This site has been following Nanocomp Technologies which makes sheets of carbon nanotubes. Nanocomp Technologies had 3X6 foot sheets back in early 2008. Then in early 2009, they announced that they had 4X8 foot sheets. So close to double the square footage of the 16 square foot sheets at 32. In a single process, they …
This is a brief overview of the current trends toward larger scale genetic engineering of agricultural crops and animals and geoengineering and mega-engineering adaptation to offset or adapt to environmental changes. Primarily these are observations at which solutions are getting significant increases in research and development resources and are getting or are close to being …
A 560 page report on the future of China’s cities. * China is leading the global urbanization trend of developing countries and in 2025-2030 one in five of the global city dwellers will be in Chinese cities* Based on current trends, China in 2025 will have 221 cities with more than one million people compared …
Carnival of Space 97 is up at Cheap Astro and it has a lot of good articles. This site contributed the article on the layer of ice found less than one meter below the surface of Mars. Meridiani Journal looks at the sub-surface water on Titan Titan is already known to have lakes and seas …
McKinsey has a 36 page analysis of a path to low carbon cars and trucks in 2020 and 2030. This projection is dependent upon a forecast and assumption for a range of energy costs and on the general availability cost and effectiveness of automotive technology. In the first picture we see the chart of technology …
Formed sometime between January and September 2008, this fresh crater has dredged up barely buried water ice and splashed it onto the Martian surface. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded this colour close-up image on 1 November 2008. The scene is about 30 metres across. (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) Mars has a …
The first 6 weeks of technology developments in 2009 and the second 6 weeks have seen a lot of big developments. One of the comments was to have trend tracking and projections included in the big development highlight roundups. That will be included as part of future highlight packages. Here are the trends and projections …
Microbes to Convert Coal to Methane Scale Up Announcement Soon At Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego startup he co-founded in 2005, Venter said scientists are using such techniques to create new microbial species with enhanced and even unique capabilities. For example, he said Synthetic Genomics has created new species of microbes that grow on the …
Schematic showing the experimental setup. The sample with PI/NI interface is composed of an array of different designed Helmholtz resonators machined from analuminum plate. Unit cells of each half part and the corresponding inductor–capacitor circuit analogy are shown in the insets. Metamaterials are progressing to enable invisibility to sonar and creating superlenses for ultrasound. Superlenses …
China has the government statistic of mass incidents. China’s Public Security Ministry reported 87,000 mass incident in 2005, up 6.6 per cent over the number in 2004, and 50 per cent over the 2003 figure. The ministry has not released the latest figures. Mass incidents – the Chinese government’s term for riots, demonstrations and protests …
* Why start with the assumption that no current, emerging or future technology can solve a particular class of problem ? * Why assume that no technology can be a significant part of a solution or reduction of a problem ?* People say that it is Utopian and imply it is impossible to solve all …