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Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:13 AM
on 04th July 2008 At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels. This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants.
The 'Lilypad' cities would be powered by renewable energy
sources Based on the design of a lilypad, they could be used
as a permanent refuge for those whose homes have been
covered in water.
Major cities including London, New York and Tokyo are seen as
being at huge risk from oceans which could rise by as much as
3ft by the end of this century.
This solution, by the award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, is designed to be a new place to live for
those whose homelands have been wiped out. The 'Lilypad City' would float around the world as an independent
and fully self-sustainable home. With a lake at its centre to collect and purify rainwater, it would be accessed by
three separate marinas and feature artificial mountains to offer the inhabitants a change of scenery from the
seascape. Power for the central accommodation hub is provided through a series of renewable energy sources
including solar panels on the mountain sides, wind turbines and a power station to harness the energy of the waves.
Mr Callebaut said: 'The design of the city is inspired by the shape of the great Amazonia Victoria Regia lilypad.
Some countries spend billions of pounds working on making their beaches and dams bigger and stronger. 'But the
lilypad project is actually a long-term solution to the problem of the water rising.' The architect, who has yet to
estimate a cost for his design, added: 'It's an amphibious city without any roads or any cars. The whole city is
covered by plants housed in suspended gardens. 'The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of humans and
nature.' 'Some countries spend billions of pounds working on making their beaches and dams bigger and stronger.
'But the Lilypad project is actually a long term solution to the problem of the water rising.'And it has the other
objective of providing housing for refugees from islands that have been submerged.'
TU Delft recently presented the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with
its flapping wings is very similar to a dragonfly.
Ultra-small, remote-controlled micro aircraft with cameras, such as this DelFly, may well be used in the future for observation flights in
difficult-to-reach or dangerous areas.
The DelFly Micro is a 'Micro Air Vehicle' (MAV), an exceptionally small remote-controlled aircraft with camera and image recognition software.
The Micro, weighing just 3 grams and measuring 10 cm (wingtip to wingtip) is the considerably smaller successor to the successful DelFly I
(2005) and DelFly II (2006).
The DelFly Micro, with its minuscule battery weighing just 1 gram, can fly for approximately three minutes and has a maximum speed of
5 m/s. Ultra-small remote-controlled, camera-equipped aircraft are potentially of great interest because they could eventually be used
for observation flights in difficult-to-reach or dangerous areas.
Nature
The basic principle of the DelFly is derived from nature. The 'dragonfly' has a tiny camera (about 0.5 grams) on board that transmits its
signals to a ground station.
With software developed by TU Delft itself, objects can then be recognized independently. The camera transmits TV quality images,
and therefore allows the DelFly II to be operated from the computer. It can be maneuvered using a joystick as if the operator was
actually in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aim is to be able to do this with the DelFly Micro too.
Miniaturization
The development of the DelFly is above all the story of continuing miniaturisation of all the parts, from the DelFly I (23 grams and 50 cm)
via the DelFly II (16 grams and 30 cm) to the present DelFly Micro (3 grams and 10 cm).
The DelFly II drew huge attention in 2006 because it could fly horizontally (21 km/hr) as well as hover, just like a hummingbird, and also
fly backwards. The DelFly Micro, incidentally, cannot do this just yet.
In a few years time, the new objective of the project, the DelFly NaNo (5 cm, 1 gram) will have been developed. The Micro is an
important intermediate step in this development process. A second objective for the future is for the DelFly to be able to fly entirely
independently thanks to image recognition software.
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It’s called BLUE GENES: A memoir of Loss and Survival.
It’s the story of my family…
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Wednesday February 27, 2008
Category: Art, Creativity, Flower Mandalas, Healing, Mandalas, Spirituality, Transformation
Fifteen Flower Mandalas
I'd like to take this space to thank those of you who have downloaded my free Fifteen Flower Mandalas screensaver, and particularly those who have
written back. The responses so far have been interesting. Until now, I didn't know that people from all parts of the world -- from the tip of Alaska to Cape
Town and beyond -- were checking into this blog. That, alone, is gratifying. And I'm grateful to those of you who shared your positive responses to my work,
and to those, as well, who have shared their similar struggles with life, death, near-death, and everything in between. It has been, and continues to be, a
heart-warming bounty. Thank you.
Several of you have asked me to send you, along with the screensaver, the "meaning" of each mandala. There's no simple answer to this question. I can
list the flowers from which they were derived, and some feelings and thoughts that occur to me when I look at them, but I believe each viewer, if he or
she meditates on a particular image, will come away from it with a different sense, one specific to that person in that moment.
Here are the flowers. They match up, from top-left to bottom-right, with the mandalas in the above image.
Row 1: Beach Rose, Blue Pansy, Dandelion Head, Daylily (rear view), Dying Amaryllis.
Row 2: Galliardia 'Arizona Sun', Iris Germanica, Marigold, Pink Dahlia, Pink Peony.
Row 3: Queen Anne's Lace, Violet Morning Glory, White Lily, White Rose, Yellow Lily.
Some feelings I get (now, today): From the Beach Rose, love. From the Blue Pansy, stillness. From the Dandelion Head, rebirth. From the Dying Amaryllis,
vastness and motion. From the Galliardia, surprise. From the Iris Germanica, a meeting of masculine and feminine energy. From the Marigold, momentum
and stability (the 'flywheel'). From the Pink Dahlia, openness. From the Pink Peony, protection. From the Queen Anne's Lace, playfulness. From the Violet
Morning Glory, a holy spirit. From the White Lily, complexity. From the White Rose, transformation. From the Yellow Lily, strength.
What feelings do you get from these images? Let me know, either as a comment to this post or to in the Art, Healing, and Transformation group.
More anon, and thanks in advance for your responses.See you in cyberspace,
- David David J. Bookbinder, LMHC Request a free flower mandala screensaver: Fifteen Flower Mandalas
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Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO) Leads Multi-Service Aviation Milestone Event
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Robins AFB, Georgia– The Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO), headquartered at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia recently announced the first military airlift of a fuel cell powered military vehicle. The effort to convert the vehicle was a true multi-service collaboration including the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center/Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center (FCTec), the U.S. Marine Corps, MAG-49 Det Bravo C-130 Airlift Unit and the U.S. Air Force APTO.
The MB-4 Aircraft Towing Tractor, a four wheel drive, four wheel steer, 14,000 pound drawbar pull vehicle was converted from a diesel powered mechanical drive vehicle to a fuel cell powered electric drive vehicle. The integration effort, accomplished by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, incorporates a Hydrogenics, Incorporated 65kW Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell system, Dynetek Industries’ carbon fiber wrap hydrogen storage system and Enova’s Panther 120 Drive System. The combination of these subsystems enables the vehicles towing capacity to remain unchanged, while the addition of a power inverter enhanced the vehicles capability by permitting power generated by the fuel cell to be delivered to aircraft and/or ancillary support equipment.
The vehicle was transported to Hickam AFB, Hawaii by Marine C-130 airlift on the 20th of October, 2006. The vehicle will be put through a demonstration/validation program while in daily use at Hickam AFB.
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Military’s Active Denial System is First True Ray Gun
John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief -- Design News, March 6, 2008
http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6538932.html?nid=2321&rid=464641439
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From the pages of Design News
Military’s Active Denial System is
First True Ray Gun
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John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief --
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This breakthrough looks like an airport radar except the one rolled out to the media recently
is mounted on a hybrid Humvee. The operator sitting in the Humvee lines up the target and
fires a 95 GHz blast from a 100 kW ultra-high-frequency radio transmitter.
The sensation at the target up to 500m away is akin to taking a heat blast from an opened
“oven door,” according to Marine Corps. Col. Kirk Hymes. “This does not incapacitate them.
This pushes them back and out of the way,” he says. As such, the unit promises to be another
tool for crowd control or for protection of Navy ships.
“Navy ships have curious onlookers who try to push the envelope. Let’s steer closer to those big
Navy ships. But we have a tremendous responsibility to protect the men and women on that ship.
When there is mixture of terrorists and tourists and they are not readily moving back, this system
can be used to gently push those individuals back.
It does not have a lasting effect,” he says, adding that the weapon’s development
really accelerated after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000
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Indeed, the 1 mm radio wave penetrates the top 1/64th of an inch of skin and just down to the nerve endings. When hit, the target moves away from the beam and the sensation ceases. Each blast is four sec and in testing with 600 volunteers and 10,000 exposures, the Air Force, which has developed the technology over the past 15 years, claims there is only one tenth of a 1 percent chance of minor injury such as a blister or rash.
The device comes at a time when the military is serving in a multitude of non-traditional roles such as peace-keeping and humanitarian efforts.
“We have instances where helicopters had a hard time landing to deliver foodstuffs.
Hunger is a pretty motivating factor and if I was senior member of my tribe or clan and I’ve watched my family die from hunger, I’ll do what it takes to get those foodstuffs. How do you non-lethally get them to stand in an orderly fashion so the food can be delivered safely and proportionally and protect those who aren’t in a rush?
If you can target individuals to stay back, leave the area or form and orderly line, it only takes a couple of individuals to be targeted and it says there’s something going on here,” says Col. Hymes.
At the heart of the transmitter is a water-cooled gyrotron developed by CPI Inc. based in Palo Alto, CA. The gyrotron creates the radio frequency beam. The aiming device is comprised of “relatively simple” optics, which look down the center of beam.
In addition to the Humvee-mounted unit, the Air Force has also built one containerized version, which is armored and enclosed to survive rugged environments. Each system costs about $10 million, says Hymes.
Raytheon is the systems integrator.
The testing of the ADS itself has been proven and now focuses on how it can
be maintained and operated in challenging environments such as Iraq’s dust and heat.
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Design News will explore this new weapon in depth in an upcoming issue.
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SUPER-EFFICIENT ELECTROLYSIS
Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered
when the gases are recombined. This is true under normal circumstances, but it is not true under ALL circumstances. When ordinary tap water is hit with a series
of high voltage impulses, using a system developed by Stan Meyer (USA) and again more recently by Xogen Power (Canada), it splits into Hydrogen and Oxygen
gas with significantly less electrical input.
Even ordinary electrolysis can be made more efficient by using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better). For instance,
Potassium Hydroxide works better than Sodium Hydroxide. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures on the electrodes work
better than others. Stan Meyer used concentric tubes with very close tolerances instead of the standard practice of parallel flat plates.
The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact
that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, with no outside electrical
input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever.
http://www.free-energy.ws/electrolysis.htmlMay 21, 2005 - 08:35
 From: http://www.free-energy.cc/electrolysis.html
"...Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. This is true only under the worst case scenario. When water is hit with its own molecular resonant frequency, using a system developed by Stan Meyers (USA) and again recently by Xogen Power, Inc., it collapses into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas with very little electrical input. Also, using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better) changes the efficiency of the process dramatically. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures work better than others do. The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen with no outside electrical input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever...."
LINKS
The following two links lead to videos of Stan Meyer's
Water Fuel Cell technology:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/67009/water_power_car/
http://www.lonelantern.org/stanmeyersvideo.html
http://www.waterfuelcell.org
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water, the Lilypad will drift around the world following the ocean currents and streams.It will be accessed by three
marinas and will also feature three 'mountains' to offer the inhabitants a change of scenery.Power will be provide
through a series of renewable energy sources including solar, thermal, wind energy, hydraulic and a tidal power
station.The city will actually produce much more energy than it consumes and be entirely 'zero-emission' as all the
carbon-dioxide and the waste will be recycled.
Mr Callebaut added: 'It's an amphibious city without any roads or any cars.The whole city is covered by plants housed in
suspended gardens. The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature.'I think trying to accomodate the
millions of people left homeless by environmental changes will prove to be one of the great challenges of the 21st century.'
Neither the cost of building the city or the cost of living there have been revealed.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global sea level is expected to rise between
nine and 88 centimetres by 2100, with a 'best estimate' of 50 centimetres.This is due to global warming which is causing
the ice caps to melt.
In many places, 50 centimetres would see entire beaches being washed away, together with a significant chunk of the
coastline.
On low-lying Pacific islands such as Tuvalu, Kiribati or the Maldives, the highest point is only two or three
metres above current sea levels.If the sea level was to rise by 50cm, significant portions of these islands would be
washed away by erosion or covered by water. Even if they remain above the sea, many island nations will have
their supplies of drinking water reduced because sea water will invade their freshwater stocks.There are also tens
of millions of people living in low-level coastal areas of southern Asia, such as the coastlines of Pakistan, India,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Burma, who would be in danger.