Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Bloomberg Business Week – aside from increasing domestic consumption, there are two further megatrends developing in China over the next five years that senior executives need to keep in mind. 1. Increasing domestic consumption 2. Instead of moving to find work in manufacturing centers in southern …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Weird Science posted a response in our back in forth on future energy. Bruce at Weird Science has some fundamental inconsistencies in how he views the future which are problematic. Contradictions and Inconsistencies and Unjustified Criteria Weird Science talks about accepting fossil fuels for 70 years …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Universe Today – exoplanets orbit the star HR 8799, and have been imaged directly before, by one of the 10-meter (33-foot) Keck telescopes and the 8.0-meter (26-foot) Gemini North Observatory in 2008 Now they have been imaged by using just a 1.5-meter-diameter (4.9-foot) …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software A new wirless power transmission system uses receivers that are only about a foot across – moving closer to a size that could eventually be built into a PC or a television set. The transmitting coil could be built into a wall or ceiling, the researchers …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Carnival of Space 149 is at starry critters. This site provided: A spacecraft on a computer chip prototype should be launched this year. If this works it would open the door to cheap computer chip spacecraft that would act as sensors and monitors all over the …
The initial phase of the test loop program for the SILEX laser enrichment technology has been successfully completed by Global Laser Enrichment (GLE). The test loop facility is designed to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of the technology and is intended to advance the design of the equipment and processes for the proposed commercial production facility. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dwave Systems publishes an eight page paper Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor Dwave Systems has previously announced their 128 qubit adiabatic quantum computer system. There is controversy over the quantumness of the system. Critics question if the computing …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Methuselah Foundation has launched a new prize to advance life extension and regenerative medicine. The NewOrgan Prize will be given for successfully constructing a whole new organ – heart, kidney, lung, pancreas or liver – from a patient’s own cells. The organ must be transplanted …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A swarm of “smart dust” spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot between the Earth and the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. The first prototypes are due for launch into low-Earth orbit this year, perhaps …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The world bank classifies the economies of countries by GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. The groups are: low income, $975 or less lower middle income, $976 – $3,855 upper middle income, $3,856 – $11,905 high income, $11,906 or more. China’s GDP grew …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The first re-use of nuclear fuel in a Candu reactor has started at Qinshan nuclear power plant in China. Over the next six months, another 24 of the ‘natural uranium equivalent’ (NUE) bundles will be used in two of the reactor’s fuel channels. If successful over a …