Working at a scale applicable to infrared light, the Harvard team has used extremely short and powerful laser pulses to create three-dimensional patterns of tiny silver dots within a material. Those suspended metal dots are essential for building futuristic devices like invisibility cloaks. “If you want a bulk metamaterial for visible and infrared light, you …
1. Unit 4 of China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC’s) Qinshan Phase II nuclear power plant was connected to the grid on 25 November – the second Chinese reactor to be connected this year. It is expected to enter commercial operation early in 2012. The reactor, a CNP-600, is a two loop domestic design rated at …
The Zero Emission High Speed Transport or ZEHST is a supersonic passenger airliner project by EADS. EADS revealed the proposal at the Le Bourget air show (June 18, 2011). It is expected to fly at mach 4, 32km above the ground, and it will carry 50 to 100 people. It will combine three propulsion systems: …
Mobithinking -There are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers as of July 2011 (77 percent of the world population. • China: 859 million mobile subscribers (64 percent of population) in Dec 2010, up 112 million from 2009. Of these 47 million were 3G mobile phone users (National Bureau of Statistics of China February 2011). • India: 840.28 …
1. Rescue workers have found seven more bodies at two Ukrainian coal mines where accidents occurred, raising the death toll to 27. The accidents in the eastern regions shocked the country and highlighted the dangers of the nation’s mining industry. It is believed to be one of the world’s most dangerous because of outdated equipment …
Primus Power has a low cost, versatile and power dense battery system that economically addresses a wide range of energy storage applications. They are working to commercialize, deploy and monitor a 25 MW • 75 MWh energy storage system for a California utility. MIT Technology Review explains what Primus Power is doing to make flow …
More than 450 coal-burning electric power plants in the United States produce about 130 million tons of “flyash” each year. Before air pollution laws, those fine particles of soot and dust flew up smokestacks and into the air. Power plants now collect the ash. This waste could become a valuable resource as a shield-like coating …
The stated goal of the ASML EUV (extreme ultra violet) tool is to have an overall throughput of 60 wafers an hour by year’s end. But right now, the tool has a throughput of 5 wafers an hour. In other words, the tool requires a ”10X’’ (ten times) improvement in the power source-or about 100 …
There is still fighting in Egypt A Foreign policy analysis explains why Mubarak is going to win by Robert Springborg is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School While much of American media has termed the events unfolding in Egypt today as “clashes between pro-government and opposition groups,” this is not …
Researchers at Princeton University developed a technique for generating a laser beam out of nothing but air. They focus a pump laser on a distant point in the air and another laser beam comes back. The image shows a pulse of infra-red light from this “air laser.” The center region represents the highest intensity; the …
More information about the Raytheon XOS 2 exoskeleton Dr. Fraser Smith, Vice President of Operations at Raytheon Sarcos, hopes a XOS2 type system could be fielded within five years. XOS 2 is lighter, stronger and faster than its predecessor, yet it uses 50 percent less power, and its new design makes it more resistant to …