Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Oak Ridge National Lab has graphite foam for cooling LED lighting to double the lifespan and reduce costs. This technology will reduce temperatures and increase the life of the LED lighting systems, what it will really do is save municipalities millions of dollars every year in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BBC News reports that when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed. Mr Kato may have been dead for 30 years according to Japanese authorities. The family had received 9.5 million yen ($109,000: £70,000) …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a criticism of the idea to cover roads as being too costly at $3 million per acre. I had indicated further into the article ways to reduce the cost of covering the roads by using street lamps and telephone polls and existing two story …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Kitegen is a system for generating wind power from kites. It has faced a lot of bureaucratic and fund raising intrigue in Italy. It is featured at the Italian pavillion at the World Expo in Shanghai. At Sommariva Perno – at the landfill at Cascina the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a 20 page presentation of a DOE roadmap of nuclear energy and uranium through 2100. There is an assumption that reactors can use up to 35 million tons of regular uranium and uranium in phosphate resources. The plan is to shift to breeder reactors …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, developed a colony of mice with super-charged granulocytes and those mice could withstand virulent cancer. When Dr. Cui administered healthy, potent granulocytes to mice with cancer that couldn’t be treated by other known therapies, he …
Nuclear Green has the 7th carnival of nuclear energy. ARC 100 and Other Small Reactors Dan Yurman talks about the Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC) company developing a 100 MW small modular reactor (SMR) which relies on well-understood fuel developed for a sodium-cooled fast reactor that was actually built and operated at the Argonne National Laboratory …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NASA WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore) space telescope has discovered at least two cool, substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. One of the brown dwarfs, dubbed WISE 2, appears to be as cold as any that are known. It may even be colder, Wright said, than …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software LIUS (Low Intensity UltraSound) has been used to enhance bone healing, repair of damaged muscle, and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts or chondrocytes. Ultrasound can improve cell viability, thanks to its ability to get molecules moving, and researchers have used it to increase blood …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A half sphere of polymer cubes built by researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Image: Javier Gomez Fernandez Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are encapsulating living cells in cubes and arranging them into 3-D structures, just …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency has restarted the Monju fast neutron reactor. The facility, called Monju, was shut down in 1995 following a fire. The fast-breeder reactor was declared reactivated by Monju’s director general, Kazuo Mukai, after one of its control rods, which had been inserted to …