The world will be spending about 9 trillion on energy infrastructure over the next 45 years. According to Booz Allen Hamilton consulting40 trillion on overall infrastructure. The biggest chunk is for water infrastructure. About 9.4 trillion road, rail and airports as well. We should have better long term planning and a wholistic approach to energy …
Scientists from Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, have recently published their research on the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone—the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device. A pdf with levelized cost of electricity analysis for natural gas, coal and nuclear from 2006 Natural gas is 3.8 to 5.9 cents(US)/kwhCoal …
Currently carbon nanotubes are sold on the world market for $100,000 to $800,000 per kilogram. However, Cheap tubes has reduced prices significantly in May 2007. They have 90% by weight SWNT CNT for $42,000 – 50,000 per kg. They have MWNT for as little as $350/kg. One ton orders have a 90 day lead time. …
China intends to spend $50 billion to build 32 nuclear plants by 2020. Some analysts say the country will build 300 more by the middle of the century A Massachusetts Institute of Technology report said China may have to add as many as 200 nuclear power plants by 2050 to meet its needs. Academics from …
Tiny, isolated patches of superconductivity exist within these superconducting substances at higher temperatures than previously were known, according to a paper by Princeton scientists, who have developed new techniques to image superconducting behavior at the nanoscale. Caption: Using a customized microscope, Princeton scientists have mapped the strength of current-carrying electron pairs as they form in …
At room temperature, carbon-13 nuclei in diamond create stable, controllable quantum register.Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists at Harvard University have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary precision to create stable quantum mechanical memory and a small quantum processor, also known as a quantum register, …