Solterra Renewable Technologies will be producing and distributing a Thin Film Quantum Dot PV Solar Cell, which is differentiated from other traditional PV cells by a unique technology that can result in lower cost, higher efficiency, and broader spectral performance. Solterra’s Quantum Dot Solar Cell can achieve a dramatically lower manufacturing cost per watt in …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Eric Drexler describes how zinc fingers for gripping DNA have game changing promise in genetic engineering and therapeutics, and can enable potential applications in structural DNA nanotechnology. A Zinc finger proteins (ZFP) is a sequence of small protein structures (the fingers) that, taken …
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Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced joint development of a mask pattern optimizing technology that improves the accuracy of lithography for LSIs by approximately 20%. The technology opens the door to extending the life of current ArF immersion lithography to the next generation and …
Drexler has some comments about nanotechnology development, progress in nanotechnology and development pathways. Drexler indicates that “basement development” is not possible. Note : Eric Drexler reminded me that he no longer has any connection with the Foresight Institute and asked that I split the original post to avoid confusion. Molecular nanotechnology/nanofactories will not be developed …
Swine flu has killed nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults, and infected one in six people in the United States * more than 200,000 Americans had been hospitalized — about the same number who are affected by seasonal flu in an entire year. * and some 85 million doses of the …
Researchers are focusing on designing small biological circuit components to accomplish specific tasks. Journal Science abstract. Supplemental material. To demonstrate their concept, the team built circuits that count up to three cellular events, but in theory, the counters could go much higher. The first counter, dubbed the RTC (Riboregulated Transcriptional Cascade) Counter, consists of a …
Petrobank’s canadian oil production averaged 22,085 barrels per day (bpd), up 59 per cent from 13,889 bpd in the first quarter of 2008. Petrobank credited the gains to its Bakken properties in southeast Saskatchewan that account for more than 85 per cent of its production and reserves. The Bakken remains profitabl for Petronbank at today’s …
Carnival of Space #99 is up at Alice Astro Info. This site provided information on microscale solar sails and the article with details on PGE (Pacific Gas and Electric) signing an agreement with startup Solaren for Space based solar power by 2016. Innumerable Worlds looks at the tiny movement of our sun caused by Earth …
The first 6 weeks of technology developments in 2009 and the second 6 weeks have seen a lot of big developments. One of the comments was to have trend tracking and projections included in the big development highlight roundups. That will be included as part of future highlight packages. Here are the trends and projections …