EEtimes reports the University of California at Berkeley provided an update on a technology called plasmonic nano-lithography–based on a flying lens. U.C. Berkeley has devised a tool with four and six lenses. The goal is to devise a tool with 10,000 lenses and a throughput of 60 wafers an hour. In theory, it will make …
Some people are worried that if Climate Change occurs, that there will be increased desertification and an inability for humanity to feed itself and resulting mass starvation. This is often presented that climate change happens, more deserts occur and by 2100 there are only one billion people left on earth because we can only feed …
Scientific summary of International Conferences on Cold Fusion 15 (ICCF15) by David Nagel (11 page pdf) The library of ICCF15 presentations is here Gas Loading * Arata and Zhang (Osaka University) have performed gas loading of Pd nanoparticles in recent years. Their report dealt with the production of energy and helium in two types of …
Here is a 48 page presentation on a project called “One Pass to Production : Radical Productivity Improvement”. It has the goal within 8 years of reducing the development time for a new cellphone from 2 years down to one day. The presentation was made in 2007 and the project was started in 2001. One-Pass …
1. It’s a cooker, a fridge and a generator in one — and it could have a huge impact on the lives of people in the world’s poorest communities. Two billion people use open fires as their primary cooking method. These fires have been found to be highly inefficient, with 93 per cent of the …
China new energy programs would involve investment of trillions and that new energy output was likely to exceed the targets set by the nation’s overall energy and renewable energy plans. China target is to increase per capita income ten-fold by 2050 while increasing the per capita emissions by 50% to 6 tons per person. Nation …
China Daily reports: China is planning for an installed nuclear power capacity of 86 gigawatts (gW) by 2020, up nearly 10-fold from the 9 gW capacity it had by the end of last year, two people familiar with the matter said. the new target is higher than targets earlier this year of 70-75 GW and …
Collapsitarians are described the Technium. Former President Reagan defined a recession as when your friend lost his job and a depression as when you lost your job. Collapse is when no one has a job; in fact, there are no longer any such things as jobs to be had. Various types of doomers/collapsitarians/dystopians: * Luddites, …
Technology is unlocking the Bakken oilfield potential In Saskatchewan. As of mid-October, 2008, Saskatchewan had 1,050 wells capable of producing in the Bakken. Of these, the vast majority (979) have been drilled since October 2004. Over the first eight months of 2008, the Bakken accounted for about 8.6 million bbls (an average of 35,250 bbls …
The sawtooth ridges formed by cutting and heating a sapphire crystal serves to guide the self-assembly of nanoscale elements into an ordered pattern over arbitrarily large surfaces. Researchers say the new, easy-to-implement technique may transform the data storage industry. The density achievable with the technology we’ve developed could potentially enable the contents of 250 DVDs …
1. Photonic chip breaking the terabit-per-second barrier. Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables. The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light for switching signals, and a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide. One of the key breakthroughs researchers made …