Arxiv -Dark Matter And The Habitability of Planets In many models, dark matter particles can elastically scatter with nuclei in planets, causing those particles to become gravitationally bound. While the energy expected to be released through the subsequent annihilations of dark matter particles in the interior of the Earth is negligibly small (a few megawatts …
This is an orientation map of a spin-cast array of FePt nanoparticles. Most nanoparticles are enclosed by a hexagon of six neighboring nanoparticles. Each nanoparticle was color coded according to the angle (in degrees) of the hexagon’s orientation. Researchers from North Carolina State University have investigated the viability of a technique called “spincasting” for creating …
Hepatitis C has infected 180 million people in the world and causes about 60,000 deaths each year. In the USA about 5 million people have Hepatitis C and about 8,000-12,000 people die each year. African-Americans and Hispanics are respectively three- and two-fold more likely to be HCV positive than whites. Currently hepatitis C causes 8,000 …
Siemens and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) plan to demonstrate that high-temperature superconductor technology is suitable for power generation in everyday operation. The research project, which was recently launched, aims to improve generator efficiency by 0.5 percentage points to 99.5 percent. Large power plants would achieve significant fuel savings and thus greatly reduce their …
Oil Shales in Israel by the Geological survey of Israel 35 page presentation The Shefela Oil shale occurance is 1000 square kilometers. It is from 25 to 400 meters thick. It could have over 250 billion barrels of oil reserves It could be extracted with insitu methods. EOM (easily oxidized material) is 15-16% If you …
Earth System Dynamics journal – Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences The availability of wind power for renewable energy extraction is ultimately limited by how much kinetic energy is generated by natural processes within the Earth system and by fundamental limits of how much of the wind power can …
The Israeli Shefela oil shale is on land. The natural gas is under the water Harold Vinegar, the former chief scientists of Royal Dutch Shell, has devised an ambitious plan that would, if successful, turn Israel into one of the world’s leading oil producers. Now chief scientist for Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), Vinegar maintains that …
Two Pieces of thin plastic tube of 2 cm (a little less than one inch) diameter and length 1.2 meters (4 feet long) each were filled with Sea water and a twin wire plastic transmission line was electrically connected to the sea water contained in the two plastic tubes as shown. A TV set was …
Eurekalert – Simplifying cyborg circuitry using human blood Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic limb or artificial eye might one day be possible thanks to the development of biological components. …
The Department of Energy has a new program, dubbed “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator,” that would drastically reduce the costs for startup energy companies of licensing any of the roughly 15,000 patents held by the federal government’s National Laboratories, where basic scientific research is done. The program allows startups to license up to three National …
A unique cell-based therapy is able to completely reverse diabetes in a mouse model. “Though preliminary, the robustness of these results is very encouraging,” stated Paul G. Shiels, Ph.D., University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. “With only two treatments with PCs, just days after induction of diabetes, we were able to quickly regenerate critically damaged …