MultiAir turbocharged and downsized engines can achieve up to 25 per cent fuel economy improvement over conventional naturally aspirated engines with the same level of performance. Maximum power is increased by up to 10 per cent thanks to the adoption ofa power-orientated mechanical camshaft profile. Low RPM torque is improved by up to 15 per …
Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [via Nanowerk.com] Nadrian Seeman, co-author: “This is a programmable unit that allows researchers to capture and maneuver …
The initials for Stanford University are written in electron waves on a piece of copper and projected into a tiny hologram. Stanford researchers describe how they have created letters more than four times smaller than the IBM xenon atom arranged initials. “But in this experiment we’ve stored some 35 bits per electron to encode each …
The International Herald Tribune indicates that China is taking small steps to establishing the Yuan as a regional currency. The yuan’s journey from a controlled, partially convertible currency to a liquid, regional medium of exchange will be a long one, because of the desire of the Beijing government for economic stability. In addition, Beijing has …
Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. A local middle-class person in a developing country begins where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter. This allows them not just to buy things …
A nightmare attack on our ports. Many anti-nuclear power people repeat a few of mistakes frequently. There are other mistakes but this article will focus on the ones below. Here is a quote from the typically misguided ideas. In May 2006, the House overwhelmingly approved by a 421 to 2 vote, legislation to provide $7.4 …
China has officially broken ground on six domestically engineered CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors, generating around 1080 MWe each. The total investment in Yangjiang’s six reactors is to be 69.5 billion reminbi ($10.1 billion), giving a construction cost of 10,700 reminbi per MWe ($1565 per KWe), according to Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Bureau. …
Nassim Taleb popularized the theory and wrote “the Black Swan”. He has written about the limits of Statistics and in particular limits in the Fourth Quadrant. Applying his advice to avoid optimization, love redundancy applied to Lifeboat Foundation class threats or beneficial high impact technologies. Do not try to optimize only one technology project – …
Joe Bonometti, gave a Google Tech talk on liquid fluoride thorium reactors. 11MB of powerpoint slides “ Besides the low amount of waste and almost complete burning of all Uranium and Plutonium, another big advantage of liquid fluoride reactors is fast and safe shutoff and restart capability. This fast stop and restart allows for load …
Continental Resources first well flowed at an average rate of 693 barrels of crude oil equivalent per day in its initial week of production in May. The second well, Mathistad 1-35H, began production on July 4 and flowed at an average rate of 1,095 barrels of crude oil equivalent per day, with 90 percent of …
Sample of designs using structural DNA H/T to Foresight Nanorex will be announcing the first public release of Nano-Engineer 1 at their evening workshop on April 24. NanoEngineer-1 (NE1), the world’s first 3D CAD/CAM program for structural DNA nanotechnology (SDN) research and education. NE1 can generate atomistic models of DNA structures from NE1 reduced models. …