New Powered Rope Climber can go 10 Feet per Second with up to 1000 Pounds Which is about three times Better than the First Power Climbers from 3 Years Ago

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Atlas Devices has a new Powered Rope Ascender can climb can hold a target load capacity up to 600 pounds at a 6-feet per second rate of ascension. The lightweight ATLAS Ascender can pull a fully-loaded soldier or firefighter up a rappelling line at up to …

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NASA WISE Telescope has found at least two cool Brown Dwarf Stars and 11000 Asteroids so Far

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software NASA WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore) space telescope has discovered at least two cool, substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. One of the brown dwarfs, dubbed WISE 2, appears to be as cold as any that are known. It may even be colder, Wright said, than …

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Low Intensity Ultrasound Could Boost Tissue Implant Success and Enhances Bone and Muscle Healing

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software LIUS (Low Intensity UltraSound) has been used to enhance bone healing, repair of damaged muscle, and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts or chondrocytes. Ultrasound can improve cell viability, thanks to its ability to get molecules moving, and researchers have used it to increase blood …

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China Adding Twelve More AP1000 Nuclear Reactor to Existing Build Plans and China, Russia, Japan and France in Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactor Talks

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. China Power Investment Corp., one of China’s five largest electricity producers, plans to build nuclear plants in southern, central and northeastern China as domestic energy demand surges. China Power plans to build four AP1000 units at its Pengze plant in Jiangxi province. The project may …

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Prediction of one million barrels per day from Bakken Oil Field by 2020

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software David Hobbs, IHS, Cambridge Energy Research Association (CERA), is forecasting that by the end of the decade, production in the Bakken will be one million barrels a day “The potential production is far greater than anyone would have admitted to even a couple years ago. The …

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New material mimics a magnetic monopole at Room Temperature

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Researchers from Imperial College London have created a structure that acts like a single pole of a magnet, a feat that has evaded scientists for decades. The researchers say their new Nature Physics study takes them a step closer to isolating a ’magnetic monopole. Magnets have …

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Exoskeletons and Other Technology to Mitigate or Reverse the Frailty of the Elderly

1. The Toyama Lab in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has the Wearable Agri Robot It is an exoskeleton for aging japanese farmers that should be commercially available in Japan in 2012 for about one million yen (about $10,000). They hope to halve if the device is mass-produced. According to the Japanese census, half …

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NTT demoes 69 Terabit per Second Communication Over a 180 mile long Optical Fiber

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has successfully demonstrated an ultra-high-capacity optical transmission of 69.1 terabits per second (tera = one trillion) over a single 240 km-long optical fiber. The 69.1 Tb/s transmission, based on the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) of 432 wavelengths with a capacity of …

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George H Miley Presentation on Nuclear Fusion Rockets and Spaceplanes

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This is follow up coverage of the dense plasma focus fusion rocket research article. The work and the presenation involves George H Miley who has been producing research in all aspects of nuclear fusion including dense plasma focus fusion, IEC fusion, laser fusion and cold fusion. Recently …

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Fundamental Breakthrough Enables Previously Impossible Semiconductors and Nanomaterials to be Created

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Schematic of hybrid core-shell growth process University of Maryland researchers have created a completely new way to produce high quality semiconductor materials critical for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology. * No clean room is needed * Previously incompatible material can be interfaced * no lattice matching needed * …

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