Researchers at Oregon State University have created for the first time a high-performance “metal-insulator-metal” diode. High speed computers and electronics that don’t depend on transistors are possibilities. Also on the horizon are “energy harvesting” technologies such as the nighttime capture of re-radiated solar energy, a way to produce energy from the Earth as it cools …
click on the picture for a larger view of how Hong Kong will connect to China with high speed rail The Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railways began operation this year, and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is also expected to be operational by the end of 2011. The high-speed rail from Shanghai to Hong Kong is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. ProjectIcarus is the attempt to re-examine the Project Daedalus starship study of the 1970s in light of technological developments in the intervening years The Icarus team is looking at Uranus for mining helium-3. Getting processed helium-3 to orbit presenting perhaps the biggest technical hurdle. Double-walled …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software HP today announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor Inc., a world-leading memory supplier, to bring memristor, a new circuit element first intentionally demonstrated in HP Labs, to market in future memory products Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (HSI) of Icheon, Korea, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing Sustenance: Feeding a world of 9.4 billion people Speakers: Raoul Adamchak, UC Davis Student Farm/Agricultural Sustainability Institute Fred Pearce, New Scientist Prabhu Pingali, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist First Green revolution – we doubled food production and tripled water usage …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Enhanced superconductivity has been observed in 1-50 nanometer sized particles of tin. [Nanowerk coverage] Quantum effects in the tiny particles can intensify superconductivity up to 60 %, but only if a “magical” size is reached that can be predicted accurately. These results provide new starting points …
Welcome to the third Carnival of Nuclear Energy. 1. NEI summarizes the updated 2009 nuclear statistics. * US nuclear plants generated slightly less electricity in 2009 than in 2008, yet nuclear’s fuel share increased from 19.6% in 2008 to 20.2% in 2009. That’s simply because electricity generation declined by four percent in the US due …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Japan plans to use $2.2 billion to make a lunar base operated by robots at the south pole of moon by 2020. * A Japanese government panel has produced a draft paper outlining how humanoid rover robots will begin surveying the moon by 2015, according to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Quantum dot laser featuring an active layer containing high-density arrays of quantum dots Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., and the University of Tokyo today announced the world’s first quantum dot laser-based 25 Gbps high-speed data transmission. Quantum dot lasers are a type of laser being anticipated …
Pico Computing has achieved the highest-known benchmark speeds for 56-bit DES decryption, with reported throughput of over 280 billion keys per second achieved using a single, hardware-accelerated server Current-generation CPU cores can process approximately 16 million DES key operations per second. A GPU card such as the GTX-295 can be programmed to process approximately 250 …
The Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS) is one of the largest regional wind integration studies to date. It was initiated in 2008 to examine the operational impact of up to 20-30% energy penetration of wind on the power system in the Eastern Interconnect of the United States. the full report is a 242 …