Photographs published online and Chinese military sources cited by the Japanese media indicate a test model of the J-20 fighter has been finished, with taxi tests carried out last week at an airfield in southwestern China. China plans to begin test flights of the J-20 as soon as this month, with plans to deploy the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Here is the OECD electricity report for May 2010 (38 page pdf) 2. Plans are advancing for the construction of the first industrial park in China to help with the rapid development of the country’s nuclear power industry, with detailed engineering and construction preparation work …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A company called 24M (24 Molar), has been spun out of the advanced battery company A123 Systems. It will develop a novel type of battery based on research conducted by Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor of materials science at MIT and founder of A123 Systems. He says …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon for electronics. What researchers might call “white graphene” may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics. But single-atom-thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), the material under intense …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new WiGig 60GHz specification is aimed at enabling new, tri-band devices that will be able to leverage 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 60GHz and will scale up to transfer speeds of 7 gigabits per second. Leading the effort is the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance in connection with …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT researchers are exploring a new technology funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Science Foundation, which they call a thermopower wave, that may convert chemical energy to fuel cells for micro-machines, sensors and emergency communication beacons. “We envision these thermopower …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud, 41 pages) (H/T Centauri Dreams) We present an updated dynamical and statistical analysis of outer Oort cloud cometary evidence suggesting the sun has a wide-binary Jovian mass companion. The results support a conjecture that …
India’s first indigenously designed breeder reactor – which breeds more material for a nuclear fission reaction than it consumes – is being built by Bhavini at the Kalpakkam nuclear enclave. Lowering of the huge stainless steel main vessel — 12.9 metres in diameter and 12.94 metres in height, weighing 206 tonnes — is considered a …
At the Frontiers in Optics conference on October 14 ,2009 Jeffrey Kash of IBM Research gave a presentation on the road to Exascale supercomputering He gave a projection of the necessary timeline for the shift from electrical communication in supercomputers to optical in order to support exascale supercomputing. Photonics describes the Kash exascale talk VCSEL-based …
Tom Sanders, Vice President/President Elect American Nuclear Society, is promoting “Global Energy Needs: Defining a Role for a “Right Sized Reactor” [32 page pdf] There is some conflicting information in the 32 page presentation and a Sandia press release. The presentation (May, 2009) talks about a variety of reactor technologies include light water, gas cooled, …
1. A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar. “Our focus is not about dampening noise, but to guide sound waves around structures,” said Nicholas Fang, a professor a the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and coauthor, along with Shu Zhang and Leilei Yin, …