Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In April 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the total population of the United States on April 1, 2000, was 281,421,906. The apparent precision was entirely spurious. The Director of the Census Bureau later remarked that the true population of the United States in 2000 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software With the ability to produce 10 MW of power or more, the SeaTitan is expected to be the world’s most powerful wind turbine. This wind turbine is being developed by AMSC (American Superconductor) Windtec. Each SeaTitan will contain a Titan™ generator. These generators utilize high temperature …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively “see” atoms, the first published instance of imaging biological complexes at such a resolution. The research team, led by Hong …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The asteroid belt is classically considered the domain of rocky bodies, being too close to the Sun for ice to survive. Or so we thought — not only is ice present, but at least one asteroid is covered in it. Nature – Water ice and organics …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software One of the many challenges of being a futurist is that the statistics and narratives of the present and past are shifting and inaccurate. If you do not know where you are and how you got there then it is very tough to say where you …
The vision of claytronics (by Intel and Carnegie Mellon university) is to create programmable grit, that behaves somewhat like the liquid robot in Terminator 2 or an earlier version of utility fog. Stress-driven MEMS Assembly + Electrostatic Forces = 1mm Diameter Robot (7 page pdf) As the size of the modules in a self-reconfiguring modular …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT researchers are exploring a new technology funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Science Foundation, which they call a thermopower wave, that may convert chemical energy to fuel cells for micro-machines, sensors and emergency communication beacons. “We envision these thermopower …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chips under construction in Taiwan contain 20 ARM processor cores, each modelling 1000 neurons. (New Scientist) With 20,000 neurons per chip, 50,000 chips will be needed to reach the target of 1 billion neurons. Steve Furber hopes to have a 10,000-processor version working later this year. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Superpower inc makes superconductors * Superconducting wire consists of a strip a few thousandths of an inch thick of modified YBCO, surrounded by various other layers, including copper. To work, it must be chilled within a cryostat, a cooling device that uses liquid nitrogen to push …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BP says it is working on at least five possible approaches for halting the spew of oil from a damaged well deep in the Gulf of Mexico that is feeding one of the worst spills in U.S. history. * They still hope to seal the well …