Carnival of Nuclear Energy 20 – Zeroing out coal is achievable and necessary

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 …

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Applied Materials Commercializing Roll to Roll Printing of Flexible Displays 2013-2015

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Plastic printer: This roll-to-roll printer can make simple circuits for devices like RFIDs on sheets of plastic. Now Applied Materials is developing a roll-to-roll printer to make flexible displays. Credit: Applied Materials Applied Materials is developing a process that could print flexible transistor arrays that perform …

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Red Shifted Radio Wave Map of the Universe Will Be 500 Times Larger

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A new technique might soon enable cosmologists to map the universe even when they can’t pick out individual galaxies. If it works, researchers would be able to probe the structure of 500 times as much of the universe as they have studied so far. * scientists …

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Scientists Call for a Biomedical Apollo Project to Avert Global Aging Crisis

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software We stand at a cusp of an unique demographic transition. For the first time in human history, the whole planet is aging: within a few decades, people that have been made sick, dependent, or unproductive by the damage of aging will outnumber the young and healthy. …

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Microwires for Connecting Thousands of Nodes over Square Meter Surfaces

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Microwires and nodes are connected on a small grid but that surface and the wires are designed to be stretch up to 256 times larger area (16 times linearly). So what starts as a 8X8 centimeter square could become 1 meters by 1 meters of connected …

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Lithium Ion Gets On Track for Five Times Higher Energy Density with Self Assembled Nanocomposite Anodes

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Georgia Institute of Technology – A new high-performance anode structure based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials could significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries used in a wide range of applications from hybrid vehicles to portable electronics. Other types of new batteries and new ultracapacitors have been claiming …

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Bruce Bueno de Mequita Explains Why Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Fail

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explains in Foreign Policy “Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from the foreign-policy world’s leading predictioneer.” Despite the hoopla, the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen is destined to fail. Here’s what will happen instead: Over the next several decades, world leaders will embrace tougher emissions standards than …

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GE Hitachi Propose Nuclear Fuel Recycling with Prism Fast Reactor and Electroseparation

GE (General Electric) Hitachi is proposing the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) which would be the fourth generation PRISM sodium-cooled fast reactors and an electrometallurgical separation process that would make a new form of fuel from spent fuel rods without separating plutonium. The first of kind system they are proposing would cost about $3.2 billion and …

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