Nanodynamics is IPO on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) The intent of this offering is to place 9,100,000 shares at a filing price between US$ 10-12.50 raising US$ 100 million. Pricing is expected to take place the week of January 28, 2008 Alan Shalleck of nanoclarity has a lot of useful coverage at nanotech-now. …
Schlumberger has bought Raytheon microwave oil recovery technology. They can retrieve four to five barrels of oil (EROEI 4-5) for every barrel of oil consumed in the process. Other methods have reported 1 1/2 to three barrels (EROEI 1.5-3) for each one consumed. Because microwaves can generate heat faster than convection heating, shale can be …
The new designs for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane and WhiteKnightTwo mothership were unveiled in New York. The biggest twist is that the WhiteKnightTwo plane has spread out and sprouted another passenger cabin on its 140-foot-long wing. The two cabins and four Pratt & Whitney jet engines straddle a central mount for the rocket plane, …
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) (maker of the millions of Roomba vacuums and military Packbots) may be on the verge of creating a new generation of robots with a much higher degree of autonomy than is currently possible. This is another example of how important the sensing systems and other non-artificial intelligence parts of a robot are to …
Nanoscale polymer films, about four nanometers per layer, were used to build a sort of matrix or platform to hold and slowly release an anti-inflammatory drug. The films are orders of magnitude thinner than conventional drug deliver coatings, said Genhong Cheng, a researcher at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of the study’s authors. …
Many places online have been discussing the 168 trillion to 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered within the north Appalachian Plateau of the USA. alfin : Peak Oil: Meet Marcellus Black Shale Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends : Giant gas field found in the Appalachia The yearly consumption of natural gas worldwide is slightly …
GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced that scientists on their Nano Photovoltaics (PV) team have demonstrated a scalable silicon nanowire-based solar cell, which has the potential to achieve up to 18% efficiency and be produced at a dramatically lower cost than conventional solar cells. “GE’s demonstration …
TEAM 0.5 (Transmission electron achromatic microscope), the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National …
Lockheed has signed an exclusive international license to use EEStor’s power system for military and homeland-security applications–everything from advanced remote sensors and missile systems to mobile power packs and electric vehicles. Zenn motors is now expecting delivery of the energy-storage unit in mid-2008. It will be a mass-produced commercial product. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
As of Dec 27, 2007 the Burj Dubai is 598.5 meters tall and 158 stories. It will end up over 800 meters tall including its antenna. These supertall skyscrapers are taking 4-5 years to complete. Burj Dubai’s last two milestones will be to surpass the 628.8 m (2,063 ft) height of the KVLY-TV Mast in …
There is interesting progress being made to develop a nanoair vehicle that weighs less than 10 grams and is shorter than 3 inches. A promising design is using electricity and plasma jets. Plasma micro thruster powered UAV the size of a cigarette “It’s a new propulsion technology to be used by micro and nano-unmanned aerial …