ISIT and KadSci, LLC teamed to compete in this competition, which began in mid-May 2019 and ended Nov. 30, 2019.. We spent the first halfof the competition focusing on the science aspect. Then in August we used what we had learned to develop our solution and soared from 27th place in July to 4th place…
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This saved version only includes forecasts and rationales from these people, all of whom have agreed to share these among ourselves: Dawna Coutant Lou DeMarco Seamus Fagan Dima Klenchin Carolyn Meinel Dwight Smith Richard Stenberg Linchuan Zhang CONTEXT: Questions in this set ask you to forecast real or hypothetical events in 2021. All questions in…
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Problem Statement: The peer review system already was strained before COVID-19. Unknown for most of 2019,the number of papers associated with COVID-19 approached 4,000 a week by the middle of 2020. It then asks the impossible: for the sake of global security and health, researchers should accept more peer reviews, perform them both more meticulously,…
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WHY Plasma for Waste to Energy Solutions? Energy sources which are not harmful to the environment and atmospheric pollution are two of the worlds’ most critical global challenges. High temperatures provide different chemistries and chemical kinetics Produce higher quality SYNGAS Better environmental performance Enable efficient processing of wide range of feed stocks (wood, plastic, MSW,…
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Harry D. Fair A new type of land-based autonomous electric brigade combat team is proposed to project global power, provide deterrence and a stabilizing influence, and in times of peace, provide humanitarian relief. It is based on the fundamental principle that if the Electric Brigade Combat Team (EBCT) had access to an almost unlimited supply…
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Key Technology: ISIT’s Superconducting Pulsed Electromagnetic Launcher ISIT’s Superconducting Pulsed Electromagnetic Launcher would be an essential component of any gun launch to orbit system using superconducting quench, defined as what happens when a superconducting current suddenly goes non-superconducting. Today, when it becomes necessary to quench a superconductor, it requires quickly boiling off its liquid helium…
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The Emergence of Railgun and Coilgun Science and Technology The use of chemical propellants to launch materials is a mature technology that has served mankind in peace and war for a thousand years. But, the physics and chemistry of combustion limit the ultimate performance of chemical guns and rockets. Electromagnetic energy can be exploited to…
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.:Together, we can make history. Low cost access to space could enable so many things — and soon.: Cities in space. Mining asteroids for precious metals for export to Earth. Human habitats on the Moon and Mars. Build massive detection systems capable of finding life elsewhere in our galaxy — or even further. Clean…
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Background Jump to our solution: quench gun technology for Earth to space launch —> For decades, humankind has dreamed, written books, created films and video games and invested billions of dollars to explore the unique environment of Earth orbit and outer space. Most of the benefits of the past and current space programs are attributed…
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Natural Language Processing (NLP): part of the solution to the validity and usability crisis in COVID-19 research papers? Problem Statement: The peer review system already was strained before COVID-19. Unknown for most of 2019, the number of papers associated with COVID-19 has approached 4,000 a week by the middle of 2020. It then asks the…
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