March of Dimes research – Adding just a few more weeks of pregnancy can cut a newborn’s risk of death in half – even if the pregnancy has reached “term” — adding more evidence to the argument that continuing a pregnancy to at least 39 weeks is crucial to a baby’s health. The research by …
A few developments were announced this week that are related to paper thin tablets, ereaders and electronics in general. Silicon wafers (and their electronics) can be separated to a thinness of 20 to 150 microns Asahi glass has made glass that is 100 microns thick It is thin enough to roll into a scroll Epson …
Schematic of MIX-8 device using Octahedral Electromagnet FP Generation was first formed in 2005 by two Columbia graduate students in the department of Applied Physics. In April of 2009, FPG raised $3 million in series A financing from two leading cleantech venture funds to demonstrate the viability of the MIX concept for net fusion power …
Congressional budget office report – The Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Power for Navy Surface Ships (28 pages) The U.S. Navy plans to build a number of new surface ships in the coming decades, according to its most recent 30-year shipbuilding plan. All of the Navy’s aircraft carriers (and submarines) are powered by nuclear reactors; its other …
New Energy Times Dr Dennis Bushnell (chief scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center) wrote “We [NASA Langley] are NOT doing a Rossi Replication attempt although we are using/ had planned to use H2 and Nickel. We are doing experiments to verify, or not, the W-L [Widom Larsen ] theory.” Dr Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at …
Atomic resolution electron micrograph of activated graphene. The images show that the material is composed of single sheets of crystalline carbon, which are highly curved to form a three-dimensional porous network. Activated graphene combines high storage capacity with quick energy release and unlimited recharge. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have …
IEEE Spectrum – A ground-effect vehicle takes advantage of this fast-moving air and uses some stubby little wings to fly just above the ground, like a maglev without the mag. This is a tricky thing to do, since you have to control the vehicle more like an airplane than a train, meaning that you have …
Iraq does not plan to lower its 12 million barrel per day oil output capacity goal or to redo contracts with oil firms over their plateau targets, Deputy Prime Minister for energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Sunday. There was earlier talk of Iraq lowering the oil target to 6.5-7 million bpd for 2017 Shahristani also …
“NewSQL” is the 451 Groups shorthand for the various new scalable/high performance SQL database vendors. They have previously referred to these products as ‘ScalableSQL’ to differentiate them from the incumbent relational database products. Since this implies horizontal scalability, which is not necessarily a feature of all the products, they adopted the term ‘NewSQL’ in a …
Greenpeace discussed deaths and energy technologies and cited Nextbigfuture. Nextbigfutures articles on deaths per twh are shaping the debate of those who are pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear. The wind power fatalities per unit of energy was reported to be twice as that of nuclear in Germany in 2000 (IEA 2002). In this chart above, we use …
Variation in faces as they age and with accessories. Brazilian police will use futuristic ‘Robocop-style’ glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify and root out troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup. A small camera fitted to the glasses can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing …