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Highlights from the Physics arXiv this week
<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6332" target="_blank"The Physical Basis Of Natural Units And Truly Fundamental Constants
E-Cat Weekly -- December 22, 2011
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The WindFlip Barge Concept Installs Offshore Wind Turbines Inexpensively and With Ease
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NREL’s New Optical Furnace ‘Bakes’ More Efficient Solar Cells Using 50% Less Energy
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Longevity highlights for 2011
Updated: 2011-12-30 19:58:49skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 30, 2011 Longevity highlights for 2011 Fightaging has a review of antiaging highlights for 2011. Recent analysis of a bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis , or age-related loss of bone mass and strength , has turned up an intriguing finding the treatment considerably improves life expectancy in the recipients . It's not often that an effect of this magnitude turns up out of the blue in humans in this day and . age Five extra years of life is a good half the expected effect of regular . exercise Australian clinical researchers have noted an extraordinary and unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment that people taking bisphosphonates are not only surviving well , better than people without osteoporosis , theyBlog - Mims's Bits's Greatest Hits for 2011
Updated: 2011-12-30 18:02:00Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review January February 2012 Subscribe now Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble . That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of . innovation The Chinese Solar Machine Layer by Layer Fire in the Library The Mystery Behind Anesthesia Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 72 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Mims's Bits's Greatest Hits for 2011 Eleven stories that enraged and enlightened Christopher Mims 12 30 2011 What follows are the Mims's BitsClean Energy Fuels Gets $150M in Investment + Energy News Roundup
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Four Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2012
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New Innovation System Urged for Developing Renewable Energy
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Does China’s Rare Earth’s Monopoly Imperil Clean Energy?
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The Future of Science 2021
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 The Future of Science 2021 The Institute for the Future has published A Multiverse of Exploration The Future of Science 2021 Invisibility cloaks . The search for extraterrestrial intelligence . A Facebook for genes . These were just a few of the startling topics IFTF explored at our recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the Future of Science . More than a dozen scientists from UC Berkeley , Stanford , UC Santa Cruz , Scripps Research Institute , SETI , and private industry shared their edgiest research driving transformations in science . MythBusters' Adam Savage weighed in on the future of science . education The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade :The Case For Better and Cheaper Batteries
Updated: 2011-12-30 07:11:55Nothing is more persuasive than consumer expectations for determining planning and investment. To help with that Pike Research conducted a web-based survey of 1,051 U.S. consumers in the fall of 2011 using a nationally representative and demographically balanced sample to consumer demand, preferences, and price sensitivity for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and electric vehicle charging [...]China lays out space plans until 2016
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 China lays out space plans until 2016 UPDATED- China Daily has a copy of the white paper that describes China space programme’s five-year plan , a China National Space Administration CNSA pronounced a Long March-5 rockets will use non-toxic and pollution-free . propellant” This would catch up to Russian and American rockets that have been using non-toxic fuel for a few . decades BBC News- The Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships will be launched to dock with the Tiangong-1 space lab module . Officials have indicated that at least one of the two next Shenzhou missions would be manned and that 2012 might even see the country's first female . astronaut Major Tasks for the Next Five Years In the next five years Blog - Best of 2011: Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
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In May, scientists revealed that infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan
Video - Consumer-Driven Disruptions
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review January February 2012 Subscribe now Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble . That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of . innovation The Chinese Solar Machine Layer by Layer Fire in the Library The Mystery Behind Anesthesia Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 72 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Next Video Consumer-Driven Disruptions A look at some of the small-scale innovations that went on to upend entire industries . Licensed underLongevity news
Updated: 2011-12-30 04:55:25skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 Longevity news 1. Fightaging notes that FDA regulation makes it impossible to meet demand or to try to develop and offer meaningful . products The US and the FDA then reach out internationally to try to block the black market in medical progress through stem cell and other treatments for people with otherwise terminal . diseases Four people were indicted for distributed stem cells and other biological products without federal Food and Drug Administration approval , and for unapproved treatments of cancer , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , multiple sclerosis , and Parkinson's . Disease Court records unsealed Wednesday show that the scheme made more than 1.5 million in sales between January 2007 and April 2010,Design of a Polymer–Carbon Nanohybrid Junction by Interface Modeling for Efficient Printed Transistors
Updated: 2011-12-30 04:39:07skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 Design of a Polymer–Carbon Nanohybrid Junction by Interface Modeling for Efficient Printed Transistors ACS Nano Molecularly hybridized materials composed of polymer semiconductors PSCs and single-walled carbon nanotubes SWNTs may provide a new way to exploit an advantageous combination of semiconductors , which yields electrical properties that are not available in a single-component system . We demonstrate for the first time high-performance inkjet-printed hybrid thin film transistors with an electrically engineered heterostructure by using specially designed PSCs and semiconducting SWNTs sc-SWNTs whose system achieved a high mobility of 0.23 cm2 V–1 s–1, no Von shift , and a low off-current . PSCs wereMolecular carpet-weaving - Two-dimensional networks from boron acids
Updated: 2011-12-30 04:35:22skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 Molecular carpet-weaving Two-dimensional networks from boron acids Stable two-dimensional networks of organic molecules are important components in various nanotechnology processes . However , producing these networks which are only one atom thick , in high quality and with the greatest possible stability currently still poses a great challenge . Scientists from the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich NIM have now successfully created just such networks made of boron acid . molecules Researchers have developed a process by which they can build up high-quality polymer networks using boron acid . components The carpets” that the physicists are working on in their laboratory in the Deutsches MuseumA Russian nuclear submarine caught fire but it was successful put out
Updated: 2011-12-30 04:00:38skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire but it was successful put out A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire Thursday , but officials say there was no radiation leak and no one was . injured The fire on the Yekaterinburg submarine happened while the vessel was docked for repairs in the northern Murmansk . region The Russian Defense Ministry said all of the submarine's weapons had been unloaded before the repairs and its reactor had already been shut down . The Delta IV class vessel is able to carry 16 intercontinental ballistic . missiles NY Times After battling for hours to extinguish a blaze aboard a nuclear submarine , Russian firefighters finally gained control of it early Friday by submerging theDwave Systems Tour and interview with CTO Geordie Rose
Updated: 2011-12-30 03:28:08skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 Dwave Systems Tour and interview with CTO Geordie Rose I , Brian Wang , had a guided tour of Dwave Systems . This was courteously provided by Dwave Systems CTO Geordie Rose . Highlights The papers that they publish are about 2 years behind the research and work that they are . performing They had published a paper back in May , 2011 which provided evidence that the 4 by 4 unit cells leveraged quantum . effects There is no difference between the coupling of the 8 qubit cells with the surrounding cells and recent internal work has been showing that the quantum effects extend to the entire chip . ie . The full 128 qubits , or 512 qubits for the new chip should fully leverage quantum . effects Dwave has developedBlog - Tout's Analytics Hold Up a Mirror to Email Behaviors
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review January February 2012 Subscribe now Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble . That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of . innovation The Chinese Solar Machine Layer by Layer Fire in the Library The Mystery Behind Anesthesia Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 72 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Tout's Analytics Hold Up a Mirror to Email Behaviors Quantifying the daily crush of email will make you want to write fewer of . themBillionaire investor is bullish on agricultural commodities and bearish on all stocks for the next 2-3 years
Updated: 2011-12-29 18:57:33skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 Billionaire investor is bullish on agricultural commodities and bearish on all stocks for the next 2-3 years CNBC Jim Rogers expects global economic problems to get much worse . Rogers is short because he is not optimistic about what’s going to happen in the world over the next two or three . years I’m short emerging markets , short American technology , short European stocks I don’t see much reason to own equities , 8221 he . says If I were buying anything I’d be buying agricultural commodities , 8221 he says . Going forward we’re going to have huge shortages of everything including farmers I think ag will be a great place for the next 10-20 years , 8221 he . says But don’t take that to mean that ag stocksSurface functionalization used to develop blue light emitting graphene oxide nanosheets
Updated: 2011-12-29 18:18:43Home Introduction Surface functionalization used to develop blue light emitting graphene oxide nanosheets Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Photonics Technical Research Researchers developed a new blue light emitting hybrid graphene oxide nanosheets . The team used surface functionalization to turn the cyan 491 nm emitting sheets into 400 nm blue . The team fabricated the new material through the graphene oxide surface functionalization with aryl diazonium salts of . 2-aminoanthracene The researchers say that these surface-functionalized graphene oxide hybrids has unique optical properties and they may play an exciting role in opto-electronic . devices via RSC publishing Dec 29, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Blue light emitting hybrid graphene oxideRelease of Two new Digital Temperature Controller by OMRON
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Release of Two new Digital Temperature Controller by OMRONDevelopment of High-Performance SPI Serial EEPROM for Automotive Industry by Seiko Instruments
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Development of High-Performance SPI Serial EEPROM for Automotive Industry by Seiko InstrumentsBlog - Best of 2011: New Type Of Entanglement Allows 'Teleportation in Time'
Updated: 2011-12-29 05:10:00
In January, physicists said conventional entanglement links particles across space and pointed out that a similar effect links particles through time
The Year in Materials
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review January February 2012 Subscribe now Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble . That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of . innovation The Chinese Solar Machine Layer by Layer Fire in the Library The Mystery Behind Anesthesia Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 72 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Energy The Year in Materials Vibrant displays head to market , invisibility cloaks become more practical , and batteries store more . energyWhat If Electric Cars Were Better?
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review January February 2012 Subscribe now Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble . That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of . innovation The Chinese Solar Machine Layer by Layer Fire in the Library The Mystery Behind Anesthesia Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 72 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video See the rest of our Business Impact report on Disruptive Innovation Business What If Electric Cars Were Better Improving the energy density ofVideo - Gadget Roundup: Part 2
Updated: 2011-12-29 05:00:00A retro arcade system, a screen for business road warriors, and a brain wave reader are some of the best gadgets the editors of Technology Review have come across in the past year.
Blueseed office seastead to open within 21 months
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 28, 2011 Blueseed office seastead to open within 21 months Blueseed seasteading startup plans to launch in the third quarter of 2013, offering living and office space in an elegantly designed modern tech environment so compelling that it will be called the Googleplex of the Sea” , attracting top entrepreneurial and technology talent from all over the world to Silicon Valley , where they can create companies and jobs , and develop disruptive and innovative . technologies Blueseed planned location Blueseed rent Blueseed will have a wide assortment of living and office space packages for rent . Tentatively , depending on the ship we will end up selecting , we estimate that prices will be starting at 1,200 person monthIran threatens Strait of Hormuz but US Fifth Fleet says disruption will not be tolerated
Updated: 2011-12-28 16:30:06skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 28, 2011 Iran threatens Strait of Hormuz but US Fifth Fleet says disruption will not be tolerated 1. Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy or as Iranians say it will be easier than drinking a glass of water , Iran's navy chief Habibollah Sayyari told Iran's English language Press . TV But right now , we don't need to shut it as we have the Sea of Oman under control and we can control the transit , said Sayyari , who is leading 10 days of exercises in the . Strait Tension has increased between Iran and the West after EU foreign ministers decided three weeks ago to tighten sanctions on the world's No . 5 crude exporter over what the U.N . nuclear watchdog says is an attempt to design anDevelopment of Lightweight and Compact “Electromechanical Brake System” with Parking Brake Functionality
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Development of Lightweight and Compact “Electromechanical Brake System” with Parking Brake FunctionalityGoogle+ on track for 400 million users by the end of 2012
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Google+ on track for 400 million users by the end of 2012 Businessweek Google Inc . is adding 625,000 new users a day to the Google+ social-networking service , which may total 400 million members by the end of next year , according to independent analysis of its . growth Facebook has more than 800 million users . Google+ has apparently just passed the 62 million user . mark Google can continue to integrate Google+ into its other products and word of mouth will continue to build . Most importantly , 700,000 Android devices are activated daily and this will become a very significant source of new users for Google+ . That number will also grow next . year If you liked this article , please give it a quickDevelopment of X-ray Inspection System for Rapid Detection of Electrode Plates in Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Development of X-ray Inspection System for Rapid Detection of Electrode Plates in Lithium-Ion BatteriesChina's aircraft carrier and submarines are crap
Updated: 2011-12-28 07:15:19skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 China's aircraft carrier and submarines are crap 1. Wired China's refitted aircraft carrier is intended as a training aircraft carrier . It has a modest size 60,000 tons compared to American carriers It has an incomplete air wing and escort force It will sail without the company of allied flattops It has unreliable engines There will soon be 22 aircraft carriers in the . Pacific American has several carriers in the . Pacific five nuclear-powered supercarriers home-ported in California , Washington and Japan , plus six assault ships in California and Japan . Between them , the American carriers displace no less than 700,000 tons and can carry 600 aircraft . Our Navy can carry twice as many aircraft at sea asWhere The R&D Money Is At
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Battelle with R&D Magazine has its annual Global R&D Funding Forecast out suggesting global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2%, to more than $1.4 trillion in 2012. Battelle/R&DMag has it that R&D funding growth will largely be driven by the Asian economies that will see an increase in spending of nearly [...]Development of Novel Technology for Removing and Recovering Cesium from Cesium-Contaminated Water
Updated: 2011-12-28 06:09:24Development of Novel Technology for Removing and Recovering Cesium from Cesium-Contaminated WaterDelivery of Japan Largest Indoor Lithium-Ion Battery Based Microgrid Energy Storage System
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Delivery of Japan Largest Indoor Lithium-Ion Battery Based Microgrid Energy Storage SystemInternet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance
Updated: 2011-12-28 04:31:13skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle Parkour expert and how to dance the Michael Jackson Thriller Dance Learn how to kip up and more Parkour for Beginners Parkour Fight Science Learn how to Thriller Dance first 6 of 40 videos If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw at 12 27 2011 Labels : education internet Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle Parkour expert and how toHummingbird helicopter drones gets 1.8-gigapixel camera
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Hummingbird helicopter drones gets 1.8-gigapixel camera The U.S . Army is using a hybrid-type acquisition approach to develop a , helicopter-like Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aerial System with a so-called ARGUS wide-area surveillance sensor suite designed to beam back information and images of the surrounding terrain , service officials . said Beginning in May or June of 2012, the Army will deploy three Boeing-built A160 Hummingbird Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aerial Systems , or VTOL-UAS , to Afghanistan as part of a Quick Reaction Capability One key characteristic that sets these unmanned air vehicles apart from others , such as the Predator , already more famously serving in the warNuclear, coal and other energy news
Updated: 2011-12-27 17:39:21, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Nuclear , coal and other energy news 1. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano presented a forecast that the number of nuclear power plants would increase by 90 to 350 units in the world between now and 2030. The figure was estimated by IAEA following the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co . Inc . Amano said , While the rate of increase will be smaller than that prior to the accident , we still expect a substantial increase . 2. Kyushu Electric Power Co . said Monday that it shut the No . 4 reactor at its Genkai nuclear power station on Japan's western island of Kyushu for planned . maintenance With the closure , only sixTest high speed train made of plastic reinforced with carbon fiber can hit 500 km/h
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Test high speed train made of plastic reinforced with carbon fiber can hit 500 km h China Daily China's largest train maker , CSR Corp Ltd , launched over the weekend its first test train that can reach speeds of up to 500 km an . hour The six-carriage train with a tapered head is the newest member of the CRH series . It has a maximum drawing power of 22,800 kilowatts , compared with 9,600 kilowatts for the CRH380 trains now in service on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway , which hold the world speed record of 300 km per . hour Ding Sansan , the company's chief technician , said the concept of the super-speed train design was inspired by the ancient Chinese sword . The bodywork uses plastic materialKeeping An Eye On ExxonMobil
Updated: 2011-12-27 07:42:22For nearly a year and two hundred plus posts we’ve looked at the leading edges of the energy and fuels context coming at us. The leading one for half a century is petroleum and its not going away. With fusion, man made alternatives, solar and geothermal in an even longer list, the one we need [...]Researchers should soon e able to cool atoms to 100 hundredths of a billionth of a degree, 100 times colder than best ever
Updated: 2011-12-27 07:40:09, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 Researchers should soon e able to cool atoms to 100 hundredths of a billionth of a degree , 100 times colder than best ever In experiments with rubidium atoms in optical , lattices physicists successfully demonstrated they could remove entropy from atoms via orbital excitation blockade . In principle , they can reach temperatures 10-to-100-times colder than currently achieved , to temperatures of tenths-to-hundredths-of-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero . However , they likely need lasers of longer wavelengths to do so in real life , said researcher Markus Greiner , a physicist at Harvard . University This should enable exotic new states of matter and enable better quantum . computers NaturePutin prioritizes Russia's GDP growth acceleration to 7 percent
Updated: 2011-12-27 07:28:49skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 Putin prioritizes Russia's GDP growth acceleration to 7 percent The Russian government is seeking to accelerate the national economy’s growth to 6-7 percent annually and join the list of the world’s top five economies over five years , Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on . Wednesday We are setting the goal of accelerating economic growth to 6 percent , better to 6-7 percent , and join the list of the world’s top five economies in five years but not only because advanced economies will be falling but also because we’ll be growing , 8221 Putin said at a congress of Business Russia public association , which unites the country’s medium-sized . businesses Russia has set the ambitious task of expandingMakani flying wind energy
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 Makani flying wind energy Technology Review The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine consists of several turbines attached to a , wing which is tethered to the ground . In flight , the vehicle takes essentially the same path as the tip of a wind turbine's blade , following a circle perpendicular to the wind direction . Thanks to crosswind aerodynamics—which produce the rapid circular movements familiar to anyone who has flown a kite on a gusty day—the apparent wind speed hitting the rotors can be as much as 10 times the actual wind speed . Because the wing makes more efficient use of the wind than a fixed turbine , Hardham says , and is made of fewer , lighter materials , it should produce lower-cost energy .Brazil overtakes UK as sixth-largest economy
Updated: 2011-12-27 07:04:25skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 Brazil overtakes UK as sixth-largest economy Brazil has overtaken the UK to become the world's sixth-largest economy , according to a team of economists . The banking crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession has relegated the UK to seventh place in 2011 Russia and India are expected to benefit from a surge in growth over the next 10 years and push the UK into eighth place . Like most economies , India is struggling with high inflation and slowing growth , but its highly educated workforce and skills in growth areas from IT and services to engineering will push the economy into fifth place . After a decade of selling oil and gas to Europe and other parts of Asia , Russia will be at number . four The CEBR55 inch OLED TV and 3D TV that will not need glasses at CES 2012
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 55 inch OLED TV and 3D TV that will not need glasses at CES 2012 1. LG will show off a demo of a 55 inch OLED TV at CES 2012 The 5-millimeter-thick display is light , pencil-thin , and promises high definition with no after image--that motion-induced blur you may see in an LCD screen . In addition , it boasts a contrast ratio of over 100,000:1. LG is setting up a stepped-up pricing war , strongly hinting that its world's-largest OLED display will be far more . affordable LG Display is able to achieve low fabrication costs by using oxide thin-film transistors for the panel replacing amorphous . silicon In contrast , Low Temperature Poly Silicon LTPS TFTs are generally used in existing small-sized OLED panels .Mach Effect explanation of Mass gets independent research support
Updated: 2011-12-26 08:24:24skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 26, 2011 Mach Effect explanation of Mass gets independent research support Arxiv The gravitational mechanism to generate mass II is a paper on Arxiv 5 pages that supports the Mach effect interpretation of mass and inertia which is the basis of the James Woodward proposal for Mach Effect . propulsion With the eminent confirmation or disproof of the existence of Higgs boson by experiments on the LHC it is time to analyze in a non-dogmatic way the suggestions to understand the origin of the mass . Here we analyze the recent proposal according to which gravity is what is really responsible for the generation of mass of all bodies . The great novelty of such mechanism is that the gravitational field acts merely as aAt The Threshold of New Kinds of Chemical Reactions
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For 84 years chemists have suspected the conservation of angular momentum (CAM) had direct applications in chemistry. December 22, 2011 saw Michigan State University (MSU) researchers first report that CAM in chemistry is in fact at work and the demonstration offers that scientists can use it to control and predict reactions in general. This is [...]Development of Industry’s Longest Operating Life Deep Groove Ball Bearing with High-Speed, Low-Torque Operation
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Development of Industry’s Longest Operating Life Deep Groove Ball Bearing with High-Speed, Low-Torque OperationRelease of Easy to Use Next Generation Fiber Amplifier by OMRON
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Release of Easy to Use Next Generation Fiber Amplifier by OMRONRelease of High Performance Fluorescent X-Ray Coating Thickness Gauge
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Release of High Performance Fluorescent X-Ray Coating Thickness GaugeA Partial Fix For the Fuel Cell Problem
Updated: 2011-12-23 07:13:30Most folks don’t realize the depth of the economic problem that fuels cells pose for mass adoption. Often there are price quotes running in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s because the catalysts of choice are the noble metals platinum or palladium. These are very rare metals, more so than gold and [...]Development of Ultra-thin “Invisible Glass” by Nippon Electric Glass
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Development of Ultra-thin “Invisible Glass” by Nippon Electric GlassA Claim for 100%+ Solar Cell Efficiency
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A research team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report in Science the first photovoltaic solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100% when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum. For comparison external quantum efficiency for photocurrent is usually expressed as [...]Video - Gadget Roundup
Updated: 2011-12-22 05:00:00Some of the coolest gadgets Technology Review has come across in the past year.
SRI International Develops a New Coal To Liquid Fuel Process
Updated: 2011-12-21 07:09:03
Make no mistake here; SRI International has the brainpower and skill set to come up with workable and commercial ideas that have scale in mind from the start. Robert Wilson, Ph.D., director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International said in the press release, “The implications of this research are expansive, including enhancing US energy [...]A New and Efficient Wood to Butanol Process
Updated: 2011-12-20 06:56:41Professor Aadrian van Heiningen and Tom Granström with a team of scientists at Aalto University in Finland and associated with the University of Maine in the U.S. have developed a process to make fuel grade butanol and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly suitable as a transport fuel because it is not [...]Solar Photovoltaic Catches a Major Breakthrough
Updated: 2011-12-19 07:03:54
At MIT or Massively Innovative Teams, in lieu of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a major new innovation in mounting photovoltaic solar panels should revolutionize the industry. It’s based on a simple and when thought through – obvious observation. On a clear bright day you’ll notice the shadows are a dark area with little light. But [...]Graphene may enable cheap, small, light and efficient infrared cameras and night goggles
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, , Home Introduction Graphene may enable cheap , small , light and efficient infrared cameras and night goggles Tweet Graphene applications Photonics Technical Research The Electronic Materials Research Institute eMRI at Northeastern University will develop a graphene-based technology for use in low-cost infrared imaging applications for the US military . eMRI signed the research agreement with the United States Army Research Laboratory at Adelphi , Md . The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is also collaborating in this . project According to researchers from eMRI , graphene can potentially revolutionize infrared cameras or night vision goggles used in a variety of military and civilian applications enabling cheaper cameras which are low on size , weight and power . TheVerbeck raised $10 million, says that Siren, the first graphene-based product is now shipping
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, , Home Introduction Verbeck raised 10 million , says that Siren , the first graphene-based product is now shipping Tweet Financial Graphene applications Vorbeck Materials Vorbeck Materials completed its series 3 financing with a total value of 10 million . The round included 17 investors and was led by Black Powder and Fairbridge Venture Partners . Vorbeck also says that the Siren anti-theft packaging device which uses their graphene-based Vor-Ink circuitry are now on the shelves of major . retailers Siren smart packaging Last month Vorbeck said that the Siren will start shipping in Q1 2012 so this is earlier than . schedule Dec 14, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Siren Technology security smart packaging photo New security tags built using Vorbeck's grapheneSuperhard carbon material could crack diamond
Updated: 2011-12-07 14:30:01(PhysOrg.com) -- By applying extreme pressure to compress and flatten carbon nanotubes, scientists have discovered that they can create a new carbon polymer that simulations show is hard enough to crack diamond. The pressure-induced formation process of the new carbon allotrope, called Cco-C8, is similar to the 3D polymerization of the soccer-ball-like buckminsterfullerene, C60, at high pressure. When the carbon nanotube bundle is subjected to further compression, it becomes even more distorted and flattened to produce the Cco-C8 structure.Graphene oxide spun into several meters long fibers
Updated: 2011-12-07 06:36:40Researchers from China's Zhejiang University in Hangzhou demonstrated meter long graphene fibers - made from nano-sized flakes of graphene oxide. These fibers are strong and flexible and can be tied in knots or woven into conductive "mats". read moreIBM produced RF ICs on an 8" graphene wafer
Updated: 2011-12-06 08:11:37
Home Introduction IBM produced RF ICs on an 8 graphene wafer Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research IBM has managed to produce RF integrated circuits on an 8 graphene wafer . IBM says that this demonstration is a major step in transitioning this promising material from a scientific curiosity into a real technology The graphene was grown on copper foil from high-temperature vapor and later coated with the polymer . PMMA These are RF devices as it's still difficult to create logic using graphene it has no natural bandgap although some researchers are working towards methods to fix this . issue via IEEE Dec 06, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries IBM 8 graphene wafer photo IBM : Graphene can't completely replace silicon for transistors IBM developed a 10GhzGraphene-based transistor array that can record electrical signals generated by biological cells
Updated: 2011-12-05 11:39:16
Home Introduction Graphene-based transistor array that can record electrical signals generated by biological cells Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from the Juelich Research Center and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen developed a graphene-based transistor array that can record electrical signals generated by biological . cells The team demonstrated an array of 16 graphene solution-gated field-effect transistors G-SGFETs produced over a copper foil using standard photolithographic and etching and chemical vapor deposition processes . A biological cell layer analogous to the heart muscle was deposited directly over this array . The transistor array detected and recorded single cells' action potentials at high . resolution via AzoNano Dec 05, 2011 Login registerGrafoid and Rutgets University to co-develop graphene-based applications
Updated: 2011-12-05 11:32:44Grafoid signed an agreement with Rutgets University to co-develop graphene-based polymer and non-polymer applications. Grafoid will provide manpower, graphene expertise and graphene materials (from the Lac Knife graphite resource of Focus Metals), while Rutgers University will provide the inter-disciplinary and research lab facilities.Grafoid and Rutgets will focus at first on applications ii the utomotive, aviation and infrastructural markets. read more