afternoon post arrives

Lets discuss all kinds of thing:

First the gizmag report. I have no idea where these guys get this stuff but i hope they get paid for it cause i like it.

A new stealth ship has been designed, I wonder if its worth it... would be better in my mind to have a number of drone helicopters than this thing, but what the hell do i know.... its still damn cool. Its supposed to be used for harbor patrol and to escort larger ships that are prone to attack from swarms of smaller ones. (for those of you wondering, I looked it up and the littoral zone is the area between high and low tide marks.... shallow waters indeed)

One of the nice things about Gizmag is that if you click on a story it will bring up the most read OTHER stories in that subject line. So lets look at more watercraft.

Concept boats are very interesting, here is a list of boats entered into a contest for concept boats. here is is another list of such boats And on another page are some winners of such a contest. The actual web site for the conceptboat contest seems tobe having trouble so here is the google cache of it. Recently I was driving and passed two trucks loaded with bombardier boxes that had an unknown recreational device inside. Here is a discussion of what they have designed in the water craft world. They have a VERY cool design for a personal sail craft. Here are two items for undersea living. The Jelly-fish and the the Trilobis . Course your gonna need a high tech anchor to match your high tech boat/home.

Yesterday i mentioned something about using kites to move ships around, here is another story on the same subject, this one claims that these kites can cut the fuel usage in half. I wonder if my research is still accurate and fuel is the second largest expense in international cargo shipping. Insurance is the first and human pay is the third. here is the web site for one manufacturer of the kite sailing system.

Now onto other areas of science and industry:

Telemedicine was supposed to be the big savior. Allowing fewer doctors to do more work in remote areas, cutting costs and saving lives. Well a new study says that Telemedicine is not living up to its hype which is no suprise because most things do not live up to their hype, but this time its kinda sad.

How about plants as a fuel source?

Or the startling realization that wetlands clean the water that passes through them and control flooding whodve thunk it?

now a whole bunch of studies on farming and the environment:
Fine tuning calf nutrition to reduce nitrogen pollution

New form of clover feeds cows without requiring fertaliser

Grubbs are being looked at to turn manure into high protein feed for he animals that dumped it in the first place.

Researchers are looking into whole farm systems to reduce pollution from dairy farms without ruining the economics of it.

When i have more time I will write out my tirade on the cattle/corn/sugar industry triumvirate that is ruining farming in america.