EETimes reports that MIT has a new catalyst that makes electrolysis nearly 100% efficient in a cost effective way. This would make storage of intermittent power from solar and wind more cost effective. CNET also has coverage MIT had recently developed special glass panels that concentrate light 40 times standard sunlight before delivery directly to …
Op ed in New York Times by Benny Morris, suggests Israel will almost surely strike Iran in the next 4-7 months. Benny Morris is a professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben-Gurion University, is the author, most recently, of “1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War.” Steve Forbes opinion is online here. The Israelis …
Here is a webpage that tracks the availability of the three different Apple 3G iPhones by apple store with links to the stores in each state. It is updated every 15 minutes. There are also graphs of the percentage of stores with available Apple iPhones. It appears that around 10AM-noon each day there are bursts …
From the EEtimes, MIT researchers have solved issues with scanning beam interference lithography and have tested at 25 nanometers and believe they can get to 12 nanometers at least. This is a big deal because it will ensure that Moore’s law to continue to improve computers for another 15 years or more. Current lithography is …
Helicos True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS) technology has a device that images billions of single molecules per run and produces over 2 Gigabases of sequence data per day – a throughput performance almost 100X greater than Sanger methods, and faster than any of the “next-generation” methodologies. The HeliScope Sequencer currently delivers throughputs of 25 – …
Lester Brown is pushing an Earth Policy Institute plan for replacing all coal, oil and most natural gas by 2020 Their calculations for energy are flawed. It appears that they ignore capacity factor. They also do not look at pricing or consider the build up of factories and supply chain. Although I guess some of …
Went to a Demo networking event last week In 1991, Stewart Alsop changed the technology conference circuit by instituting a new event with new rules: DEMO would be about the products; would require timed, live demonstrations; and would not allow PowerPoint presentations. These rules still stand. Startups communicate the power and value of emerging technologies …
An circuit that uses excitons for computing flashes light as the particles decay to release photons. Credit: Leonid Butov/UCSD Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated. Switching times on …
The 59th carnival of space is up at Green Gabbro on the Science blogs Centauri Dreams talks about the improved technology for the burst of new exoplanet discoveries. Nasa is blogging about the GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) mission. 25 reasons to go the moon are discussed Check out the Carnival for much more. …
A new kind of paper is stronger than cast iron and could be used to reinforce conventional paper, produce extra-strong sticky tape or help create tough synthetic replacements for biological tissues, says Lars Berglund from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite its great strength, Berglund’s “nanopaper” is produced from a biological …
Early detection saves lives as treatment is more effective. Also, it can be 100 times cheaper to treat early stage versus later stage cancer. The Canary Foundation goal is to deliver early detection tests for solid tumor cancers by 2015. Cancer treatment cost $89 billion in the U.S. in 2007. Over 1.4 million new cancer …