Sandia is looking to prove secure energy microgrids next year at a military base. Energy systems with high levels of energy surety must be safe — safely supplying energy to end users; secure — using diversified energy sources; reliable — maintaining power when and where needed; sustainable — being able to be maintained indefinitely (“indefinite” …
They have performed high altitude balloon communication trials in Sweden in 2005. They had supported data rates of 11Mbit/s and throughputs up to 4Mbit/s, using WiFi (IEEE802.11b), at distances ranging up to 60km. Dr David Grace, the project’s principal scientific officer said: “Proving the ability to operate a high data rate link from a moving …
454 pyrosequencing has emerged in the past year uses real-time, light-based observations of gene synthesis to reveal genomic information. It produces genomic information up 100 times faster than the old technology. Here is more on the 454 method The analysis of some 25 million bases of DNA sequence using 454’s “sequencing by synthesis” nanotechnology approach …
Paint-on antennas, designed to establish new high-altitude communications and surveillance platforms, successfully transmitted voice and data links as well as teleconferencing capabilities during test flights in the Nevada desert June 21 on board a SA-60 spherical airship. Related article: This is a follow up on city wide surveillance technology Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
British company E2V technologies has a 4 megawatt microwave generator that can cook rocks for a millionth of a second and make them easier to break up in order to extract ore. They could reduce the energy used in mining in half (5% of the worlds energy, 420bn kWh, is used in mining). The technique …
Cryonic suspension of pigs for a few hours could be used in humans for better trauma surgery. The surgeons drain the blood and connect tubes to the aorta and other vessels, filling the circulatory system with chilled organ-preservation fluid – a nearly frozen daiquiri of salts, sugars, and free-radical scavengers. cryogenic suspension may be just …
Physicists of the University of Bonn have taken one more important hurdle on the path to what is known as a quantum computer: by using ‘laser tweezers’ they have succeeded in sorting up to seven atoms and lining them up. In the experiment the research team headed by Dr. Arno Rauschenbeutel and Professor Dieter Meschede …
A research team led by Brown University engineers has harnessed the coding power of DNA to create zinc oxide nanowires on top of carbon nanotube tips. The feat, detailed in the journal Nanotechnology, marks the first time that DNA has been used to direct the assembly and growth of complex nanowires. The tiny new structures …
Microbiologist Discovers Our Planet Is Hard-wired With Electricity-producing Bacteria, which could be leve raged using synthetic biology. Yuri Gorby discovered that a microbe which transforms toxic metals can sprout tiny electrically conductive wires from its cell membrane, he reasoned this anatomical oddity and its metal-changing physiology must be related. It now turns out that not …
Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today’s conventional chips — and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass. This is the first a so-called “wet” semiconductor device has bested traditional, more costly grown-crystal semiconductor devices. The Toronto team instead cooked up semiconductor …
One atom thick coating for tooltips created. National Institute of Nanotechnology at the U of Alberta, used a unique process to make the sharpest tip ever known and opened the door to a range of possibilities. Technically speaking, they were able to coat peripheral atoms near the peak with nitrogen, making it a one atom-thick, …