High temperature superconducting (HTS) cables have gained attention in the last couple years as a solution to the shortage of transmission capabilities. Superconductors are materials that lose their resistance to the flow of electrons when cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero – hence, they conduct electricity almost ideally. European researchers initiated the ‘Super coated …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Tesla electric car company has released a 258 page document as part of its planned IPO. They reveal all sorts of financial and technical details. They also incidate how the model S Sedan planned for 2012 will be the platform for three other vehicle lines. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There has been concern about the sex ratio (baby boys to baby girls) in China. The sex ratio is normally about 103 to 107 boys for every 100 girls. Recent analysis indicates that 3 million children are hidden each year in China and this action overstated …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC, SC10) that it has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet. (A petaflop is defined as a thousand …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Superpower inc makes superconductors * Superconducting wire consists of a strip a few thousandths of an inch thick of modified YBCO, surrounded by various other layers, including copper. To work, it must be chilled within a cryostat, a cooling device that uses liquid nitrogen to push …
The week 6 weekend domestic box office for Avatar was $36 million. This was a 16% drop from the previous weekends $42 million. The foreign markets do not report until tomorrow, but should have about $100-120 million. The rest of the week should probably have a little over $3 million per day domestically. Previous nextbigfuture …
Here is a new video (1 minute 44 seconds long) that summarizes dense plasma focus fusion. It shows the equipment being used in the latest validation of viability project ($1.2 million from 2009 through 2010). It shows animation of what is happening and has narration. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
These blue cells are human mesenchymal stem cells that have become senescent –- or lost the ability to divide — after X-ray irradiation. This image, obtained using senescence-associated β-gal staining, helped Berkeley Lab scientists better understand the process that triggers senescence in mesenchymal stem cells. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
The Economist has positive coverage of dense plasma focus fusion. Mr Lerner’s machine is called a dense plasma focus fusion device. It works by storing charge in capacitors and then discharging the accumulated electricity rapidly through electrodes bathed in a gas held at low pressure. The electrodes are arranged as a central positively charged anode …
From MIT Technology Review: Korean researchers have created nanoscale lenses with superhigh resolution using a novel self-assembly method. So far, they’ve demonstrated that the tiny lenses can be used for ultraviolet lithography, for imaging objects too tiny for conventional lenses, and for capturing individual photons from a light-emitting nanostructure called a quantum dot. The new …
The middle class earning between $30,000 and 100,000 is shrinking because more people are earning more than $100,000 There is a split into the regular middle class and a mass affluent class. Economist Stephen Rose, defining the middle class as households with annual incomes between $30,000 and $100,000, says a smaller percentage of Americans are …