Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A robot submarine sent beneath the Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier’s floating ice sheet has shown that there is a ridge rising 400 metres from the sea floor. Until recently, the glacier would have rested on this ridge, preventing warm seawater from reaching the ice and melting …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A Time Reversal Mirror to receive a short pulse of electromagnetic energy at an antenna and then shoot back toward the initial transmitter the same signal, but with its wave-form reversed in time. The technique is enabled by the use of an Arbitrary Waveform Generator, which …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The longtime goal of a $1,000 genome is still just out of reach, a Harvard University physicist is promising an even cheaper price–the ability to sequence a human genome for just $30. David Weitz and his team are adapting microfluidics technology that uses tiny droplets, a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Plasmonic nano-antennas could increase hard drive densities to ten terabits (Tb) per square inch. The write speed obtained by the researchers was 250 megabits per second. The researchers only worked with one terabit per square inch densities but believe 10 terabits per square inch is possible. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software IHS CERA predicts Iraq oil production is 4.3 mbd in 2015 and 6.5 mbd in 2020. Iraq’s current “highly ambitious plans” to expand oil production are unlikely to be fully realized given political, security, operational and infrastructure challenges, according to a new report, Fields of Dreams: …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Russia, supplier of about 12 percent of the world’s oil, increased crude production in March to a post-Soviet record as TNK-BP tapped deposits and OAO Bashneft’s new owners squeezed more crude from older fields. Crude output reached 10.12 million barrels a day, a gain of 3.3 …
The core idea for the nuclear verne launch gun is simple though dramatic: Dig a kilometers deep shaft—a salt layer would be easiest to penetrate (some exist 3.5 kilometers thick) —build at the bottom a giant shell, from components lowered into place, layer by layer enclosing its internal payloads with external structures (such as a …
Burt Rutan explains his plans to create mass tourist travel in space. People used to say that the Internet was all fun and games; it took years for it to become everything. Burt Rutan thinks the same will happen with space travel. The video is ten minutes long. In the interview, the legendary aircraft designer …
1. Nature Nanotechnology – Graphene nanomesh transistors support 100 times the current of individual nanoribbons Graphene has significant potential for application in electronics but cannot be used for effective field-effect transistors operating at room temperature because it is a semimetal with a zero bandgap. Processing graphene sheets into nanoribbons with widths of less than 10 …
Enova will provide the Bergen-based company Sway AS with funding in the amount of NOK 137 million to demonstrate a new 10 Megawatt wind turbine prototype. The project represents a significant potential reduction in the cost of generating offshore wind power. The funding from Enova will contribute to the construction of a 10 MW wind …
SENSITIVE AND CHEAP: To achieve a thousandfold sensitivity gain, HP’s new MEMS inertial sensor design uses a much larger proof mass than what’s inside traditional MEMS designs. The proof mass [light blue] is a piece of silicon suspended on a spring inside the device. MEMS accelerometers use a variable capacitor to measure motion. A capacitance …