Νew Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia

GarryB wrote:Honestly the way the EU treats Russia I would say paying good money to get people to and from there faster is a waste of time and money and just another string they can cut.

I would say high speed rail links within Russia between major cities and areas is well worth the money and effort, but rather than rail links to the EU, I would direct them the other way and go for rail links to Asia and through Asia...

Set up a military park in the far east somewhere where you can drive a tank or fly a fighter or fire a machine gun or rocket launcher... they can use up old ammo and spend money having fun with their mates. You could have once in a lifetime things like firing a tank gun or artillery piece for $5K US it could all be videoed and you get to keep the empty shell case or whatever... there will be lots of ex army and ex military people who might like a job there that does not involve going to shit holes around the world and killing people...

You could add a few other adventure type things or nature things along the high speed route where you can stop for as long as you like and catch the next train to continue your journey or whatever...

That's the thing though.

What's Russia's value, fundamentally?

It's a country linking the whole of Eurasia, west to east, north to south

By itself it doesn't have nearly as much population as either Europe, or Asia or the Middle East though.

While the EU can always cut the strings, it would be to its own benefit, that say people in China can take a high-speed train all the way to the heart of Europe through Central Asia and Russia. And that they can use the same super highway to get to Asia.
And like I said, we already have a fast rail service with Helsinki; that's one thing the EU hasn't objected to at least.

Therefore Russia building high speed rail links with Europe cannot be taken in isolation. There should also be a high speed rail linking to Iran, and possibly beyond to Pakistan, and of course high speed rail lines linking to China. If the tunnel to Hokkaido to Sakhalin ever gets built (the bridge to Sakhalin itself from the mainland is assured in that case too), then we can connect Japan's railways to the trans-Siberian line too for logistics and travel. Ditto for South Korea; in case the US ever fucks off the construction of the inter-Korean railway can proceed all the way to Vladivostok.

What's Russia's value, fundamentally?

To the EU... it is a punch bag to make the domestic population feel better about their problems and complexity of life.

To the US a potential rival to its control of the EU and the world.

To Russia... somewhere to live that is safe and affordable.

It's a country linking the whole of Eurasia, west to east, north to south

Lots of vested interests in existing links who will resist any change to cross Russia instead of going around... lots of ports and countries that will loose money and business traffic...

By itself it doesn't have nearly as much population as either Europe, or Asia or the Middle East though.

And how long before people stop complaining about the climate and start saying overpopulation is the problem?

Evidence from Chernobyl clearly shows extreme radiation is less dangerous to nature than human habitation... take the people away and nature blooms...

While the EU can always cut the strings, it would be to its own benefit, that say people in China can take a high-speed train all the way to the heart of Europe through Central Asia and Russia. And that they can use the same super highway to get to Asia.

The EU is not a single unified block working together for the good of the member states... half the countries of the EU oppose NSII simply because it involves Russia... the EU is getting a hell of a lot more out of NSII than Russia is, yet elements in the EU seem set on sabotage and interference.

Transport links to Asia wont benefit all EU states either and the ones that don't benefit will certainly try to sabotage that too... and lets face it... they wont even get on board unless they make a lot of money and Russia doesn't benefit too much.

And that is why Russia is doing it... and also clearly why they rejected Chinese participation because China clearly wanted a piece of the pie that was too big... why would Germany refuse a big piece too?

And like I said, we already have a fast rail service with Helsinki; that's one thing the EU hasn't objected to at least.

When 100 million Chinese people take the train from Russia to Helsinki every year they will want a slice of the pie.

And Finland isn't a member of the EU is it?

Therefore Russia building high speed rail links with Europe cannot be taken in isolation.

I think Russia should focus on internal rail links both high speed and normal speed to open up the far east and link the various remote areas together in an affordable transit system. Heading east or south makes sense but not west beyond existing links.

Metamaterials are cool, but once again the stealth fetish is rearing its ugly head. Yeah, they can be transmitters in some frequencies
but not in all of them. They will absorb and thus will re-emit. Radars are no longer radar frequency constrained devices.
The periodic table of the elements imposes limits on "invisibility" that can never be overcome. Maybe some sci-fi phasing tech
will arrive if humanity survives in the coming thousands of years. But there is no point holding one's breath.

The first Russian cargo drone with a hybrid engine was tested recently in Moscow. The hybrid hydrogen-electric power plant provides a maximum driving range of up to 900 kilometers. The cost of transporting goods is 60% cheaper than when transporting traditional trucks, according to the developers.

But this vehicle requires smart highways to be useful. It needs external information input to avoid collisions and operate in traffic.

That is not bad, car AI is nowhere ready for prime time regardless of what Musk and his sycophants claim or believe.

Which brings us to the question is it more difficult (expensive) to upgrade highways or cars?

Scorpius wrote:
The first Russian cargo drone with a hybrid engine was tested recently in Moscow. The hybrid hydrogen-electric power plant provides a maximum driving range of up to 900 kilometers. The cost of transporting goods is 60% cheaper than when transporting traditional trucks, according to the developers.

Please post the link to website you got this from, and IIRC from the top of my head, the article states that the cost of creation of this vehicle is 60 percent lower than a similar manned analogue conversion.

x_54_u43 wrote:

Scorpius wrote:
The first Russian cargo drone with a hybrid engine was tested recently in Moscow. The hybrid hydrogen-electric power plant provides a maximum driving range of up to 900 kilometers. The cost of transporting goods is 60% cheaper than when transporting traditional trucks, according to the developers.

Please post the link to website you got this from, and IIRC from the top of my head, the article states that the cost of creation of this vehicle is 60 percent lower than a similar manned analogue conversion.

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/137411/

Hole wrote:Which brings us to the question is it more difficult (expensive) to upgrade highways or cars?

Highways.

But that's not the real problem, for companies it's liability, any failure or accident that may happen along the way will fall directly onto the company.
So to avoid this liability problem they need to put a driver on these trucks in order to avoid numerous lawsuits.

This is why we still have locomotive operators, trains don't need the complex AI that cars do, but they still keep their operators for liability reasons.

Which brings us to the question is it more difficult (expensive) to upgrade highways or cars?

I would hope both would be upgraded...

We need better cars and better roads... not all the cars on the road will be smart and not all the roads will be smart either.

But that's not the real problem, for companies it's liability, any failure or accident that may happen along the way will fall directly onto the company.
So to avoid this liability problem they need to put a driver on these trucks in order to avoid numerous lawsuits.

A very important factor... imagine writing the AI logic... you are driving down the road in a small car and a large heavy truck... for what ever reason is barrelling down the road on your side of the road passing another heavily loaded truck on the proper side of the road... the AI has a choice to hit one or the other truck head on at high speed (no point in improving safety if you can't go faster right?) or it can mount the pavement to avoid both trucks and kill pedestrians...

When it goes to court and everyone produces their video footage of the incident... both trucks, the car itself, and likely a few shop or pedestrian mounted cameras too... no point suing the drivers... they can't afford multi million dollar fees and costs... it is the maker of the road and the trucks and car that have to worry.

The sad thing is that some thing smart automatically driven cars will be safe... they will be safer... but not actually safe.

Malfunctions to sensors might lead to smart cars running people over or stopping because a bird flew in front of the car, or running into buildings and off roads.

Rather than rely on road systems the cars or vehicles need to be able to see what is actually there... not just what is supposed to be there.

Of course it means you can go out and get hammered and not have to pay of a taxi home... which is a good thing... of course when you breathalyse an automatic car could petrol fumes be confused with alcohol content?

Be great for terrorists too... fill a van with a huge bomb and send it to the target...

kvs wrote:But this vehicle requires smart highways to be useful.  It needs external information input to avoid collisions and operate in traffic.

That is not bad, car AI is nowhere ready for prime time regardless of what Musk and his sycophants claim or believe.

Russian manufacturers are investing quite a lot into truck AIs so clearly they are indications that they'll get a return on their investment

In Russia a lot of new toll highways are being planned; likely they'll be fitted with any needed sensors when they're built.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/elbrus-crowdfund-motherboard

Interesting. So we may be able to get a motherboard that will work for Elbrus CPU's!

I may just try to get one.

miketheterrible wrote:https://www.tomshardware.com/news/elbrus-crowdfund-motherboard

Interesting.  So we may be able to get a motherboard that will work for Elbrus CPU's!

I may just try to get one.

Nice. But the author is engaging in ignorant blather. Intel's failure with VLIW does not mean that
Elbrus is some "pushed" architecture. It has over 40 years behind it and the compilers for the
this VLIW architecture are world class. Elbrus is already being used in HPC systems and it
is a success. Intel failed because it reflects the shallow western culture of quick fixes and
instant gratification.

A fully automated truck for use on closed roadways in large enterprises has been developed under the Kamaz brand.
Unlike the half-baked Tesla auto-pilot this vehicle really does have a functional version.

Musk's connections to the elites is clear. They let his rubbish be beta tested on the public. The fact that these
miracles of American knowhow and innovation can't even differentiate cars pulled to the side of the road or
overturned trucks blocking the lane says it all. The Tesla autopilot hack must assume that vehicles are
a) in motion and b) small enough to fit in a lane. So it cannot process cases where the vehicles are stopped
and such as the example above where the truck is light in color and spans more than one lane.

Chubais has been fired from heading Rosnano and replaced by a "silovik" Sergei Kulikov instead of another liberast.

The label "silovik" is not really accurate since he was never in the KGB or an officer in the field, but he got training in
military educational institutions and served on the Military Commission and worked for Rosoborexport. So he is more
like a military and tech sector focused government technocrat. He was born in 1976 and is 23 years younger than Chubais.

about fucking time.

Now I wonder what Chubais will do.

Wonder if they just paid him out and said keep quiet and live your life peacefully or will he all of a sudden be another Navalny and Yasin?

Guy was a piece of shit.

https://www.stalkerzone.org/mishustins-reform-dealt-a-blow-to-the-liberal-clan/
This article fits into the narrative. I think the deal with Jelzin expired.

miketheterrible wrote:about fucking time.

Now I wonder what Chubais will do.

Wonder if they just paid him out and said keep quiet and live your life peacefully or will he all of a sudden be another Navalny and Yasin?

Guy was a piece of shit.

Anatoly Chubais appointed special representative of the President for relations with international organizations


In General, he is now a nobody to connect with anyone. Assignment to a niche where there's just nothing to fuck up.

https://nica.jinr.ru/
More news from the country-gas station.

There are only 4 similar projects in the world:
LHC at CERN,
RHIC in USA,
FAIR in Germany,
NICA in Russia.

And Russia participates in three of them.

Scorpius wrote:https://nica.jinr.ru/
More news from the country-gas station.

There are only 4 similar projects in the world:
LHC at CERN,
RHIC in USA,
FAIR in Germany,
NICA in Russia.

And Russia participates in three of them.

Russia also made superconducting magnets used both in CERN and FAIR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0umC9EaPXw

Which is technology that might have been created as part of an EMALS programme, or conversely could be used in an EMALS programme if it was designed for particle accelerator use...

dont think I saw this at all:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/from-bioprinting-lab-grown-meat-in-russia-to-beyond-meat-in-the-us-kfc-is-embracing-the-future-of-food/

So KFC is using a Russian bioprinting lab to grow meat alternative for their chicken.