Matthew Francis, PhD, Rising star of nanotech at UC-Berkeley 10:15-10:45am Building New Materials from Synthetically Modified Proteins Protein desirable properties – Rigid three dimensional structures for object positioning self assembled capabiliities to establish order over large lengths dynamic shape changes in response to external stimuli analyte binding with high specificity Lab working on site selective …
In January 2011 Andrea Rossi demonstrated a device that purported to develop 10 kW of power from a nuclear reaction. This video discusses its credibility, the investigations that have been done on the device, and its future prospects. Ny Teknik’s articles on the Rossi reactor can be found at http://bit.ly/CFnyteknik , and the Bushnell interview …
Boeing is expected to deliver twenty 787 Dreamliners in 2011 China Southern, one of China’s leading airlines, will receive its first 787 Dreamliner aircraft from the Boeing company in the fourth quarter of this year Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft are designed to use 20 percent less fuel than other aircraft of similar size. The aircraft …
This site was briefly deleted. Turns out my problem just required using the verification system the link of I can’t find my blog on the Web, where is it?’ then used verification – “they detected unusual activity” I verified and my site got put back. A lot of weird stuff going on over there. Making …
Conceptual diagrams of MMW-over-fiber communication systems with (a) a common optical local oscillator (LO) MMW source shared by different base stations and (b) different electrical LO MMW sources installed at each base station. NPG Asia Materials – Millimeter-wave photonic wireless links for very high data rate communication In this paper, recent progress in millimeter-wave (MMW) …
Elon Musk has an open letter which describes how Spacex keeps its costs low and why they can beat China Bigelow Aerospace (inflatable space stations), Spacex,of Ad Astra Rocket Company (makers of the VASIMR plasma rocket) and few companies like them are leading the way to a new space age. Whenever someone proposes to do …
New Energy and Fuel reports that Bill Joy (an investor in EEStor via Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) indicates that EEStor is still working to get commercialized. Joy confirmed that Kleiner Perkins is still invested in EEStor and hope remains EEStor will get to market. Meanwhile, Joy is still looking and investing in other energy …
The 49th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up at Yes Vermont Yankee The ANS Nuclear cafe has a collaborative post about why is there an irrational fear of radiation A critic of a reactor re-licensing application, writing in a political news magazine, said that a tritium release was 500 times more than expected, which was …
Biological Immortality in Late Life (credit: Michael R. Rose, Laurence Mueller) Michael Rose, longevity researcher is interviewed at Kurzweil AI and at Science20 Genescient’s hief Scientist (and professor at the University of California at Irvine) is the evolutionary geneticist Michael Rose Over the years, Rose and his lab have bred fruit flies to live four …
A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO2 emissions. Energy Fuels journal – Oil Shale as an Energy Resource …
Electronic chip represents key building block of neuromorphic architecture Credit: IBM The goal of SyNAPSE is to create electronic systems, inspired by the human brain, that can understand, adapt, and respond to information in fundamentally different ways than traditional computers. While current computers are organized into distinct processor and memory units that function in accordance …