Automobilwoche heard in Qatar both from Piech (prior chariman of VW) and Winterkorn (Martin Winterkorn Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG) that Volkswagen will actually build a small series (about 100 first) of the 261 mpg XL1 car. Piech confirmed that the car will be made available for purchase at a yet …
A plasmonic laser (illustrated here) could be one component of an extremely fast plasmonic computer, giving light perhaps its tightest squeeze yet – about as small as the circuitry that moves electrons in standard electronics. Nicolle Rager Fuller UPDATE: J Storrs Hall, President of the Foresight Institute, noted recent progress in working with graphene and …
Work is continuing towards Robert Bussard’s vision of inertial electrostatic fusion. digg_url = ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/11/fusion-propulsion-if-bussard-iec-fusion.html’;digg_topic = ‘Space’; reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/11/fusion-propulsion-if-bussard-iec-fusion.html’reddit_title=’Carnival of Space #30′ UPDATE: Tom Ligon wrote the slides and gave the speech which presented this material. Fusion R&DPhase 1 – Validate and Review WB-6 ResultsThe proposed WB-7 and WB-8 devices will be constructed and tested during 2008.1.5 …