103 page pdf, advanced propulsion study for the US Air Force made in 2004 On pages 25-27, the blast wave accelerator is described. It is something that could be made with current technology and would have launch costs of $200-2000/kg. Explosive or blast-wave accelerators are a member of the class of chemical catapult (artillery gun …
Synthesis of a fullerene-based one-dimensional nanopolymerthrough topochemical transformation of the parent nanowire (30 page pdf) Large-scale practical applications of fullerene (C60) in nanodevices could be significantly facilitated if the commercially-available micrometer-scale raw C60 powder were further processed into a one-dimensional (1D) nanowire-related polymer displaying covalent bonding as molecular interlinks and resembling traditional important conjugated polymers. …
Talk Polywell and IECFusiontech have uncovered details of the WB-8 contract [pdf]. Those details can give us some insight into how WB-7 has gone. The WB8 design shall use circular coils around each main face cusp axis. The device shall use emitter electron gun arrays and an ion beam drive. The machine will be operated …
Nvidia projects that in just a few years Tegra, its embedded system on a chip (SoC), will account for more than half of income. Tegra has 42 total design wins, announced at the recent Computex show, including 18 smart phones and 18 customers for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). nVidia has an aggressive roadmap for Tegra; …
Surface electron band structure of bismuth telluride. (Image courtesy of Yulin Chen and Z. X. Shen.) Physicists at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material (bismuth Telluride) that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips. Bismuth Telluride allows …
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a ‘magnetic superatom’ – a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage. New magnetic superatoms’ assemblies could …
This is a follow up to the news of a tuneable bandgap for graphene Graphene holds the promise of 10-times faster speed than silicon chips, plus the ability to be integrated with exiting semiconductor fabrication techniques. It was thought that 2017 sub-10 nanometer lithography would be needed to bring Graphene into the semiconductor computer roadmap. …
Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) announced that they are cooperating for a multi-polar world. The first summit of heads of state of the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — ended with a declaration calling for a “multipolar world order”, diplomatic code for a rejection of America’s position as the sole global …
Of the reactors covered here: The Chinese HTR-PM (250 MWe) is scheduled to begin construction in September of this year and is to be completed in 2013. The Hyperion Power Generation company has customer orders and is planning to have their first hot tub size uranium hydride reactors (27MWe) built in 2013. The Russians have …
Blacklight Power has a 26 page pdf paper “Fast H in Hydrogen Mixed Gas Microwave Plasmas When an Atomic Hydrogen Supporting Surface was Present”, which they claim supports their theories of Hydrogen. Still the main thing that will matter is if Blacklight Power is able to produce superior power generation systems using their technology. Atomic …
Myostatin inhibition genes and myostatin blocking effects are in about one person in one million. A child Liam Hoekstra has it and is shown climbing rope at the age of three. Champion body builder Flex Wheeler has the myostatin inhibited genes. 1. Knockout of myostatin, a growth factor that limits muscle growth, can decrease body …