Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Atlas Devices has a new Powered Rope Ascender can climb can hold a target load capacity up to 600 pounds at a 6-feet per second rate of ascension. The lightweight ATLAS Ascender can pull a fully-loaded soldier or firefighter up a rappelling line at up to …
The second blog carnival of nuclear energy is up at nuclear green. This site supplied these three articles 1. Just one of China’s nuclear companies is looking to add twelve more AP1000 nuclear reactors beyond the current official plan and Russia, China, France and Japan are in talks for a 4th generation nuclear project 2. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Associate Professor Richard Mildren and his colleagues at the Macquarie University Photonics Research Centre (Australia) have demonstrated diamond lasers with efficiency higher than almost all other materials “The major achievement is that we are able to use synthetic diamond to create high performing laser devices,” Mildren …
1. The Toyama Lab in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has the Wearable Agri Robot It is an exoskeleton for aging japanese farmers that should be commercially available in Japan in 2012 for about one million yen (about $10,000). They hope to halve if the device is mass-produced. According to the Japanese census, half …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found* that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint. While …
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Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system, an array of nano-sized molecules of gold, respond to electromagnetic waves by creating surface plasmons that induce and project electrical current across molecules, similar to that of …
2009 Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) 79 page pdf – The Growth Potential of Thermoelectrics Why Use Thermoelectrics? If the 220 M Personal Vehicles in the US had Thermoelectric Generators powering Thermoelectric Coolers/Heaters (HVAC) * Save 4.5 Billion gals/year of fuel * Reduce Greenhouse Gases by 69.5 Million Metric Tons …