Energy Storage with zinc air batteries for electric cars with longer range and competitive grid storage

EOS Energy Storage makes nickel air batteries and has a presentation on energy storage If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …

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Nvidia launches GPU GeForce Cloud Gaming and in the Fall of 2012 Nividia will power 20 petaflop supercomputer at ORNL

KurzweilAI – Nvidia is flexing its graphics muscle at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference, and the videos below show off Kepler’s new visual tricks:real-time ray tracing, simulation of physical bodies, and cloud gaming powered by its new GeForce Grid system. The Titan supercomputer will go live this fall at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), it …

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All Aluminum frame makes bus 40% lighter than steel and Boeing 737 Max engine will be 12% more fuel efficient

1. Alcoa today announced it has developed a new all-aluminum space frame and bus design for BYD that has reduced the weight of the new BYD Electric Bus body by 40 percent, or nearly one ton, versus steel options. The first two BYD Electric Bus prototypes were launched this week in Changsha City, Hunan Province, …

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DOE funds new wind turbine designs and systems including two superconducting systems

The Department of Energy awarded nearly $7.5 million to help develop next generation wind turbines. Each project has been selected to receive up to $700,000 to conduct technology cost and readiness assessments during Phase I. Following the six-month Phase I funding period, several of the projects will be selected for award negotiations of up to …

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Carnival of Space 200

1. Weird warp – The Kepler telescope, which has been looking for planets outside our solar system, has found a new rocky planet a bit like a scorched molten Earth. It orbits around a sun like star called Kepler-10 in only 45 days. 2. Music of the Spheres looks at the Skylon Spaceplane 3. Cheap …

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Iraq oil production could be 25-35% higher than 2010 in 2011 and the plans for Rumaila, West Qurna and Zubair oilfields

Extended the US State department graph of iraq oil production and exports with the new numbers and forecasts. Reaching 3 million barrels per day (mbpd) would be 25% higher (590,000 bpd increase) than the 2010 production and 3.26 mbpd (850,000 bpd increase) would be 25% higher than 2010. Iraq’s exports surged to a postwar record …

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Light transforms material into a superconductor

A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report. In the journal Science, they describe how a strong infrared laser pulse was used to perturb the positions of some of the atoms in the material. The compound, held at a temperature just 20 degrees above absolute zero, almost instantaneously …

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Bayer Starts Building 200ton/year carbon nanotube plant and Nanocomp gets More Stimulus Funding

Bayer has begun construction of a carbon nanotube factory with a capacity of 200 tons/year. They are investing 22 million euro in the plant. They have had a plant with 60 ton/year capacity since 2007. A mid-2008 nextbigfuture look at carbon nanotube production. Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., [they make large sheets of carbon nanotubes] a developer …

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