Angry Astronomer is hosting the Carnival of Space week 63. This site supplied the Carnival with the new capabilities that we have to reduce and reverse the Casimir force which could lead to breakthrough space propulsion and being able to tap Zero Point Energy Babe in the Universe discusses the recent discovery of water on …
A new and highly reliable approach for making graphene membranes of a macroscopic size (currently up to 100 μm in diameter) provided a lot fo graphene samples for strength tests Such measurements had never been taken before because they must be performed on perfect samples of graphene, with no tears or missing atoms. Graphene transistors …
Al Gore has put forward an energy challenge, which has very few details. The challenge is for the United States to get to zero carbon electricity generation within 10 years. Al Gore also spoke with Katie Couric of CBS News about his challenge His primary policy recommendation related to this goal is to cut the …
The formula for the 195K superconductor is (Sn1.0Pb0.5In0.5)Ba4Tm6Cu8O22+. Its 1256/1212 structure is shown. A new method of production was developed. This new method of synthesis, layers of 12x(x+1) and 1212 precursors are alternated in a “layer cake” arrangement before sintering. Each layer was initially pressed at 200 psi. Then, once all the layers were set, …
DARPA today has a long-term, $3 billion program to help make such a “Metabolically Dominant Soldier.” In other words, the military is studying how to use technology and biology to meld man and machine and transcend the limits of the human body. Described the project director, “My measure of success is that the International Olympic …
Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM) increase the effect of steroids on muscle and decrease effects where they could cause harm such as in the prostate. Body building sites have extensive information and tracking of the development of SARMs as they are believed to be or enable safe/safer steroids The study concluded that ostarine increased lean …
On a blogger roundtable conference call with Dr John Parmentola, he mentioned that the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is able to grow single strands of carbon nanotubes to a length of one foot (30 centimeters) and that they believe that 1 meter lengths will be possible shortly This is longer than the length reported …
Helicos True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS) technology has a device that images billions of single molecules per run and produces over 2 Gigabases of sequence data per day – a throughput performance almost 100X greater than Sanger methods, and faster than any of the “next-generation” methodologies. The HeliScope Sequencer currently delivers throughputs of 25 – …
Folding electric bike made in China. the Wisper works 805FE Bicycle industry reports that electric bike sales in 2007 reached 21 million units, a 10 percent uptick from the previous year but below the heady growth rates of recent years as a shakeout forced hundreds of e-bike factories to close. China exported about 350,000 e-bikes, …
Caption: A scanning electron micrograph, taken with an electron microscope, shows the comb-like structure of a metal plate at the center of newly published University of Florida research on quantum physics. UF physicists found that corrugating the plate reduced the Casimir force, a quantum force that draws together very close objects. The discovery could prove …
Many people who discuss energy and environmental issues often complain that if only project X or funding for Technology AB was cut or reduced and the billions not wasted on it then that money could go to the energy technology that I like or the energy project that I think would work. This is massively …