Idaho Samizdat has the latest on NuScale, Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Hyperion Power Generation and Toshiba 4S from the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting Hyperion Takes Steps to Speed to Market Within Four Years Hyperion Power Generation (HPG) uranium nitride fuel burns would begin before the end of the year. He said that Los Alamos …
Tel Aviv University (TAU) has a dissolving wound dressing to fight deadly infections. Seventy percent of all people with severe burns die from related infections. Now a new wound-dressing technology from Tel Aviv University could cut that figure dramatically. Prof. Meital Zilberman of TAU`s Department of Biomedical Engineering has developed new soluble fibers that can …
PresbyLASIK is a surgical technique for presbyopic visual correction using Excimer LASER ablation. Singapore and India offer the treatment now and Canada and the USA have advanced clinical trials, which are showing promising results. PresbyLASIK treatment uses the principles of LASIK surgery to create a multifocal corneal surface aimed at reducing near vision spectacle dependence …
link to 242 page paper on the Quantum-coupled single-electron thermalto electric conversion scheme.(a PHD thesis) Quantum dot coupling is to restrict number of states and increase efficiency. Columb coupling is to avoid the blackbody limit. This is a follow up of Getting Thermoelectrics four to nine times more efficient than current 10% efficient commercial systems …
New Scientist reports that there is something big out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds. Last year, Sasha Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues identified an …
Designboom had 3709 designers from 96 different countries participated in the green life competition. This was the second place winner. ‘shelf’ by leon zhu from china won second place netizens’ choice award. ‘shelf’ can not only shield your car from long exposure to sunshine, but also can convert solar energy to electricity to power the …
Five of the recently selected and funded ARPA E projects were for biomass energy * Conditionally activated enzymes expressed in cellulosic energy crops * Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies * Catalytic Biocrude Production in a Novel, Short-contact Time Reactor * MacroAlgae Butanol * High Yielding, Low Input Energy Crops Conditionally Activated Enzymes Expressed …
The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA “The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is that rich,” said Colaprete. “Along with the water in Cabeus, there are hints of other intriguing substances. The permanently shadowed regions of the moon are …
This is the sixth set of highlights for Next Big Future for 2009. more will be added later this weekend. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 33-38 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 20-32 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 13-19 Here is the link to …
calcium and vitamin D nutritional status substantially reduces all-cancer risk in postmenopausal women. This suggests and provides reinforcement for nutrigenomics. Imagine a physician or dietitian handing you a set of individualized nutritional guidelines based on your unique genetic makeup – one that could help you ward off such diseases as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. That’s …
CNN reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new H1N1 statistics. Nearly 3,900 people, including about 540 children, are believed to have died from the H1N1 flu in the first six months of the epidemic. In a normal flu season the number of deaths for children is about 100. Average US …