Nikkei reports that Tokyo Institute of Technology, Takenaka Corp. and other partners are planning to build an offshore pilot plant to grow algae for use in biofuel production. Takenaka and partners is already experimenting with growing algae in an offshore tank in the sea off Okinawa Prefecture. Takao Kashiwagi, a professor at the university, and …
Internet News has gathered some technology predictions for 2011 * 4G networks are going to give developers the ability to create new and better services so, for example, voice recognition on your phone will just happen in like a tenth of a second versus the three seconds it takes using Dragon Dictate on mobile device. …
Nanoletters – Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thermopile For Broadband Light Detection We designed a thermopile based on a PN doping profile engineered in a suspended film of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Using estimates of the film local Seebeck coefficients, the SWNT thermopile was optimized in situ through depositions of potassium dopants. The overall performances of the …
The IMF projections for the countries with the largest nominal GDP in 2015 are: Rank Country 2010 2011 2012 2015 Annual % Status * World 61,963 65,417 69,125 81,963 5.8% 1 United States 14,624 15,157 15,824 18,029 4.3% 2 China 5,745 6,422 7,170 9,982 11.7% Emerging 3 Japan 5,391 5,683 5,878 6,517 3.9% 4 Germany …
There are suggestions for emerging countries after the BRICs. (Brazil, Russia, India and China). There have been several attempts to identify the next emerging countries. They have been CIVETS, VISTA, NEXT-11 and attempts to expand or alter countries in the BRIC group. The CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa) is an acronym …
The EIA (energy Information Administration) has an early release of an abridged version of the Annual Energy Outlook. It highlights changes in the AEO Reference case projections for key energy topics. The Early Release includes data tables for the Reference case only. The full AEO2011 will be released March 2011. The energy intensity of the …
Iraq’s oil production exceeded 2.6 million barrels a day for the first time in 20 years, newly appointed Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi said at a press conference in Baghdad. The rising output will boost Iraq’s oil exports by 5 percent to 2 million barrels a day next month, Falah al-Amri, head of the country’s …
The Avengers movie comes out in Mat 2012 and the information below could be a spoiler for that movie. Possible spoiler warning Aint it cool news reports that Albuquerque Journal says that the Avengers movie will involve the Kree and the Skrulls. Comic book fans will note that the Kree/Skrull War was an epic story …
Skylon is a spaceplane that is under development by reaction engines in the UK Skylon is a design by Reaction Engines Limited for an unpiloted, airbreathing single-stage to orbit, combined cycle jet engine based spaceplane. A fleet of vehicles is envisaged; the design is aiming for reusability up to 200 times. In paper studies, costs …
Superconductors.ORG (Joe Eck) claims the first observation of superconductivity above zero degrees Celsius. In repeated tests a small amount of the compound (Tl4Pb)Ba2MgCu8O13+ produced diamagnetic transitions over 277 Kelvin (see examples at page top) and resistive transitions over 276K (3C, 37F). This is the first time superconductivity has been seen above the freezing point of …
Nanoletters- DNA Tunneling Detector Embedded in a Nanopore We report on the fabrication and characterization of a DNA nanopore detector with integrated tunneling electrodes. Functional tunneling devices were identified by tunneling spectroscopy in different solvents and then used in proof-of-principle experiments demonstrating, for the first time, concurrent tunneling detection and ionic current detection of DNA …