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Multigigabit per second wireless broadband by 2020 with beam forming 5G technology from multiple antennas

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Samsung’s millimeter-wave transceiver technology could enable ultrafast (multi-gigabit per second) mobile broadband by 2020 Engineers at Samsung estimate that government regulators could free as much as 100 GHz of millimeter-wave spectrum for mobile communications—about 200 times what mobile networks use today These waves don’t penetrate solid materials very well. They also tend to lose more …

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The United States Has Forgotten how to make bridge quality steel

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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was a feat of American engineering when it was built across New York’s harbor in the 1960s. Now, it’s being repaired with steel made in China. Chinese bridge steel was cheaper. US steel contractors either went out of business or get very few projects and thus have little active experience. Chinese companies …

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Mastering Disruptive technology and business models for disruption

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How do you create disruptive change ? How do you identify targets for disruption opportunities ? What approaches can achieve sustainable advantage and disruption ? What does disruption really mean ? Disruption is not just better, cheaper and faster. What Disruption Really Means Just being “better, cheaper, faster,” does not mean they are disruptive. A …

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Strategies to Prosper or Survive when they take your job

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Techcrunch describes the situation where technology is now destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them. Some propose a basic income or negative income tax as updated versions of the communist iron rice bowl. There are strategies for individuals for creating more sources of income – 1. Purchase stocks and other investment instruments which will provide …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 159

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1. ANS Nuclear Cafe Blog Post: Farmers, City Folk and Renewable Energy Back from a hiking trip in North Carolina, blogger Meredith Angwin thanks conventional power plants. Power from such plants is what allows mountain waterfalls to continue to be waterfalls, not power sources. Some people in Vermont claim that we can “get” all our …

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Carbon fibers coated with carbon nanotubes have been made twice as strong

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MIT researchers have produced carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. The engineered fibers may be woven into composites to make stronger, lighter airplane parts. The researchers coated carbon fibers with nanotubes without causing fiber degradation, making the fibers twice as strong as previous nanotube-coated fibers — paving the way …

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