The market
The global space freight market is estimated for 2012 at 100 billion dollars per year, including the orbit of military, civilian and scientific satellites. Trade freight is estimated at $ 3 billion per year. The United Launch Alliance based in Centennial, Colorado (USA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, provides launching services for space vehicles with two main customers: the American Defense Department and NASA. It has and operates launch platforms located in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Florida) and Vanderberg Air Force Base (California). Space tourism is a whole new activity linked to the space which was first launched by the Russian space agency. The announced price of flights aboard a Soyuz spacecraft was $ 20 to 35 million per trip. Although Russian orbital space tourism was interrupted in 2010 due to the limited number of places in the shuttles, it should resume in 2013 at a bill of +50 million dollars per trip. Virgin Galactic was the first company to offer space tourism, with a ticket price of $ 200,000 to enjoy the experience of a few minutes of weightlessness with a magnificent view of the earth 100 kilometers from the ground. Xcor Aerospace, a Californian upstart, offers seats on its Suborbital Space Lynx space vehicle at $ 95,000 for flights starting in 2014. Space Exploration Technologies, is in competition in this emerging market with the extraordinary offer to go around Moon for 100 million dollars planned before 2020. At this rate, it is not surprising that-according to the Federal Aviation Agency in the United States-the space tourism market will become a billion industry dollars within a decade. While American and British entrepreneurs focus on space transport, the Russian company Orbitel Technologies built a space hotel for 7 people whose opening is scheduled for 2016. The cost of a five -day stay is calculated at one million Dollars, food and drinks included.
Innovation
The fact that people are ready to spend a fortune to explore space when there are so many critical problems to solve on earth is difficult to understand. We should explore our own world and find ways to live permanently. We must recognize that "heaven is no longer the limit" and from there, we must give priority to a human life for all on earth, eradicate poverty and develop the ability to meet the basic needs with what is available locally. Virgin Galactic justifies its new space tourism activity by stating that this is a clean technology project that will push carbon composites to applications in a whole series of industrial sectors. Professor James Lovelock, environmentalist and co-author of Gaia's theory, supports Virgin Galactic as one of the important industrial projects of the 21st century. The same teacher also believes that nuclear energy will offer the clean fuel that the world needs. We wonder if he saw this logic after the Fukushima disaster. Aisha Mustafa is a 19 -year -old student from the University of Sohag, on the western shore of the Nile, in the middle of Egypt. As a student in physics, with a keen interest in astrophysics, she has developed creative ideas in quantum physics. She has learned to know the virtual particles, particles that only exist for a very short period of time. These particles allow the production of vacuum energy. Although the concept is theoretical and based on the principle of energy-time uncertainty, the energy of the vacuum incorporated in a cubic meter of free space (that is to say space without any matter) has been estimated between 10 and 113 joules of power. She realized that space is not really a void but a fireplace of particle interactions which creates and destroys virtual particles. This space, although informed by its size, could represent a formidable potential source of energy and therefore inspired Aisha to imagine how to exploit it. Released from experience and having only a limited knowledge of existing theories, Aisha imagined how to create a new engine: the ion engine. The power of Aisha's approach is that, unlike many established astrophysicists, it does not limit its reflections to speech and theory, it undertakes to do something. Aisha understood the theory of Casimir's dynamic forces and offers a practical means of using the energy fields of the vacuum to create a propulsion that requires little or no fuel to travel in space. It is determined to exploit the quantum effects using two simple silicon plates in a vacuum placed a few micrometers apart. The plates interact with virtual photons in the quantum field and generate a net strength which is either an attraction or a repulsion. Basically, Aisha's contribution is as important as to theorize that oil exists underground, to demonstrate that there is and to find a way to draw a small sample to prove beyond doubt that it exists and can be Introduced into our real world. Of course, a few drops will not solve the energy dilemma, but this state of mind and this determination are a big step forward. Nabil Nour Eldin Abdellah, president of the University of Sohag, encouraged Aisha to continue his creative approach and provided the necessary budget through the club of innovative science students to file a patent application that was granted in February Last by the Egyptian Academy of Scientific and Technological Research (ASRT) in Cairo. Institutional support is commendable.
The first cash flow
This innovative propulsion device is based on an interesting mixture of quantum physics, space technology, chemical reactions and electrical sciences. The propellants of a car engine to an airplane, a spacecraft and satellites use fuel which forces a gas to get out of the engine to advance at high speed, even at a supersonic speed. The propellants are also based on chemical reactions or electrical probes through acceleration ions to generate a forward movement. Aisha's creative spirit abandons these traditional solutions and imagines how to move forward with an electrical force generated between surfaces and objects separated in the void by the energy of the zero point, which is considered the lowest state of the 'energy. The power of his invention is that Professor Marc Milles, who led the NASA propulsion physics project, provided the theoretical framework but never found the logic that provided Aisha his patent to Aisha. She transposes in a realistic framework the original analyzes exploring the energy flow incorporated into the void - and which have not yet been described by Professor John Davidson of the University of Cambridge in his book "The Secret of Creative Vacuum" . While traveling in space are still based on traditional propulsion systems for the decades to come, the breakthrough of Aisha can benefit from additional funding-knowing that Egypt does not have the university platform for Get in this first line search. Virgin Galactic could perhaps push the limits of the energy challenge by inviting Aisha to be part of their quest for leader in the space field. For the moment, Aisha is proud of what she has accomplished in adolescence, but she aims to finish her studies and hopes to put her invention in an important scientific research organization so that her patent can be ready For one of the next space missions.
The opportunity
Aisha offers all of us who have followed emerging innovations in the blue economy a solid inspiration. Although its logic applies in space, there is no reason why in the future its logic cannot be applied to Earth. While the creation of a vacuum and a free space is a major challenge - even rejected as impossible by experts, it is enough to create this state on a tiny scale in order to potentially generate a source of massive energy. Although we have already promised free energy, Aisha's contribution goes beyond the evidence with the ability to view a new reality. While nobody knows how it can be done today or in the near future, and many claim that it is fantasy, we need the perseverance and the creative spirit of young and free like Aisha Mustafa To focus on the questions we don't have any answers yet. The future depends on our ability to navigate from fantasy to reality through vision. Perhaps we should get creative spirits like Jules Verne, the French author of the 19th century who was the pioneer of science fiction by writing on travel in space, in the air and under the water before these trips are invented. The reason why I have devoted more than a year of full -time work to research, meeting, evaluation, study and writing these cases is that we need urgently of a generation that is ready to invent what has not been thought of. We need inspiration. Verne's latest work written at the turn of the century, which was only published until 1994, is a novel entitled "Paris in the 20th century". It is the story of a young man who lived in the middle of a glass skyscraper, who could move across the country in high-speed trains, who had access to petrol cars, a calculator and to global communication networks, but which could not find happiness and which died tragically. When young people unemployment reaches historical heights, it is a brilliant light to know how Aisha imagines a job that is not suitable for everyone - she rather begins by imagining her own job, following her passion sustained by an approach refreshing science. Humanity acts and reacts either because we are faced with a deep crisis, or because we are inspired by a vision. Perhaps we need the two: a crisis and a vision. People stop smoking when they receive a diagnosis of lung cancer; People migrate with the promise of a better future elsewhere. The business models that I described offer a vision and open ways beyond the excessive desire to consume many unnecessary things (remember the substitution of something with nothing). Our desire to have a quality life must be reconciled with innovations that are not only based on new technology, but rather on a new way of looking at the same reality in constant evolution before us. It is in this context that cash flows, net current value and benefits are no longer the sole objective, but the tools that allow communities to create the future they want and where the desire to make the necessary cheap and the essential to live free offers the prerequisites for a happier company. This is what I envisage with the blue economy.
