Dynaverse.net
Dynaverse.net => Hawkeye's Roost => Topic started by: stoneyface on November 06, 2010, 06:09:50 pm
-
3 stories today,
first off is a story about a hotly debated design of a wind powered cart that can apparently go faster than the wind powering it. read about it here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/downwind_faster_than_the_wind_black.html (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/downwind_faster_than_the_wind_black.html)
next up for scotty fans!!! not exactly transparent aluminum but it is a transparent conductive material! this means that someday we can have windows that generate solar power!
read here: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1195 (http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1195)
and finally my favorite story. i have been following this guy's exploits for a while now and i love him, some call him crazy, i call him genius. he is the guy who built a custom jetpack/wing and even flew over the english channel with it. now he has improved his design and jumped out of a hot-air balloon and did two loops to prove it!
read here: http://news.discovery.com/tech/rocketman-jet-wingsuit.html (http://news.discovery.com/tech/rocketman-jet-wingsuit.html)