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 …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Google Translate is an automatic translator — that is, it works without the intervention of human translators, using state-of-the-art technology instead. Most commercial machine-translation systems in use today have been developed using a rule-based approach, and require a lot of work to define vocabularies and grammars. Our …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) invites you to the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in the Washington DC area from March 1-3. The summit brings together all the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials The Program of …
Facebook petition to Hella the SI prefix for 10^27 Hella would be 1000 times bigger than yotta and a trillion times bigger than peta. Factor Name 10^24 yotta 10^21 zetta 10^18 exa 10^15 peta 10^12 tera 10^9 giga 10^6 mega 10^3 kilo 10^2 hecto 10^1 deka 10^-1 deci 10^-2 centi 10^-3 milli 10^-6 micro 10^-9 …
A $1.37 billion loan guarantee that the U.S. Department of Energy granted to Brightsource Energy should enable a 400 Megawatt solar thermal project to proceed The 400 MW solar project would generate electricity equal to about 100 MW of nuclear power (nuclear power has higher operating capacity, solar cannot generate at night or under clouds) …
EETimes looks at direct write lithography with electron beam machines * Based on the length of time it has historically taken for each new lithography technology to move from proof-of-concept to production, e-beam direct-write lithography tools will be available no sooner than 2015, according to Kurt Ronse, lithography department director at nanoelectronics research center IMEC …
K. R Sidhar invented a new kind of fuel cell, which is like a very skinny battery that always runs. 60 Minutes reports that the magic behind the Bloom Box starts with the company baking basic sand and cutting it into little squares that are turned into a ceramic, which are then coated with green …
Weighing over four tons, Heron TP – also dubbed Heron 2 or “Eitan”, by its Israeli Air Force (IAF) designation – is designed to fly at high altitude on missions spanning over several days. With maximum takeoff weight of 4650 kg, the 14 meter long aircraft can carry over 1,000 kg of sensors in its …
Robert Freitas analyzed the statistically the challenge of life extension. Part of his analysis is shown in the table above The longest life expectancies is about 86 years for Japanese women. This is almost as good as a 10% reduction in medically preventable conditions versus an 80 year life expectancy, which would result in 88 …
EETimes reports that Intel researchers are exploring nanoscale materials that could be used to create ultracapacitors with a greater energy density than today’s lithium ion batteries. If successful, the new materials could be mass produced in volumes to power systems ranging from mobile devices to electric vehicles—even smart grid storage units. The lab is focused …
EETimes reports that Intel researchers are exploring nanoscale materials that could be used to create ultracapacitors with a greater energy density than today’s lithium ion batteries. If successful, the new materials could be mass produced in volumes to power systems ranging from mobile devices to electric vehicles—even smart grid storage units. The lab is focused …