slashdot:

Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 1,500 tons of trash each day, which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW [...]

“Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries”

This from the Danger Room is interesting:

The Pentagon has a new secret weapon to neutralize sites containing chemical or biological weapons: rocket balls. These are hollow spheres, made of rubberized rocket fuel; when ignited, they propel themselves around at random at high speed, bouncing off the walls and breaking through doors, turning the entire building [...]

“Meet Afghanistan’s Motorcycle Police, the U.S. Military’s Newest Weapon Against Taliban Insurgents”

From US News:
GHAZNI, Afghanistan—The newest weapon in the U.S. military’s fight against the Taliban here is the country’s first unit of motorcycle-riding Afghan police, trained and mentored by an Army captain with the help of a biker bar owner and Harley devotee from Washington state.
Be still my Milwaukee-born Harley-Davidson heart!
The article is a pretty good [...]

Robot News: “Roll over, Rover: Robot service dogs are on the way”

Via the Dallas News:

Inside Kemp’s Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, he and co-workers are developing a robot dog they say could someday perform the same functions as the service dogs that are vital to many physically disabled people.
At a skinny 5 feet 7 inches tall, with wheels instead of paws, their robodog, [...]

Robot News: “Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic”

Via Slash Dot:

Canadian government has commissioned a pair of unmanned subs to explore the geology of two underwater Arctic mountain ranges; the subs’ mission will be to provide evidence supporting Canada’s claim to huge swaths of potentially petroleum-rich seabed areas

Robot News: “Honda Unveils Robot That Helps You Walk”

From Fox News:

TOKYO  —  Imagine a bicycle seat connected by mechanical frames to a pair of shoes for an idea of how the new wearable assisted-walking gadget from Honda works.
The experimental device, unveiled Friday, is designed to support bodyweight, reduce stress on the knees and help people get up steps and stay in crouching positions.
Honda [...]

Robot News: “Recon Scout Robot to Assist Guards in California Prisons”

From Popular Mechanics:

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) signed a deal this summer with Minneapolis-based ReconRobotics to help field-test the company’s throwable robot, the Recon Scout.
The dumbbell-size device is already used by law enforcement agencies across the country and military personnel in Iraq—ReconRobotics won’t specify how many it has sold outright, though CEO [...]

Entrepaunerial News: Using YouTube to get the word out…

…was covered in last Sunday’s New York Times:

The video showed how, in a few easy steps, the Nintendo Wii remote controller — or “Wiimote” — could transform a normal video screen into a virtual reality display, with graphics that seemed to pop through the screen and into the living room. So far, the video has [...]

Robot News (and Entrepreneurial Opportunities): “Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans “

You might think this is something about a fictional robot uprising, but no it is from Slash Dot:

They are looking for contractors to ‘develop a software/hardware suite that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject. The main research task will involve determining [...]

Robot News: “Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart “

The exciting news is at SlashDot!

Interesting idea for an affordable 4GW oriented Air Force…

…here.
I would alter the approach off-hand it only a couple of ways:
1) Build  more new updated A-10 Warthogs2) The Air Force should begin staffing up a  Warrant Officer UAV pilot corps
A-10 Warthog

“Hyperion Nuclear Power Generator”

I got the scoop from a post at NextBigFuture.com. This looks very cool:
Hyperion Power Generation, Inc., (HPG) with the assistance of Los Alamos National Laboratory, is developing and commercializing a small, factory-sealed, mass-produced, transportable nuclear power module that is uniquely safe and proliferation-resistant. The technology utilizes and builds upon similar features of the 60+ TRIGA [...]

Future Closer: Space Solar Power

Solar Power generated from orbital satelites and then beamed down to earth is one of the 2 great future energy sources (the other being fusion) – and the most likely.
It is one step closer:
A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles (148 km) between two Hawaiian [...]