A Giant Dome is Being Built to Contain the Sunken Oil Rig Oil Spill

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Cofferdams are shown in the picture Engineers are building a giant dome to contain the oil spilling from the sunken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico The dimensions of the dome are still being worked out, but officials said it would be similar to welded …

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Look in Good Shape to Get to Proton Boron Burning by End of 2010

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is running dense plasma focus fusion experiments and are getting good levels of current and voltage. The April 2010 technical report gives the March experimental results. Analysis of shots we did in March gives more convincing evidence of high ion energies, certainly more …

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Massively Parallel Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A superthin computer just two molecules thick can solve complex problems and, somewhat like the human brain, can evolve to improve and perform many operations simultaneously This is significant progress on molecular computing with molecular switches that is highly parallel and using cellular automata. * This …

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Iraq Oil Production to Start Surging in the Second Half of 2010 and Oil Service Companies Will Get About $40 Billion in Iraq Oil Field Business from 2010 to 2016

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software BP Plc and China National Petroleum Corp. will drill and upgrade wells to raise output from Iraq’s largest oil field of Rumaila and plan to increase oil production by 100,000 barrels per day by the end 2010. CNPC and partner BP Plc will take over full …

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North Dakota Has 400,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day Shipping Capacity By Pipeline and Rail

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software North Dakota set a per-day record of 261,000 barrels in February. Before the infrastructure improvements, the state’s pipeline, rail and refining capacity was only 189,000 barrels a day. Now, based on recent investments, that capacity is about 400,000 barrels a day. It should be enough to …

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Superresolution MRI – magnetic force resonance microscopy

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software In this diagram, viruses (colored orange) cling to the gold surface (yellow) at the end of a silicon cantilever. A magnetic tip (blue) creates a magnetic field that interacts with the viruses to create an image, using magnetic force resonance microscopy. Image: Martino Poggio, University of …

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Nanopatch induces a protective immune response Using 100 Times Less Vaccine

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, demonstrated that a vaccine delivered by a Nanopatch induces a similarly protective immune response as a vaccine delivered by needle and syringe, but uses 100 times less vaccine. Being both painless and needle-free, the nanopatch offers hope for those …

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Macroscale Carbon Nanotube Fibers

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software In a Rice University lab, a black fiber the diameter of a human hair spools into a beaker of ether. Made up of pure nano­tubes, the strand is the culmination of nearly a decade of experimentation. Chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have spun nanotubes …

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Blacklight Power Claims Validation and Due Diligence Being Performed by National Labs and Major Corporations

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Blacklight Power claims to have a revolutionary and highly controversial energy generation process that is about one hundred times more powerful than chemical processes. They have a new 169 page technical presentation, but the main point of interest is on the bottom of the page three …

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Progress on Indian and Chinese Nuclear Renaissance and a Reminder on Japan, Vietam and Finland

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. The first of India’s Russian-designed nuclear power reactors has taken a step closer to start-up with the loading of dummy fuel assemblies into the core of Kudankulam 1. The plant is one of two Russian-supplied 950 MWe VVER pressurised water reactors currently being built by …

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Eco-terrorists ‘plot to blow up IBM headquarters’ thwarted in routine traffic stop

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software UK Daily Mail – A routine traffic-stop in Switzerland has allegedly thwarted eco-terrorists from blowing up the site of the £55million nano-technology HQ of IBM in Europe. The three members – two men and a woman – of the Italian terrorist group Il Silvestre were stopped …

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