There are many technical problems to achieving the rebirth of Dinosaurs as seen in Jurassic Park. However, bringing back the Woolly Mammoth, Saber-Tooth Tigers and Neanderthal from the Pleistocene epoch seems possible. The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years BP covering the world’s recent period of repeated glaciations. How to Bring …
Quantum Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Supercomputers1. 128 qubit quantum computer chips are built and cooled to milliKelvins. If they prove out they should be scaled to 2000 qubits this year. Scaling up means filling up the semiconductor die using the same modular design that they already have. Commercial customers are starting to use them …
The International Herald Tribune indicates that China is taking small steps to establishing the Yuan as a regional currency. The yuan’s journey from a controlled, partially convertible currency to a liquid, regional medium of exchange will be a long one, because of the desire of the Beijing government for economic stability. In addition, Beijing has …
The EU has the Upwind project to develop advanced wind technology. Upwind is separate from the american DOE and American Superconductor effort. American Superconductor will work with the Department of Energy to enable production a 10 megawatt superconducting wind turbine design. The 10 MW superconducting wind turbine would weight 120 tons instead of 300 tons …
Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. A local middle-class person in a developing country begins where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter. This allows them not just to buy things …
In the case of lonsdaleite [hexagonla diamond], compression mechanism also caused bond-flipping, yielding an indentation strength of 152 GPa, which is 58 percent higher than the corresponding value of diamond. viaPhysorg.com Under large compressive pressures, w-BN [wurtzite boron nitride] increases its strength by 78 percent compared with its strength before bond-flipping. The scientists calculated that …
California is going through a state budget crisis and has been going through chronic and persistent budget problems for over a decade. California chooses not to use its offshore oil or develop more nuclear power. Some environmentalists will say that the oil and nuclear power would not be enough to solve the energy problems of …
The short and less technical version from Classical Values. 1. The machine is working way better than the usual theories predict2. No one knows why (lots of suspicions floating around)3. New instruments are being added 4. The current machine is called WB-7. WB 7.1 (no details) is in progress. The technical version mainly in Dr. …
Straight up storing CO2 as a gas in the ground or saline is happening now at several tens of millions of tons/year worldwide. The amount of CO2 offset by solar power is on the same scale. Civilization is generating abut 25 billion tons of CO2 per year. Nuclear power worldwide offsets 2 billion tons of …
One concern for the conversion kits is their reliability and whether they would void a vehicle’s original factory warranty. In this regard, plug-in hybrids built by automakers are a safer bet than conversion kits Hybrid Conversion Kits: 1. A123 systems has the Hymotion L5 Plug-in Conversion Modules (L5 PCMs) are expected to ship March, 2009 …
The total abundance of Uranium in the Earth’s crust is estimated to be approximately 40 trillion tonnes. The Rossing mine in Nambia mines Uranium at an Ore concentration of 300 ppm at an energy cost 500 times less than the energy it delivers with current thermal-spectrum reactors. If the energy cost increases in inverse proportion …