1. Nuclear Green has an article Mark Z. Jacobson’s proliferation of errors Stanford’s Mark Jacobson has a new paper “Providing all Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials” Jacobson, in effect, argues that by avoiding the construction of civilian power reactors, the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software PNAS – Transcranial magnetic stimulation of posterior parietal cortex affects decisions of hand choice Deciding which hand to use for an action is one of the most frequent decisions people make in everyday behavior. Using a speeded reaching task, we provide evidence that hand choice entails …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER) – Exoskeletons and orthoses: classification, design challenges and future directions by Hugh Herr Hugh Herr was involved in making a motorless exoskeleton that was quasi-passive yet able to bear 80 pounds of weight For over a century, technologists and scientists …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Stephen Hawking repeated his assertion that time travel should be possible. Quantum Theory allows the energy density to be negative in some places, provided it is positive in others. The reason Quantum Theory can allow the energy density to be negative, is that it is based …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new remote-controlled helicopter is the first to have a robotic hand to pick objects off the ground and fly away with them. The helicopter can fly up to 80 miles per hour while carrying objects that weight as much as 4.5 pounds. It could pick …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NEI Corporation and the University of California, San Diego won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials for lithium batteries The outcome of the program will be a commercially useable cathode material with exceptionally …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software * The first eleven weeks of 2010,US crude oil production has been stable at about 5.5 million barrels per day * Net US oil imports averaged 8.5 million barrels per day in Dec, 2009 and are 9.2 million barrels per day so far in March, 2010 * …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT researchers self assembled chainlike molecules into complex patterns on a silicon chip. The obvious way to continue shrinking chip features would be to use beams of electrons to transfer mask patterns to layers of photoresist. But unlike light, which can shine through a mask and expose …
By dipping ordinary paper or fabric in a special ink infused with nanoparticles, Stanford engineer Yi Cui has found a way to cheaply and efficiently manufacture lightweight paper batteries and supercapacitors (which, like batteries, store energy, but by electrostatic rather than chemical means), as well as stretchable, conductive textiles known as “eTextiles” – capable of …
Diamond Trees (Tropostats): A Molecular Manufacturing Based System for Compositional Atmospheric Homeostasis The future technology of molecular manufacturing will enable long-term sequestration of atmospheric carbon in solid diamond products, along with sequestration of lesser masses of numerous air pollutants, yielding pristine air worldwide ~30 years after implementation. A global population of 143 x 10^9 20-kg …
1. Intellectual Ventures Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s former chief technology officer, has assembled commonly available technology — parts used in printers, digital cameras and projectors — to make rapid lasers to shoot down mosquitoes in mid-flight. The laser mosquito zapping work was first covered here in early 2009 After hundreds of mosquitoes (which were kept in …