DSP chips are powering the race to 4G in next generation base stations Next-generation base stations speed mobile connectivity with SDRs, hard-coded accelerators, and multicore CPUs. EDN covers the DSP, FPGA technology that is going into the new base stations. To build a 4G modem, you must start with the PHY (physical) layer, Layer 1 …
It took a while but there are finally some unmanned vehicles being used to help fight the problems at the Fukushima reactor UPDATE AS OF 10 A.M. EDT, SATURDAY, MARCH 19: Preparations were being made to spray water into the used fuel pool at reactor 4, and an unmanned vehicle sprayed more than 1,500 gallons …
NEI – Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said in a recent conference that plans are in place to use 30 water cannon trucks and fire engines to spray water into the reactor 3 spent fuel pool, and TEPCO is discussing whether to do the same for the reactor 1 spent fuel pool. The spraying work is …
Jerry Pournelle is a famous science fiction author but also has Master of Science degrees in both experimental statistics and systems engineering. In response to Physicist Russell Seitz who was claiming scary numbers for the radiation. The radiation plume of 400 milliseiverts is from a small area of certainly no more than 100 square meters. …
Here is the Randy Lewis interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Lewis is a molecular biologist who teaches at the University of Wyoming. His group has sequenced the genome of the orb spider, which has silk which is 10x as strong as steel. Dr. Lewis group aims to inject orb spider genes into silkworms in order …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software CompositesWorld’s Carbon Fiber 2009 conference had a forecast of carbon fiber supply and demand World carbon fiber production should increase from 41240 tons to 113500 tons in 2018. * carbon fiber will be used in flywheels, which are being developed for storage of wind energy during …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Plastic printer: This roll-to-roll printer can make simple circuits for devices like RFIDs on sheets of plastic. Now Applied Materials is developing a roll-to-roll printer to make flexible displays. Credit: Applied Materials Applied Materials is developing a process that could print flexible transistor arrays that perform …
Technology Review talks about the Rice University superacid process for making large quantities of Graphene. This method for making bulk Graphene was presented here at Nextbigfuture a week ago. Technology Review interviewed the researchers on the potential of the process. The process could also be used to bring down the costs of lightweight, tough structural …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Kitegen situation statement from Carlo Perassi, board of wind Operations which has a stake in Kitegen – the public news that is available is on http://www.kitegen.com/ and http://www.windoperationsworldwide.eu/en/ I can only say, once again, that the well known 15 Million Euros was not funded. The UE …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software From page 9 of the EIA Monthly reports Petroleum supply report EIA Monthly report shows that US ethanol production in January 2010 was 818,000 barrels per day The United States uses about 20 million barrels per day of oil. Renewable Fuel Association has more context Ethanol …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys BioTime and its collaborators reported on March 16, 2010 in a scientific paper titled “Spontaneous Reversal of the Developmental Aging of Normal Human Cells Following Transcriptional Reprogramming” the reversal of human cellular aging (Journal of Regenerative Medicine) * The Company reported that by …