The Bloom energy Website is now open and has information What still needs to be provided is some kind of white paper or research article that lays at a roadmap (that does not have to reveal secret sauce) about where they are and will be with bringing costs down and production volume up. There are …
(a) Split ring resonator for high-frequency metamaterials (outer ring diameter is 2.26mm). (b) Spiral resonator for radio frequency metamaterials (outer diameter is 6mm and has 40 turns). Metamaterials (so called because of their engineered electromagnetic properties) hold great promise for new applications in the megahertz to terahertz bands, as well as optical frequencies. Examples including …
Professor William Edelstein of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine explained to New Scientist that while interstellar space has just a couple of hydrogen atoms per cubic centimetre, as the crew of the Enterprise hit the gas pedal, a compression effect would greatly increase the number of atoms hitting the spacecraft. As the spaceship …
EEtimes reports the University of California at Berkeley provided an update on a technology called plasmonic nano-lithography–based on a flying lens. U.C. Berkeley has devised a tool with four and six lenses. The goal is to devise a tool with 10,000 lenses and a throughput of 60 wafers an hour. In theory, it will make …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) has obtained the first preliminary evidence that the injection of angular momentum into the DPF considerably increases the efficiency of energy transfer into the plasmoid, the size of the plasmoid and thus the fusion energy yield. On Feb. 19 and 22, the team fired Focus-Fusion-1 at 24 kV with a pressure …
A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing. All-optical switching could allow dramatic speed increases in telecommunications by eliminating the need to convert photonic signals to electronic signals …
Junctionless transistors could be implemented commercially at around the 20-nm manufacturing node. The junctionless transistor scales far better than a conventional transistor which will need to implant and control complex dopant gradients and profiles in diminishing distances. “The junctionless device does scale better. You still need the high resolution etching but you don’t have to …
Carnival of Space 142 is up at astroblogger. This site submitted the Mach Effect propulsion research update Ian O’Neill of Discover Space considers dark energy manipulation with metamaterials as a possible pathway to warp drive spaceships. Centauri Dreams considers the recent report about interstellar hydrogen dangers for a near light speed spacecraft. Centauri Dreams proposes …
1. The operator of the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, asked the prefectural government Tuesday to start talks on restarting possibly by the end of March the prototype reactor. The Monju prototype fast reactor (FBR) in Japan has completed a government-mandated procedure to ensure the reactor is safe to restart following a sodium …
The North Falkland Basin could contain 3.5 billion barrels of oil as well as having “significant gas potential.” There are 2500 residents on the island. The current estimated value of the oil is 280 billion. This is about $110 million worth of oil associated each Falkland Island resident. A war was fought in 1982 over …
Amyris claim that the diesel that they will make with synthetic biology will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than fossil fuels. Today, Brazilian sugarcane is the only crop that can possibly back up Amyris’s green marketing. Brazilian studies say that sugarcane ethanol yields about 7 to 10 times as much energy …