SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera, which will capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed, has received “Critical Decision 1” approval by the U.S. Department of …
1. Mitch Randall writes at New Energy Times. They claim that Rossi manipulated the power controls during the Energy Catalyzer demonstration to Mats Lewan of Ny Teknik. 2. Rossi is claiming that he is being libeled and is preparing to sue to back up the claim. 3. A rumor is that Defkalion will begin selling …
A team of MIT researchers has come up with a very different approach: building cubes or towers that extend the solar cells upward in three-dimensional configurations. Amazingly, the results from the structures they’ve tested show power output ranging from double to more than 20 times that of fixed flat panels with the same base area. …
Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately lead to new types of materials and devices. “The behavior of electrons in materials is at the heart of essentially all …
The gross domestic product (GDP) of China hits 47.2 trillion yuan (7.49 trillion US dollars at 6.3 yuan to 1 US dollar) in 2011, 9.2 percent higher than 2010 calculating at comparable prices, according to the economic data issued by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on Tuesday. In 2011 China’s GDP increased by …
In a Smart Scare Crow Show interview, Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (cold fusion energy catalyzer), announced many breakthroughs in the development of his technology, answered a wide range of questions, and shared many details regarding the upcoming ten kilowatt heat unit for home use. UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES — Rossi said that they have …
Star Wars: The Old Republic, abbreviated as SWTOR or TOR, is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe. The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the …
DARPA is providing $30 million towards the goal of living foundries Through an engineering-driven approach to biology, Living Foundries aims to create a rapid, reliable manufacturing capability where multiple cellular functions can be fabricated, mixed and matched on demand and the whole system controlled by integrated circuitry, opening up the full space of biologically produced …
IEEE Spectrum – Robot Uses Supersonic Jets of Air to Stick to Almost Anything Bernoulli grippers are fine for picking up things, they’re not generally strong enough to enable a robot to support its own weight, much less climb. A research group from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand has developed a supersonic version …
Some news sources and internet sources(Christian Science Monitor) are trying to make an issue of spent fuel cooling pools now that the Japanese reactors are on the way to cold shutdown. DOE source – Multiple tests have been run with spent fuel cooling turned off. Temperatures do not reach boiling, not even close. Evaporation rates …
Arxiv – Metamaterial-Enhanced Coupling between Magnetic Dipoles for Efficient Wireless Power Transfer (23 pages) Non-radiative coupling between conductive coils is a candidate mechanism for wireless energy transfer applications. In this paper, we propose a power relay system based on a near- field metamaterial superlens, and present a thorough theoretical analysis of this system. We use …