Hitachi Maxell Ltd (6810.T) gained 6.5 percent. A spokesman there confirmed a Nikkei evening edition report that it is aiming to commercialise a longer-lasting [perhaps 20 times longer], cheaper lithium-ion battery in the next three to four years that substitutes expensive cobalt with manganese. Hybrid Technologies has new superlattice li-ion batteries that can power an …
Inflatable electric cars could have 2500 mile range using a single hot-swap XPack Multi-CoreTM Battery/Fuel Cell power plant. You would use the battery/fuel cell and then it would be changed out when you needed to “refuel/recharge”. It will take until at least 2010 for the cars to be fully certified and placed into high volume …
To make a 2.4-metre mirror like Hubble’s, Chen estimates the recipe would call for about 600 kilograms (1300 pounds) of Moon dust, 60 kg (130 pounds) of epoxy, 6 kg (13 pounds) of carbon nanotubes and less than a gram of aluminium. So bring 66kg of material to make something about ten times as heavy. …
The Carnival of Space 57 is up at Out of the Cradle This site contributed an article about some problems with lorentz propulsion tests but success with the SpaceX Falcon 9 International Space Development day 1 International Space Development day 2 International Space Development day 3 Babe in the Universe also had International space development …
This site predicts that 2016 will be year of significant milestones for technology and other world changes. A prediction on a relatively trivial topic. Tokyo will hold the 2016 summer olympics. Three other cities are still in the running. 2016 will likely be the end of the second presidential term for the president elected in …
Lorentz actuated propulsion would require no propellant. However, recent experiments simulating orbit conditions resulted in explosions. The team tested the ability of various objects to hold a charge in a vacuum while being bombarded with plasma, as would be the case in orbit. To generate the charge on the test object, they attached it to …
New iron based superconductors will require new models and theories for superconductivity. Results clearly indicate a nodeless gap order parameter, which is nearly isotropic in size across different sections of the Fermi surface, and are not compatible with models involving antiferromagnetic fluctuations, strong correlations, the t-J model, and the like, originally designed for the high-Tc …
Bloomberg news has an excellent article about the people and companies involved in developing the Bakken oilfield AFS Trinity’s 150 mpg SUV hybrid car is generating a new round of press coverage AFS trinity appears to be looking to sell the 150 mpg SUV’s to operators of car fleets In Europe there is already a …
Michael Anissimov introduces 22 (so far) questions to help detail larger views of future technology concepts like the technological singularity. This website believes that technological change can be seen to be accelerating in many segments and by many metrics. However, there are important segments that are slower changing or constant. This is why day to …
Duke university makes new MEMS (microelectromechanical system) based robots. Each microrobot is shaped something like a spatula but with dimensions measuring just microns, or millionths of a meter. They are almost 100 times smaller than any previous robotic designs of their kind and weigh even less. The devices are about 60 microns wide, 250 microns …
A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of thelight that strikes it – to a scientific standard of perfection – they report in Physical Review Letters. The team designed and engineered a metamaterial that uses tiny geometric surfacefeatures to successfully capture the electric …