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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The world bank classifies the economies of countries by GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. The groups are: low income, $975 or less lower middle income, $976 – $3,855 upper middle income, $3,856 – $11,905 high income, $11,906 or more. China’s GDP grew …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Evolved Machines, Inc. today announces completion of the first carbon nanotube field effect transistor (nanotube-FET) integrated sensor chip. Consisting of 1,536 nanotube-FET sensors along with a digital backplane for individually addressable gating and readout, the sensor chip is the first integrating high temperature carbon nanotube growth with …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A team led by Heinrich Hora at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia has carried out computational studies to demonstrate that new laser technology capable of producing short but high energy pulses could be used to ignite hydrogen/boron-11 fuel using side-on ignition. The high …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The first re-use of nuclear fuel in a Candu reactor has started at Qinshan nuclear power plant in China. Over the next six months, another 24 of the ‘natural uranium equivalent’ (NUE) bundles will be used in two of the reactor’s fuel channels. If successful over a …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The deuterium atoms in a gallon of seawater, for instance, could theoretically produce as much energy as burning 300 gallons of gasoline. The fuel contained in 50 cups of water could yield as much energy as burning two tons of coal. The problem is, how do you …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software DARPA Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS) project is trying to make a blimp which has massive sensors as part of the blimp structure A demonstration unit should be flying around 2012-2014. ISIS will provide “unsurpassed situational awareness with a surveillance range of 187 miles for individuals on …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Michael Pettis explains how a chinsese currency revaluation would play out. Michael Pettis is a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets, and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. * A revaluation shifts wealth from …
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A new spin-out company from The University of Nottingham aims to lower wind energy costs by four times and reduce the cost of storing excess wind energy by five times. NIMROD Energy Ltd is being launched this week by Professor Seamus Garvey. The system is also four times more efficient in terms of the amount …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Toshiba Corp. and Bill Gates- controlled TerraPower of the U.S. may jointly develop the TerraPower Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor. Toshiba and TerraPower signed a non-disclosure agreement in November to exchange information on the design and engineering know-how, a Toshiba spokesman, Keisuke Ohmori, said by telephone in Tokyo …