The Nakheel Tower had started construction, but was cancelled in Dec 2009 due to the financial crisis in Dubai. The Nakheel was to be 1000 meters tall. Proposed and the projects are Still Active The Burj Al Meel project is still active and is proceeding to award a design contract. If it is built it …
Attainability of high velocities for impact ignition (page pdf) by Winterberg To reach the flyer plate velocities in excess of 1000km/sec required for impact ignition, it is proposed to combine the ablation acceleration of a dense hydrogen jet by its isentropic compression in a convergent Prandtl-Meyer flow, magnetically insulated by the Nernst effect against the …
EWeek reports that Intel will launch a 32nm chip Intel is prepping for the official release of its 32-nm “Westmere” Core processors for desktops and laptops Jan. 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Intel is readying the release of almost 20 32-nanometer Westmere processors for both desktops and laptops. Intel reportedly will …
China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in approved August, 2009 to two strains of (genetically modified) GM rice and one of GM maize for small-scale field trials — the first time that China has granted safety certificates to staple food crops. A document published on the website of the MoA’s Biosafety Management Office in October said …
Carnival of Space 135 is up at Steve’s Astrocorner This site provided articles on the possible discovery of dark matter particles and an overview of electron cyclotron resonance thrusters Planetaria covers the proposed Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) mission. It has an estimated launch in January 2015 and landing in June 2022. The lander would float …
The estimated sizes of the 5 new exoplanets compared to jupiter and earth Kepler Mission scientists will reveal the space telescope’s latest discoveries at a news briefing in Washington on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. The announcement will be made at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) at a news conference during the 215th national meeting …
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Red blood cell-mimicking synthetic biomaterial particles Biomaterials form the basis of current and future biomedical technologies. They are routinely used to design therapeutic carriers, such as nanoparticles, for applications in drug delivery. Current strategies for synthesizing drug delivery carriers are based either on discovery of materials or development …
There are people who look at the Energy Information Administration projection that is some nuclear favorable energy bill passes that the US cannot make 140 more nuclear reactors and sustain current nuclear power and achieve 240% of current nuclaer power by 2050. I think the build rate and increase of nuclear power can be far …
China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revises its GDP growth for 2008 up from 9.0% to 9.6% China raised GDP for 2008 to 31.4045 trillion yuan from the previous figure of 30.067 trillion yuan. The new figure amounted to about 4.59 trillion U.S. dollars, at the exchange rate on Dec. 31 of 2008. China’s gross …
Economist Robin Hanson and futurist Brian Wang join us as we continue our special series leading up Foresight 2010. The conference, January 16-17 in Palo Alto, California, provides a unique opportunity to explore the convergence of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Foresight Institute. 10:00 Eastern/9:00 …
These illustrations show how a 3-D crystal made from nanoparticles changes between two distinct states via an intermediate structure (top row, middle) when looped (left) versus unlooped (right) double-stranded DNA chains are used to link the particles. The scientists were able to measure the distance between the particles in each structure by recording x-ray scattering …