Eli Rabett claims that a pure standard chemical reaction can explain Blacklight Powers energy generation UPDATE: Dr Mills has responded to an analysis by Rabett“ It is not a question of more accurate heats of formation. They are accurate to at least three significant figures. It is a question of using the correct ones. That …
The January 2009 issue of Popular Science has several pages on General Fusion. 32 page patent for acoustic generator for nuclear fusion. 24 page patent for magnetized target fusion generator Popular Science indicated that General Fusion has raised $7 million of their $10 million second round which would fund an almost full scale version (2 …
LIFE, an acronym for Laser Inertial Fusion-Fission Energy, is an advanced energy concept under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Conceptual design for a LIFE engine and power plant based on National Ignition Facility (NIF)-like fusion targets and a NIF-like laser operating at an energy of 1.4 megajoules (MJ) at a wavelength of 350 …
A team at Rice University has developed graphene 10 atoms thick and less than 10 nanometers wide. – it would increase the amount of storage in a two-dimensional array by a factor of five.– the new switches can be controlled by two terminals instead of three, as in current chips. This will allow for practical …
Faysal Sohail of CMEA Ventures believes recent technological breakthroughs have made service robotics viable for domestic application, especially in the areas of home security, vision and sensory robotics, elder care, and lawn care. CEMA Ventures has funded robotics and is looking for more robotics related investments: * Funding companies like Evolution Robotics and WowWee who …
The Army has given a grant to researchers at University of California, Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland has two objectives. The first is to compose a message using, as D’Zmura puts it, “that little voice in your head.” The second part is to send that message to a particular individual or …
Some people online say that China passing the USA in GDP is a wild dream. One posted analysis is from the Futurist, Stephen Aguilar-Millan. UPDATE:This site has a historical analysis of the actual reported GDP numbers from 2000 to 2008 for China, USA and Japan. The Futurist had 2005 GDP numbers instead of 2007 numbers. …
Thermoelectrics could capture currently wasted heat to boost overall vehicle efficiency from 38% to 57%. A 50% efficient free-piston engine could be boosted to 65% overall efficiency A regular 30% gas engine would be boosted to 51% overall efficiency. Scientists at RTI are teaming up with several leading universities and a major aerospace company to …
Casimir force is the result of virtual particles and could be related to inertia and gravity. DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of Casimir Effect Enhancement (CEE). The goal of this program is to develop new methods to control and manipulate attractive and repulsive forces at surfaces based on engineering of the …
Cray is releasing a personal supercomputer the cray CX1 which will run Microsoft HPC Server 2008 operating system. It will start off at $25,000 and goes to $80,000 or more The CX1 chassis has enough room for eight blades of single- or dual-socket Intel Xeon processors. In today’s presentation, Cray said the current peak configuration …
Brent Crude is trading below $100 per barrel Forbes reports that OPEC will not be halting the slide in the price of oil at this time. They did not reduce production quotas. “Even with this cutting back on production, the data says we’re going to have a big inventory build coming up,” said Simon Wardell, …