Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Bill HR 5781 Would authorize 5 times more money to buy trips on Russian Soyuz than for developing commercial alternatives like Spacex If you are a US citizen then look up your representative at this link. If you liked this article, please give it a quick …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Currently 1.5-5% carbon nanotubes can be used improve protection against bullets by 20-50%. This is described in this patent for Lockheed Martin There is also work to use carbon nanotubes to enhance the protection of E-glass. Applied Nanotech Holdings will be presenting its work with carbon …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Science Daily covers the ACS Nano paper by Alvarez and co-authors Jaesang Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at Rice, and Shaily Mahendra, now an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. They note that nanomaterials will likely have a greater impact on the construction industry …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. For June 2010, nuclear generation was 68.3 billion kilowatt-hours compared to 69.4 billion kWh in June 2009. The average capacity factor for June 2010 was 94.2% compared to 95.7% in June 2009. Following last month’s trends, year-to-date 2010 nuclear generation is 0.8% behind the same …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon for electronics. What researchers might call “white graphene” may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics. But single-atom-thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), the material under intense …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics fusion project update and details from the June 22 ICOPS conference. J. P. Appruzese and his colleagues at the Naval Research Laboratory noted in their presentation at ICOPS that several experiments with pinching machines had achieved ion energies above 10-20 keV, with the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Kazatomprom has a page which describes the uranium mines that they plant to open. The World Nuclear Association page on Kazakhstan describes the development status and production of the mines. The first quarter of 2010 has already had production figures released. Those figures are 4060 tons …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a 15 page clean energy report on China. From these and other sources that quote China’s National Energy Plans here are projections for 2015 and 2020. 2009 2015 2020 ————————————————————– Coal (billion tons) 1.8 2.7 3.4 Oil (megatons) 405 500 563 Gas (billion cu …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the Boris Yakobson interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Yakobson is a materials science professor at Rice University, which was the University which initially discovered buckyballs and had key discoveries in the development of buckytubes and nanotubes. Dr. Yakobson has done groundbreaking research on both …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a landmark paper entitled “Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain” (an open-access paper) by Dharmendra S. Modha (IBM Almaden) and Raghavendra Singh (IBM Research-India) with major implications for reverse-engineering the brain and developing a network of cognitive-computing chips. Understanding the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Following many years of public assertions and cocksure, blatant warnings of numerous negative health effects allegedly caused by electromagnetic fields, associate professor Olle Johansson has been awarded the title “Misleader of the year 2004”. (H/T to reader XPT) Olle Johansson receives the award as one of …