Dr Masao Tamada, of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, has developed a fabric made primarily of irradiated polyethylene that is able to soak up the minute amounts of uranium – around 3.3 parts per billion – in the seawater. Dr Tamada hopes to secure funding to construct an underwater uranium farm covering nearly 400 square …
The figure below shows the architecture of the new VectorWise engine. Theleft part shows the system architecture (“X100” execution engine andColumnBM buffer manager) and how it maps on the computer resources(CPU cache, RAM and disk). The right part shows a query in action, havingbeen decomposed into so-called relational operators (Aggregate, Project,Select and Scan) and execution …
Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat has several recommendations for improving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and actions for small and large nuclear reactor companies 1. Change the formula by which the NRC recovers costs from small reactors for design certification reviews. Instead of requiring the start-ups to pay for all of the costs, require them to …
Photos of one of the freight Maglev project in China.Linear Synchronous Motor Module. Shown with cover plate on the right. (January 2009) Completed capsule set for the Baotou demonstration system on the left. (October 2008) This is a follow up to the article on China’s pilot use of this technology for transporting coal. These are …
Here is an interview with Ben Goertzel. The interview is by Sander Olson, who has also interviewed Dr. Richard Nebel. This link is to all Sander Olson interviews on this site). Dr. Goertzel has a PhD in mathematics and is currently one of the world’s top Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) researchers. In this interview, Dr. …
Lack of competition is the reason why broadband speeds in the United States are not faster and at lower price. Other cable operators are concerned that not only will prices fall, but that the super-fast service will encourage customers to watch video on the Web and drop their cable service. Pretty much the fastest consumer …
Eli Harari, the chief executive of SanDisk, indicates that the two dimensional size reduction of flash components is likely to end within 5 years and then they will stack layers for higher three dimensional densities. Once the industry goes from its current 64-billion-bit flash chip to a 256-billion-bit chip (that’s 32 gigabytes), it will hit …
Check out the Dwave systems blog for more. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known for …
Kindle 2 has text entry and and a basic web browser for text centric sites and wireless connectivity via Sprints data network. So you could use it to post blog entries and enter comments on other websites. The cost and value of wireless connectivity is one of the key differences. If you have internet connected …
There has been a fair bit of activity for a grass roots anti-tax movement. On February 27th, 2009 an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities accross the country in the first nationwide “Tea Party” protest. The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, …
University of Missouri scientist and his team have identified the location of the genetic material responsible for a molecular compound that is vital to curing the Muscular dystrophy (MD). The new advance will improve gene therapy strategies and they have turned muscle in mice with muscular dystrophy into regular muscle again. Even if there is …