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Large Graphene Crystals Grown for super fast electronics in relative near term and potential for superstrong materials later

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Texas researchers used surface oxygen to grow centimeter-size single graphene crystals on copper. The crystals were about 10,000 times as large as the largest crystals from only four years ago. Very large single crystals have exceptional electrical properties. One of the world’s strongest materials, graphene is flexible and has high electrical and thermal conductivity that …

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Strategies to Prosper or Survive when they take your job

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Techcrunch describes the situation where technology is now destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them. Some propose a basic income or negative income tax as updated versions of the communist iron rice bowl. There are strategies for individuals for creating more sources of income – 1. Purchase stocks and other investment instruments which will provide …

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220 Story Sky City Gets go ahead to start construction in June 2013, so it should complete by the end of 2013

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Lloyd Alter at Treehugger reports that Broad Group has gotten permission to proceed with the construction of the 220 story Sky City skyscraper starting in June, 2013 in Changsha. Broad Sustainable Construction informs Lloyd Alter and Treehugger that a long and arduous approval process has been completed, and that they are starting excavation and construction …

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Advanced LTE deployments in 2013 and 2014

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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) did not originally consider LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA+ to be 4G systems Advanced LTE has download speeds of 300 mbps to 1 Gbps and is a true 4G system. A brief summary of status of mobile carriers’ LTE-A penetration is provided below. SK Telecom SK Telecom has successfully tested their …

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Efficient Energy Conversion of the 14MeV Neutrons in DT Inertial Confinement Fusion

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1. Vixra – Efficient Energy Conversion of the 14MeV Neutrons in DT Inertial Confinement Fusion by Friedwardt Winterberg In DT fusion 80% of the energy released goes into 14MeV neutrons, and only the remaining 20% into charged particles. Unlike the charged particles, the uncharged neutrons cannot be confined by a magnetic field, and for this …

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Novel nano-structures could enable commercializable hydrogen storage

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Eurekalert – For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated that hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major hurdle to its use for energy storage and part of a system that displaces oil for cars. Researchers from the Materials Energy Research Laboratory …

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