Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined that unique man-made materials should theoretically make it possible to improve the power transfer to small devices, such as laptops or cell phones, or ultimately to larger ones, such as cars or elevators, without wires. This advance is made possible by the recent ability to fabricate exotic composite …
IEC (Inertial Electrostatic confinement) Fusion Technology points to an update on the Energy Matter Conversion corporation (EMC2) navy bussard nuclear fusion project. Project Title Federal Contract Project Status More than 50% Completed Final Project Report Submitted No Project Activities Description Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services Quarterly Activities/Project Description As of 1Q/2011, the WB-8 device …
Russia is planning to build 32 new reactors by 2020. Russia plans to increase the share of nuclear produced energy to about 23% of total energy production for the whole country, and to about 32% for European Russia, by 2020. The plan is to achieve this by commissioning 2 GW of capacity a year after …
New technology employs organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs, tiny thin films that create light in response to electrical current. But making OLED displays that are much bigger than a smart phone’s has been problematic. While they consume less power overall, a serious burst of current is needed to fire up each pixel. Transistors that …
The National Security Agency is designing a new $895.6 million supercomputing center that will be constructed at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters over the next several years, Department of Defense budget documents reveal. The NSA’s new High Performance Computing Center, slated to be complete by December 2015, will be designed to with energy efficiency, security, …
Schematic of the NV and the measurement scheme. a, Schematic drawing of the NV centre with one nitrogen at a carbon lattice site and an adjacent vacancy. b, Simulated absolute electric field 6 μm below the microstructure (depth of the NV) for an applied voltage difference of 1 V Nature Physics – Electric-field sensing using single diamond …
Obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and advanced maternal age are all known to be risk factors for stillbirths, making some preventable. In a separate paper in the series, Zulfiqar Bhutta at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan and colleagues highlighted 10 interventions that, if implemented, could cut the global number of still births by around …
Jamie Hyneman is on the right, beside costar Adam Savage. Register UK – Jamie Hyneman has been working with the US government to devise lightweight armor for US military vehicles in Afghanistan and Iraq, all thanks to his work with materials such as TNT and C4 in the frankly unconventional setting of MythBusters. Hyneman’s armor …
Electronic chip represents key building block of neuromorphic architecture Credit: IBM The goal of SyNAPSE is to create electronic systems, inspired by the human brain, that can understand, adapt, and respond to information in fundamentally different ways than traditional computers. While current computers are organized into distinct processor and memory units that function in accordance …
The Rossi and Focardi energy catalyzer is based on the Nickel-64 hydrogen reaction. A recent theory for cold fusion is that deuteron stripping reactions (1935 discovery by Oppenheimer) are occurring with Nickel-64 isotope. This would produce 8 MeV for each reaction for the 1% of the nickel that is nickel-64. 80,000 eV for each atom …
1. Rod Adams at Atomic Insights provides a summary of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident from Murray Miles. Murray Miles happens to know something about these Japanese plants. Oyster Creek on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey went on line one year before the number one Fukushima Daiichi plant and has the same design. He worked there …