• The Week In Cleantech: March 31, 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-31 14:00:03
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  • Aubrey de Grey Interviewed about antiaging

    Updated: 2012-03-31 01:33:10
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Aubrey de Grey Interviewed about antiaging An Interview with Aubrey de Gregy and others on antiaging NARRATION Aubrey and I spoke for some time . He explained why he thought a war on ageing could be . won Dr Aubrey de Grey The human body can be treated like any simple man-made structure , like a car or an aeroplane , or indeed a building , for that matter . So here's King's College Chapel , it is the most famous building in Cambridge . It was built by Henry VI back in the fourteenth century , so that's seven-hundred years ago . And I'm damned certain that Henry VI did not think about making the thing last until the twenty-first century . But it has lasted because it's been well maintained . That means , you know

  • Progress to enabling the life extension of Rapamycin without the downside

    Updated: 2012-03-31 01:30:20
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Progress to enabling the life extension of Rapamycin without the downside Eurekalert A Penn- and MIT-led team explained how rapamycin , a drug that extends mouse lifespan , also causes insulin resistance . The researchers showed in an animal model that they could , in principle , separate the effects , which depend on inhibiting two protein complexes , mTORC1 and mTORC2, . respectively The study suggests that molecules that specifically inhibit mTORC1 may combat age-related diseases without the insulin-resistance side effect , which can predispose people to diabetes . The hope is that in the future , we will be able to develop molecules that target mTORC1 specifically , separating out the beneficial effects of

  • Nuclear News - V.C. Summer Reactors Licensed and more

    Updated: 2012-03-31 01:26:59
    . skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Nuclear News V.C . Summer Reactors Licensed and more 1. NRC South Carolina Electric and Gas Company has received approval for combined construction and operating licenses COLs from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC for two new nuclear units at V . C . Summer Station in Jenkinsville , . S.C In a 4-1 vote the Commission found the NRC staff’s review adequate to make the necessary regulatory safety and environmental findings , clearing the way for the NRC’s Office of New Reactors NRO to issue the COLs . The NRC staff is expected to issue the COLs within 10 business days . The COLs will authorize SCE and Santee Cooper to build and operate two AP1000 reactors at the Summer site , adjacent to the company’s

  • Single molecular thick silicon - silicene claims and research

    Updated: 2012-03-31 00:51:11
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Single molecular thick silicon silicene claims and research Inside Science Several research groups claim to have thin one molecule thick sheets of silicon called silicene analogous to graphene for carbon igniting a controversy over who won the race to synthesize this promising new . material According to Lew Yan Voon , electronic devices based on silicene could reliably exhibit the critical on-off function required for transistors , the building blocks of computers . Graphene , however , has struggled to achieve this function , stymieing its practical use as a . transistor Despite the uncertainty over who created silicene first , researchers agree what needs to be done next . To take full advantage of silicene's

  • Threefold increase in the microbial production of biodiesel from glucose

    Updated: 2012-03-31 00:42:15
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Threefold increase in the microbial production of biodiesel from glucose A new technique dubbed a dynamic sensor-regulator system DSRS can detect metabolic changes in microbes during the production of fatty acid-based fuels or chemicals and control the expression of genes affecting that production . The result in one demonstration was a threefold increase in the microbial production of biodiesel from . glucose The DSRS is an amazing and powerful new tool , the first example of a synthetic system that can dynamically regulate a metabolic pathway for improving production of fatty acid-based fuels and chemicals while the microbes are in the bioreactor , 8221 says Jay Keasling , CEO of JBEI and one of the world’s

  • New iron-based metal organic framework will improve the energy efficiency of gas separation in refineries

    Updated: 2012-03-31 00:38:31
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 New iron-based metal organic framework will improve the energy efficiency of gas separation in refineries Science Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II Coordination Sites The energy costs associated with large-scale industrial separation of light hydrocarbons by cryogenic distillation could potentially be lowered through development of selective solid adsorbents that operate at higher temperatures . Here , the metal-organic framework Fe2(dobdc dobdc4– 2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzenedicarboxylate is demonstrated to exhibit excellent performance characteristics for separation of ethylene ethane and propylene propane mixtures at 318 kelvin . Breakthrough data obtained for these mixtures

  • RFID Enables Study of Chicken Pessimism

    Updated: 2012-03-30 21:54:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking A New Net Kenya's Startup Boom Foundation Medicine : Personalizing Cancer Drugs Alta Devices : Finding a Solar Solution The Patient of the Future Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video RFID Enables Study of Chicken Pessimism The smaller tracking devices become , the more applications they . find Christopher Mims 03 30

  • Could 3d chip technology extend Moore's law to 2030?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 21:06:18
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Could 3d chip technology extend Moore's law to 2030 Most experts believe that silicon scaling will end by 2020 at the 10 nanometer node . Although several promising post-CMOS technologies , such as graphene or III-V compound semiconductors or even spintronics might take its place , these technologies will not be deployed before 2025 at the earliest . But if the industry were to adopt and perfect 3d technology , the industry might eventually create chips with hundreds of layers . The most common form of 3d technology involves through silicon vias but a startup company called Monolithic 3d has an alternate approach . In an interview with Sander Olson for Next Big Future , Monolithic CEO Zvi Or-Bach argues that

  • University Environmental and Cleantech Innovators Awarded $22,500

    Updated: 2012-03-30 21:00:01
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  • Citibank Wealth Report Forecasts World economy to 2050

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:53:45
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Citibank Wealth Report Forecasts World economy to 2050 The Wealth Report 2012 68 pages forecasts the wealthy and the world economy on a purchasing power basis to 2050 They are using the World Bank purchasing power parity statistics as a starting point . The Penn university of Pennsylvania World tables of purchasing power parity 7.0 has adjusted PPP as . follows China is estimated at 11.3 to 11.6 . trillion India is estimated at 4.15 . trillion China has grown by about 10 in 2010 and would be 12.5 to 12.7 . trillion India has grown by about 8 in 2010 and would be nearly 4.5 . trillion They surveyed wealthy people to determine which cities were believed to be the most important and which would be the most .

  • Apple and Foxconn maximum 76 hour work weeks and one billion mobile phones

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:04:30
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Apple and Foxconn maximum 76 hour work weeks and one billion mobile phones 1. WSJ Apple and Foxconn have agreed to reducing work hours to a maximum of 40 hours a week and limiting overtime to a maximum of 36 hours a week—the legal maximum in China—by July 2013. Currently works hours aren't strictly enforced at the local level , and up to 100 hours a week is often tolerated by authorities . Chinese workers put in the time willingly , in order to earn more . money The companies also will explore benefits such as unemployment insurance with private providers and government agencies . The move could further encourage changes throughout the rest of the manufacturing sector , starting with other high-tech . companies

  • China to Have 3 GW of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) by 2020

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:00:01
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  • Huge CPV Solar Power Project to Bring Low-Cost Electricity, Green Jobs & Growth to Baja Mexico

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:00:01
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  • Wind Turbines to Improve Efficiency by Acting More Like Humans?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:00:01
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  • Winds of Innovation at MLB Stadium

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:00:01
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  • Digitize your Brainstorming Session with Fujitsu’s Digital Pen Technology

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:42:17
    Digitize your Brainstorming Session with Fujitsu’s Digital Pen Technology

  • Development of New Repair Technology for Micro-Defects during FPD substrate Manufacturing Process

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:17:05
    Development of New Repair Technology for Micro-Defects during FPD substrate Manufacturing Process

  • A Nano Smackdown

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:16:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking A New Net Kenya's Startup Boom Foundation Medicine : Personalizing Cancer Drugs Alta Devices : Finding a Solar Solution The Patient of the Future Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video A Nano Smackdown Rival proposals do battle , and a vote is . postponed David Zax 03 30 2012 2 Comments The European Telecommunications

  • Lux Research Dissects Lithium-ion Battery Mythology

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:00:02
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  • More Nuclear Power Plans Trashed

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:00:01
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  • Solar Airplane (Solar Impulse) to Fly for 48 Hours from Switzerland to Morocco

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:00:01
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  • Delaware’s RPS Opponents Sent Packing

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:00:01
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  • Enphase Energy Announces IPO Prices

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:00:07
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  • Live Wind Energy Map Looks Like Living Van Gogh Painting (One of the Coolest Maps Ever)

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:00:07
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  • Ford Focus Electric to Go ‘Build to Order’ Route (Like Dell Computers)

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:00:07
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  • Solar Windows from UK Company Could Hit Market in 2013

    Updated: 2012-03-30 13:00:02
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  • 6 Things You Really Need to Know about Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:00:02
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  • Microbial Fuel Cell Converts Raw Sewage into Electricity

    Updated: 2012-03-30 11:00:01
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  • EPA Takes Historic Step, Issues Clean Air Act Limits on CO2 Emissions from New Power Plants

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:00:02
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  • Sharpening Occam's Razor with Quantum Mechanics

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:27:21
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 30, 2012 Sharpening Occam's Razor with Quantum Mechanics Arxiv Sharpening Occam's Razor with Quantum Mechanics Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers . The work , by researchers based in Singapore and the UK , implies that a Matrix-like simulation of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer . Researchers know how to calculate the amount of information transferred inherently in any stochastic process . Theoretically , this sets the lowest amount of information needed to simulate the process . In reality , however , classical simulations of stochastic processes require more storage than .

  • UCLA Researchers Use Electricity and CO2 to Make Butanol

    Updated: 2012-03-30 07:01:23
    A research team at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into the liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity. The study paper is published today, March 30 2012, in the journal Science.  The study explains how James Liao, UCLA’s Ralph M. Parsons [...]

  • Israel's plan to attack Iran Postponed until at least Spring 2013

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:13:22
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Israel's plan to attack Iran Postponed until at least Spring 2013 Haaretz According to a war simulation conducted by the U.S . Central Command , the Iranians could kill 200 Americans with a single missile response to an Israeli attack . The meaning of this U.S . scenario is that the blood of these 200 would be on Israel's . hands Pentagon spokesman George Little announced that the Defense Department would be seeking more money to help Israel fund the Iron Dome antimissile defense system . The Iron Dome system successfully intercepted 80 percent of the rockets fired from Gaza this month , the Defense Department intends to request an appropriate level of funding to support such acquisitions , based on Israeli

  • Direct Methanol Fuel Cells Are a Proven Alternative to Batteries

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:00:02
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  • On Bike Share System Provides Affordable and Sustainable Transportation Solution for Campuses

    Updated: 2012-03-30 04:00:02
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  • RFID to Solve Ultimate Supply Chain Management Problem: The Hajj

    Updated: 2012-03-30 03:47:00
    : Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking A New Net Kenya's Startup Boom Foundation Medicine : Personalizing Cancer Drugs Alta Devices : Finding a Solar Solution The Patient of the Future Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video RFID to Solve Ultimate Supply Chain Management Problem : The Hajj If it's good enough for WalMart and the DoD , why not apply RFID

  • No quick fixes on energy generation and temperature

    Updated: 2012-03-30 01:39:31
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 No quick fixes on energy generation and temperature 1. WSJ Vinod Khosla is a major investor in renewable and alternative energy and Daniel Yergin is an expert on fossil . fuels They were asked How many years do you think it will be before half of our global energy production comes from non-fossil fuels MR . YERGIN : World energy probably is going to grow by 25 or as much as 35 over the next 20 years . I think the shift in the composition won't be too significant until after 2030, so maybe by 2050. MR . KHOSLA : I guess 25 years . I'm definitely more . optimistic MS . STRASSEL : Can you scale up to the levels necessary to make a big dent in fossil-fuel use MR . KHOSLA : You can absolutely scale up technologies

  • Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brains

    Updated: 2012-03-30 01:12:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brains RL Laboratories , LLC , and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse using memristors The researchers developed a vertically integrated hybrid electronic circuit by combining the novel memristor developed at the University of Michigan with wafer scale heterogeneous process integration methodology and CMOS read write circuitry developed at HRL . This hybrid circuit is a critical advance in developing intelligent machines , 8221 said HRL SyNAPSE program manager and principal investigator Narayan Srinivasa . We have created a multi-bit fully addressable memory storage capability with a

  • Ionic propulsion for small satellites

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:59:49
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Ionic propulsion for small satellites The first prototype of a new , ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built . The goal of the micro motor : to drastically reduce the cost of space . exploration Imagine reaching the Moon using just a tenth of a liter of fuel . With their ionic motor , MicroThrust , EPFL scientists and their European partners are making this a reality and ushering in a new era of low-cost space exploration . The complete thruster weighs just a few hundred grams and is specifically designed to propel small 1-100 kg satellites , which it enables to change orbit around the Earth and

  • Efforts to Commercialize Microfluidics to make millions of labs on a chip for pennies a piece

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:54:18
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Efforts to Commercialize Microfluidics to make millions of labs on a chip for pennies a piece MIT's David Hardt is working to move microfluidics from the lab to the factory . Hardt heads the Center for Polymer Microfabrication a multidisciplinary research group funded by the Singapore-MIT Alliance which is designing manufacturing processes for microfluidics from the ground up . The group is analyzing the behavior of polymers under factory conditions , building new tools and machines to make polymer-based chips at production levels , and designing quality-control processes to check a chip’s integrity at submicron scales all while minimizing the cost of . manufacturing These are devices that people want to make by

  • Blackhole Quasar galaxies that act as gravititional lenses reveal their mass

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:43:30
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Blackhole Quasar galaxies that act as gravititional lenses reveal their mass Using NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope , EPFL scientists have identified several rare cases of galaxies that contain supermassive black holes acting as gravitational . lenses Two years ago , scientists in EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics LASTRO discovered a quasar , a galaxy with a black hole at its center , that functioned as a gravitational lens , a kind of cosmic magnifying glass . They have since found several more situations like this and are able to measure the mass of quasar based on the amount the light is bent in the gravitational lensing of the background . galaxy If you liked this article , please give it a quick review

  • Information on the Mariana Trench

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:18:34
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Information on the Mariana Trench Here is an infographic of the Mariana . Trench James Cameron recently made a solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana trench in a sub that he had funded for 8 million . The bottom looked like a lunar landscape except for some one inch long shrimp like . creatures The expedition has headed away to land and will return at some later date for more . dives Photograph by Mark Thiessen National Geographic . The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible carrying filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron is hoisted into the Pacific Ocean on its way to the Challenger Deep , 8221 the deepest part of the Mariana Trench . If you liked this article , please give it a quick

  • New Superhard H-Carbon and S-carbon which are intermediate between Graphite and Diamond

    Updated: 2012-03-29 17:38:11
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 New Superhard H-Carbon and S-carbon which are intermediate between Graphite and Diamond Arxiv New Superhard Carbon Phases Between Graphite and Diamond Technology Review This work , like the other structural predictions , is entirely , theoretical relying on computer simulations based on first principle calculations . And until somebody actually measures the structure of this new form of carbon , we won't know which proposal is correct . The process of predicting new carbon allotropes and calculating their properties is itself providing a clear impetus for new research in this . field Two new carbon allotropes H-carbon and S-carbon are proposed , as possible candidates for the intermediate superhard phases

  • Introducing the Next-Generation Video Wall Display by NEC Display

    Updated: 2012-03-29 17:11:23
    Introducing the Next-Generation Video Wall Display by NEC Display

  • Early exoskeletons and biological soldier enhancements will not change the battlefield more than other weapon systems

    Updated: 2012-03-29 17:04:18
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 28, 2012 Early exoskeletons and biological soldier enhancements will not change the battlefield more than other weapon systems Patrick Lin discusses the ethical impact of new biological and exoskeleton enhancements to . soldiers Soldiers will soon be able to crawl up and down walls like a real life Gecko or the fictional Spiderhttp : www.blogger.com blogger.g blogID=17555522 editor target=post . postID=9032631527705685216man They will have the technology to stick and unstick with hands and feet to walls . This was also shown in the most recent Mission Impossible movie . However , to utilize this capability still requires extreme physical fitness . Now a soldier would have to use ropes and ladders . There are lightweight

  • Physicists Propose Yet Another Form of Superhard Carbon

    Updated: 2012-03-29 12:37:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking A New Net Kenya's Startup Boom Foundation Medicine : Personalizing Cancer Drugs Alta Devices : Finding a Solar Solution The Patient of the Future Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video Physicists Propose Yet Another Form of Superhard Carbon The battle amongst theorists to predict the structure of a new form of carbon

  • World’s Fastest Inkjet Printheads by KYOCERA

    Updated: 2012-03-29 09:33:25
    World’s Fastest Inkjet Printheads by KYOCERA

  • Brillouin Energy Closing to Commercialization

    Updated: 2012-03-29 09:23:59
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Brillouin Energy Closing to Commercialization Cash Flow Radio has an interview with Brillouin Energy‘s CEO Robert George and President CTO Robert E . . Godes Brillouin Energy has been able to develop a control system that allows a reaction to start and stop , and run in a steady state mode . In April , they will be working with Mike McKubre of SRI International to run a reactor at a higher . temperature Godes states that the Brillouin’s reaction starts with an endothermic reaction reaction that absorbs heat and ends with a more powerful exothermic reaction reaction releases heat Brillouin is working on two systems , the first one provides heat at 140 degrees C , called the wet boiler” the second one reaches 400

  • Ultralight Structures for Space Telescopes that are 100 times cheaper and Printable Spacecraft

    Updated: 2012-03-29 08:29:38
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 Ultralight Structures for Space Telescopes that are 100 times cheaper and Printable Spacecraft 1. How to build a space telescope for 1 of the cost : Fabrication of large space optics that are accurately shaped to better than a 1000th of the width of a human hair is an enormous . challenge Traditional space telescope fabrication methods require rigid and therefore heavy mirrors , expensive spacecraft and massive rocket launch vehicles . This breakthrough technology allows every molecule of a polymer substrate to also serve as a laser powered nano-actuator . These molecules are used to control the shape of a super thin inexpensive large curved mirror , reducing cost and mass by a factor of 100. Dr . Ritter’s NIAC

  • One Gigabyte per month of Free Wireless Broadband from a Skype Cofounder by Fall of 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-29 08:08:58
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 29, 2012 One Gigabyte per month of Free Wireless Broadband from a Skype Cofounder by Fall of 2012 Technology Review Called FreedomPop , the service will give users roughly a gigabyte of free high-speed mobile Internet access per month on Clearwire's WiMAX network and forthcoming LTE network . It will offer other low-cost prepaid plans that provide access to more . data Pre-register for Freedompop access at their . site Clearwire coverage is listed at the Clearwire site . Enter your zip code to see if Clearwire covers your . address The service is expected to roll out in the U.S . sometime between July and September and to eventually branch out to other countries as . well FreedomPop's arrival coincides with the rapid

  • EEStor Makes a Little Bit of News

    Updated: 2012-03-29 07:07:24
    The Bariumtitanate.blogspot, which is a close observer of the EEStory as they’re calling it over there, found a bit of news on the EEStor saga. Zenn, the motorcar company that took off thinking that the EEStor ultra capacitor was coming soon survives with essentially nothing for sale of note.  But the capital base has a [...]

  • Hydrogen Storage Could Be Key to Germany's Energy Plans

    Updated: 2012-03-29 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking A New Net Kenya's Startup Boom Foundation Medicine : Personalizing Cancer Drugs Alta Devices : Finding a Solar Solution The Patient of the Future Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video Jens Kuhfs Energy Hydrogen Storage Could Be Key to Germany's Energy Plans No other means of storing energy may be able to reach the

  • Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions and Superconducting magnet radiation shields

    Updated: 2012-03-28 22:28:05
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard March 28, 2012 Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions and Superconducting magnet radiation shields 1. Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions This study will seek to test and validate an electrostatic gossamer structure to provide radiation shielding . It will provide guidelines for energy requirements , dose reduction and deflection efficiencies , and effective enhancements of dual electrostatic-passive material shielding technologies , and engineering-feasible' architectures . Ram Tripathi , has been funded through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts NIAC Program to develop an electrostatic shielding system that bends radiation particles away from . spacecraft

  • Development of Full-Color Lippmann Hologram for use in Character Licensing Labels and Luxury Brand Protection

    Updated: 2012-03-28 18:42:16
    Development of Full-Color Lippmann Hologram for use in Character Licensing Labels and Luxury Brand Protection

  • Release of Compact High-Frequency Oscillators by Seiko Epson

    Updated: 2012-03-28 18:06:50
    Release of Compact High-Frequency Oscillators by Seiko Epson

  • US Consumers and Environmentalists Win One on Oil Shipping

    Updated: 2012-03-28 07:02:12
    It didn’t take long for the oil industry to go to Plan B to get the massive new supplies of Bakken Formation oil in North Dakota and the Canadian Oil Sands to the remaining refineries at the Gulf Coast.  It may not overcome the closing of refineries on the US east and west coasts, but [...]

  • Graphenea increased production capacity

    Updated: 2012-03-28 01:04:54
    Graphenea says that they have finished the expansion works in their labs, and their production capacity has been increased X3 times. The company installed CVD growth and transfer equipment including an Aixtron BM Pro CVD system. The labs now have characterization facilities like Raman, SEM, FEI Titan TEM and AFM.Graphenea's labs are based in the Nanotecnology Center CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian, Spain.

  • Development of New Manufacturing Technology Capable of producing Sintered Alloy with World’s highest Density Ratio

    Updated: 2012-03-27 17:59:03
    Development of New Manufacturing Technology Capable of producing Sintered Alloy with World’s highest Density Ratio

  • Lerner’s Focus Fusion Meets the Boron Fuel Line

    Updated: 2012-03-27 07:39:38
    Dr. Eric Lerner’s Focus Fusion machine at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) in New Jersey is heating and confining an ionized gas at record temperatures equivalent to over 1.8 billion degrees C, as described in a paper published March 23rd in Physics of Plasmas, the most often cited journal devoted to plasma physics published by the [...]

  • Nokia Puts a Price on the Phone that Could Define Its Future

    Updated: 2012-03-27 02:24:00
    So, Nokia’s Lumia 900 will cost just $100, starting April 8. Not bad for a LTE-compatible smartphone with 4.3inch display, a 1.4 GHz processor, and a 8 megapixel camera.

  • Development of World’s Lowest Power Consumption Chipset for Multi-gigabit Millimeter wave Wireless Communication

    Updated: 2012-03-26 08:53:22
    Development of World’s Lowest Power Consumption Chipset for Multi-gigabit Millimeter wave Wireless Communication

  • CERN Has A LENR Colloquium

    Updated: 2012-03-26 08:01:34
    Settle in, CERN the multinational research group based in Europe had a colloquium on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions last Thursday.  There was no big news, but there is interesting news out of Japan.  The file downloads are a treasure trove of useful information. To start is the 40-page PDF presentation by Yogendra Srivastava from the [...]

  • Development of “Full SiC” Modules for use in Power Devices by ROHM

    Updated: 2012-03-26 08:00:56
    Development of “Full SiC” Modules for use in Power Devices by ROHM

  • Graphene with nanopores to enable ultrafast DNA sequencing?

    Updated: 2012-03-25 11:38:00
    Home Introduction Graphene with nanopores to enable ultrafast DNA sequencing Tweet Graphene applications Medicine Nanoribbons Researchers at the University of Delaware suggest that graphene sheets with nanopores tiny holes could be used for ultrafast DNA sequencing based on tiny holes . The study which is based on computer simulation suggests that threading DNA though nanopores can be used to detect the presence of different DNA bases . This is done by a current of ions flowing vertically through the pore or an electronic current flowing transversely through the . graphene Graphene is just one atom thick and so the nanopore has contact with only a single DNA base . The researchers suggest using nanoribbons of graphene to enable fast and low-cost less than 1,000 DNA . sequencing source :

  • Development of Industry’s First 130db Wide Dynamic Range Signal processing LSI by SONY

    Updated: 2012-03-23 16:35:14
    Development of Industry’s First 130db Wide Dynamic Range Signal processing LSI by SONY

  • Biofuel Is Big Business and Going to Get Bigger

    Updated: 2012-03-23 06:02:54
    2011 saw 30 billion gallons of biofuel produced worldwide – or 136.4 billion liters or 4 billion cubic feet.  It’s a huge tank if it all was stored on one enormous site. Pike Research has looked into the commercial efforts of 10 independent “Big Oil” firms to see what’s going on.  As you can imagine [...]

  • A New Route to IEC Fusion Proposed

    Updated: 2012-03-22 06:05:35
    Nuclear fusion might be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields.  A series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National Laboratories show the release of output energy that was, remarkably, many times greater than the energy fed into the simulation. Sandia researcher Steve Slutz, lead author of the paper published at [...]

  • Why Gasoline is Expensive

    Updated: 2012-03-21 06:07:02
    A Guest Post by Paul Driessen Edits in Italics. When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank could soon slam you for $75-$90. This winter was warm. Our [...]

  • Flexible, paper-based supercapacitor could improve performance of hybrid electric vehicles

    Updated: 2012-03-20 19:40:02
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that using supercapacitors in conjunction with batteries could greatly increase the fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) due to the fact that supercapacitors can recover and supply energy much more quickly than batteries. This ability, for example, allows a supercapacitor to recover all of the energy during hard braking, while a battery would allow the energy to be wasted in frictional braking due to its inability to quickly harvest energy.

  • Researchers create flexible laser-scribed graphene capacitors using DVD burners

    Updated: 2012-03-20 08:50:44
    Home Introduction Researchers create flexible laser-scribed graphene capacitors using DVD burners Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Ultracapacitors A team of researchers from the UCLA managed to developed laser-scribed graphene LSG based flexible capacitors using simple DVD burners . The idea is to deposit Graphite Oxide on blank DVDs and then use a DVD burner a light scribe drive which uses a 780nm infrared laser . The laser reduces the Graphite Oxide to pure graphene LSG This LSG is placed on flexible substrates which are used as the electrodes for a super . capacitor This is not just a gimmick process it will be possible to scale it for commercial production , and these capacitors are fast 20 times faster than standard carbon capacitors and 3 times faster than lithium-ion

  • Geothermal Drilling Could Get Easier

    Updated: 2012-03-20 06:17:07
    About 30 years ago Sandia Labs developed polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits for geothermal drilling.  Today nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using the (PDC) bits.  That’s technology gone astray, valuable – and still missing the original point.  Now Sandia and the U.S. Navy recently brought the technology back full [...]

  • Researchers demonstrate high quality wafer-scale deposition of graphene on evaporated copper films

    Updated: 2012-03-19 08:46:47
    Home Introduction Researchers demonstrate high quality wafer-scale deposition of graphene on evaporated copper films Tweet Aixtron Technical Research Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin , USA , have demonstrated high quality wafer-scale deposition of graphene on evaporated copper films as opposed to copper foil for the first time . The researchers are using Aixtron s cold-wall vertical BM Black Magic Pro reactor , shown . below The researchers explain that a pre-annealing process is used at first to create a hydrogen-rich polycrystalline copper film , followed by the decomposition of pure methane for the growth of high quality graphene . The growth occurs at a lower processing temperature than on copper . foil Mar 19, 2012 Login register to post comments Similar entries

  • Build a Super Capacitor with a DVD Burner

    Updated: 2012-03-19 06:42:00
    The insightful and clever folks at UCLA have used a standard LightScribe DVD optical drive ($25+ and up at Newegg.com today) to produce a new type of capacitor electrodes that not only maintain high conductivity but also provide higher and more accessible surface area than conventional electrochemical capacitors (ECs) that use the typical activated carbon [...]

  • Graphene turned piezoelectric by doping

    Updated: 2012-03-18 08:14:34
    Home Introduction Graphene turned piezoelectric by doping Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Stanford managed to engineer Piezoelectricity into graphene . Piezoelectricity is the property of some materials to produce electric charge when bent , squeezed or twisted . It is reversible so you can change the materia's shape using an electric . field A piezoelectric graphene could provide an unparalleled degree of electrical , optical or mechanical control for applications ranging from touchscreens to nanoscale transistors , said the . researchers The method involves doping graphene with atoms . Using modelling applications they tested different scenarios and found that doping just one side of the graphene , or doping both sides with different atoms , is key to the

  • Graphene Oxide reduced to graphene using microorganisms

    Updated: 2012-03-18 08:02:48
    Home Introduction Graphene Oxide reduced to graphene using microorganisms Tweet Graphene Oxide Graphene production Technical Research Researchers from Toyohashi University managed to reduce Graphene-Oxide GO to graphene using microorganisms . This is actually a hybrid approach : the chemically-derived GO flakes were reduced to graphene using microorganisms extracted from a river bank near the Tempaku Campus of Toyohashi . University This may prove a low-cost and highly efficient method to mass produce graphene . It's also environmentally friendly . source : NanoWerk Mar 18, 2012 Login register to post comments Similar entries Reduced GO sheets on a SiO2 Si photo Graphene Oxide to benefit transmission electron microscopes Researchers develop a cheaper , scalable method to make graphene New

  • New high-frequency flexible graphene transistors developed

    Updated: 2012-03-16 07:15:09
    Home Introduction New high-frequency flexible graphene transistors developed Tweet Electronics Flexible Graphene applications Technical Research Transistors Researchers developed a new process to make flexible transistors from graphene . The new process enable high electron mobility and high frequencies in the Ghz range The process uses a graphene in a solution and places it on polyimide . substrates The idea is to deposit sheets of graphene in solution on the polyimide with an alternating electric field applied between electrodes made in advance . This technique , known as dielectrophoresis or DEP , is used to guide the graphene deposition process so as to obtain a high density of deposited sheets in certain spots . This density is essential for achieving outstanding high-frequency .

  • Charged impurities proven to be the source of low electron mobility in graphene

    Updated: 2012-03-14 09:26:54
    Home Introduction Charged impurities proven to be the source of low electron mobility in graphene Tweet Conductors Electronics Technical Research Transistors Researchers from Vanderbilt say they now understand for certain why graphene is so sensitive to its electrical environment . Solving this issue will allow to have better electron mobility in graphene at room-temperature , and come close to graphene's theoretical but not practical high electron . mobility The problem is charged impurities on the surface of graphene . This was suspected before , but is now confirmed . Now the challenge will be to make graphene without those charged . impurities source : NanoWerk Mar 14, 2012 Login register to post comments Similar entries Boron Nitride promises to be a good substrate for Graphene

  • Graphene based battery runs off ambient heat only, to provide a limitless source of power?

    Updated: 2012-03-08 18:43:15
    , Home Introduction Graphene based battery runs off ambient heat only , to provide a limitless source of power Tweet Batteries Energy generation Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University claim that they have invented a new graphene-based battery that runs solely on ambient heat . If this is confirmed , it could lead the way towards a clean , continuous and limitless source of power The new battery electrodes harvest energy from ions in a solution that move at room temperature . The thermal energy of these ions can reach several kilojoules per kilogram per Kelvin . The researchers used silver and gold electrodes connected to a strip of graphene , and a copper chloride solution . Six of these devices in series can produce a voltage of over

  • Suntan New Sample box is coming up soon

    Updated: 2012-03-07 16:02:26
    Suntan Technology Company Limited----All Kinds of CapacitorsSuntan New Sample box is coming up soon. ttp://www.capacitor.com.hk/

  • New company formed to produce single layer graphene on silicon carbide

    Updated: 2012-03-06 19:14:37
    Home Introduction New company formed to produce single layer graphene on silicon carbide Tweet Graphene production Technical Research Graphensic is a new company in Sweden that is a spin-off from the Linköping University . The company aims to produce single layer graphene on hexagonal silicon carbide for the electronic equipment market , and related . markets Graphensic's technology uses a high temperature process to produce epitaxial graphene on SiC . The high temperature provides better uniformity . Graphensic explains that at lower temperature there are more defects in the SiC substrate . A high temperature is beneficial for the surface kinetics when the graphene layer is formed since carbon atoms are given higher energy to move on the surface . In bilayer or multilayer graphene the

  • mPhase is exploring printing its nano battery with Graphene

    Updated: 2012-03-06 19:03:42
    mPhase Technologies announced today that they are exploring the printing of its "Smart NanoBattery" using graphene (and possibly other advanced materials). mPhases's battery is just the first of several products enabled by the company's smart surface technology that uses nanotechnology, MEMS processing and microfluidics technologies. read more

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