Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the John Hunter of Quicklaunch interview by Sander Olson. Mr. Hunter is the Director of the Quicklaunch company, which is hoping to create a method for launching unmanned payloads into orbit for $500 per pound. The Quicklaunch approach shoots payloads into orbit using a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Union of Concerned Scientists recently covered a 1988 nuclear power accident which caused no deaths. There are plenty of fatal coal and oil and natural gas accidents that the Union of concerned scientists are unconcerned about. There were 161 oil pipeline deaths and 576 injuries …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A ceremony has been held to mark the start of groundbreaking for units 7 and 8 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) in India. First concrete is scheduled to be poured at the site before the end of the year. RAPP 7 and 8 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new catalyst could help speed development of inexpensive home-brewed solar energy systems for powering homes and plug-in cars during the day (left) and for producing electricity from a fuel cell at night (right). Credit: Patrick Gillooly/MIT 200-fold boost in fuel cell oxygen production efficiency advances …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Controlling Piezoelectric Response in Semiconductor Quantum Dots via Impulsive Charge Localization By direct observation of coherent acoustic phonons, we demonstrate a novel extrinsic piezoelectric response in colloidal CdSe semiconductor quantum dots. This response is driven by the migration of charges to the surface of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers reported the creation of piezoelectric energy harvesting nanogenerators on both silicon and polymer substrates. Energy harvesters could eventually power small electronic devices from environmental motions. A medical implant, for example, might be powered by the mechanical energy in flowing blood. So far energy harvesters have …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Edison2 is the Mainstream unofficial winner The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of super fuel efficient vehicles, announced today the Finalist teams who have survived all on-track testing at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), and who now move …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Air Force provides information on the X-51A Waverider flight. The test vehicle successfully made the longest ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight Wednesday, May 26 off the southern California Pacific coast. The X-51 launched about 10 a.m. Wednesday, from Edwards Air Force Base, carried aloft …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A maglev train leaves Shanghai Pudong International Airport heading to the city. Plans to extend the line to Hangzhou were stalled by protests. People in China are questioning the logic of having two high-speed rail links between the same cities (Shanghai and Hangzhou), especially as the …
Astro Bio looks at the telescope array sizes needed to image other planets and objects on other planets in other solar systems. * a 100-pixel image of a planet twice the width of Earth some 16.3 light years away would require the elements making up a space telescope array to be more than 43 miles …
Plastics Today – Bayer MaterialScience has opened a large carbon nanotube (CNT) pilot facility in Leverkusen, boasting annual capacity of 200 tonnes The announcement from Bayer comes the same week that Belgian competitor Nanocyl said it was installing a new reactor for nanotube production that would boost its production capacity to 400 tonnes/year. That new …