Diagram of an Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Two of the robotic missions NASA selected for further study last week would be powered by experimental nuclear generators. NASA picked robotic missions to Mars, a comet and Saturn’s moon Titan as finalists last week for a launch opportunity in 2016, and two …
Ny Teknik recently participated in two new tests of the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’, providing more accurate measurements to reduce possible error sources. The new tests with the energy catalyzer, which seems to generate heat by an unknown nuclear reaction, took place in Bologna on 19 and 28 April, 2011. As in previous tests the objective …
Update – April 4, 2011 Nextbigfuture edged up in Technorati authority Temporarily at least Nextbigfuture is in the top 200 of overall blogs in terms of Technorati authority. So we are behind topless robots and icanhazcheesburgers (funny cat pictures). Also, ahead of craftzine, climate progress and lots of other sites. At least for today. We …
The Godson-3A chip was implemented in a 65 nanometer process and ran at 1 GHz to deliver 16 gigaflops of floating point oomph. The chip has 425 million transistors, an area of 174.5 square millimeters, and burned only 10 watts under load. The chip included two 16-bit HyperTransport ports (licensed from Advanced Micro Devices), 4 …
EasyJet has announced the use of a nanocoating by a company called tripleO on its planes for a range of benefits, not least fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. The coating reduces drag by up to 39%. TripleO established thirty-years ago, has a twenty-year heritage as a surface protectant for the US military, but it …
Sun Tzu’s Art of War is discussed at Stratblog, which makes the point that it is not teaching a body of doctrine but a habit of mind: a habit of attentive clarity out of which can come true judgment and decisive action. A free online copy of the Art of War Morality counts, but at …
UK Guardian – Oxford University human clinical trials that began in 2008 have reported successful results for a universal flu vaccine. A universal vaccine would save the time and money now needed to create vaccines to fight whatever particular virus has emerged in any year. The UK government spends almost $2 billion/year in preparing for …
Preamble from Brian Wang- this is a long article and it is on the topic of politics and policy. It does not relate to science and technology, so please skip this article if you do not want to read things that are not science and technology or if a libertarian take on politics and policy …
Superconductors.ORG (Joe Eck) claims the first observation of superconductivity above zero degrees Celsius. In repeated tests a small amount of the compound (Tl4Pb)Ba2MgCu8O13+ produced diamagnetic transitions over 277 Kelvin (see examples at page top) and resistive transitions over 276K (3C, 37F). This is the first time superconductivity has been seen above the freezing point of …
The IEA (International Energy Agency) Oil Market Report for October 13, 2010 • Global oil demand for 2010 and 2011 is revised up by 0.3 mb/d on average to 86.9 mb/d and 88.2 mb/d, respectively, on new data showing much stronger‐than‐expected 3Q10 readings, notably in the OECD, and updated GDP and price assumptions. Yearly growth …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 172 is up at lightsinthedark. This site submitted Metamaterials could create a sublight version of the Alcubierre warp drive that could emulate up to 25% of light speed Solar wind power satellites could be an easier and nearer term way to generate …