Carnival of Space week 44 is up at Bad Astronomy My contribution was my article on large sheets of carbon nanotubes being produced this year which could be used for high performance solar sails. Several of the posts are about Mars. Why the Mars avalanches were interesting Creating a early warning system for future Mars …
Here is a research paper that discusses using adiabatic quantum computation using liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computers for pattern recognition. UPDATE:Pattern recognition is a critical aspect of artificial intelligence. I have a new article “Artificial Intelligence: You are soaking in it”, which discusses mostly ignored penetration of artificial intellience and its future with …
Nanocomp Technologies of Concord, is producing sheets of carbon nanotubes that measure three feet by six feet and promising slabs 100 square feet in area as soon as this summer. The first applications will probably be as electrical conductors in planes and satellites to replace copper wire and save weight. Saving weight would save fuel. …
Carnival of Space 43 is up at Starts with a Bang My contribution was on the newly revealed prototypes from NASA funded projects for a new lunar truck and new robotic mining rover Music of the Spheres discusses the work at Stone Aerospace on robotic explorers that could lead to a robotic explorer for Europa’s …
A novel technique for vaccinating against a variety of infectious diseases – using an oil-based emulsion placed in the nose, rather than needles – has proved able to produce a strong immune response against smallpox and HIV in two new studies. The results build on previous success in animal studies with a nasal nanoemulsion vaccine …
Ray Kurzweil is part of distinguished panel of engineers that says solar power will scale up to produce all the energy needs of Earth’s people in 20 years. Members of the [NAE Engineering Grand Challenges] panel are “confident that we are not that far away from a tipping point where energy from solar will be …
Vincent Page, technology officer at GE, wrote a good paper in 2005 about the economics and timeline towards moving to fusion power He had three fusion concepts in a chart which I will extend Time to Small Cost to Achieve Large scale chanceConcept Description Scale net energy Net Energy after small success Funded?Bussard IEC Fusion …
Laser light can be used to detect molecules in breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer. Although it has yet to be tested in clinical trials, a new apparatus may allow doctors to screen people for certain diseases simply by sampling their breath, according to JILA, a joint institute of the …
In the picture, cells infected with the new virus have been stained using antibodies. After several other identification techniques failed, the new sequencing approach was used to discover a never-before-seen virus that was likely responsible for the deaths of three transplant patients who received organs from the same donor. As many as 40 percent of …
New error correction circuitry will enable 32% more performance or 35% less power usage or a mix of those gains in new computer processors within 3 years. Basically the new circuits make overclocking safe and reliable. On the chip, next to certain ubiquitous circuits called flip-flops, they placed similar circuits called latches. Though both the …
The Worlds highest power wind turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts. (20 million kilowatt hours per year). Chart of largest wind turbines FURTHER READINGA 10 MW superconducting wind turbine is under development There are larger systems like kitegen being studied. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …