Metamaterials for higher resolution ultrasound, sonar invisibility/camouflage and wide-band optics outside the Visible range

April 7, 2017April 3, 2009 by Brian Wang

Schematic showing the experimental setup. The sample with PI/NI interface is composed of an array of different designed Helmholtz resonators machined from analuminum plate. Unit cells of each half part and the corresponding inductor–capacitor circuit analogy are shown in the insets. Metamaterials are progressing to enable invisibility to sonar and creating superlenses for ultrasound. Superlenses …

Joe Eck Continues to Find High Meissner Transitions – Now -40 Centigrade

April 7, 2017March 25, 2009 by Brian Wang

Joe Eck continues to find materials with higher Meissner Transitions which indicate superconductivity. Since we are now just a “stone’s throw” from room temperature, he has placed this discovery into the public domain without patent protection. Other researchers are encouraged to examine this material and its structure. 40 degrees below zero is cold by any …

Quantifying Some General Predictions

April 7, 2017March 23, 2009 by Brian Wang

Futurismic has some of Karl Schroeder twittered short predictions of likely surprises for 2009. eBook Readers become as common as iPods. So ebook sales to track which part of the iPod quarterly sales jumps ? 240,000 kindle sales first half of 2008 Estimated 2008 Kindle sales are 500,000 So iPod like sales tracking would be …

Project Orion Nuclear Pulse Units, EMP, Fallout and More History

July 26, 2017February 22, 2009 by Brian Wang

On the Apollo missions, only 1/601 of the mass sent into space returned. An Orion mission to Mars would return 1/2.5 of its mass and a mission to Saturn would return 1/6 of its mass. In 1958 dollars, an Orion mission would have cost 11 cents per kilogram sent into space, while in 2005 dollars, …

Water and Energy

April 7, 2017February 10, 2009 by Brian Wang

For any energy source, the cooling water can be waste-water or salt-water if the siting of the power plant has those non-fresh water sources available. Coal and solar-thermal can have more siting issues. Coal needs to be nearer to coal resources because millions of tons/year of coal is needed per plant. Solar thermal needs to …

Carbon nanotube avalanche process nearly doubles current for Semiconducting carbon nanotubes

April 7, 2017February 9, 2009 by Brian Wang

“Single-wall carbon nanotubes are already known to carry current densities up to 100 times higher than the best metals like copper,” said Eric Pop, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the U. of I. “We now show that semiconducting nanotubes can carry nearly twice as much current as previously thought.” “We found that …

Graphene turned from highly Conductive into Insulating Graphane by Adding Hydrogen

April 7, 2017January 30, 2009 by Brian Wang

Graphane crystal. This novel two-dimensional material is obtained from graphene (a monolayer of carbon atoms) by attaching hydrogen atoms (red) to each carbon atoms (blue) in the crystal. Credit: University of Manchester Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene. What is huge:1. Graphene …

Proliferation Resistance Compatible with a Lot of Nuclear Power

April 7, 2017December 18, 2008 by Brian Wang

Here is a study of future scenarios where there is a lot of nuclear power. Can Future Nuclear Power Be Made Proliferation Resistant ?” by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. From that study it seems clear the problems are manageable, especially with proper reactor design selection and looking at processing, reprocessing …

Non-electric Uses for Nuclear Fusion

April 7, 2017December 18, 2008 by Brian Wang

Non electric uses for nuclear fusion were presented in a 2003 report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). There are at least 5 unique products that we can “sell” from fusion reactions before the fusion community enters the main market for fusion energy (the generation of electricity): A.) high energy neutrons (2-14 MeV) …

Bakken and Three Forks-Sanish Oil Update

April 7, 2017November 10, 2008 by Brian Wang

North Dakota Production is over 177,000 barrels per day in August, 2008. Barrels per well increasing from 1000 last year to 1400 this year. This does not include about 50,000 bopd from Montana or the Saskatechwan bakken oil. The Three Forks Sanish Formation which is the geological layer below the Bakken Oil formation shows promise …

Nanodiamond drug delivery system could revolutionize cancer treatment

April 7, 2017October 3, 2008 by Brian Wang

Nanodiamonds, a revolutionary class of nanomaterials, are 2 nanometers in diameter in single-particle form, and can be manipulated to form clusters with diameters in the 50-100nm range. This makes them ideal for drug delivery by shielding and slow releasing drugs trapped within the cluster of Diamond aggregates. Dean Ho, Northwestern University, has created a thin …