Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Space elevator GAmes power beaming competition for 2010 has slipped to a later date. No new date has been set to replace the May 2010 date but it will likely be sometime around November, 2010. If you liked this article, please give it a quick …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Plasmonic nano-antennas could increase hard drive densities to ten terabits (Tb) per square inch. The write speed obtained by the researchers was 250 megabits per second. The researchers only worked with one terabit per square inch densities but believe 10 terabits per square inch is possible. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Why am I going to revisit the Six Million dollar man ? The Seven Horizons Project has a Youtube video of the six Million dollar man intro on its prewiki page. The Seven Horizons project involves over 20 PHds and some doctors and seems to have …
The Project Icarus Team plan to follow on from Project Daedalus and design an interstellar spaceship. (H/T Centauri Dreams Daedalus had three stated guidelines as follows: 1.The spacecraft must use current or near-future technology. 2.The spacecraft must reach its destination within a human lifetime. 3.The spacecraft must be designed to allow for a variety of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In April 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the total population of the United States on April 1, 2000, was 281,421,906. The apparent precision was entirely spurious. The Director of the Census Bureau later remarked that the true population of the United States in 2000 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BP says it is working on at least five possible approaches for halting the spew of oil from a damaged well deep in the Gulf of Mexico that is feeding one of the worst spills in U.S. history. * They still hope to seal the well …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a powerpoint presentation on the from 2009 on the work to create a Bose-Einstein condensate of Positronium (24 pages). This work recently made progress as researchers isolated a collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time. Positronium is a short-lived …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software One of the big secrets of World War 2 is why Nazi Germany succeeded in surprising Soviet Russia in June 1941. The usual reasons were that Stalin trusted a non-aggression pact with Hitler or Stalin was afraid of Nazi Germany. Viktor Sukorov analyzes some recently released …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Six degree of freedom atomic-scale manipulation using carbon nanotube bundles The designs can support the 9 tooltips designed by Freitas and Merkle. Journal of Nanotechnology – A six degree of freedom nanomanipulator design based on carbon nanotube bundles [updated copy of the paper. Aug …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. chris Phoenix at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnlogy reviews a talk by Erik Winfree of CalTech on advancing self assembly towards molecular manufacturing. The Winfree walk was at the foundations of Nanoscience conference. The detailed schedule for the talks are here. * While trying to …