• Small Businesses Request Resumption of Renewable Energy Support

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  • Ioxus Announces New Ultracapacitors

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  • GM Announces Eco-Stickers for All Chevy Cars

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  • CleanTechnica Hit 2 Milestones Today

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  • Super Hot Salt: The Newest Energy Storage Innovation?

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  • New Type of Inverter Could Drive Down the Cost of Solar Power

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  • A Wave Power Generator with a Twist: It Generates Electricity On Dry Land

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  • Windy Vancouver Island Comes Online

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  • Biodiesel Saw Record Production in the U.S. in 2011

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  • Chinese, Indian and Ukrainian nuclear power generation

    Updated: 2012-01-31 17:35:24
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 31, 2012 Chinese , Indian and Ukrainian nuclear power generation 1. Power Engineering China saw its nuclear power generation in 2011 hit 87.4 billion kilowatt-hours , a jump of 16.95 on-year , according to recent figures released by China Electricity . Council This was an increase of 17.3 TWh from 2010 2. The capacity factor of Indias 20 operational nuclear reactors , adding up to an installed capacity of 4,780 MWe , is now projected to top 80 per cent in 2012-13. 80 percent capacity of 4780 MWe is 33 TWh . However an 11 increase over 2010 would take generation to about 23 . TWh In 2006-07, the capacity factor was 64 per cent , but plummeted to 50 per cent in 2008-09. The capacity factor is the ratio of the actual

  • Controlling Feedstock Costs Creates Value in Biofuel Companies

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  • Why the Clean Energy Sector Has “Rolling Uncertainty”

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  • How Smartphones Can Help You Make the Right Energy Choices

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  • National Solar Energy Plan Close to Completion, Conservation Groups Support It

    Updated: 2012-01-31 16:00:01
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  • New Solar Module Efficiency Record

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  • Siemens Employee Highlighted During “State of the Union” Address

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:00:02
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  • EVs Outselling Hybrids 2:1 in China

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:00:02
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  • Luminescent Solar Concentrator Efficiency Improvement from UC-Merced Researchers

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  • New Methods to Store Hydrogen

    Updated: 2012-01-31 14:00:02
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  • Apartment Buildings Could Save Billions with Energy Efficiency Improvements

    Updated: 2012-01-31 14:00:02
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  • Best-Performing Solar Modules in 2011 Announced

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:00:03
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  • Paint it White and Stay Cooler

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  • Renewable Energy Deals Surged 40 Percent in 2011, Report Says

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  • Air Pollution Costs Billions to the European Union

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  • Development of Industry’s First Ever High-Speed Non-Volatile Resistance Memory as a Promising Next-Generation Memory

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:18:22
    Development of Industry’s First Ever High-Speed Non-Volatile Resistance Memory as a Promising Next-Generation Memory

  • Development of Micro Gear Motor and Micro Gear Pump, Contributing to Downsizing of Multitude of Products and Equipments

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:08:58
    Development of Micro Gear Motor and Micro Gear Pump, Contributing to Downsizing of Multitude of Products and Equipments

  • Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:06:39
    At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

  • Lawrence Krauss - Future Low Orbit Space Stations must cost $150 billon, Hammers $436 and Moon Bases trillions

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:04:30
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Lawrence Krauss Future Low Orbit Space Stations must cost 150 billon , Hammers 436 and Moon Bases trillions Lawrence Krauss physicist and author of the Physics of Star Trek wrote in New Scientist that Newt Gingrich's proposal to put a permanent base on the moon will have to cost about 1 trillion because the International Space station cost 150 billion and the Space Shuttle program cost over 200 . billion Apparently once the government has paid for one over priced project then all future projects have to be planned on the same over pricing . There can be no corrections of the system to use different vendors or plans to achieve lower . costs All future tunnel projects will have to be priced at the cost of the

  • Terahertz Polarizer using carbon nanotubes allows 100 percent to pass or blocks 99.9 percent

    Updated: 2012-01-31 06:39:40
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Terahertz Polarizer using carbon nanotubes allows 100 percent to pass or blocks 99.9 percent Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices , sensors and non-invasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems . It is the most effective polarizer ever reported it selectively allows 100 percent of a terahertz wave to pass or blocks 99.9 percent of it , depending on its . polarization Nanoletters Broadband Terahertz Polarizers with Ideal Performance Based on Aligned Carbon Nanotube Stacks We demonstrate a

  • Device Could Drive Down Solar's Cost

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:00:00
    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 Power : play Inverters mounted to the bottom of each panel provide grid-ready power at a test site in Sunnyvale , California . ArrayPower

  • Minirailguns for commerical nuclear fusion update

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:42:23
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Minirailguns for commerical nuclear fusion update HyperV Technologies is trying to develop minirailguns for the world’s first commercially viable fusion reactor . technology Their research could result in the development of a controlled hot fusion reactor that is scalable to provide between 100 MW and 2,000 MW of clean base load electric power . There was a 20 page presentation from June of 2011. Imploding Plasma Liners as a Standoff Driver for Magneto-Inertial Fusion They are firing milligrams of plasma at 140 times the speed of sound . The commercial energy generating version will fire the plasmas at 285 times the speed of sound . The breakeven nuclear fusion facilities will cost less than 100 . million

  • An Affluent earth based civilization with all clean energy would still warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:44:06
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 An Affluent earth based civilization with all clean energy would still warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius Rising greenhouse gases are causing roughly 380 Terawatts less heat to escape from the atmosphere . Result : the planet is warming . The warming due to the 16 Terawatts from waste heat produced by humans is tiny in comparison . If the demand for power grew to 5000 Terawatts , it would warm the planet by 3 . C If 9 billion people all became affluent at about 430,000 per person , then the energy utilization would reach the level of 5000 . terawatts The physics of energy production means that there will be waste . heat GDP per capita is strongly correlated to energy per . capita It would be a significant

  • Tilera announces multicore Gx processors

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:13:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Tilera announces multicore Gx processors The computer industry has become almost fixated on power issues . Power-per-watt is the new metric for CPUs and GPUs , and everything from chips to data centers are now power-limited . The Tilera corp has developed a series of multicore processors which could dramatically reduce power consumption for certain computing tasks . For tasks not requiring floating-point performance , such as networking , serving web pages , wireless infrastructure,and digital video , Tilera's chips offer an unprecedented level of compute efficiency . Tilera today has officially introduced the third generation , 40 nm , Gx-16 and Gx-36 64-bit processors , with 16 and 36 cores respectively .

  • India will have two ungovernable urban messes and China will not

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:03:38
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 India will have two ungovernable urban messes and China will not BBC News- We tend to think of 3 concepts of the city 1. a municipal definition the legal city if you will 2. the urbanised area , or the physical city the built-up portion 3. the metropolitan area , which some people refer to as the influence of the city how far out does the city go in terms of its influence , such as commuting patterns Most of China's cities actually have a lower population than many believe . A lot of the population near large cities are still rural and the roads cannot be commuted in a short time . It seems that most of China's cities will stay in the sub-10 million range . There will be clusters of cities in an . area Mumbai

  • Desalination Battery

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:56:39
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Desalination Battery Nanoletter Water desalination is an important approach to provide fresh water around the world , although its high energy consumption , and thus high cost , call for new , efficient . technology Here , we demonstrate the novel concept of a desalination battery” , which operates by performing cycles in reverse on our previously reported mixing entropy battery . Rather than generating electricity from salinity differences , as in mixing entropy batteries , desalination batteries use an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water . The desalination battery is comprised by a Na2-xMn5O10 nanorod positive electrode and Ag AgCl negative

  • Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:48:28
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain , Heart and Muscles National Science Foundation Elastic electronics offer less invasive , more convenient medical treatment Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen . Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions . The problem is that such devices are a tough fit . Body tissue is soft and pliable while conventional circuits can be hard and brittle--at least until . now We're trying to bridge that gap , from silicon , wafer-based electronics to biological , tissue-like' electronics , to really blur the distinction between electronics and the body , says materials scientist John

  • Navy is scaling up a component to connect bigger capacitor banks to railguns

    Updated: 2012-01-30 08:07:00
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Navy is scaling up a component to connect bigger capacitor banks to railguns Raytheon Company has been awarded a 10 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to develop a pulsed power system that will enable railguns to fire projectiles without explosive charges or rocket . motors The contract for the preliminary design of a Pulse Forming Network PFN is part of a larger effort by the U.S . Navy to develop a multimission weapon system for use on naval warships to defend and attack with pinpoint . accuracy Under the contract , Raytheon will provide the research and development of an advanced Integrated Power Systems power load module that may be used for PFNs to power future lasers , railguns or . radars

  • A Reduced Energy Way To Distill Alcohol

    Updated: 2012-01-30 07:07:48
    University of Manchester (UM) academics won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 demonstrating graphene’s remarkable properties.  Now Professor Sir Andre Geim’s team in a report published in Science shows that graphene-based membranes are impermeable to all gases and liquids as vacuum-tight.  Except – The new finding gives graphene’s potential a most surprising dimension – [...]

  • Commercialization of 400 nanometer High-Strength Polyester Nanofiber by Teijin

    Updated: 2012-01-30 06:06:17
    Commercialization of 400 nanometer High-Strength Polyester Nanofiber by Teijin

  • Development of Surface-Mount Type Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor with Industry’s Longest operating life

    Updated: 2012-01-30 05:55:32
    Development of Surface-Mount Type Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor with Industry’s Longest operating life

  • Printed Stickers Designed to Monitor Food Temperatures

    Updated: 2012-01-30 05:00:00
    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 Computing Printed Stickers Designed to Monitor Food Temperatures Effort aims to merge technology from four companies to create the first

  • Video - Windows on an iPad

    Updated: 2012-01-30 05:00:00
    By downloading a free application to an iPad, users get two gigabytes of storage and access to popular Office software.

  • Graphene Competitor Used to Make Circuits

    Updated: 2012-01-30 05:00:00
    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 Computing Graphene Competitor Used to Make Circuits Molybdenite could have a crucial advantage over graphene for making smaller , faster .

  • What are the near and long term advantages of a Permanent Moon Base

    Updated: 2012-01-29 18:40:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 28, 2012 What are the near and long term advantages of a Permanent Moon Base What are the advantages of a moon base It is a new beachhead for the initiation of space . industrialization You can develop the billions of gallons of water that are on the moon and provide fuel for orbital and other space operations . military and other wise The fuel would be cheaper because it would be 22 times cheaper to bring it up from a gravity well that is one sixth the . strength You can begin the industrialization and colonization of space . What was the advantage of Jamestown in America to England Not much . But the advantage of having colonized Canada and then the US made the difference in WW2. Canada provided vital supplies to

  • What if we get super cheap D-D (Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power?

    Updated: 2012-01-29 08:01:01
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 29, 2012 What if we get super cheap D-D Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power A guest article by Joseph Friedlander What if thermonuclear power was as easy to build as a plasma torch , or rocket engine-- some simple electromechanical assembly with precise electronic controls that could be built in a home workshop and unleash a horrific fusion plasma with the power output of a rocket engine not in vacuum but from induced direct fusion of D-D Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power--using just a tiny feed line of gas from a bottle of D . Knowledgable readers will know this is quite a what if-- this article will only be considering if the end result happens and not how it could be achieved . First of all no prospective fusion reactor

  • Space technologies that would help enable a more affordable Permanent Moon Base

    Updated: 2012-01-29 01:45:42
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 28, 2012 Space technologies that would help enable a more affordable Permanent Moon Base 1. Fuel depots 2-17 times more stuff to the moon or other space missions . Lowering costs for GTO closer to LEO orbit costs Boeing Propellant fuel depot 2. Lunar concrete would reduce the amount of material needed to build things on the moon by ten . times A 50 meter telescope could be built from lunar concrete with the mirror covered with a thin layer of aluminum . It could directly image any potential continents on planets around nearby stars with no atmosphere on the moon to distort the massive light gathering . area 3. Successful Big and cheap rockets by Spacex or others Spacex Falcon Heavy can bring launch costs below 1000 per

  • Making a Permanent Lunar Base and Overcoming Political Roadblocks

    Updated: 2012-01-28 16:34:22
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 28, 2012 Making a Permanent Lunar Base and Overcoming Political Roadblocks Rand Simberg has noted It is possible to withdraw from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty with one years . notice A president that wanted to do that would need to get Congressional support . Another method is suggested by the Space Settlement Institute . The U.S . can recognize private claims of non-state actors , which could accomplish the goal of allowing property on the moon without the need to withdraw from the Outer Space Treaty . It would also provide a tradable market in lunar real estate , allowing private settlement ventures to raise funds without the need for taxpayer money . It wouldn’t be a U.S . state , but it might be a settlement of

  • Quantum Cryptography communication may not be secure for more than one use

    Updated: 2012-01-28 00:37:02
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 Quantum Cryptography communication may not be secure for more than one use Arxiv- Prisoners of their own device : Trojan attacks on device-independent quantum cryptography 7 pages Device-independent cryptographic schemes aim to guarantee security to users based only on the output statistics of any components used , and without the need to verify their internal functionality . Since this would protect users against untrustworthy or incompetent manufacturers , sabotage or device degradation , this idea has excited much interest , and many device-independent schemes have been proposed . We point out here a critical weakness of device-independent quantum cryptography for tasks , such as key distribution , that

  • UK sets sights on gene therapy in embryos

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:32:55
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 UK sets sights on gene therapy in embryos Nature Public consultation and safety assessment would pave the way for embryo manipulation to treat genetic . diseases Britain has set out a road map towards the first clinical tests of reproductive techniques that combine parents’ genes with DNA from a third party . The approach raises ethical questions , but could spare children from inheriting some rare diseases , including forms of muscular dystrophy and neurodegenerative disorders that affect around 1 in 5,000 . people These conditions are caused by defects in the mitochondria , the power packs’ of the cell , which are inherited from a child’s mother through the egg . Experiments on primates , and with defective

  • Cool Nano Loudspeakers Could Make for Better MRIs, Quantum Computers

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:23:49
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 Cool Nano Loudspeakers Could Make for Better MRIs , Quantum Computers NIST A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute JQI the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , , Denmark and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits using light and something very like a nanosized loudspeaker . If demonstrated through experiment , the work could have a tremendous impact on detection of low-power radio signals , magnetic resonance imaging MRI and the developing field of quantum information . science We envision coupling a nanomechanical membrane to an electrical circuit so that an electrical signal , even if exceedingly faint ,

  • 1000 times less energy to produce the microbubbles which can be used in Algae Biofuel Production

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:10:15
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 1000 times less energy to produce the microbubbles which can be used in Algae Biofuel Production A solution to the difficult issue of harvesting algae for use as a biofuel has been developed using microbubble technology pioneered at the University of . Sheffield The technique builds on previous research in which microbubbles were used to improve the way algae is . cultivated Algae produce an oil which can be processed to create a useful biofuel . Biofuels , made from plant material , are considered an important alternative to fossil fuels and algae , in particular , has the potential to be a very efficient biofuel producer . Until now , however , there has been no cost-effective method of harvesting and

  • Cardiac muscle cells have been loaded onto a 3D silk scaffold

    Updated: 2012-01-27 21:48:46
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 Cardiac muscle cells have been loaded onto a 3D silk scaffold Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated . Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle . cells Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim are seeking to restore complete cardiac function with the help of artificial cardiac tissue . They have succeeded in loading cardiac muscle cells onto a three-dimensional scaffold , created using the silk produced by a tropical silkworm . It is a step down a long road towards creating a tissue for repairing damaged . hearts At the university there , coin-sized disks are being produced from the cocoon of the tasar silkworm Antheraea mylitta According to Chinmoy

  • Physicists Measure Propagation Velocity of Quantum Signals in a Many-Body System

    Updated: 2012-01-27 21:44:58
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 Physicists Measure Propagation Velocity of Quantum Signals in a Many-Body System Science Daily Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body . system A quantum computer based on quantum particles instead of classical bits , can in principle outperform any classical computer . However , it still remains an open question , how fast and how efficient quantum computers really may be able to work . A critical limitation will be given by the velocity with which a quantum signal can spread within a processing . unit The communication and processing of information in a quantum computer is based on concepts that are inherently different

  • A Government Divided Against Itself Is a Mess

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:07:09
    World Nuclear News is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is to help push forward the manufacture of small modular nuclear reactors. This contrasts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) standing record of never approving a new reactor design.  The December 2011 “approval” by the NRC of the Westinghouse AP1000 is not a [...]

  • Graphene membranes seals everything but water, can be used to distill alcohol

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:03:25
    , Home Introduction Graphene membranes sealed everything but water , can be used to distill alcohol Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Medicine Technical Research A team of researchers led by Professor Sir Andre Geim demonstrated a graphene-Oxide based membrane that is impermeable to all gases and liquids i.e . it's vacuum-tight but water can evaporate though it as if there's no membrane at . all The researchers explain : Graphene oxide sheets arrange in such a way that between them there is room for exactly one layer of water molecules . They arrange themselves in one molecule thick sheets of ice which slide along the graphene surface with practically no friction . If another atom or molecule tries the same trick , it finds that graphene capillaries either shrink in low humidity

  • Development of PVD-Coated Cermet Grade for General Machining of Steel

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:00:16
    Development of PVD-Coated Cermet Grade for General Machining of Steel

  • Release of Two New Inverters for use in Air-Conditioning and water Treatment Systems

    Updated: 2012-01-27 05:11:23
    Release of Two New Inverters for use in Air-Conditioning and water Treatment Systems

  • In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels

    Updated: 2012-01-27 05:00:00
    , 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 Peak : power A solar panel installed in Mwiki , Kenya . Eight19 Energy In the Developing World , Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels Advances

  • Natural Gas: The Next Presidential Transportation Fad

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:54:00
    : 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 Natural Gas : The Next Presidential Transportation Fad What comes after funding for fuel cells , biofuels , and electric cars Why , support

  • Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon

    Updated: 2012-01-26 10:00:00
    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 Nano : gate A conceptual illustration shows a nanotube positioned between the source and drain of a transistor . IBM Computing Smallest-Ever

  • Canadian Tech May Give Geothermal New Prospects

    Updated: 2012-01-26 07:06:45
    For seven years Ontario’s inventor Ian Marnoch has been developing a new kind of “heat engine” that he says can generate electricity more economically from lower-grade heat.  While that heat could come from anywhere: the ground, the sun, or an industrial waste process, geothermal needs a much better temperature spread to achieve wide ranging use. [...]

  • Development of 6-Axis Electronic Compass for Mobile Devices

    Updated: 2012-01-26 06:18:17
    Development of 6-Axis Electronic Compass for Mobile Devices

  • Development of two New “RGBW Coding” and “HDR Movie” Functionality for Sony’s Newly developed Stack-Structured CMOS Image Sensor.

    Updated: 2012-01-26 06:10:15
    Development of two New “RGBW Coding” and “HDR Movie” Functionality for Sony’s Newly developed Stack-Structured CMOS Image Sensor.

  • Better LENR News From Greece

    Updated: 2012-01-25 07:42:41
    The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named “Hyperion”.  PDGT had for a time an opportunity to learn what Rossi has accomplished and since is proposing [...]

  • Release of Industrial Electronic Paper Display Platform

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:37:06
    Release of Industrial Electronic Paper Display Platform

  • Development of World’s First High Precision “Quantum Dot Light Source” Opening way for Ultra High Speed, High Capacity Optical Communication using New Frequency Band

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:15:08
    Development of World’s First High Precision “Quantum Dot Light Source” Opening way for Ultra High Speed, High Capacity Optical Communication using New Frequency Band

  • Water response on silicon is unaffected by graphene coating

    Updated: 2012-01-24 15:22:46
    Home Introduction Water response on silicon is unaffected by graphene coating Tweet Technical Research Transparency Researchers from Rice University and Rensselaer discovered that graphene is essentially invisible to water : when a single layer of graphene is used to cover silicon or most metals there is almost no change in the water behavior when compared to a silicon without a graphene . coating The researchers explain that A drop of water sitting on a surface sees through' the graphene layers and conforms to the wetting forces dictated by the surface beneath . It’s quite an interesting phenomenon unseen in any other coatings and once again proves that graphene is really unique in many different ways via SciTechDaily Jan 24, 2012 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries

  • Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

    Updated: 2012-01-23 07:05:39
    U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

  • Graphene and Supercapacitors - guest article by Olan Dantes

    Updated: 2012-01-22 11:08:32
    Here's a guest article that Olan Dantes from Farnell sent us, regarding Graphene and Super Capacitors: Electronic devices can become smaller and smaller to the point that it becomes invisible to the naked eye. But no matter what size they can have, they will still produce a lot of heat. The interconnecting wires as well as the multitude of transistors inside these devices at nano and micro scales are more than capable of creating heat spots. There could have been nothing wrong with the produced heat if it didn't induce damage. read more

  • Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

    Updated: 2012-01-20 07:04:32
    Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

  • Stacked graphene flakes enable improved chemical sensors

    Updated: 2012-01-18 11:24:58
    Home Introduction Stacked graphene flakes enable improved chemical sensors Tweet Graphene applications Sensors Researchers from the University of Illinois and Dioxide Materials have showed that randomly stacked graphene flakes can make an effective chemical sensor . The flakes were fabricated by placing bulk graphite in a solution and bombarding it with ultrasonic waves that broke off thin sheets . This solution was filtered to produce a graphene film made from stacked flakes . The flakes were used as the top layer of a chemical sensor . Movement of electrons through the film produced an electrical signal that flagged the presence of a test . chemical According to the researchers , this new sensor is more reliable than existing sensors made from carbon nanotubes or graphene crystals . The

  • Sensing the Wind Is Getting Better Results

    Updated: 2012-01-18 07:05:54
    Wind speed primarily determines the power generated by a wind turbine. On a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different “shapes”, most easily seen as turbulence affecting the wind profile, the turbines will produce different amounts of power. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Sonia Wharton and colleague Julie Lundquist [...]

  • New one-step method to make graphene quantum dots

    Updated: 2012-01-13 18:53:27
    Researchers from Rice University, together with colleagues in China, India, Japan and Texas, discovered a new one-step wet chemical process that turns carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots. The process enables making the GQDs in bulk - which are highly soluble. The size of the QDs can be controlled via the temperature at which they're created. At 120 degrees they got a blue QD, at 100 a green one and a 80 degrees - a yellow QD. read more

  • Graphene could be made into a piezoelectric material

    Updated: 2012-01-08 09:49:01
    Researchers from the University of Houston have used quantum mechanical calculations to show that graphene could be turned into a piezoelectric material by producing triangular-shaped holes in a specific pattern onto it and applying consistent pressure.The team also says that the pseudo-piezoelectricity of graphene was as high as that of familiar piezoelectric materials such as quartz. read more

  • Researchers discover new graphene nanomaterials With tunable functionality in electronics

    Updated: 2012-01-07 19:05:44
    Home Introduction Researchers discover new graphene nanomaterials With tunable functionality in electronics Tweet Electronics Graphene applications Nanoribbons Technical Research Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered new graphene based materials that can be customized to produce specific band gap and magnetic properties i.e . have tunable functionality in electronics The materials may be used to enable new nanoelectronics , optics , and spintronics . devices The researchers found out that graphitic nanoribbons can be segmented into several different surface structures called nanowiggles . Each of these structures produces highly different magnetic and conductive properties . This means that you can basically create a new graphene nanostructure that is

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