The reason this works is that the surface is modified at the nanoscale to suppress emissions in the infrared spectrum where most of the energy of an incandescent light bulb is wasted. Guess what? This has already been done nearly 20 years ago.

U.S. Patent 5,123,868 describes a filament with nanoscale tuned resonant cavities that suppress the emission of infrared. No fancy femtosecond lasers - it was manufactured using centuries-old metalworking techniques of repeatedly drawing wires to make them thinner, followed by acid etching. It works. It improves the efficiency about twofold. Unfortunately, nanostructures can't withstand these high temperatures very long, even when made of tungsten. They deteriorate in less than 100 hours and efficiency drops to that of a conventional bulb. I'm pretty sure happens here, too.

Based, BTW, on a real world incident.

I assume you mean they cannot be directly plugged in. This is not the same as "adaptable". Depending on the amount of effort you are willing to spend, almost anything/a. is adaptable for use as a PC keboard.

Trademarks could be considered kosher even from a strictly libertarian point of view.

"No force or fraud"? Well, trademark law is about protecting your freedom from fraud by misrepresentation of the origin of goods and services. It's a good thing - at least when it's not enforced in overzealous and creative ways.

Patents and copyrights are about restricting your freedom in return for (allegedly) promoting the arts and sciences.

Oxygen absorption in the 60 GHz band is 10-15db per km. Not a big issue for typical links of up to a few hundred meters. This reduces the chances of interference and improves frequency reuse which is important in an unlicensed band. In fact, it is the reason this band was designated as unlicensed in the first place!

You mean like these Muslin Fundamentalists?

Instead of atmospheric drag a conductive tether moving through the Earth's magnetic current generates a current and radiates the heat from tether resistance. The dissipated energy will eventually bring the satellite down. The technique has been developed by Tethers Unlimited and the late Dr. Robert Forward

http://www.tethers.com/TT.html

The US has a long history of failed shuttle replacement programs including NASP, VentureStar and a couple of others. It seems that Europe wants a taste of failure, too.

Airbreathing just doesn't work for getting to space. Most of the effort is not spent on climbing a couple of hundred kilometers - it's accelerating to orbital velocity in order to stay up there. Acceleration is best done in vacuum. Airbreathing is best done, well, in air. Do the math.

I searched for the words "bromoageliferin" and "biofilm" on Google Scholar to see the distribution of articles by year.

1997, 1 article, Japan
2007, 1 article, US
2008, 6 articles, US

The anti-biofilm activity of this and other substances derived from sponges was discovered by Japanese researches. The application they were looking for was the prevention of biofouling in shipping, power stations cooling systems, etc.
In 2007, the use of bromoageliferin analogues against antibiotic resistant strains was tested in NCSU.
In 2008, a NOAA researcher rediscovered it, apparently independently.

The shuttle HAS NO right end to enter the atmosphere. It is not stable without active controls. Soyuz can enter in brick mode and still survive the reentry.

This concept was pioneered in the canadian MOST(Microvariability and Oscillations of STars) mission. MOST is a suitcase-sized satellite build on a modest budget but still achieved some significant scientific results. Kepler follows in its footsteps with a larger and more powerful implementation.

The software architect for MOST is Henry Spencer

Most of today's financial instruments have very good legitimate uses. Unfortunately, the vast majority of actual total trading activity in these instruments is speculation.

Hawaii and Israel may be small but the Bay Area is full of people who may be willing to drive vehicles with certain limitations if they think they are more environmentally friendly. Ideological reasons can be just as valid as geographical reasons.