1. Various Subjects
When you can’t pick just one..

2. Space
• NanoSail-D success
– Though sost we now have confirmation the 100
square foot sale is deployed
– 630 kilometers up
– In orbit 70 – 120 days
– However it apparently consumed all power
unfurling the sail.

5. Space
• Bigelow Aerospace
– Make inflatable spacecraft
– In talks with NASA to add inflatable rooms to ISS
– Small Genesis (I and II) modules up now
– Sundancer in 2014
• 180 m3
• ISS equiv or better radiation shielding
• Micrometeor and orbital debris shielding
• Two propulsion systems.
– Station complex (BA330)
• 330 m3

6. Bigelow Sundancer

7. Longevity
• Amino acid supplementation extends mice life 12%
– Starting in middle age even!
– Middle aged mice gained increases in energy, stamina,
muscle coordination
• Real Cryosleep
– Use magnetic filets to prevent ice crystal formation
– Drop temperature to 10 – 15 C is used to keep patients
with no heart function alive over 3 hours today
• Would have to go much colder to stop microbes and such for
longer time periods

8. Cryosleep?

9. Longevity
• Genescient
– Stem Cell 100 product
– Research:
– AI algorithms over fly and animal assays screening for mainly herbal
combinations
– Claims a doubling of lifespan in fly studies
• Almost 100 genes of difference identified
• Claims wide-spectrum anti-aging nutraceuticals can produce such
a difference
– Result of their search is StemCell 100 formula
• Seems to also increase good cholesterol in humans
• Reduces blood pressure
• Me? Skeptical but hopeful

10. StemCell 100 effects (flies)

11. Longevity
• Reversing immune system aging
– Removed B lymphocytes from old mice
• Their bodies responded by producing potent young
cells to replace them
• B lymphocytes are major components in function of
immune system (production of antibodies)
• New cells improved antibody response by 400% over
the original aged B lymphocytes

12. Devices
• GRIN Plasmonics
– Enables
• Superfast optical computing
• Optical microscopy (see DNA in visible light)
• Invisibility cloaking devices
– Plasmonics –
• confining light to sub-wavelength areas
– Transformation optics
• Warps small space areas light travels through
– GRIN is hybrid of these technologies

13. Devices
• Affordable Holographic television
– MIT research
• Uses Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips
– Kinect to scan model
– Chips to process and produce holographic diffraction fringes
– 17 fps now, 30 fps soon
– Holographic displays are still pricey though
• Tiny projectors in full sunlight
– Nanostructured arrays of lenses
• Recording and projecting ultra sharp images in brilliant color
– Pocket sized projectors replacing todays overhead and
digital projectors

14. Devices: Tiny Projector/Camera

15. Energy
• TMV-Battery Project
– 10-fold lithium ion battery capacity increase
– Uses tobacco mosaic virus bound perpendicularly to electrodes
very densely
• These are coated with a conductive film
• Result is much more surface effective electrode surface area
• Economist – small nuclear reactors
– More modular
– Low maintenance
– Grow total capacity over time
– Transportable
– Not totally competitive with large nuclear plants
– Most of article was on fairly conventional reactors

16. Energy
• Hydrogen fuel beads - $1.50/gallon
– Cella Energy
– Synthetic fuel with no carbon emissions
– Works in current IC engines
• Requires change out of fuel taken and delivery lines
– Each bead contains liquid hydrogen
• But storable at room temperature
• Liquid hydrogen has > 3 times the energy density of jet
fuel.

17. Energy - $1.50/gallon fuel

18. Energy – Hydrogen cell car conversion