New Energy Times is reporting NASA is investigating the Piantelli low energy nuclear reaction process. The Piantelli group’s Ni-H gas experiments produced excess heat in the tens of watts. On Sept. 2, Samantha McRoskey, an analyst with Diligence Global Business Intelligence, representing an anonymous investor, contacted New Energy Times to learn more about Ni-H LENR …
Thin Film System TFS 200R for continuous mode ALD research (precursor to the WCS500) Following the pioneering work in spatial atomic layer deposition and the launch of the revolutionizing research and development tool TFS 200R for continuous ALD in 2009, Beneq has closed the deal for a roll-to-roll ALD system, the Web Coating System WCS …
Aerial refueling could keep drones such as the NASA’s Global Hawk airborne for up to a week. Now two drones have taken a record-setting step toward that future by flying as close as 40 feet apart during a test on Jan. 21. A Northrop Grumman Proteus test aircraft and a NASA Global Hawk engaged in …
Kolomeisky and Rice graduate student Alexey Akimov have taken a large step toward defining the behavior of these molecular whirligigs with a new paper in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Through molecular dynamics simulations, they defined the ground rules for the rotor motion of molecules attached to a gold surface. American …
1. Nuclear Green has an article Mark Z. Jacobson’s proliferation of errors Stanford’s Mark Jacobson has a new paper “Providing all Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials” Jacobson, in effect, argues that by avoiding the construction of civilian power reactors, the …
Economist Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias notes that robotic cars will make cities more efficient and productive. Google told the world it has developed computer driving tech that is basically within reach of doubling (or more) the capacity of a road lane to pass cars. Pundits don’t seem to realize just how big a deal …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In this scanning tunneling microscopy image of a graphene nanobubble, the hexagonal two-dimensional graphene crystal is seen distorted and stretched along three main axes. The strain creates pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than any magnetic field ever produced in the laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a …
Picture from 2006 tests of a DC-X like rocket Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, has a rocket company called Blue Origin The website for Blue Origin indicates plans for unmanned flights in 2011 and manned flights in 2012. Flight testing of prototype New Shepard vehicles began in 2006. Blue Origin expects the first opportunities for …
Nanotechwire reports SEMATECH engineers and the industry at large continue to make progress in developing the infrastructure that will enable 22 nanometer lithography for cost-effective manufacturing around 2013. EETimes reports Toshiba Corp. has said it has developed a photoresist suitable for use with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography and proved its viability in the world’s first …
Department of Energy’s ARPA-E selects 37 projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five of the 37 Projects are for Carbon CaptureCarbon capture …