The New Energy Times has been covering low energy nuclear reactions (LENR – what was called cold fusion) from the beginning. There is an article which discuses the Rossi 10 KW demonstration. * The original nickel-hydrogen LENR research was developed by Francesco Piantelli, of Siena, Italy. Piantelli was not involved in the recent Rossi demonstration …
Joe Romm had 1 full wedge for nuclear and 700 GW for nuclear in his 2008 decarbonize energy plan. It shifted to half a wedge 350 GW in 2009 and then had half a wedge for advanced nuclear 350 GW. It is now back to 700 GW and one wedge for his 2010 plan. Joe …
Nvidia – The Benefits of Multiple CPU Cores in Mobile Devices Nvidia Tegra 4 is expected to be a quad core chip in 2012 Nvidia plans a new Tegra chip once a year If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Featured articles Ocean Floor Gold and …
This is my opinion and a theory about the ghost cities and over construction in China. The Daily Mail and others have pictures and videos of what are claimed to be ghost cities or empty malls and other overbuilt and unused infrastucture I believe that partially things are being built in advance because of the …
Red Camera appears very close to releasing another revolutionary digital video camera, Red Scarlet Red Scarlet will be called Epic Light, which reflects that it’s really just a compact and differently-spec’ed version of their new digital cinema camera. The company’s main product is the Red One, which can record at resolutions up to 4,096 horizontal …
There was a 98 page technical presentation from 2009 by George Miley on IEC nuclear fusion. I have embedded it below. It is related to a larger nuclear fusion space propulsion program. I will pull out the specific research progress that was reviewed by George Miley. A lot of it is work done at the …
Space Probe Application of IEC Thrusters A novel plasma jet thruster, based on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) technology, is under development for an ultra maneuverable – space thruster for satellite and small probe thrust operations. The IEC Jet design potential offers unique capability to cover a wide range of powers (few Watts to Kilowatts) with …
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created an ultra-fast 1,000-core computer processor. The core is the part of a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) which reads and executes instructions. Originally, computers were developed with only one core processor but, today, processors with two, four or even sixteen cores are commonplace. However, Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede …
HPCWire – two clear trends established in 2010 that are set to change the face of HPC over the next 5 to 10 years: the rise of GPGPU supercomputing and the emergence of China as an HPC superpower. LSU’s Sterling noted that the Chinese are not simply buying their way into the upper echelons of …
DARPA awarded a $9.9 million contract to Notre Dame’s Center for Nano Science and Technology for advanced nanomagnet logic (NML) research — a promising new field where the transmission and computation of data are accomplished using magnetic fields, rather than electrical current. The ultimate goal? Invent a new type of logic/computational platform powered by magnets …
David Brin describes his top method for Futurology: The tricky art of knowing what will happen next. The top method is simply to stay keenly attuned to trends in the laboratories and research centres around the world, taking note of even things that seem impractical or useless,” says Brin. “You then ask yourself: ‘What if …