Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday launched a $35 computing device that will be made available to ‘learners’ right from primary schools to universities. Aiming at bringing down the price to $10, the Ministry has also begun discussions with global manufacturers to start …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, developed a colony of mice with super-charged granulocytes and those mice could withstand virulent cancer. When Dr. Cui administered healthy, potent granulocytes to mice with cancer that couldn’t be treated by other known therapies, he …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software January through April electricity generation numbers for the OECD The US nuclear fleet has been running at 94-96% availability in June. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddit, or StumbleUpon. Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new approach to producing high-temperature superconductors could drive down the cost of MRI scanners and protect infrastructure during energy surges. Engineers at the University of Cambridge used new techniques to manufacture high-temperature superconducting materials, producing samples that can carry record quantities of electrical current for …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Greencarcongress.com – EPA renewable (biofuels) production targets for 2011 have been announced. The annual renewable fuel volume targets are to keep the industry on track to reach an overall level of 36 billion gallons in 2022. The total target is about 16.5 billion gallons for 2011 …
Nuclear Green has the 7th carnival of nuclear energy. ARC 100 and Other Small Reactors Dan Yurman talks about the Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC) company developing a 100 MW small modular reactor (SMR) which relies on well-understood fuel developed for a sodium-cooled fast reactor that was actually built and operated at the Argonne National Laboratory …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing optical networks that, in most cases, would eliminate converting optical signals to electrical ones for processing, then convert …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Its containment cap system, installed on June 3, collected 14,570 barrels on Sunday, BP said. A second system, started up on June 16, burned off 8,720 barrels on Sunday, BP said. The systems have a total capacity of 28,000 barrels a day, according to BP. BP …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) mission aims at verifying that a spacecraft can fly only by solar powered sail, and that thin film solar cells can generate power. The IKAROS blog is here And a google translation of the IKAROS blog …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Analysis of technological progress in China and India by Peilei Fan (UN study 2008) Matthew Yglesias at ThinkProgress wrote about China’s economy and indicates that he believes that almost all of China’s gains have come from shifting from low efficiency agriculture to high efficiency industry. Matthew …