Science & Technology – Week of 10.12.14

Wind Blows Away Fossil Power in The Nordics, The Baltics Next
Reuters | 15 October 2014
Adding further wind power capacity at current market conditions could lead to power prices dropping…

9 Military Technologies That Will Soon Change the Face of War
Kiplinger | June 2014
Most are just a few years away…

Giant Battery Unit Aims at Wind Storage Holy Grail
Bloomberg | 14 October 2014
Cost-effective storage for wind and solar energy is the industry’s “Holy Grail”…

Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy
Scientific America | 15 October 2014
Initial work demonstrated the feasibility of building a 100-megawatt reactor…

Russia Develops Hybrid Fusion-fission Rreactor, Offers China Role
RT | 15 October 2014
So far no industrial-scale design managed to produce more energy than it consumes…

Open for Discussion: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from TEDxWhitechapel
TedBlog | 14 March 2013
Graham Hancock’s and Rupert Sheldrake’s talks from TEDxWhitechapel should be removed…

NASA Braces For Comet’s Close Encounter with Mars
Huffington Post | 13 October 2014
A comet will give Mars a close shave on Sunday, Oct. 19, and NASA…