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IRI
would like to promote our environmental T-shirt made from soft
cotton which is also a fund-raiser for us. Our
IRI T-shirts are a short season item but will help us to
continue to offer this free service newsletter you all enjoy! You
can also order our Patents
Progress Poster, a one-of-a-kind item and an educational for
students and adults, sold nowhere else. This poster shows the
patent process through the USPTO once a patent is
filed. Comes in two sizes! If you order through Labor day,
use code PC22, and you will save 10%!
Though we did not participate directly in the
annual ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference in
Albuquerque NM, we still would like to let you know about the
extraordinary August event, run by a superman named Steve
Elswick. He is offering discounts on the DVDs of their lectures,
all dealing with future energy, bioenergetics, and alternative
propulsion: https://www.teslatech.info/ttstore/conftapes/teslatech/etcframe.htm --
great health and energy titles and topics to choose from and
discounted until September 15.
Story #1
is a very unusual report from a National Laboratory here in the
US. First of all, the surprising number of 1000 authors on the
three published 2022 papers in Phys Rev E are reporting on the
experiment from last August 2021 when they amazingly reached 1.3
megajoules of output energy from a bunch of 190 lasers hitting
the target, which they now call “ignition” for a fusion beginning
stage. Secondly, for the past year, their attempts at replicating
the experiment have “been unsuccessful” perhaps because of the
split second timing needed for all of the laser firings, though
the full article does report some hundreds of kilojoules on the
average since then. One promising sign is that the Chief
Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore Lab is actually named Omar
Hurricane, so we know that their future will be very powerful.
Story #2
invites us to buy a sleek red Samson flying car with FAA
approval. The Samson Sky website https://www.samsonsky.com/ is
impressive, I must say, though one needs a pilot’s license to own
this Switchblade. The name comes from its magical ability to hide
the wings when pretending to be a two seater car with three
wheels. Interesting dashboard and good flying speed. As the
company website says, the advantages are “Expand your range.
Enhance your ability to see friends and family. Take
extraordinary weekend getaways. Island hop in the Caribbean,
Hawaii, the Greek Islands or your favorite destinations close to
home.”
Story #3
gives us one more true breakthrough in bioenergetics from MIT.
Though it is the size of a postage stamp, this ultrasound imaging
device remains rigid with an elastomer-hydrogel backing, so the
resolution is the highest ever for internal organ imaging up to
48 hours continuously. A few more circuit designs and it may
reach the market sometime soon.
Story #4
is in keeping with our IRI commitment to finding solutions to the
upcoming global disaster we call “climate change” with increasing
sales of air conditioned clothing with built-in fans. As last
week’s www.WashingtonPost.com reported in
one day (August 24th), “Fires in Australia…caused major stratospheric
warming”, “Five 1,000-year rain events hit the U.S. in five
weeks”, and “China’s heat wave shatters records and assumptions”,
not to mention the enormous flooding in Pakistan while all major
rivers in Europe are apparently drying up without sufficient
snowfall melt. Our latest solution-oriented climate
article, https://tinyurl.com/climateforecast,
appears in Modern Advances in Geography, Environment
and Earth Sciences Vol. 5, Publisher: B P
International, and is Open Access.
Story #5
is an exciting future-oriented article on space travel to the
moon, while the Artemis program and the Orion spacecraft was
rescheduled earlier this week for a Friday test launch. In just
3-4 years, the plan is to let humans explore the moon’s south
pole where water ice is possibly accessible. This New York
Times article is an interesting read, as long as
you sign up correctly for free access and limit your reads to
three articles.
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1) We Have Ignition: Remarkable Breakthrough in
Nuclear Fusion Represents a New Physics Milestone
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For the
first time, scientists have confirmed a major breakthrough in
nuclear fusion involving the first successful instance of
ignition, the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes
self-sustaining. The achievement, results for which have been published
in three peer-reviewed papers, occurred at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility on August
8, 2021. Now, after several decades of research into how this
process can be achieved in the laboratory, LLNL’s National Ignition
Facility (NIF) announced the peer-reviewed results of its
findings last August, where a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules
(MJ) was reportedly achieved by the team of scientists in a
groundbreaking physics achievement.
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2) Samson Sky Flying Car Ready for Sale
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Well, now
we have one company that is really ready to offer its flying car
for sale within weeks. It is the swoopy Samson Sky Switchblade, in
development for 14 years. It has passed road tests. And the FAA
approved flight testing in July. That means it is only weeks away
from being available for retail sales.
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3) Wearable Ultrasound Sensor Provides Imaging while
patients are on the go
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Physics World.com August 2022
A wearable
ultrasound device can provide 48 hours of continuous imaging of
internal organs while patients go about their daily lives. The
device – developed by a team headed up at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) – consists of a rigid piezoelectric ultrasound
array that sticks to the skin via a soft bioadhesive
hydrogel–elastomer hybrid. Describing their findings in Science,
the researchers demonstrate that the patch can image the heart,
gastrointestinal tract, diaphragm and lungs during activities such
as jogging or drinking fluids.
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4) Air-Conditioned Clothing Becomes the Latest Way to
Beat the Heat
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Bloomberg
Business August 2022
Sales of
jackets and vests with built-in fans are climbing as more places
endure stifling temperatures. When temperatures climb, it’s natural
to turn on a fan and enjoy its cooling breeze. But what if you could
wear one? Dozens of companies are starting to embrace that idea,
putting fans in clothing to help laborers, athletes and everyone
else stay comfortable as climate change sends the mercury soaring.
Jackets and
vests with the cooling technology, used for years by Japanese
construction workers, are being redesigned as casual wear and
marketed to general consumers as heat waves grow more frequent and
intense. Although often dubbed “air-conditioned clothing,” that’s
something of a misnomer, because there’s usually only a fan and
nothing to actually cool the air. Hundreds of such garments are
available online starting as low as $20 and climbing into the
hundreds of dollars. While much of it is workwear, there’s no
shortage of more stylish offerings.
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