Month: April 2011

Wildcat Discovery Technologies screen thousands of material combinations to develop better batteries and other products

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Battery fab: This enclosure houses automated equipment for building and testing hundreds of batteries a week. Each battery is made from different experimental materials. Credit: Wildcat Discovery Technologies MIT Technology Review – Wildcat Discovery Technologies, a startup in San Diego, California, has developed new materials that could boost the storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries for …

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Washington Post compares coal, oil and nuclear accidents and pollution per Terawatt hour

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According to a Lancet Study in 2007, compared with nuclear power, coal is responsible for five times as many worker deaths from accidents, 470 times as many deaths due to air pollution among members of the public, and more than 1,000 times as many cases of serious illness, according to a study of the health …

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu Said that Fukushima Reactor 1 Core was 70% damaged and worst of crisis is behind at Fukushima

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NY Times – Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday that roughly 70 percent of the core of one reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan had suffered damage. Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics, suggested that the worst moments of the crisis appeared to be receding, saying that the best information the United …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 46

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1. Rod Adams at Atomic Insights provides a summary of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident from Murray Miles. Murray Miles happens to know something about these Japanese plants. Oyster Creek on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey went on line one year before the number one Fukushima Daiichi plant and has the same design. He worked there …

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Momentum builds for 3-D chips

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EETimes – the IC industry is moving full speed ahead with a monumental and costly push to develop TSV-based 3-D chips. A plethora of companies, including IBM, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, TSMC and others, are exploring the possibility of stacking current devices in a 3-D configuration. The push for 3-D is because of problems with regular …

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Greater versatility of adult stem cells thanks to 3D lab experiments

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3D mesenchymal stem cells labelled with green and red fluorescent dyes. Image: Dr Paul Genever A type of adult stem cell is now proving itself more versatile for research and therapies thanks to revolutionary 3D experiments. These cells have already shown great promise for repairing damaged bone and cartilage but until now have been fairly …

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Regenerative medicine success for muscles

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An innovative strategy for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue using cells from the recipient’s own body is outlined in University College of London research published today. Damaged muscle tissues treated with satellite cells in a special degradable hydrogel showed satisfactory regeneration and muscle activity. Muscle activity in repaired muscle in a mouse model was comparable with …

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