Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a new generation of products – from semiconductors and air conditioners to car exhaust systems and solar power technology – that run cleaner. UPDATE:Info from the Technology Review on how this …
Gene therapy up until now has been the insertion of a new working gene into cells to add or activate a capability, but now the controlled deletion of multiple genes is a new way to effect cellular activity. The targeted removal of genes — the exact opposite of what a gene therapist would do — …
China will be building nuclear power at a faster rate than previously projected. Zhang Guobao, a vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission long involved in energy planning, said he now expected installed nuclear power capacity of 60 GW by that date. Previously it was mentioned that China would have 40GW completed and …
Electron transport through a structure of nanoparticles (left) and more ordered nanotubes (center) is shown. At right, different wavelengths of light can be absorbed by different-sized quantum dots layered in a “rainbow” solar cell. Image credit: Kongkanand, et al. ©2008 ACS. Solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to a specific wavelength of …
According to a recent article in Energy and Environment News, the Air Force is planning to build a 100-225 megawatt nuclear power reactor. Wired blogs mentioned air force interest in nuclear power for bases back in late 2007 Inside the Air Force: headline: Air Force to sign Letter of Intent for Nuclear plant by late …
Seed magazine has a 9 page review of the Blue Brain project. Blue Brain is the IBM project to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer. Currently they have simulated one column of a neocortex (of a rat) with 10,000 neurons and 30 million synapses using a 22.8 teraflop supercomputer. (A human neocortex column has …
Craig Venter, billionaire who previously created a company that was a a key part of sequencing the human genome, claims that he think he will have fourth-generation fuels in about 18 months, with CO2 as the fuel stock. We have modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry and becoming a major source of energy,” …
IBM is producing PS3 cell processors using 45 nm processes on 300mm wafers The die size of the Cell processor at 90 nm features was 221 mm**2. Therefore, the 45nm die size should be about 55-70 mm**2. So a perfect wafer would have about 300 cell processors at 90nm and would have 1000 cell processors …
NEC has printed carbon nanotube transistors on plastic with an electron mobility of 100 cm**2/Vs More information is here I had previously covered work at many other labs working on improving printable electronic speed using many different methods Fijitsu has used a forest of carbon nanotubes (MCNT) to grow graphene at low (510 degrees Celsius …
The Chinese yuan is 7.10 to the US dollar The Chinese yuan is 10.85 to the Euro I have previously predicted that China’s economy will be larger than the US economy on an exchange rate basis before 2020. and think it is most likely to happen in the 2017-2019 range The German economy ended 2007 …
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researchers are looking at is configurable processor technology developed by Tensilica Inc. The company offers a set of tools that system developers can employ to design both the SoC and the processor cores themselves. A real-world implementation of this technology. LBNL estimate that a 10 petaflop peak system built with Tensilica …