Month: November 2012

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates 10 kilowatt Ground-Based Fiber Laser System in Tests Against Rockets and Unmanned Aerial System

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Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully demonstrated a portable, ground-based military laser system in a series of tests against representative airborne targets. Lockheed Martin developed the Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM) system to provide a defense against short-range threats, such as rockets and unmanned aerial systems. Since August, the ADAM system has successfully engaged an …

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New path to large-scale quantum computing with millions of qubits

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In a key step toward building a machine that promises to revolutionize computing, Princeton researchers have developed a method that could quickly and reliably transmit information through a computer using the power of subatomic particles. The finding, by a team led by Princeton’s Associate Professor of Physics Jason Petta, could eventually allow engineers to build …

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Thermoelectrics made from dirt cheap materials

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By using common materials found pretty much anywhere there is dirt, a team of Michigan State University researchers have developed a new thermoelectric material. This is important, they said, because the vast majority of heat that is generated from, for example, a car engine, is lost through the tail pipe. It’s the thermoelectric material’s job …

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Nanoparticles of gold used as substrate to grow semiconductor nanowires about 1000 times faster

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A completely new method of manufacturing the smallest structures in electronics could make their manufacture thousands of times quicker, allowing for cheaper semiconductors. Instead of starting from a silicon wafer or other substrate, as is usual today, researchers have made it possible for the structures to grow from freely suspended nanoparticles of gold in a …

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US Crude Production continues to increase by about 150,000 barrel per day per month since Summer of 2012

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US daily crude oil production increased to 6.818 million barrels per day. This was an increase of 108,000 barrels per day from the prior week. This is the most crude oil produced by the US since February, 1994. This seems to indicate that oil from North Dakota (Bakken) and Texas (Eagle Ford) has likely increased …

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New carbomorph plastic composite for 3d printed electronics

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The University of Warwick researchers have created a simple and inexpensive conductive plastic composite that can be used to produce electronic devices using the latest generation of low-cost 3D printers designed for use by hobbyists and even in the home.The material, nicknamed ‘carbomorph’, enables users to lay down electronic tracks and sensors as part of …

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Memristor based nanostore memory and logic could be 100 times more energy efficient

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Eetimes – HP still on track for 2016 to 2018 for nanostore memory and logic chips that could be 100 times more energy efficient “We have the opportunity for new building block,” said Ranganathan. “It’s really a 3-D stack amenable to traditional workloads and even more so to new workloads, really changing the game with …

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China Builds Cheaper GPS by broadcast the signals from the ground and routing through existing Communication Satellites

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Technology Review – There are many Global Positioning systems The US has the global positioning satellite system, Russia has GLONASS, Europe hopes to have Galileo operational by 2020 and China has a similar timescale for its COMPASS system. Even Japan and India are getting in on the act with QZSS, the Quasi Zenith Satellite System …

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Update on China’s High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor HTR-PM

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A key nuclear research project for China is the demonstration Shidaowan HTR-PM. It will have 210 MWe (two reactor modules, each of 250 MWt) which is being built at Shidaowan in Shandong province, driving a single steam turbine at about 40% thermal efficiency. It is now expected to be completed in 2015. IAEA (Aug 2012 …

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Enriched uranium fission reactor prototype for space power systems

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A team of researchers, including engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space flights. The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine at the Nevada National …

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