Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Atlas Devices has a new Powered Rope Ascender can climb can hold a target load capacity up to 600 pounds at a 6-feet per second rate of ascension. The lightweight ATLAS Ascender can pull a fully-loaded soldier or firefighter up a rappelling line at up to …
The second blog carnival of nuclear energy is up at nuclear green. This site supplied these three articles 1. Just one of China’s nuclear companies is looking to add twelve more AP1000 nuclear reactors beyond the current official plan and Russia, China, France and Japan are in talks for a 4th generation nuclear project 2. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Ultrahigh Density Array of Epitaxial Ferroelectric Nanoislands on Conducting Substrates An ultrahigh density array of epitaxial PbTiO3 (PTO) nanoislands with uniform size was fabricated on a single-crystalline Nb-doped SrTiO3 (100) substrate over a large area (cm^2 scale) by simple but robust method utilizing polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpridine) …
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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This is follow up coverage of the dense plasma focus fusion rocket research article. The work and the presenation involves George H Miley who has been producing research in all aspects of nuclear fusion including dense plasma focus fusion, IEC fusion, laser fusion and cold fusion. Recently …
Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system, an array of nano-sized molecules of gold, respond to electromagnetic waves by creating surface plasmons that induce and project electrical current across molecules, similar to that of …
2009 Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) 79 page pdf – The Growth Potential of Thermoelectrics Why Use Thermoelectrics? If the 220 M Personal Vehicles in the US had Thermoelectric Generators powering Thermoelectric Coolers/Heaters (HVAC) * Save 4.5 Billion gals/year of fuel * Reduce Greenhouse Gases by 69.5 Million Metric Tons …
Researchers from Chalmers University will build up body parts using nanocellulose and the body’s own cells Professor Paul Gatenholm at Chalmers is leading and co-ordinating this European research programme, which will construct an outer ear using nanocellulose and a mixture of the patient’s own cartilage cells and stem cells. The researchers will build up a …
Peter Weyand and colleagues have published a paper which details how human running speeds of 35-40 mph may be biologically possible Peter Weyands estimate of the fastest speed a human can run has been covered here before (he had indicated that 45 mph is possible for a modified human shaped runner). The newly published evidence …
Times Online UK is reporting that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is retracting its claim that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 * The claim was based upon a 1999 news story in the New Scientist. * The New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, …
The National Academies has a 136 page document that examines the better ways to forecast disruptive technological innovation This is one of the main objectives of Nextbigfuture. Nextbigfuture is trying to act as an Office of Technological Assessment and evaluate what is the best ways to use existing technologies and to forecast disruptive technological innovation …