This is from a pdf with 5% and 10% oil savings plans FURTHER READINGShort, mid and long term energy 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 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including …
The main method for producing graphene currently involves peeling sheets from a chunk of graphite using sticky tape – a technique that is too awkward to be of use to electronics manufacturers. Graphene has the potential to be used for electronics and to replace silicon with faster and more efficient processing. Scott Gilje and colleagues …
Synthetic biology used to make viruses to combat harmful ‘biofilms’ This diagram shows how an engineered virus,T7, destroys a biofilm composed of E. coli bacteria. Graphic courtesy / Timothy Lu and James Collins In one of the first potential applications of synthetic biology, an emerging field that aims to design and build useful biomolecular systems, …
Futurepundit had an article which referred to a study that humanity is already using 25% of the biomass of the earth I don’t believe that is accurate, but even if it is I think that changes can and are being made. Improving on existing established trends in food production with more technical refinements. More domestication …
From the New Scientist, new ways of turning heat into sound waves – and then into electricity – may be the next step toward a practical new source of alternative energy. 40% of waste heat from power plants could be converted to electricity if this works and can be scaled up and installed on power …
New Scientist reports on new catalysts to help take CO2 from the atmosphere to make fuel The team heated a mixture of CO2 and benzene with the catalyst to a temperature of 150 ºC, at about three times atmospheric pressure. In a first step, the catalyst enabled the CO2 to form a reactive carbamate, like …
A group of researchers at Tufts University has launched a multidisciplinary initiative focused on the science and engineering of a new class of robots that are completely soft-bodied. These devices will make possible advances in such far flung arenas as medicine and space exploration. According to Kaplan, the project will bring together biology, bioengineering and …
The New Scientist, examines the efforts to reduce ship drag using tiny bubbles, slippery polymers and trapped sheets of air. As a ship moves through water it encounters three types of drag: wave drag, pressure drag and frictional drag. Wave resistance is mainly a problem at high speed, and can be minimised with a carefully …