This is from a pdf with 5% and 10% oil savings plans FURTHER READINGShort, mid and long term energy 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 …
UPDATE CORRECTION: Thanks to reader Kurt9, who pointed out that I had been too hasty in reading the Forbes article. It has only passed a panel and not been passed in the Senate. Current handicapping is that it will not get 60 votes in the Senate The UK Guardian has their take on it The …
An easy-to-produce material made from the stuff of computer chips has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. The semiconductors that constitute the Princeton invention are grown from crystals using common manufacturing techniques, making it less complex, more reliable and easier to produce than other metamaterials. Bending …
The transcript of my recent talk at the nanobio conference is up The powerpoint for my presentation is available for download from the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology I have provided some clarification of a couple of points in my presentation which were reported at the Register (UK news site) Further improvements to the pre-molecular manufacturing …
Using conventional e-beam lithography, IBM has successfully fabricated graphene FETs with very narrow nanoribbon channels. FETs are field-effect transistors. So far, the bandgaps opened were relatively small, compared with the excellent properties of nanotubes. This IBM attributes to the imperfections in its method of cutting the nanoribbons. However, by supercooling the device the researchers were …
I am going to be starting an ongoing series of articles on some of the near term nanotechnology. I am spinning it off in its own blog. Here is the nanoparticle drug delivery site The Drug delivery is a multi-billion dollar business. Some calculate it as a 9.8 billion business. Led by the strong growth …
The liberty ship is a Gaseous Core Nuclear Reactor design, of the Nuclear Lightbulb subvariant. This design is from nuclearspace.com It has an ISP of 3,060 and leverages existing technology to conservatively deliver 1000 tons to low earth orbit, 33% of its takeoff weight. It flies to space with a thousand tons of cargo, and …
MCNBC is covering the online space solar power study. I have provided several comments to the space solar power study. The MSNBC article has boosted traffic by several times at the study site. Space-Based Solar Power study article at space.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
Xirrus, maker of high capacity long range Wi-Fi access points, is showing a new, faster array that uses 802.11n to provide gigabit throughput. The new access point modules for 11n require an upgrade to Xirrus’ ArrayOS platform software. When upgraded, each radio in the array will be able to handle speeds up to 300M bps. …
Chris Phoenix writes about Rob Freitas and Ralph Merkle’s computational chemistry work 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, …
Canada making stronger pro-nuclear moves I believe this is a good thing. In Ontario, the Liberal government’s controversial electricity plan, tabled last June, calls for two new reactors and the refurbishing of old ones, projects expected to cost up to $40 billion over two decades. John Tory, the provincial Conservative leader, is calling for more …