Green Touch Initiative Targets 1000 Times More Energy Efficient Communication by 2015

Green Touch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks. By 2015, our goal is to deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap — and …

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New Terahertz Detectors and Light Sources in Japan Could Open practical application of terahertz waves

There are high expectations for the application of terahertz-frequency electromagnetic waves in various fields, including the non-destructive detection of narcotics or stimulants in mail, the identification of foreign matter in food, and investigation of residual chemicals in crops. However, terahertz waves have yet to be used widely because of the difficulty in generating and detecting …

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Winterberg concepts for Stablizing Shear Flow for a Dense Z Pinch to Make it Useful for Nuclear Fusion

On shear flow stabilization concepts for the dense z – pinch by Winterberg (17 page pdf) Different ways to achieve the stabilization of a linear z-pinch by a superimposed shear flow are analyzed. They are: 1) Axial shear flow proposed by Arber and Howell with the pinch discharge in its center, and experimentally tested by …

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Ultrafast Population Switching of Quantum Dots

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don’t overheat. “We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum inside a photonic crystal, we can completely control the electronic state of …

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Correcting Amory Lovins Again

Amory Lovins wrote an article on Grist primarily making the case that nuclear power is not economic and has a 30+ page pdf on the “Four Myths of Nuclear” This will be the first of a few articles where I show where Lovins is wrong. Firstly he talks about gross dollar or energy amounts. Those …

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Google Experimenting with Quantum Computers for Machine Learning

Hartmut Neven of Google is mapping important machine learning problems to D-Wave’s flavor of Adiabatic Quantum Computer. Binary Classification is described at wikipedia Binary classification is the task of classifying the members of a given set of objects into two groups on the basis of whether they have some property or not. Some typical binary …

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Chinas Trade and Other Economic Numbers and the Future of World Steel

Seeking Alpha analyses China trade and inflation numbers. According to an article in Tuesday’s Financial Times: China will reduce export taxes to zero and give more financial support to exporters as it tries to increase its share of global trade in the current crisis, the country’s commerce minister announced on Monday. China would “use all …

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CRNano Chris Phoenix and MetaModern Eric Drexler Roundup

CRNano Increased Technical Content With Chris PhoenixChris Phoenix describes robotic control of molecular manufacturing without computation. In high-volume molecular manufacturing, computers can’t be used to control robots handling individual molecules, because computation requires too much power. However, computer-like control can be achieved without the use of computers, which means that robots can still be used …

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