Cameco forecast – does not include Cigar Lake for 2013 and 2014 Cameco is Canada’s largest uranium company and they released their 2009 annual report Here are the highlights: * 20.8 million pounds U308 produced in 2009, 20% increase from 2008 * 16.8 million pounds in Canada. Less 4 million pounds in Cameco report from …
HiPER’s layout from a preliminary design study. The ignition lasers are on the left, the drivers on the right (just visible in the cutaway). The main amplifiers (in darker blue) are at the upper left end of the building, driven by the capacitor banks in the smaller buildings on either side. Spatial filters are shown …
1. Guardian UK and other sources report – China sold $34bn (£21.5bn) worth of US government bonds in December, raising fears that Beijing is using its financial muscle to signal that it has lost confidence in American economic policy. US treasury figures for the period ending in December 2009 show that, following the sale, China …
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 …
Ralph Merkle Interview Here is Sander Olson’s Ralph Merkle interview. Dr. Merkle is one of the foremost molecular manufacturing experts on the planet, but his research is currently severely resource constrained. Hopefully this interview will serve to inform people about his research. Question 1: You’ve just returned from the 2010 Foresight conference. How did that …
MIT researchers have developed a system that can wirelessly transfer power to multiple electronic devices simultaneously with high efficiency (over 50%). 25 watts of power was supplied to each of two electronic devices located two meters or more from the source coil (3 page pdf) Simultaneous mid-range power transfer to multiple devices The approach of …
(Via Greencarcongress- A new report from Pike Research anticipates that the global market for electric two-wheeled vehicles—e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorcycles—will grow at a compound annual rate of 9% through 2016. China is currently the largest marketplace for electric two-wheel vehicles, commanding 98% of the global market in 2009. China’s compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of …
UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic “gene” that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. The research appears in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Science. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals,” said UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor Omar M. Yaghi, …
The upper panel shows the topographical measurement of a diindenoperylene film. Lighter shades stand for higher areas, darker ones for lower areas. In the lower panel the topographical and the optical measurements are superimposed – the latter one in the red and yellow colour range; the brighter the colour, the higher the luminescence intensity. (Image: …
High-pressure researchers, including Carnegie’s Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao, have now modeled three hydrogen-dense metal alloys and found there are pressure and temperature trends associated with the superconducting state—a huge boost in the understanding of how this abundant material could be harnessed. Computer modeling indicates that superconductivity for trihydrides (Hydrogen compounds with 3 hydrogens) set in at …
Illumina Inc. unveiled new technology it says can sequence a person’s entire genetic code for under $10,000. Illumina also said that 128 of its new sequencing systems, called the HiSeq 2000, had been purchased by BGI, formerly known as Beijing Geonomis Institute, which will install most of the machines in a new genome center in …