Space Colonization Options (Orbiting Stations, planets/moons)

[Dryson]

You don't have to spend energy to spin.

The only energy that would be spent would be the energy put into building the Lagrange Point Hub.

The Lagrange Point Hub would be very similar to how a wind turbine operates. You have a central hub that is attached to vanes that are turned by the wind.

Gravity would function very similar. Since gravity is a body or force in motion and the vanes of the Lagrange Point Hun would be effected by gravity, the vanes would turn while the hub remained relatively motionless, save for the thrusters that would have to be used to keep the hub from wobble orbiting out of the Lagrange Point.

I'm certain politicians of the world will put having deal with the caldera off as long as possible in order to only save theirs elves.

Germany has already taken steps to ensure its power grid stays on by burying their powerlines underground.

 

[dupersuper]

Two cylinders side by side perhaps?

The nested cylinder concept for an ark ship in deep space.

This is horrible
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx53xn/scientists-want-to-build-mars-bases-out-of-human-blood

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[Asbo Zaprudder]

Gravity would function very similar. Since gravity is a body or force in motion and the vanes of the Lagrange Point Hun would be effected by gravity, the vanes would turn while the hub remained relatively motionless, save for the thrusters that would have to be used to keep the hub from wobble orbiting out of the Lagrange Point.

I'm certain politicians of the world will put having deal with the caldera off as long as possible in order to only save theirs elves.

Germany has already taken steps to ensure its power grid stays on by burying their powerlines underground.

Germany seems ideally suited to building the Lagrange Point Hun. But who will save the elves if not the politicians? Oh, the huge manatee!

 

[XCV330]

bunch of nonsense about gravity vanes

You can't mangle physics any worse than you consistently do. Can you just keep the anti-science nonsense to the batshit crazy threads you are allowed to create here?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Perhaps the following is a more "grounded" idea taken from the fusion thread, which I copy here:

Lest we forget, a space elevator could potentially be built using current technology from the Moon's surface to beyond the Earth-Moon L1 point.

(PDF) Lunar Space Elevators for CisLunar Transportation (researchgate.net)

Lunar space elevators could revolutionize the development of the Moon. The lunar space elevator system allows solar-powered robotic vehicles to climb a high-strength composite ribbon from the lunar surface to beyond the L1 Lagrangian point, where payloads of lunar resources could be released into Earth orbit for major space construction projects.

The overall system concept includes the lunar space elevator, a robotic construction system for the components, and robotic vehicles to carry lunar products into Earth orbit for construction and for upper stage propellant, and Earth-orbit payloads to the lunar surface for lunar habitat supplies. The construction system creates building blocks from lunar materials, using automated assembly and wire forming to construct complex shapes. The lunar space elevators provide non-rocket transportation of these lunar products from polar and equatorial mining sites into Earth orbit.

This architecture is a new way to create a lunar base for robotic and human operations on the surface. A lunar space elevator using existing high-strength composites with a lifting capacity of 2000 N at the base equipped with solar-powered capsules moving at 100 km/hour could lift 584,000 kg/yr of lunar material into high Earth orbit. Since launch costs twenty years from now may be $1,000/kg, this material would be worth half a billion dollars per year, creating a new era of space development.

In fact, Friedrich Zander first conceived of a lunar space tower in 1910. This idea was revived by Yuri Artsutanov in 1960, by James Cline in 1972 and by Jerome Pearson in 1978. More on the idea here:

(PDF) The Lunar Space Elevator (archive.org)

This paper examines lunar space elevators, a concept originated by the lead author, for lunar development. Lunar space elevators are flexible structures connecting the lunar surface with counterweights located beyond the L1 or L2 Lagrangian points in the Earth-moon system.

A lunar space elevator on the moon’s near side, balanced about the L1 Lagrangian point, could support robotic climbing vehicles to release lunar material into high Earth orbit.

A lunar space elevator on the moon’s far side, balanced about L2, could provide nearly continuous communication with an astronomical observatory on the moon’s far side, away from the optical and radio interference from the Earth.

Because of the lower mass of the moon, such lunar space elevators could be constructed of existing materials instead of carbon nanotubes, and would be much less massive than the Earth space elevator.

We review likely spots for development of lunar surface operations (south pole locations for water and continuous sunlight, and equatorial locations for lower delta-V), and examine the likely payload requirements for Earth-to-moon and moon-to-Earth transportation.

We then examine its capability to launch large amounts of lunar material into high Earth orbit, and do a top-level system analysis to evaluate the potential payoffs of lunar space elevators

 

[publiusr]

Now could that also serve as a Dyson Harrop satellite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson–Harrop_satellite

---But using Earth's magnetic field?

Over deep time....like an ISS tether that generates power but drops the platform....that might keep the Moon around a bit longer?

A cycler concept…
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/buzzcraft-presented-at-lunar-development-conference.html

Mars house
https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/building-a-martian-house/
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ed-bristol-review-tiny-gold-foil-room-on-mars

Cylon like suit

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Make your own
https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Design_a_spacesuit_for_ESA_999.html

To the Moon
https://www.moondaily.com/m/reports...on_it_could_be_just_right_for_humans_999.html

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Now could that also serve as a Dyson Harrop satellite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson–Harrop_satellite

---But using Earth's magnetic field?

Over deep time....like an ISS tether that generates power but drops the platform....that might keep the Moon around a bit longer?

The Moon is outside the Earth's magnetosphere most of the time, occasionally dipping into the magnetotail. The technique really depends on the solar wind so that's ok. Probably best to have four such tethers spaced equidistantly around the Moon's equator to allow for the Moon's changing orientation with respect to the interplanetary magnetic field and the solar wind. (At 1 AU, the IMF is at an angle of about 45° to the solar wind flowing radially outward from the Sun.) The main problem is the inherent diffraction pattern of a maser beam aimed at Earth, as the beam would have a large diameter after 380,000 km, depending on the diameter of the transmitter dish and the microwave radiation's wavelength. I supposed one way around this would be to use satellites to relay the power although a proportion of the energy would be lost at each stage.

 

[publiusr]

Tethered statites above the Earth’s poles have quite the gravity well to fight…less so over the Moon’s poles…these could tack against the photon pressure (sunlight) while drawing off the solar wind…perhaps protecting Earth from CMEs at times.

Now…we think of the Moon as orbiting the Earth…but from the Sun’s perspective…we just get a little closer or farther…

Could tacking cables pass over and under our planetary poles….maybe doing a hand-off of some kind. I imagine the Moon with these huge whip antennae cables looking like a giant Sputnik I…half orrery…half tram cable…

I wonder if a nickel iron asteroid might be easier to move if most of its mass is extruded into wire…I can drag more weight than I can lift.

Psyche map
https://www.space.com/psyche-metal-asteroid-new-map

Nuclear power
https://www.space.com/nasa-contracts-nuclear-power-systems-moon

Interesting--astronaut cosplay
https://www.space.com/astronaut-cosplay-gravity-spacefarer-photo

Mercury:
https://www.space.com/mercury-bepicolombo-2nd-flyby-photos

spacecraft as sensor
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...49.703042811.1662145872-1320811811.1662145872

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The same force with the same mass produces the same acceleration. You're describing moving a mass against friction as opposed to changing its potential in a gravitational field. Two different things, or if dragging an object via a path to the same gravitational potential, likely the elapsed time for dragging is longer than for lifting so the power required is reduced. Dragging will also expend more energy because of the friction.

One thing we haven't factored in with these generative tethers is that conductive objects moving through a magnetic field will feel deceleration due to eddy currents that produce magnetoresistive force. Interaction of their intrinsic magnetic field with the interplanetary magnetic field will also occur. These forces could easily destabilise the tethers if not compensated for.

 

[XCV330]

I wonder if a nickel iron asteroid might be easier to move if most of its mass is extruded into wire…I can drag more weight than I can lift.

The energy used to melt and extrude iron wire could have been used towards delta-v. Maybe the cable could be used as some kind of magsail, but dunno.

 

[publiusr]

It could starwisp to Jupiter and sling back to the inner solar system…

New findings
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/350-times-faster-asteroid-survey.html
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-t...iscovers-two-binary-asteroids-in-kuiper-belt/
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-t...ious-metals-than-earths-entire-global-supply/

The strange art of Earth's second moon
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-t...hile-the-strange-orbit-of-earths-second-moon/

Look out for the taurids!
file:///C:/Users/clayw10/Downloads/2021-10-prior-swarm-large-asteroids-hidden.pdf

Use cables
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-t.../tom-scott-the-last-aerial-ropeway-in-the-uk/

Small reactor
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/10/full-modular-nuclear-reactor-mockup.html

Musk up there in lights
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/...anies-are-tik-toks-byte-dance-and-spacex.html

Blue? Doomed?
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/10/blue-origin-seems-doomed.html

Pad tech
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/turning-lunar-regolith-into-a-landing-pad.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/...h-can-speed-computation-up-to-1000-times.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-nasa-niac-phase-2.html


Radiation battery
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/atomic-planar-power-for-lightweight-exploration-apple.html

Large structure
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/kilometer-structure-from-one-spacex-falcon-9-launch.html

To Mars in weeks
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-mars-in-two-weeks/

 

[publiusr]

Battery breakthroughs
https://www.anl.gov/article/argonne-materials-scientists-pursue-a-new-generation-of-batteries
https://source.wustl.edu/2021/10/new-catalyst-helps-combine-fuel-cell-battery-into-one-device/

A single device that both generates fuel and oxidant from water and, when a switch is flipped, converts the fuel and oxygen into electricity and water, has a host of benefits for terrestrial, space and military applications. From low environmental impact to high energy density, developing efficient unitized regenerative fuel cells, or URFCs as they are called, has been in researchers’ sights for years now.

Oddball....
https://interestingengineering.com/nikola-tesla-engineer-ufo-patents-us-navy

Hab tech
https://interestingengineering.com/...ble-pod-could-house-future-astronauts-on-mars
https://wonderfulengineering.com/graphene-is-being-used-to-strengthen-space-habitats-here-is-how/
https://wonderfulengineering.com/wa...t-crawls-on-cables-to-deliver-optical-fibers/
https://interestingengineering.com/esa-to-test-3d-printing-in-space-using-scrap-metals-from-the-moon

Lunar greenhouse
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/16/nutrient-mixing-system-for-future-lunar-greenhouses/
https://interestingengineering.com/mit-wants-to-replace-lights-with-glowing-plants
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-bloom-system-allows-people-to-create-their-own-superfood/
https://interestingengineering.com/...lds-machine-that-extracts-water-from-thin-air

Life forms that do not need to breathe
https://wonderfulengineering.com/th...-that-does-not-need-to-breathe-to-stay-alive/

reactors
https://interestingengineering.com/ex-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-cheap-portable-nuclear-reactor
https://interestingengineering.com/...energy-plant-may-be-coming-to-a-town-near-you

Rethink space debris
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-say-we-need-to-rethink-how-we-dispose-of-satellites

LUNANET
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-lunanet-empowering-artemis-interoperability.html

Skyhooks
https://interestingengineering.com/skyhooks-might-just-make-rockets-a-thing-of-the-past

In order to do work in space...we may need waldos. They might even be used to train robots
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-robotic-dexterous-skills-simulations-real.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-technique-automatically-hardware-components-robotic.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-online-method-allocate-tasks-robots.html

Display tech
https://www.porotech.co.uk/2021/10/19/porotech-creates-worlds-first-native-red-ingan-microdisplay/

 

[publiusr]

NTRs
https://www.space.com/us-needs-nuclear-powered-spacecraft

Automated chemistry
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-automated-chemistry-pace-materials-discovery.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-raindrops-roof-technique-reveals-quantum-liquid.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-energy-diamond-crystal.html
https://scitechdaily.com/5d-optical...-pack-500-terabytes-into-cd-sized-glass-disc/

There is now a way to use 3D prints to protect structures from collisions

A material used in running shoes and memory foam pillows has inspired the design of a 3D-printed product that could help protect buildings from collision damage and other high impact forces, equivalent to a car travelling at 60km/hr.

https://www.3dprintingprogress.com/...spired-3d-printed-design-to-protect-buildings

Coatings for steel
The results of experiments at Rice and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, found in Advanced Materials, could be a boon for infrastructure—buildings, bridges and anything above or below the water made of steel—that requires protection from the elements.
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-flexible-self-healing-material-steel-elements.html

New med scanner
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-detector-advance-cheaper-easier-medical.html

Buildings that own and run themselves: this idea, from the think-tank Dezentrum, was put into action for the first time at ETH Zurich in the form of a prototype.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-real-blockchain.html

Launch calc
https://launchercalculator.com/

Shroud calc
https://rocketry.gonnerman.org/shroudcalc.html
https://archive.rocketreviews.com/tool_shroud.shtml

Hangar named for Young
https://www.space.com/john-young-nasa-hangar-naming

New radar
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/10...ralia-as-strategic-site-for-next-space-radar/

Tethers
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/10/17/tethered-satellites-for-propulsion-without-fuel/

Musk to rush
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-starship-orbital-launch-schedule
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211027122016.htm

German rocket book
https://www.amazon.com/Raketen-Die-Internationale-Enzyklopädie/dp/3613042606
https://www.space.com/28973-best-space-books.html
https://www.space.com/the-apollo-murders-chris-hadfield-book-excerpt

There is a great www.phys.org article called: “Shape-Shifting Materials With Infinite Possibilities” dealing with totimorphs…and one article asks “What is the Metaverse?”
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-shape-shifting-materials-infinite-possibilities.html

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Tube in tube construction and aluminum tech
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-tube-in-tube-strong.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-speedier-stronger-aluminum-alloys.html
using a new approach to extrusion that dramatically improves their manufacturing speed. Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion, or ShAPE, uses significantly less energy and can deliver product at more than 10 times the rate of conventional extrusion, with no sacrifice in quality. Not only that, it can also improve the mechanical properties of the aluminum alloy, known as alloy 7075.

Tap water against microplastics
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientists-shield-microplastics.html

Tech you can wear
https://www.labmanager.com/news/a-new-3d-printing-frontier-self-powered-wearable-devices-26968
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-deepdraper-technique-people.html

Heating and cooling breakthrough
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932831
The electrochromic technology – material that changes color or opacity when electricity is applied -- is detailed in a paper published Oct. 14 in the journal American Chemical Society Energy Letters.

New ways to produce light
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-pre-existing-defects-semiconductor-materials.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-visible.html
https://techiai.com/tiny-lasers-acting-together-as-one-topological-vertical-cavity-laser-arrays/
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-strategy-enable-coherence-properties-emitted.html

Hydrogen storage
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hydrogen-storage-material-gas.html
They found that alane situated within the nanopores of a highly porous bipyridine-functionalized covalent triazine framework can be regenerated at a H2 pressure of only 700 bar (690 atmospheres), which is tenfold lower than that required for its bulk counterpart. This pressure is readily achievable in commercial hydrogen fueling stations, although further improvements are necessary to achieve rapid fueling.

Cheap ammonia production!
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-ammonia-synthesis-mechanocatalysis-ball-mill.html
It seems caesium will allow "the ball mill to become the means of choice for ammonia synthesis".

Unbreakable screens
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-technology-unbreakable-screens.html
The findings will enable the manufacture of glass screens that are not only unbreakable but also deliver crystal clear image quality.

Ultra bright water cooled TV

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Pure carbon from microbes
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-kind-pure-carbon-production-microorganisms.html
"This kind of formation of elemental carbon by organisms is completely new to science. There must be reactions going on in archaea that were previously completely unknown"

Kirk--before and after
https://thespacereview.com/article/4265/1

 

[publiusr]

Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC)
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...e_space_hotels_in_LEO_for_investment_999.html

Space prints
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/12/...dvance-autonomous-metal-3d-printing-in-space/

Colony-lag
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-off-world-colony-simulation-reveals-human.html

Mercury colony
https://interestingengineering.com/science-of-becoming-interplanetary-how-to-live-on-mercury

Venus
https://www.space.com/nasa-davinci-venus-mission-video

Moons are planets too
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-moons-planets.html
https://www.space.com/moon-property-rights-lunokhod-2-richard-garriott

Impacts on spacecraft
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-tiny-grains-severe-hypervelocity-impacts.html

Methane gas imagine camera
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-quantum-enabled-gas-imaging-camera-methane.html

National Geographic will ride to the Moon
https://www.space.com/national-geographic-nasa-artemis-moon-mission-show

Mission timelapse
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-video-alpha-mission-timelapse.html

Moon motorbike
https://www.space.com/moon-motorcycle-concept-photos

Snoopy
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-cosmos-beckons-snoopy-onscreen-real.html
https://www.space.com/lego-sending-minifigures-to-moon-nasa-artemis-1
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nasa-beacon-safe-recovery-astronauts.html

The Greening of Mars and more.
https://neverwasmag.com/2021/10/the-greening-of-mars/
https://interestingengineering.com/science-of-becoming-interplanetary-how-to-live-on-mercury
https://interestingengineering.com/an-advanced-alien-federation-could-evolve-in-globular-clusters
https://interestingengineering.com/...-holes-are-gaining-mass-as-the-universe-grows
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-schumann-resonances-storms-mars.html
https://interestingengineering.com/engineers-find-new-way-to-clean-up-space-junk-in-orbit
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-vms-briefcase-sized-chemistry-lab-venus.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-smart-focus-mars.html
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/09/heinz-creates-martian-tomato-ketchup-with-aldrin-space-institute/

Our bodies in space...
https://www.space.com/death-in-space-what-would-happen-to-our-bodies

Fuel
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-microbes-carbon-neutral-fuel.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-ocean-plastic-power-cleanup-ships.html (for Titan?)
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-c4-bioenergy-grass-higher-productivity.html

the 600 mark
https://www.space.com/600th-person-in-space-spacex-crew-3-mission
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...ragon_toilet_after_2_faulty_missions_999.html

T-1000 come to life
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-self-restoring-electronic-devices-dna-molecules.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-virus-particles-templates-polymers-magnetic.html

Out there
https://futurism.com/nasa-scientists-settlements-moons-saturn-jupiter-soon
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/giant-thruster-migrate-earth/
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/10/where-could-aliens-be-hiding-technology-in-our-solar-system/
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-near-earth-asteroid-lost-fragment-moon.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-black-hole-star-cluster-galaxy.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-earth-like-exoplanets.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-gamma-ray-discovery-advance-ultra-fast.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-fundamental-link-size-atomic-nuclei.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-citizen-scientists-variable-stars.html

Stellar graveyard
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-lack-massive-black-holes-telescope.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-theory-dark-regular.html

New steel
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-reinventing-steelmaking-green-revolution.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-weak-coupling-flaw-strange-metal.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-discovery-segmented-fermi-surface-cooper.html

Spider web secrets
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-spiders-web-secrets-unraveled.html

CO2 into rock
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-iceland-co2-air.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-recycling-co2-fuel-carbon-neutral-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-technique-conversion-carbon-dioxide-liquid.html

Lunar oxygen
https://sciencex.com/news/2021-11-moon-layer-oxygen-sustain-billion.html

Dune, simulated
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dune-simulated-planet-arrakis-humans.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-method-tatooine-like-planets-validated.html ------------


Mil-tech history
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-giant-dataset-tracks-societal-factors.html
https://interestingengineering.com/...and-china-are-testing-orbital-vulnerabilities
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-satellite-hibari-variable-attitude.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-smart-textiles-high-breathable-fabric.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-uci-people-high-five.html
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-steel-tire-could-eliminate-the-need-for-rubber-ones/

Borophene
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-weak-bonds-strength-borophene.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-borophenes-easy.html
Magnetene
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-magnetene-graphene-like-2d-material-leverages.html

Green energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-strategy-fabricate-solar-cells-efficiencies.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-liquid-fuels-carbon-dioxide-electrocatalyst.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-light-powered-catalyst-mimics-photosynthesis.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ultrafast-batteries-fully-anode-material.html
By using a fully new material, nickel niobate, for the anode of lithium-ion batteries, the charging speed can be improved by ten times
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-efficient-catalyst-light-driven-methanation-co2.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11...emical-revolutionize-lithium-ion-battery.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-technique-conversion-carbon-dioxide-liquid.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ternary-ruthenium-complex-hydrides-catalyze.html ammonia
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-strategy-fabricate-3d-mxene-based-electrocatalyst-nitrogen.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-birch-reductions-involve-ammonia.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-threat-fugitive-emissions-hydrogen.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-boost-growth-cooking-sub-saharan-africa.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-single-atom-dimer-electrocatalyst-green-hydrogen.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-defects-inert-materials.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-energy-electronic-roots.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-unexpected-chemical-reaction-industrial-applications.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-strategy-fabricate-solar-cells-efficiencies.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-newly-compound-enable-sustainable-cost-effective.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-quantum-confinement-porous-nano-photocatalyst.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-laser-pelted-citric-acid-washed-copper-boost.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ion-exchange-membrane-vanadium-redox.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-aialgorithm-nanoporous-materials.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-proton-titania-surface-dye-photocatalysis.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-large-scale-synthesis-methods-single-atom-catalysts.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-plasmonic-solar-thermal-materials-reserve.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-methane-methanol.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-technique-co2-energy-conversion-carbon-containing.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-hidden-behavior-supercapacitor-materials.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-scalable-method-materials-solid-state-batteries.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-bucket-brigades-proton-gates-role.html
A better understanding of this process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy from sunlight and water.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-solar-energy-sustainable-light-powered-technology.html
An international team of scientists have identified a new process using coordination materials that can accelerate the use of low-cost, Earth-abundant materials with the potential to transform the energy sector by replacing silicone-based solar panels.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-ironclad-future-solar-arrays.html

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-catalyst-material-baffling-surface-state.html
What is highly unusual, however, is what a research team at TU Wien has now observed when studying hydrogen oxidation on a rhodium catalyst: The surface of a rhodium foil can be highly chemically active in some surface regions, while in others, only a few micrometers away, it is completely inactive, and still in others oscillations between the active and inactive state occur. Such behavior was previously thought to be almost inconceivable. The results, which have now been published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, show that catalysis is more complicated than previously thought.

High voltage sensor
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-remote-high-voltage-sensor-unveiled.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-imaging-technique-dynamic-optical-nanothermometry.html

New way to harness ammonia
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-chemists-harness-energy-ammonia.html

GEOHACKS
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-science-magazine-scholars-comprehensive-solar.html

Looks like the Cygnus
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-quantum-computing-method-reduces-error-rates-by-2500/

Mini-sub-bot
https://wonderfulengineering.com/ne...ermal-vents-underneath-unexplored-arctic-ice/
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-personalized-exosuit-real-world.html exo suit

Optics and holograms
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-devices-day-night-cameras.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-compact-2d-serpentine-optical-phased.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-simple-silicon-coating-long-standing-optical.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nonlinear-fundamental-photonic-devices-thickness.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-smart-window-material-blocks-rays.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-tiny-chip-big-boost-precision.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-optical-stern-gerlach-deflection-young-reciprocal.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-real-time-video-scenes-hidden-corners.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dark-molecular-isomers-lit-optical.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-strategy-optimize-sub-nanosecond-laser-conditioning.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-leak-dual-band-metahologram.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-photonic-crystal-longhorn-beetle.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-physicists-reveal-non-reciprocal-quantum-world.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-sensor-smaller-nanoparticles.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-world-bulb.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-team-simultaneous-readout-bolometers-far-infrared.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ephemeral-ultrabright-x-ray-laser-pulses.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-optical-constants-bandgap-energy-3d.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-sustainable-biodegradable-vegan-glitterfrom-fruit.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-merlin-self-supervised-strategy-deep-despeckling.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-speckle-free-holography-virtual.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-glass-stable-crystal-homogeneity-stability.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-fabricate-complex-optical-components-fluids.html
Researchers have developed a way to create freeform optical components by shaping a volume of curable liquid polymer.
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-holographic-camera-unseen-high-precision.html


New scanner
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-scanner-fingerprints-documents-metal-halide.html
By capturing high-resolution images of fingerprints and other important documents, the scanner created by van Breemen and his colleagues could be used to identify fake documents or synthesized fingerprints with greater accuracy and precision.
Careful!
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-illegal-image-detectors-devices-easily.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-mini-radar-peer-asteroid.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-deep-technique-global-field-reconstruction.html

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-holographic-camera-unseen-high-precision.html
Northwestern University researchers have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen—including around corners and through scattering media, such as skin, fog or potentially even the human skull.

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-bulletproof-fingerprint-technology-images.html
Experts have developed a unique method for retrieving high resolution images of fingermarks from curved objects like bullet casings that offers greater detail and accuracy than traditional forensic methods.

Space-based optics
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-space-based-rectangular-prisms.html
In order to obtain stable and reliable optical components for space remote sensors, researchers have recently designed a rigid-flexible, dual-mode coupling support structure for space-based rectangular curved prisms (SRCPs). Results were published in Applied Optics.

Light and sound
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-adding-quantum-simulations.html

Sand prints
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-polymer-discovery-3d-printed-sand-super.html

Rad space
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_successfully_tests_space_radiation_shield_999.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-3d-simulations-energetic-particle-space-assets.html
A team of researchers used 3D particle simulations to model the acceleration of ions and electrons in a physical process called magnetic reconnection. The results could contribute to the understanding and forecasting of energetic particles released during magnetic reconnection, which could help protect space assets and advance space exploration.
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-technique-nuclear-material.html

Russia's Zeus
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...mechanger_for_Indias_space_ambitions_999.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...red-showers-potential-climate-innovation.html

Radiation as data
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nuclear-transmit-digital-wirelessly.html

"In some safety-critical scenarios, such as concerning the integrity of reactor containments, and metal vaults and bulkheads in maritime structures, it can be important to minimize the number of penetrations made through such metal structures for communications cabling. The use of neutrons for information transmission through such structures could negate the need for such penetrations and is perhaps also relevant to scenarios where limited transmissions are desirable in difficult circumstances, such as for emergency rescue operations."

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-portable-device-capable-gamma-neutrons.html
A group of researchers from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), a joint center of the University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has patented a compact and portable device capable of simultaneously monitoring gamma radiation and neutrons produced in radioactive processes and nuclear reactions.

Particle acclerators
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-meter-scale-plasma-waveguides-particle-envelope.html

Thinnest X-Ray detector
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-world-broken-thinnest-x-ray-detector.html

Antenna as coating
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-thin-film-high-frequency-antenna-array-flexibility.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nanoantenna-long-distance-ultra-secure.html

Fog sensors
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-sensors-fog-future-safer.html

Muography---seeing into volcanoes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/science/volcanoes-muons-muography.html

Origami hab
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-origami-lunar-habitat-can-unfold-into-750-times-its-size/

Popcorn insulation
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-insulation-popcorn.html

Off world reactor
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nasa-ideas-nuclear-reactor-moon.html

Thermal energy storage
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-thermal-energy-storage-major-role.html
"If we use thermal energy storage, in which the raw materials are more abundant to meet the demand for thermal loads, this will relax some of the demand for electrochemical storage and free up batteries to be used where thermal energy storage cannot be used," said Sumanjeet Kaur, lead of Berkeley Lab's Thermal Energy Group.
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-diy-radiative-cooler-standard.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-advances-simple-crystals-thermoelectric-technology.html

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-liquid-metal-enabled-chemical-reactors.html
Liquid-metal machines could wipe out maintenance issues for continuous flow reactors.

New paste
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-year-old-reaction-environment-friendly-paste-based-method.html
A new method for creating one of chemistry's most widely used class of compounds could revolutionize industrial processes, making them cheaper, simpler and more environmentally friendly.

Underwater glue
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-synthetic-biology-yields-easy-to-use-underwater.html

Weeping ceramics
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ceramics-path-shape-shifting-material.html
An international team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Kiel University in Germany have discovered a path that could lead to shape-shifting ceramic materials. This discovery could improve everything from medical devices to electronics.

Minimal surface areas
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-history-minimal-surfaces-ants.html

 

[Dryson]

https://www.space.com/amp/mars-hein...errer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s

With science finally being able to grow plants in an enclosed environment on Earth that is similar to Mars, are the same results able to grow plants on the Moon using the enclosed facility on and the same Martian environment from the experiment?

 

[XCV330]

what do they mean by conditions similar to Mars? Did they grow the tomatos in extremely cold weather with a thin unbreathable atmosphere and fractional g gravity?

 

[publiusr]

You might only need one parent for breeding plants now
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-genes-parent.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-scientists-year-old-mystery-growth.html

A genetic breakthrough is on the horizon

By adding the genes necessary for transcription and translation to the artificial genomic DNA developed by the group, it could be possible to develop artificial cells that can grow autonomously simply by feeding them low-molecular-weight compounds such as amino acids and nucleotides, in the future. If such artificial cells can be created, we can expect that useful substances currently produced using living organisms (such as substances for drug development and food production) will become more stable and easier to control.

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-artificial-genomic-dna-replicate-evolve.html

Fake fly-bys have a role
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-esa-mars-unravels-mystery-martian.html

Lastly, Centauri Dreams has a great article:
WIND RIDER: A HIGH PERFORMANCE MAGSAIL.

Laser sail
https://wonderfulengineering.com/th...asers-could-reach-alpha-centauri-in-20-years/

c
https://interestingengineering.com/can-humans-even-reach-1-the-speed-of-light-ever

 

[publiusr]

There has been a drilling breakthrough…Swifty, a robot from Petra…uses gas to tunnel through solid rock.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/09/p...th-30m-raised-for-tunnel-boring-robot-swifty/

MRI in ambulance
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-team-mri-scan-ambulance.html

saucer rover
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-idea-rover.html

Asteroid sim
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-simulation-potential-asteroid-collisions.html

 

[Marc]

So there's been so discussion of building a space elevator from the Moon.

Now here's an article on the issues of building one from Earth and what happens if the cable snaps (the article was inspired the by the first episode of Foundation and the author is an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University).

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-if-a-space-elevator-breaks/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[XCV330]

I don't think space elevators will be particularly useful. They're incredibly difficult and expensive to build and maintain. And I have yet to find anyone excited about riding in an elevator car with a few other people for 36000 km. Could the cost of such a thing ever bring it to the level of rockets? It seemed possible 20 years ago, but advances and simplifications in rockets, especially via SpaceX have changed that argument. Maybe in the farther future a rotorvator could be useful.

I haven't seen Foundation the series yet, so i don't know what their elevator looks like. Was it a carbon nanotube ribbon? I can see it causing some damage, but not necessarily anything horrific. The entire point of it being the mass of the ribbon is a small fraction of the counterpoise mass. (at about 60000km iirc) or that of the upper station at GEO.

For the moon, I don't know. The elevator would have fewer challenges like atmosphere, but more challenges requiring en-situ manufacturing. It would get around the problem of the moon's "lumpy" gravity profile that requires very careful and somewhat limited orbital options. Lunar orbital velocity is so low, however that a railgun (or even possibly a really good howitzer in vacuum) can put objects in orbit. The first SSTO rocket was not earth bound, it was the LEM's ascent stage. So, I am uncertain again there would ever be demand for it.