Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Canadian adventurer Jamie Clarke is putting the zeroloft aerogel material to the ultimate test by climbing part of Mount Everest in a thin jacket made by Champion that contains Zeroloft. The 0.15-inch-thick windbreaker is as warm as a goose down jacket 1.6 inches thick. Aerogel blankets …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Six degree of freedom atomic-scale manipulation using carbon nanotube bundles The designs can support the 9 tooltips designed by Freitas and Merkle. Journal of Nanotechnology – A six degree of freedom nanomanipulator design based on carbon nanotube bundles [updated copy of the paper. Aug …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A swarm of “smart dust” spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot between the Earth and the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. The first prototypes are due for launch into low-Earth orbit this year, perhaps …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The world bank classifies the economies of countries by GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. The groups are: low income, $975 or less lower middle income, $976 – $3,855 upper middle income, $3,856 – $11,905 high income, $11,906 or more. China’s GDP grew …
A $1.37 billion loan guarantee that the U.S. Department of Energy granted to Brightsource Energy should enable a 400 Megawatt solar thermal project to proceed The 400 MW solar project would generate electricity equal to about 100 MW of nuclear power (nuclear power has higher operating capacity, solar cannot generate at night or under clouds) …
Physics professor Louis Taillefer’s findings reduce theories explaining high-temperature superconductivity from dozens to only a few. Taillefer, who collaborated with University of British Columbia scientists, published the team’s most recent findings on high-temperature superconductivity in prestigious science journal Nature on Thursday. They explain the “pseudo-gap” phase, when copper oxides are cooled to minus-100C, and the …
1. Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine have used a new strategy to develop cancer vaccines that are remarkably effective in mice. In the February 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Kimberly Jordan, PhD, Jill Slansky, PhD, and John Kappler, PhD, report …
Technology Review reports – Aspera has now announced an alternative protocol designed to accelerate wireless transfer speeds. Called fasp-AIR, it includes new proprietary approaches to addressing problems of data transfer that are unique to wireless communications. The original fasp protocol is already used to boost regular Internet transfers. The main problem with the TCP protocol, …
A webcast (FBR Capital Market conference) updates the situation with Blacklight Power They are now indicating that they will have continuous run prototypes in 2010. This is a delay from previous talk about a commercial system in 2009. However, if they make their continuous run prototypes with 50KW to 75KW of power available for independent …
Here is an interview with Ross Tierney. Mr. Tierney is a representative of the of the Direct Launcher organization, which has a proposal to get to the moon using NASA shuttle components and other existing technology. This Jupiter rocket system could also be used to go to near-earth objects and possibly even Phobos and Mars. …
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predictions from February 2009 on Iran. The above is a 20 minute TED presentation. – Prediction based on self-interest – Need to look at all of the influencers on the key decision maker – 5 people is 120 interactions, 10 people is 3.6 million interactions – CIA notes that the computer …