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 …
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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 …
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 …
Day 3 also appears to be done with no change in the standings or prizes won. Lasermotive has won the level 1 prize of $900,000. No other prizes were won and no other team qualified for a prize. LaserMotive retained their lead, and inched closer to the 5 m/s benchmark – they removed some payload, …
In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patient’s blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients are needed, these results suggest that gene therapy …
Amory Lovins wrote an article on Grist primarily making the case that nuclear power is not economic and has a 30+ page pdf on the “Four Myths of Nuclear” This will be the first of a few articles where I show where Lovins is wrong. Firstly he talks about gross dollar or energy amounts. Those …
The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the Colorado School of Mines, reports the largest increase in natural-gas reserves in its 44-year history. Estimated reserves rose to 2,074 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in 2008 from 1,532 Tcf in its 2006 report. UPDATE: Robert Rapier made a calculation that if …
* Why start with the assumption that no current, emerging or future technology can solve a particular class of problem ? * Why assume that no technology can be a significant part of a solution or reduction of a problem ?* People say that it is Utopian and imply it is impossible to solve all …