The Holy Grail for Electric Cars

From article, (“Instead of refining petroleum, the refiners would reprocess spent electrolytes and instead of dispensing gas, the fueling stations would dispense a water and ethanol or methanol solution as fluid electrolytes to power vehicles,” Cushman said. “Users would be able to drop off the spent electrolytes at gas stations, which would then be sent in bulk to solar farms, wind turbine installations or hydroelectric plants for reconstitution or re-charging into the viable electrolyte and reused)

Me, "It sounds like a way for the gasoline industry to save money by reusing current gasoline infrastructure to power an electric car. You would create a liquid electrolyte substance at a refinery, (water, and ethanol, or methanol solution) that can use current Gasoline infrastructure: Pipelines, Refineries, Gasoline tanker trucks, gas stations, and new solar and wind plants, to power electric cars.
There would still need to be a way of pumping out the used liquid substance. 

Maybe a grate under the car, to allow the electrolyte to be released into a gas station holding tank, like they do during oil changes. Then like gasoline, pump, the new recharged liquid electrolyte into the electric cars fuel tank. The used liquid substance that is collected, is returned to a recharging center to start the process again. (A Solar or Wind Farm.)

This idea seems to solve the recharge time issue, Battery life, and it reuses the Gasoline infrastructure. (Which saves the gasoline industries current investments.) Gasoline stations would need a few tweaks to it, instead of having to find places to plug in and wait for a recharge you would continue going to your local gas station.
It would reduce the cost of an electric car because no longer would you be forced to buy the most expensive part of an electric car, the battery. With this process you never have to worry about the battery ever going bad because every fill up is like getting a new battery.
What the researchers need to do, if this process is to get put in to production, is to get a major car manufacturer on board and the current oil industry on board. If they get a major car manufacturer to produce electric cars that use this system, then just by economics, the cost of the battery will be 0 and so the cost of an electric car will be much less. If this turns out to be the correct way to go, other car companies would get on board.
There is no way this system will pan out without major car companies on board and oil companies on board."
But this could be a way of saving the oil industries assets, refineries, and gas station infrastructure  and making electric cars cheaper then they are today. Even cheaper than (ICE) Internal combustion engines cars. The price could even end up being as low as an (ICE) motorcycle."

'Instantly rechargeable' battery could change the future of electric and hybrid automobiles

Seasonal allergies, Allergic food reactions, and Asthma cured; thanks to new ground breaking research.

From article, (A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland.

A team led by Associate Professor Ray Steptoe at the UQ Diamantina Institute has been able to ‘turn-off’ the immune response which causes allergic reaction in animals.

“When someone has an allergy or asthma flare-up, the symptoms they experience results from immune cells reacting to protein in the allergen,” Professor Steptoe said.

“The challenge in asthma and allergies is that these immune cells, known as T-cells, develop a form of immune ‘memory’ and become very resistant to treatments.

“We have now been able ‘wipe’ the memory of these T-cells in animals with gene therapy, de-sensitizing the immune system so that it tolerates the protein.

“Our work used an experimental asthma allergen, but this research could be applied to treat those who have severe allergies to peanuts, bee venom, shell fish and other substances.”

Dr Steptoe said the findings would be subject to further pre-clinical investigation, with the next step being to replicate results using human cells in the laboratory.”

“We take blood stem cells, insert a gene which regulates the allergen protein and we put that into the recipient.

“Those engineered cells produce new blood cells that express the protein and target specific immune cells, ‘turning off’ the allergic response.”

Dr Steptoe said the eventual goal would be a single injected gene therapy, replacing short-term treatments that target allergy symptoms with varying degrees of effectiveness.

“We haven’t quite got it to the point where it’s as simple as getting a flu jab, so we are working on making it simpler and safer so it could be used across a wide cross-section of affected individuals,” Dr Steptoe said.

“At the moment, the target population might be those individuals who have severe asthma or potentially lethal food allergies.”)

Gene therapy turns off severe allergies in animals and could eventually cure humans of allergies and asthma | NextBigFuture.com

Why U.S Missile Defense is not A Threat to China and Russia and is actually a Benefit

From article, (The Pentagon's successful interceptor missile defense test this week is seen as a step toward reducing the nuclear risk from North Korea, but now China and Russia are seeing the U.S. technology as a threat.
During Tuesday's test, the U.S. military intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile target fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during a test of its Ground-based Midcourse Defense, or GMD, system.
Besides California, the U.S. also has the GMD system deployed at Fort Greely in Alaska. The interceptor test took place a day after the North Korean regime fired its ninth ballistic missile test this year.
Tuesday was only the 10th successful test out of 17 conducted since 1999. This week's test also was the first live-fire test against a simulated ICBM target.
The test is seen as a sign the U.S. military is making progress to combat the mainland U.S. threat from North Korea. Still, the use of numerous decoy missiles or countermeasures by an enemy could overwhelm or confuse the interceptor system and render it useless.
Russia and China already have developed countermeasures to increase the chance of a missile reaching a target. And the North Koreans also are believed to be developing similar capabilities, which creates additional national security concerns given Pyongyang's rapid advances in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
There's an expectation that U.S. adversaries will intensify efforts to counter the GMD and other missile defense technology. Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted as much Thursday
"The enhancement of America's missile defense capability will, in theory, undermine the effectiveness [and] efficacy of nuclear strikes launched by its main strategic rivals, thus consolidating its own domination," according to an op-ed Thursday on the Chinese military's official web portal.
China believes the systems "will also stimulate other countries to develop strategic penetration technology at a faster pace or enhance their own strategic defense capability, which will exert a new impact on international security."
"They believe they were put in a situation where they are going to have to counter that, and that's the age-old story of military capability," he said.
The U.S. hopes to have a total of 44 GMD interceptors available by the end of the calendar year, up from 36 today, but even with that amount there may not be enough interceptors to take out more than a dozen incoming ICBMs, according to experts. A group of senators last month introduced a bipartisan bill that seeks to bolster homeland missile defense and sharply increase the number of interceptors.
The U.S. missile agency has received more than $120 billion since 2002 on the GMD missile defense system and it plans to spend an additional $37 billion through 2021 to further develop capabilities, according to a Government Accountability Office report released last month.
Laser weapons also show promise as part of a missile defense system. They have already been tested in manned aircraft and now development is underway in drones.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's "long-term goal is to deploy lasers on high-altitude, long-endurance UAV platforms to destroy ICBMs in the boost phase at long standoff ranges," according to spokesman Chris Johnson.
That said, Karako indicated that the laser-based UAV weapon would only be useful for the boost phase of a ballistic missile when it's most vulnerable and rising. The laser probably wouldn't be reliable to kill the missile warhead on its re-entry since at that phase it is designed to withstand intense heat.)

Me, "Missile Defense is not a threat to any nation. Why? Let's look at history. The U.S. developed the atomic bomb. Russia and China soon followed with their own atomic bombs. The U.S. developed the fusion bomb, Russia and China soon followed with their own.
 So what can be learned? 
For every defensive weapons system other countries follow with their own. So, U.S. missile defense is just the next step in that process. The U.S. will figure out a way of coming up with an effective missile defense and then Russia and China will follow. Weapon systems beget Weapon systems. It's just the nature of things.
Missile defense will not give a country the upper hand for long. However, it will keep MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) in affect because no country would be able to win a future war. There would always be uncertainty of being able to win; keeping countries at bay, and continuing business as usual. 
Missile defense is really a program that will benefit all countries in the future. Not so much to prevent nuclear weapons from reaching their targets but as a way of learning how to intercept and deflect an incoming harmful to Earth asteroid, if, there is one out there. "  

US missile defense triggers alarm in Russia, China as North Korea issues new warnings