Living off the grid is not crazy. It costs about $23000 for a 2000 sf home More on living off the grid Solar power is not crazy.Solar power is near a tipping point. It it gets to $1 per watt for installed panels it should takeoff without subsidies. Right now the best values are at …
Nanodots are being used to successfully pin the magnetic field in superconducting wire. This allows for more stable current flow and better retention of performance over longer wire. The performance necessary for many applications appears possible using this technique There are still many hurdles but this appears to be a path to success. The performance …
Notes for classes in 2004 on space related topics Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known …
The Fermi paradox is if the universe contains many technologically advanced civilizations, combined with our lack of observational evidence to support that view, seems to be inconsistent. Either this assumption is incorrect (and technologically advanced intelligent life is much rarer than we believe), our current observations are incomplete (and we simply have not detected them …
Nanospheres that are 200 nanometers in diameter, roughly the size of a virus, are used so they won’t trigger an immune response in the body. They are also biocompatible so they can be readily absorbed by the cells. It’s the structure of the nanospheres that makes drug delivery possible. The spheres have thousands of parallel …
Researchers have achieved success in reversing paralysis in rats using hydrogels which had stem cells mixed in and the material placed into the space of the spinal cord gap. Hydrogels resemble the soft tissue that surrounds a human spinal cord as it develops in the womb. The researchers estimate gel-based spinal cord repair clinical trials …
The Korean team’s continuously shorted fuel-cell muscle incorporated a shape-memory wire coated with nanoparticles of platinum catalyst. This type of muscle converted the chemical energy of the fuel into thermal energy, which caused actuation. The fuel-cell muscle’s work capability was 100 times that of skeletal muscle They also created a cantilever-based nanotube fuel-cell muscle, the …
By suspending nanoparticles in water or other liquids, Professor Richard Williams and Dr Yulong Ding have created ‘nanofluids’ which can transfer heat up to 400% faster than other liquids. In a central heating system, nanofluids could increase efficiency without the need to use a more powerful pump, so saving energy and providing major environmental benefits. …
NACHIP’s core achievement was to develop a working interface between the living tissue of individual neurons and the inorganic compounds of silicon chips. With the help of German microchip company Infineon, NACHIP placed 16,384 transistors and hundreds of capacitors on a chip just 1mm squared in size. The group had to find appropriate materials and …
U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis, the South Carolina Republican who chairs the House Science Committee’s research subcommittee, proposes three categories of competition: * Up to four prizes would be awarded for the best technology advancements in hydrogen production, storage, distribution and utilization. * A prize would be awarded for the best working prototype in a category …
German and Japanese scientists recently collaborated to transmit a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently …