Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A $100 million project over two years would be enough for crippling cyber attack on the United States, according to Charlie Miller, who spent five years with the US National Security Agency under then-director Michael Hayden. “I already knew it was easy, but now I know …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Greencarcongress.com – China has identified a catalyst—NiMoW—for the hydrotreating of the diesel distillate fraction from Fushun shale oil to produce a product that can be directly used as a transportation fuel. In China, reserves of oil shales account for about 500,000 billion tons. It is distributed …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content that offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor rather than an insulator. In 2008, french researchers calculated that BC5 would superconduct with a critical temperature of the same order …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT researchersfound that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery’s electrodes produced a significant increase — up to tenfold — in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared to a conventional lithium-ion battery. Such electrodes might find applications …
TVA said its integrated assessment of the two alternatives (build all new or complete unit 1) has resulted in identifying the completion of unit 1 (one of the partially completed B&W units) as the preferred project. The FEIS is the fourth of five detailed studies being prepared to support a future decision by the TVA …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The UK Telegraph publised an article which repeats an assertion that the Soviet Union was on the brink of launching a nuclear attack against China in 1969 and only backed down after the US told Moscow such a move would start World War Three, according to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT Technology Review – Scientists have created the smallest ever laser capable of operating at room temperature. The device is less than one cubic micron–less than the wavelength of the light it emits. It is the first sub-wavelength laser that doesn’t require cryogenic cooling. Besides high-speed …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Is there a maximum magnetic field in QED? It was recently conjectured by Shabad and Usov that there exists in QED a maximum magnetic field of 10^42 Gauss, above which the magnetized vacuum becomes unstable. Using a nonperturbative analysis that consistently incorporates the effective …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics reports good progress in March, 2010. At the beginning of March, good shots (those without pre-firing and with pinches) were a bit under 50% of the shots we fired. Since mid-month, we have increased that to 90% good shots. The two time-of-flight neutron …
Washington Examiner reports on Forbes magazine ranking of counties by median income (H/T instapundit) Loudoun ranks as the richest county in the United States, immediately followed by Fairfax and Howard counties, while Montgomery, traditionally one of the wealthiest, is now 10th. 12 of the top 25 are in the Washington DC area. Rank County Population …
The Tata Magic Iris has a five-seater miniature load-runner van for less than $2000. * powered by a 611cc engine (0.6-litre)* the diesel engine is capable of just 8.2kW or power (11 horsepower); in comparison, most ride-on mowers pump out at least 10.5kW. * Max speed of 55 km/h * 10-litre fuel tank* due on …