Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A robot submarine sent beneath the Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier’s floating ice sheet has shown that there is a ridge rising 400 metres from the sea floor. Until recently, the glacier would have rested on this ridge, preventing warm seawater from reaching the ice and melting …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software McKinsey Global has a 94 page report on Debt and deleveraging : The Global Credit Bubble and its economic consequences and the Economist magazine has a special feature on debt and created a global debt map. The sustainability of debt shows that higher economic (GDP) growth …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Energyfromthorium’s Kirk Sorensen looks at what is in spent nuclear fuel after 20 years. 2. Brave new climate looks at climate change and nuclear power Brave New climate also looks at renewable energy and nuclear power with 18 answer to the following questions. Q1. How …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a new quantum algorithm for quantum speedups for any problem that can be expressed via Boolean formulas and another for solving systems of linear equations. The first new development is a quantum algorithm for evaluating a Boolean formula consisting of AND and OR gates …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Some are saying that Perennial grains could be the biggest breakthrough in farming for 10,000 years. * perennial grain do not need to be replanted every year, which saves on fuel, labor and costs * Their larger roots, which can reach 10 to 12 feet, reduce …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The lung on a chip, shown here, was crafted by combining microfabrication techniques from the computer industry with modern tissue engineering techniques, human cells and a plain old vacuum pump. Photo courtesy of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering 1. Researchers from the Wyss Institute …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The emergence of several new players in Alberta’s oilsands will lift overall crude production between 2020 and 2025, a period that wasn’t expected to see any production gains in last year’s forecast, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Oilsands production is expected to nearly triple by …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (who is likely to lead China starting in 2013) called for more efforts to accelerate China’s urbanization, as part of the government’s efforts to promote economic restructuring and expand domestic demand during this process. * urbanization would bolster domestic demand, improve …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The design of the invisibility cloak consists of a spoke-like configuration of glass resonators, which form a magnetic resonance that is used to obtain the desired parameters of the medium. The illustration shows the glass cloak designed to hide a metal cylinder of 15 micrometers in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software DARPA describes its Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) – 70 pages Yes, it would exaflop supercomputers on the supercomputer end but it would also mean superfast and robust future smartphones. It will mean selfware operating systems and more hack resistent computers and networks. The UHPC program …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The Chinese government is preparing to spend $25 billion on wafer fabs to boost domestic chip manufacturing over the next five years. China’s chip industry had stumbled during the recession. So this is an effort to revive growth. In 2009 Mainland China produced 40 billion …