Steven Chu, nobel prize winning physicist, has been named Energy Secretary Steven Chu is pro-nuclear and has a deep understanding of all the technical issues around energy. This is a great choice. It is definitely an example of real change from the previous Bush administration in selecting extreme competence. It is not in any way …
Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has written a review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security which examines all energy sources. The Jacobson analysis is very biased in favor of wind and against nuclear and biofuels. Nuclear power is burdened with CO2 from “burning cities in …
IBM predicts five innovations will have impact over the next five years: – Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows– You will have a crystal ball for your health, from cheap genome sequencing– You will talk to the Web . . . and the Web will talk back, through the …
1. Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion, UCLA engineers have designed a bar code reader that is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in use. The new imaging technique, developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, enables the detection of …
China’s gross domestic product(GDP) totalled 13.0619 trillion yuan (1.9062 trillion U.S.dollars) in the first half of 2008, a 10.4 percent increase year on year. 3.8 trillion pace for the year. Assuming another 5% increase in the second half of the year and the currency strengthening from 6.85 to 6.65 then China’s GDP would be at …
New iron based superconductors will require new models and theories for superconductivity. Results clearly indicate a nodeless gap order parameter, which is nearly isotropic in size across different sections of the Fermi surface, and are not compatible with models involving antiferromagnetic fluctuations, strong correlations, the t-J model, and the like, originally designed for the high-Tc …
Bloomberg news has an excellent article about the people and companies involved in developing the Bakken oilfield AFS Trinity’s 150 mpg SUV hybrid car is generating a new round of press coverage AFS trinity appears to be looking to sell the 150 mpg SUV’s to operators of car fleets In Europe there is already a …
There is the possibility that single molecular nanomagnets or nanoparticle nanomagnets could be used to create powerful quantum computers. If quantum tunneling could be controlled in nanomagnets then they could create quantum computer gates or devices. The current work identifies that quantum tunneling can be turned on and off in nanomagnets. According to quantum mechanics, …
Enhanced oil recovery already supplies 650,000 barrels per day of oil in the USA. It could scale to 2-3 million barrels per day by 2030. CO2-EOR (Enhanced oil Recovery) is already being applied to selected, geologically favorable oil reservoirs with access to affordably priced natural and industrial sources of CO2. Based on the latest (April, …