Science and technology news

[Sheep]

The Unified SHeepstan States has announced that they are beggining research in a project that can only be termed as the Fort Jesus Project.

[Jack_www]

The USJ has just rolled out the final shuttle in the last production run, USJ now has 6 of its newest shuttles ready to work on the internation spacestation. Training missions to get crews ready for the construction of the space station are now underway.

For all other nations, please contact us if you wish to buy these shuttles. The more you buy the cheaper it is to make them, and please do not want long as we will have to shut the production line down soon if no one wants to buy a shuttle from us.

[Micha]

2) Using semi-permeable mirrors in solar energy sites, will improve their efficiency by approximately 7%. The research in this field has been ceased due to lack of funding. If anyone is interested in that technique, N-RAC would be pleased to sell the patent.

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Noosland is interested in item #2.

The spokesman of N-RAC is pleased to see interest in the result of years of hard work!
Now the question is how much would Noosland be willing to pay?
See, the higher efficiency of the solar energy sites leads to better profitability of non-fossil energy. That means higher income AND environmental health!

So what is the price?

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Mr. President
Dakmoristan's Department of Ocean Resources announced the beginning of tests in the building of undersea habitation domes.

The construction techniques, transportation systems, and mechanisms for the generation of oxygen and drinking water were first thought about several years ago, but practical materials were not available until now.

In a follow-up report, the Department of Ocean Resources announced that it was preparing a site about two miles off Dakmoristan's eastern coast for dome construction.

The location, designated Merchantman Run, is near Zegon and its seaport. This should minimize the length of supply lines and facilitate the movement of people and materials to and from the site.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Micha
The spokesman of N-RAC is pleased to see interest in the result of years of hard work!
Now the question is how much would Noosland be willing to pay?
See, the higher efficiency of the solar energy sites leads to better profitability of non-fossil energy. That means higher income AND environmental health!

So what is the price?

You're a greedy person.

What about a trade? We'll share with you the technique of fabricating solar panels from black silicon polycrystals that improved absorption rate to 95% without using any toxic chemicals, in exchange for your technology?

[Micha]

Agreed!

This deal may benefit both of us.

[Urban Ranger]

Great

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
A Noosland National University semiconductors research team was successful in producing high powered LED's rated at 35W with a 35% efficiency using large GaN waffers. These devices are more than 3.5 times more efficient than incandescent lights. They promise to revolutionise worldwide lighting and herald in a new era of sustainable development.

A worldwide patent has been obtained on the manufacturing process. The Noosland Department of Labour and Industry is creating a large fab to produce these LED's.

[Whaleboy]

Jack: Marijuania would like to purchase two of your shuttles. We can pay in bongs (our currency) or weed. We are prepared to cooperate with the development of these shuttles, by using parts from the previous adminstrations space shuttle programme (the cause of the war with Athkala and Method).

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by elijah
Jack: Marijuania would like to purchase two of your shuttles. We can pay in bongs (our currency) or weed. We are prepared to cooperate with the development of these shuttles, by using parts from the previous adminstrations space shuttle programme (the cause of the war with Athkala and Method).

Each of the shuttles is 25 Billion in US Dollars. FOr two, we will charge you 42 Billion for the two and give you enough spare parts to keep the shuttles running for a year.

[Whaleboy]

Marijuania agrees, and offers any and all technical support to Jack in further development.

[Whaleboy]

Marijuania has developed a new type of fighter, the Hastings-class.

It is a break with traditional design, in that it is butt ugly. It is very fast and long range, moderately armed with air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, the ability to carry nuclear warheads. As such, it loses out quite badly on manueverability, which a rotary machine gun turret compensates for. It is equipped with state-of-the-art sensory tech, simliar to that found in spy-satellites. This extra weight again has implications, but the powerful engines should deal with that.

The fighters are cheap to manufacture in separate facilities, and assemble later. Anyone who wishes to buy some of these craft, then place your orders here.

Marijuania's military capability will be published shortly on the Military Strengths thread.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Science and technology news

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Noosland's first phase of coversion to fusion power is complete. All population centres (or clusters of such centres) with 5000 or less people are now powered by a mix of solar panels, wind turbines, and fusion reactors. The cost of supplying electricity to these centres is reduced by 50% by preliminary analyses, and savings of annual maintenance costs are estimated at 40%.

Noosland's second phase of conversion is now complete. All population centres except the five biggest cities are now powered by fusion, solar, wind, and hydro. Power generation has been decentralised to a community/district basis. This allows built-in redundancy in the power supply system, and reduces maintenance costs. Overhead power lines have been replaced by ones that run through underground conduits, reducing their vulnerabilities to various elements such as high winds, hail, and freezing rain.

All the coal and oil firing plants supplying these centres have been decomissioned. They will be dismantled, and the land will be turned to other use, or release to nature.

[Whaleboy]

Marijuania is very interested in this fusion technology. We have a large programme ourselves, which is nearing a good result!

May we exchange something with Noosland for your technology, to save us 3 months of R&D spending?

[Whaleboy]

We would like to announce a successful test of our Ion engine technology (first used on the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft in the 1970's in RL).

An interplanetery probe was launched on a Marrakesh class rocket, and sent into an eccentric orbit of Earth. At perigee, it engaged its Ion engines, powered by an on-board nuclear reactor, and was able to power out of orbit, to the deep reaches of the Solar System. The current reported speed is 20km/s and rising. We expect, after a period of acceleration, the probe to reach 75km/s, and be able to continue powered spaceflight for upwards of 80 years, due to the large cache of fuel.

This technology will be used on Marijuania's new class of shuttle, the Marley-class, to enter service shortly. Of course, because it sacrifices acceleration for speed, it needs to be used in conjunction with ordinary rockets, and it is largely useless in Earth orbit. It is best for interplanetery ships and space probes, as well as the theoretical possibility of weapons to shoot down vessels in heliocentric orbit.