Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software This posting is an answer to a reader who commented on an article which updated China’s unmanned (2011) and manned space station plans (2013+). International Space Station is a Bad Investment And Dependent on the US to Keep it Going NASA’s budget for 2011 shows that direct …
In my 2010 Foresight presentation on high impact technology and processes, I initially mentioned an idea for computational governance. Computational governance mechanisms would assist in better decisions in government and business. The goal would be to use technology (sensors, imaging etc…) to as quickly as possible get accurate feedback on the results of new policies …
Researchers from Chalmers University will build up body parts using nanocellulose and the body’s own cells Professor Paul Gatenholm at Chalmers is leading and co-ordinating this European research programme, which will construct an outer ear using nanocellulose and a mixture of the patient’s own cartilage cells and stem cells. The researchers will build up a …
Five of the recently selected and funded ARPA E projects were for biomass energy * Conditionally activated enzymes expressed in cellulosic energy crops * Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies * Catalytic Biocrude Production in a Novel, Short-contact Time Reactor * MacroAlgae Butanol * High Yielding, Low Input Energy Crops Conditionally Activated Enzymes Expressed …
According to Forbes there are 79 billionaires in China Earlier in the year Forbes Mar 2009 list of world billionaires only found 28 Chinese Billionaires. The economic crisis is easing, particularly in China, so the net worth of Chinese billionaires is better than earlier in the year, Here is a link to the Forbes March …
Here is a 48 page presentation on a project called “One Pass to Production : Radical Productivity Improvement”. It has the goal within 8 years of reducing the development time for a new cellphone from 2 years down to one day. The presentation was made in 2007 and the project was started in 2001. One-Pass …
HPC Wire speculates that the Oak Ridge National Lab Nvidia supercomputer will be ready in 2011 with 20-25 petaflops. The plan for an exaflop supercomputer is for 1 exaflop by 2019. ORNL’s Fermi machine will be built by Cray. At the “Breakthroughs in High Performance Computing” session on Wednesday evening, Cray CTO Steve Scott basically …
This site has covered the EMdrive before. EMDrive presentation at Space 08 conference, Barbican, London View more presentations from A. Rocketeer. The EmDrive is highly controversial research in propulsion which would be reactionless and uses superconducting cavities. Rocketeer comments: Here’s my take on it. It “works” after a fashion (actually generates thrust), but not in …
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy * SENS is not one breakthrough and will not be a pill* one month of a series of procedures, stem cell therapies, gene therapy, small molecule drugs etc… and then repeated every 10-30 years* thorough repair and maintentance of tissues* Could have significant …
These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light …
The first nextbigfuture article on mach’s effect propulsion which has an interview with Paul March A second article with answers to various questions in comments on mach effect propulsion. Mach Effect investigation could be a path to the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Here is links to abot 20 hours of Stanford lectures …