A Maryland startup company has officially unveiled a fully assembled 3d printer for less than $300. The kickstarter project has already garnered over $445,000 in its first day. The company, called M3D, is less than a year old but has developed a small, easy to use printer that can match the capabilities of printers costing …
WattsUpWithThat.com (Anthony Watts) reports on a new set of papers at Berkeley University on world temperature which shows half the temperature increase of previous IPCC studies. A new paper authored by Anthony Watts, et al as part of the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature Project (BEST) (being submitted for publication) has now shown that the temperature …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A “forest” of molecules holds the promise of turning waste heat into electricity. UA physicists discovered that because of quantum effects, electron waves traveling along the backbone of each molecule interfere with each other, leading to the buildup of a voltage between the hot and cold …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 20 is up at Idaho Samizdat At the bottom of this article is a review of a Peabody coal presentation which promoted coal energy use. I point out it is very feasible to zero out coal and review urgency for zeroing …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software CompositesWorld’s Carbon Fiber 2009 conference had a forecast of carbon fiber supply and demand World carbon fiber production should increase from 41240 tons to 113500 tons in 2018. * carbon fiber will be used in flywheels, which are being developed for storage of wind energy during …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that is the first to use a global model to study the question has found that implementing cool roofs and cool pavements in cities around the world can not only help cities stay cooler, they can …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Yttrium 7-11-18 has been found to have the highest critical temperature onset at 109 K relative to other variations of TBaCuO superconducting materials New YBaCuO superconductors are synthesized by using the standard solid state reaction method as Y5-6-11, Y7-9-16, Y5-8-13, Y7-11-18, Y156, Y3-8-11, and Y13-20-23. In …
Carnival of Space 136 is up at Simotronomy This site contributed an article on ultradense deuterium and the T Pyxidis White Dwarf supernova risk Centauri Dreams looks at the interstellar Cycler configuration proposed by science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. Here is Karl’s writeup on interstellar Cyclers To me, the idea that you should expend billions …
Avatar has only been released for 17 days and it is already the 4th highest grossing movie worldwide (not inflation adjusted The movie has had very little dropoff in attendence Avatar will likely have a long run in the theaters and must make about 80% of the box office it has already made in 17 …
Betavoltaics can store about one million times more energy than other battery like devices but currently cannot release it very quickly. Nano-to-Macro Scale Engineering Applications of Nuclear Technology-An Overview by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University (7 page pdf) Nuclear science and technology offers the capability for radical industrial innovations from the …
New Scientist reports of a new solution to increasing the numbers of entangled qubits for quantum computers. It will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing. Raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out …