Czech Republic May Build Five Nuclear reactors and China and Russia will cooporate on floating Nuclear reactors

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Czech state power company, CEZ, s looking for offers to build not only two new reactors at Temelin, but also as many as three more at other sites that it owns. 2. China and Russia have agreed to expand nuclear power cooperation in seven areas, …

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White LED lights with 135 Lumens per Watt About Ten Times Better than Incandescent

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Previously white LEDs had a max of about 60 lumens per watt but the new White LEDs have 135 lumens per watt and match the best lighting alternatives The new LED can replace traditional fluorescent bulbs for all general lighting applications, and also be used for …

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MIT Seaswarm Oil Absorbing Robot

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17555522&postID=9221569040176362595 MIT has created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on site. The system, called Seaswarm, is a fleet of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil spills both less expensive and …

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A six degree of freedom nanomanipulator design based on carbon nanotube bundles updated version

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software There was previous coverage on a research paper for making a six degree of freedom atomic scale manipulation using carbon nanotube bundles The designs can support the 9 tooltips designed by Freitas and Merkle. There is now an updated copy of the paper in the Journal …

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Predicting Nanoparticle Interactions in Human Bodies

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Left: in a physiological environment, nanoparticles are exposed to different proteins and small molecules. Right: the competitive adsorption of small molecules (upper) and the amino-acid residues of proteins (lower) on a nanoparticle. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways …

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A new highly compact, ultra-sensitive quantum gravimeter device

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists have developed a novel design for a highly compact, ultra-sensitive quantum device to measure subtle changes in gravity over very short time or distance scales.* Tools of this sort – called atom interferometers (AIs) – are now used to search for natural resources beneath the …

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Brazil’s Agricultural Miracle

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software From the Economist magazine, over the last four decades Brazil has become the first tropical agricultural giant and the first to challenge the dominance of the “big five” food exporters (America, Canada, Australia, Argentina and the European Union). Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader …

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Applied Materials Claims Game Changing Flowable Chemical Vapor Deposition for 256 Gigabyte 3D NAND Flash Chips at 20 Nanometer Lithography

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its breakthrough Applied Producer(R) Eterna(TM) FCVD(TM) (Flowable CVD(1)) system, the first and only film deposition technology capable of electrically isolating the densely-packed transistors in 20nm-and-below memory and logic chip designs with a high-quality dielectric film. The system will enable NAND skyscraper …

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Michael Vassar Google Talk on Transitions from Scholarship to Darwinian Science

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This is basically the same talk that Michael Vassar made at the 2010 Singularity summit. H/T to Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddit, or StumbleUpon. Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success   How to Make Money    Executive …

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Los Alamos Inertial-electrostatic-confinement (IEC) Fusion and Periodically Oscillating Plasma Spheres

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Inertial-electrostatic-confinement (IEC) systems provide an economical and technologically straightforward means to produce fusion reactions in a table-top device. IEC devices confine a plasma in a potential well created by electrostatic fields or a combination of electrostatic and magnetic fields. The fields can be produced either by …

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