In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Peter Hagelstein (MIT) worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot Limit. Moreover, the calculations show that this new kind of system could ultimately reach as much as 90 …
Reason.com Ronald Bailey covered the Manhattan Beach Project. Over the weekend Maximum Life Foundation president David Kekich gathered a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to meet for three days with the goal of developing a scientific and business strategy to make extreme human life extension a real possibility within a couple of decades. How …
Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks (9 page pdf) Using home-built dedicated ray-tracing software, we simulate photorealistic images of sceneries in three dimensions including dielectric carpet cloaks – i.e., continuously varying refractive-index distributions that allow for invisibility cloaking of a bump in a metallic carpet. Results for the ideal and for a simplified cloak are shown. …
Gioogle launches a flu shot tracker service. This project is just beginning and they have not yet received information about flu shot clinics for many locations Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It …
1. India could have 470 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2050 if it thinks big and manages its program correctly, said the country’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Singh’s prediction of a future Indian reactor fleet bigger than the current global total came at the opening of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy …
Three direct cycle designs [steam indirect cycle, helium direct, supercritical CO2]were selected for further investigation: the basic design with turbine inlet temperature of 550P o PC, an advanced design with turbine inlet temperature of 650P o PC and a high-performance design with turbine inlet temperature of 700P o PC, all with the compressor outlet pressure …
Let us assume that Obama is the Democratic nominee and someone other than Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee. Michael Bloomberg could run a solid centrist campaign and be the only candidate from New York. He would be more sane and stable and just as well financed as Ross Perot. Ross Perot won 19% of …
Recent quantum dots are three times better than thermoelectric devices from the mid-1990’s. There are quantum wells that get 4.5ZT. Vehicle efficiency technology gets about 176 million per year The new thermoelectronics are not magic technology. They are part of one of the highest value US government research programs. The advanced versions should be ready …
Known by its lab name of RTS,S the prototype is raising high hopes of the first vaccine shield against a disease that claims more than a million lives a year — 800,000 of them African children aged under five — and sickens hundreds of millions more. Infants who received RTS,S were 65 percent less at …
Researchers demonstrated that activating SIRT1 and injecting resveratrol, which have both been previously associated with life-span extension in lower organisms, can also prevent cognitive problems in the mice. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …
Nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, generates a true-to-life fingerprint – a unique pattern indicating the presence of specific molecules – for a research sample that is being analyzed. It has been found that a higher power magnet (21.1 tesla) increases the picture’s brightness by a factor of about 10 relative to low-field images (14.1 tesla) …