Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This is a follow up to the article about silicon nanomesh that has breakthrough thermoelectric performance. Technology Review has some more information Researchers at Caltech have demonstrated new materials that could boost the efficiency of thermoelectric devices. They’ve demonstrated the design using silicon, but say it …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 172 is up at lightsinthedark. This site submitted Metamaterials could create a sublight version of the Alcubierre warp drive that could emulate up to 25% of light speed Solar wind power satellites could be an easier and nearer term way to generate …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BioScience journal invited several scientists with relevant expertise to contribute to this issue’s Special Section on biological carbon sequestration. Our authors have a range of perspectives on the topic. They include some (Christer Jansson and colleagues, and Steven H. Strauss and his coauthors) who are pursuing …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Emerging North American Oil plays are reviewed 13 emerging oil plays are reviewed in a 219 page document which is embedded below. They are being enabled with horizontal drilling and are mostly tight oil shale. Alberta Basin Bakken Shale North Dakota Bakken Barnett Combo Horizontal Niobrara …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Podcars (Personal Rapid Transportation) are being deployed at some Airports and city centers The podcar system at Heathrow is 40% cheaper to operate than the bus system that was replaced. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), also called Podcar, is an innovative and sustainable transportation concept, which works …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Fujitsu begins shipping parts for a 10 petaflop supercomputer that is scheduled to begin operations in 2012 Fujitsu announced that today it began shipping the computing units for Japan’s Next-Generation Supercomputer, nicknamed the “K computer”. The supercomputer is a central part of the High-Performance Computing Infrastructure …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Business Week – If China’s currency reserves were to double again in the next three years and if the foreign-exchange market grows 20 percent, as it did in 2007-2010, China would hold more than the daily trading volume in all currency instruments. Foreign-exchange market trading in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Information Physics: The New Frontier provides examples of quantify partially-ordered sets and, in the process, derive physical laws. At this point in time, two major areas of physics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, rest on the foundations of probability and entropy. The last century …
1. Nuclear Green has a post that focuses on the Efforts of the Energy from Thorium community to create a Grand Thorium Plan over the last two and a half years. This effort was inspired by an article titled “A Grand Solar Plan,” which appeared in Scientific American in January 2008. Despite notable flaws in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In July 2010, an industry organisation with members such as Toyota, Toshiba and Hitachi, IThEMS unveiled their plans to build the world’s first commercial Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor (Th-MSR) power generator. They are trying to get $300 million in funding. The first step on the path to …