Development of 2G HTS Wire for Demanding Electric Power Applications (30 pages, by Superpower Inc) Superpower Inc is improving the cost performance of its superconducting wire and is expecting major market gains over the next few years. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian …
PANEL — “The Scientific Challenges of Truly Transformative Nanotech” Andrew Bleloch, (Halcyon), Matt Francis (UC-Berkeley), Sir J Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern), William Goddard (CalTech), Chris Schafmeister (Temple) Tough to characterize and see what you are working on. Takes a long time Interface control is tough Molecules have to be put together with the other materials to …
At Research@Intel Day Intel was talking a lot about its upcoming 22nm process technology, but in a meeting with European press Intel’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner talked about 14 nm and 8 nm nodes (H/T to readers Daniel and Chrisc62) The 14nm node is scheduled to debut in about 2 years (2013), but also …
DARPA Z-man program will develop biologically inspired climbing aids to enable soldiers to scale vertical walls constructed from typical building materials, without using ropes or ladders. Geckos, spiders and small animals are the inspiration behind these climbing aids. Nanopatents and innovations – In 2010, DARPA demonstrated a fully loaded soldier (300 lb) wearing reattachable pads …
In 2012-13, Aeros plans to fly the Pelican, a 230-ft.-long, 600,000-cu.-ft. demonstrator for its rigid-aeroshell, variable-buoyancy (RAVB) technology. Inside the shell, comprising a load-bearing frame of carbon-fiber trusses covered by thin-gauge rigid panels, will be a membrane to contain the helium lifting gas. Inside that membrane will be pressurized pump-fed tanks. More helium under pressure …
Mercury from Orbit. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / Carnegie Institution of Washington Carnival of Space 191 is up at the Planetary Society blog Chris Dann from WeirdWarp shows us some of MESSENGER’s first photos of Mercury from orbit and explains why we’re bothering to capture them. Astroengine looks at new research that life in solar …
Heiko Timmers, a physicist with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said it would be difficult to control the nuclear reactors damaged by Japan’s worst earthquake on record. The situation may become more difficult if the containment chambers of the reactors are breached, he said in a telephone interview …
A new rocket, named Liberty, would be much cheaper than the Ares I, because the unfinished NASA-designed upper stage of the Ares I would be replaced with the first stage of the Ariane 5, which has been launched successfully 41 consecutive times. The lower stage of the Liberty, a longer version of the shuttle booster …
Permalloy disk sample and contacts for current injection. (Top) Four 90° domain walls intersect at the vortex core with its out-of-plane magnetization. (Bottom) As current flows through the disk, the vortex core is displaced due to the magnetic field of the current and due to spin-transfer torque. This displacement has been measured to quantify the …
1. North Dakota set an oil production record for the each of the first eight out of nine months of the year in 2010. North Dakota Oil Production 341384 Barrels per day in September 2010. North Dakota is close to double the production from two years ago. 2. There is another new shale oil play …
A bullish analyst (Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair) is predicting that Apple will double 2010 iPhone sales in 2011 His checks with the supply chain suggest Apple intends to produce 45-48 million iPads next year, which would be up from his forecast of 13.5 million in 2010. Among the drivers he anticipates is the arrival …