They may look like bunk beds on steroids, but a new shrimp production technology developed by a Texas AgriLife Research scientist near Corpus Christi promises to revolutionize how shrimp make it to our tables. The patent-pending technology, known as super-intensive stacked raceways, was created by Dr. Addison Lawrence at the Texas AgriLife Research Mariculture Laboratory …
New Energy Times is reporting NASA is investigating the Piantelli low energy nuclear reaction process. The Piantelli group’s Ni-H gas experiments produced excess heat in the tens of watts. On Sept. 2, Samantha McRoskey, an analyst with Diligence Global Business Intelligence, representing an anonymous investor, contacted New Energy Times to learn more about Ni-H LENR …
Arxiv – Terrestrial, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet Frequency from Kepler (27 pages) Data from Kepler’s first 136 days of operation are analyzed to determine the distribution of exoplanets with respect to radius, period, and host-star spectral type. The analysis is extrapolated to estimate the percentage of terrestrial, habitable-zone exoplanets. The Kepler census is assumed to be complete …
The lab of Rice chemist James Tour lab has created thin films that could revolutionize touch-screen displays, solar panels and LED lighting. Flexible, see-through video screens may be the “killer app” that finally puts graphene — the highly touted single-atom-thick form of carbon — into the commercial spotlight once and for all, Tour said. Combined …
1. Computerworld – Google will be pushing out changes to Google Plus this week. * expect Google to tackle issues related to Google+ invites * improved management of notifications * and perhaps having circles within circles 2. Facebook has split its MySQL database into 4,000 shards in order to handle the site’s massive data volume, …
1. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) sees a decade of growth for nuclear power with only a marginal impact from the Fukushima accident. They reduced their expectations for global nuclear capacity in 2020, but the figure still grows by 27% compared to 2010. Net nuclear capacity, GWe 2010 2015 2020 USA 101.1 103.4 109.0 France …
Flash Bainite is the Strongest, Most Ductile, Lean Alloyed, Readily Weldable, Least Expensive Ultra Strength METAL known to man. A50 tensile ranges from 1100 to 2080MPa (160-302ksi) with 8 to 9% elongation. Total elongation up to 10-11% is not uncommon. Flash 4130 at 1900MPa and 9% elongation exceeds titanium-6Al-4V’s strength to weight ratio making it …
A device only 4 millimeters (0.157 inches) thick can now manage an urban power grid a thousand times faster than currently possible. Is it really possible to manage the power grid of a whole town on single chip? The future of energy production will surely be a combination of several power sources, and Maher Kayal’s …
We reported today that Dr. James Woodward is now seeing consistent thrust signatures that are reversible in the 1.0 micro-Newton thrust range as captured using his ARC-Lite torque pendulum, which has a force resolution of ~0.05 micro-Newtons. Paul March has explained what scaling up could look like if development were to proceed smoothly from here: …
March of Dimes research – Adding just a few more weeks of pregnancy can cut a newborn’s risk of death in half – even if the pregnancy has reached “term” — adding more evidence to the argument that continuing a pregnancy to at least 39 weeks is crucial to a baby’s health. The research by …
Getting switches to work exactly right is critical for the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics dense plasma focus fusion project This site also reviewed how reliable switches are important for the exact timing that is needed and to achieve the desired power levels. LPP’s long-awaited new switch design was successfully tested in mid-May, after some improvements to …