Journal of the American Chemical Society – Efficient Excited Energy Transfer Reaction in Clay/Porphyrin Complex toward an Artificial Light-Harvesting System The quantitative excited energy transfer reaction between cationic porphyrins on an anionic clay surface was successfully achieved. The efficiency reached up to ca. 100% owing to the “Size-Matching Rule” as described in the text. It …
1. The Institute of Energy Economic of Japan (IEEJ) says that for the past five years the cost of nuclear generation remained stable at around ¥7.00 ($0.09) per kilowatt-hour (kWh). However, even if compensation of up to ¥10 trillion ($130 billion) for loss or damage from a nuclear accident is taken into account, the cost …
Technology Review – Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the largest manufacturers of computer memory, Samsung, have created a new kind of flash memory that uses graphene—atom-thick sheets of pure carbon—along with silicon to store information. Incorporating graphene could help extend the viability of flash memory technology for years to …
Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness. The researchers identified stem cells within the skin’s fatty layer and showed that molecular signals from these cells were necessary to spur hair growth in mice, according to research published in the Sept. …
Previously we had covered DC comics changing the look of superman and giving him pants. DC is also rebooting their comic book universe. Lawyer Jeff Trexler at Comicbeat explains how the the last few years at DC Comics changes to Superboy and Superman have been driven by the courtroom ebb and flow of lawsuits by …
On the Facebook page- Cold Fusion “Andrea Rossi” Method comes a report that Rossi has agreed to carry out tests at the NASA laboratories, beginning tomorrow [Italy time], September 3. This comes from an italian forum http://www.energeticambiente.it/ but I am unable to search it Armando de Para posted on : http://www.energeticambiente.it/ “Rossi ha accettato di …
Connecting a quantum processor with quantum memory could make it possible to perform complex calculations that are far beyond the power of conventional computers. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have become the first to combine a quantum processor with memory that can be used to store instructions and data. Qubits can be …
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide. Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Singapore’s Engineering Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have demonstrated a new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers — or about 30 atoms — …
Samsung showed its new Galaxy Note smartphone today at IFA. It is the rumored 5.3″ supersized smartphone. It has a stylus and 1280×800 high-resolution Super AMOLED screen. It is a thin Android phone additional functionality by way of both sketching and note-taking. It is powered by a 1.4 Ghz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM and more. …
China has doubled its target for installed solar power capacity over the next five years to 10 GW by 2015 and 50 GW by 2020. The world had 23 GW of solar power at the end of 2009 (wikipedia) The US solar photovoltaic (PV) market will double in 2011 according to research from Solarbuzz. The …
A 2010 article looked Solyndras costs for solar panels against average solar panel costs. (ASP Average Sale price for the panels) Costs for solar panels fell 42% from that time. Solar panel costs are down about 20% in 2011. A key differentiating factor that Solyndra claimed was its lower BOS (Balance of System) costs given …