Kenji Nakano, Senior Chief Engineer, Honda, outlined a potential product portfolio running from internal combustion engined vehicles; mild hybrids; strong hybrids; plug-in hybrids; range extended electric vehicles; and full battery electric vehicles. The best choice, he said, will differ depending upon the vehicle type and use. We think simple lightweight hybrid systems such as IMA …
Michael Anissimov discusses the idea that self-replicating factories, fed perhaps by acetylene, water, and the Sun (nanofactories) can lift most restrictions on freedom that come from finite resources. Michael refers to a piece by Peter Thiel that technology can enable Libertarianism. I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom …
22 nanometer lithography has been performed with EUV (extreme Ultra Violet Light). (H/T Sander Olson) Fully functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells of 0.099µm² density have been fabricated at IMEC using ASML’s EUV Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The new cells are 47% smaller than IMEC’s 0.186µm² cell produced at the 32nm node last year. The results …
In Vitro and In Vivo Pluripotency of piPSCs(A) piPSCs can effectively differentiate invitro into cells in the three germ layers, including neural progenitor cells (Pax6+), characteristic neurons (TUJ1+), mature cardiomyocytes (CT3+), definitive endoderm cells (Sox17+), pancreatic cells (Pdx1+), and hepatic cells (ALB+). Images were merged with DAPI (blue) staining.(B) RT-PCR analysis of invitro differentiation of …
— EEStor, Inc. announces third party certification tests by Texas Research International’s Dr. Edward G. Golla, PhD., Laboratory Director. They certified that EEStor’s patented and patent pending Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders have met and/or exceeded a relative permittivity of 22,500. This is a high relative permittivity which is good for EEStor’s supercapacitors. EEStor’s supercapacitors could …
China will overtake the U.S. in terms of economic output within a decade, according to estimates by Deutsche Bank’s Chief Economist for Greater China, Jun Ma, who said he had to accelerate his forecast of the mainland’s leadership in the global economy in view of favorable growth dynamics in emerging markets. Goldman is raising China’s …
Under certain conditions, trapped beryllium ions form a hexagonal single-plane crystal. This crystal consists of about 300 ions that are spaced about 10 micrometers apart and are fluorescing (scattering laser light). An array of ions such as this might be used as a memory device in a quantum computer. National Institute of Standards and Technology …
The UC Davis chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of applications. Maximum clock speed for the 167-processor AsAP is 1.2 gigahertz (GHz), but at slower speeds its energy efficiency soars. Twelve chips working together could perform more than half-a-trillion operations per second …
Carnival of Space #99 is up at Alice Astro Info. This site provided information on microscale solar sails and the article with details on PGE (Pacific Gas and Electric) signing an agreement with startup Solaren for Space based solar power by 2016. Innumerable Worlds looks at the tiny movement of our sun caused by Earth …
Star Trek will soon be relaunched in a new movie. The new movie is primarily a refresh to new actors and writing a more fast paced show. The basic technology of the show and story has not changed but the special effects have been updated, which shows progress in the visual displays and computer graphics …
Polar plot of net asymmetries A in 30° sectors in right ascension and slices in z. Segments with positive A are indicated in red and negative A in blue. [blue are left hand spinning and red are right hand spinning] The A for segments with The handedness preference was previously seen in an analysis of …