US Ethanol production at 818 Thousand Barrels per Day For January 2010

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software From page 9 of the EIA Monthly reports Petroleum supply report EIA Monthly report shows that US ethanol production in January 2010 was 818,000 barrels per day The United States uses about 20 million barrels per day of oil. Renewable Fuel Association has more context Ethanol …

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Possible superconductivity at 109 K in YBaCuO materials

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Yttrium 7-11-18 has been found to have the highest critical temperature onset at 109 K relative to other variations of TBaCuO superconducting materials New YBaCuO superconductors are synthesized by using the standard solid state reaction method as Y5-6-11, Y7-9-16, Y5-8-13, Y7-11-18, Y156, Y3-8-11, and Y13-20-23. In …

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South Korean Navy Ship Now Believed to Have Hit An Old Korean War Era Mine

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software A mine dating back to the 1950-53 Korean War might have been responsible for the sinking of a South Korean naval patrol ship last weekend, according to the country’s defence minister. His explanation came as hopes of finding 46 missing South Korean alive faded further after navy …

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China increasing Nuclear and Hydroelectric Energy Targets for 2020 and China Smart Grid construction Planned for 2011-2015

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software “China is adjusting its mid- and long-term nuclear plan and judging by current work preparations, nuclear capacity by a conservative standard will reach 70-80 GW by 2020,” Huang Li, deputy head of the National Energy Administration’s energy saving and equipment department Huang Li said the government is …

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Microrings for 60 Gigahertz Wireless

The wireless house of the future might use a system being developed at Purdue University that could eliminate wires for communications in homes, businesses and cars. The researchers designed and built a miniature device capable of converting ultra fast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals using innovative “microring resonators.” Such an advance could enable …

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Energy Innovation Summit and ARPA-E Update

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) invites you to the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in the Washington DC area from March 1-3. The summit brings together all the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials The Program of …

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Diagnostic Tests on a Piece of Paper for Pennies Per Test

The Power of a Diagnostic Lab…on a Piece of Paper Developed by George Whitesides of Harvard in a 3 page powerpoint * The George Whitesides’ laboratory has developed diagnostic devices made from patterned paper * Patterns direct fluid into segregated areas where different analytes are detected simultaneously * Paper printed with polymer channels forms a …

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Toshiba and AIST Improve Lithography Masks to 6 Nanometer Accuracy

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced joint development of a mask pattern optimizing technology that improves the accuracy of lithography for LSIs by approximately 20%. The technology opens the door to extending the life of current ArF immersion lithography to the next generation and …

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Carnival of Space 136 -interstellar cyclers and Looking for reflections of lakes and Oceans on Exoplanets

Carnival of Space 136 is up at Simotronomy This site contributed an article on ultradense deuterium and the T Pyxidis White Dwarf supernova risk Centauri Dreams looks at the interstellar Cycler configuration proposed by science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. Here is Karl’s writeup on interstellar Cyclers To me, the idea that you should expend billions …

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