Transformational energy technology projects can be submitted to the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E or ARPA Energy) from May 12 to June 2, 2009 for the first round of funding. The agency defined as “transformational” a technology that “so outperforms current approaches that it causes an industry to shift its technology base to …
A field test was performed from Sept 2006 to August 2007 and the recovery and performance exceeded expectations. The recovery factor was over 75%, energy used per barrel was 23% less than anticipated and peak production rates were better than expected. ET Energy’s Electro Thermal technology could be used to pump out 600 billion barrels …
Fig 1: Optically controlled spintronic patches might be linked by flying qubits to form a larger processor. Even 20 qubits linked within a patch would provide only a very modest quantum computer. Linking 10 or 12 patches would be much more impressive. This figure shows schematically such a linkage to form a larger processor. If …
Productivity Future Vision The main aspects of this vision are superior computer displays like OLED and improved LED. * Displays are in every glass or flat surface. This would require displays to become 10 to 1000 times or more cheaper than they are now and to use 10 to 1000 times less power* The interactive …
Carnival of Space #100 is up at the One Minute Astronomer. This site provide a projection 250 years forward to the timeframe of Star Trek the new movie (which is the same timeframe of the Original Series. Cumbrian Sky celebrate the Kepler telescope and its mission to find Earth like world. Beyond Apollo looks at …
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics has “Enhanced Adhesion by Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Fibrillar Adhesives” for makgin wall crawling robots The CMU work will be presented at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12 – 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. Tankbot is a simple, energy efficient, lightweight (60 g), and robust climbing robot. It uses …
Mexico’s suspected swine flu death toll had climbed to 149 as of April 27, 2009. Most of those who died did not get medical treatment until they were very seriously ill. Many had to be rushed immediately into intensive care. People who have fly symptoms need to be prudent and seek early medical care. Center …
Reprap’s goal is to make 3D prototypers with low fabrication costs widely available. The summary from Wikipedia: Currently, low-end commercial 3D prototypers cost about US$15K [uPrint Personal 3D Printer] and in 2009 US$5K or less and you still need to buy materials and solidifiers, which cost a further $1.5K. Prototypes made by these low-end commercial …
CNN reports that 8 people have died from swine flu, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. [April 25, 2009] The presence of swine flu in Mexico and the United States is “a serious situation” that could develop into a pandemic, the World Health Organization’s director-general said Saturday. “This is an animal …
Chris Phoenix has considered RepRap and cheap 3D desktop manufacturing devices and iterative improvements there as a path evolves into molecular manufacturing. The Reprap can produce its own circuit boards and desktop manufacturing can produce prototypes. I believe that in the near to mid-term the financial and societal impact will be with things like the …
Army is taking submissions for anti-aging research. Wired blogged about the army’s anti-aging projects. If the military can combine the potential of resveratrol with the power of the mole rat. In February, biochemists at the University of Texas Science Center expanded the mitochondrial theory, based on a study of the unbreakable proteins in mole rats, …