In 2010, the world produced 60 million motorbikes that ran on fossil fuel and 32 million electric and hybrid two-wheelers. With a near average yearly growth of 20%, electric-powered units will close the gap by 2015, both producing 70 million units individually. Most of these are low-powered units of 200 watts fitted with reusable lead …
1. As IP traffic continues to increase and the router interface rate extends beyond 100 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s), future optical networks—ones that would achieve unprecedented speeds of 1 terabit-per-second (Tb/s)—will be required to support the rapid growth of data services with different capacities and patterns on the same optical platform. To address this issue, researchers at …
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world. Acceptance testing for the upgrade was completed earlier this month. The testing suite included leading scientific applications focused on molecular dynamics, high-temperature superconductivity, nuclear fusion, and combustion. …
1. A record energy density of 400Wh/kg in Li-ion rechargeable batteries has been achieved by Envia. Envia has a 40 Ah pouch cell, the new system could lower Li-ion cell costs to $180/kWh, according to Sujeet Kumar, Co-founder, President & CTO, with further reductions to come. The cells feature active materials with high specific capacity: …
EETimes -Huawei has announced a quadcore chip for smartphones and tablets that is 30 to 50% faster than the NVIDIA Tegra 3 Huawei sold 20 million handsets last year and could sell 60 million thus year. The K3V2 chip will also be sold to other makers. If you liked this article, please give it a …
Dwave systems featured in Wired. How Dwave Won the $10 million Lockheed Contract Lockheed Martin makes some of the most complex systems in the world — things like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. On average, half the cost of developing a new complex system at Lockheed Martin is system verification and validation, and the major …
The US Air Force has a Energy Horizons plan out to 2026 (72 pages) Air Force missions, such as persistent surveillance of large areas, require massive data analytics on supercomputers to deliver the critical capability of finding the proverbial ―needle in the haystack and thereby help humans avoid sensory overload. At another extreme, covert special …
Estimating the Health Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants Receiving International Financing (9 pages) Of the 88 coal plants and companies considered in this report, 57% of those in High and Upper middle income countries used (flue-gas desulfurization) FGD compared to only 30% of those in Lower-middle and Low income countries. Theoretically, if all of the …
Wired UK – the US’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission may be split into separate branches for conventional and unconventional nuclear to expedite the revolution in new nuclear energy technology, and that up to $904 million (£650 million) of US government funding for small modular reactors may be opened up to all reactor types. Helion Energy claims …
Wired Danger Room – DARPA has a new $7 million for a project titled “Avatar” The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate. These robots should be smart and agile enough to do the …
The carnival of nuclear energy 92 is up at the ANS Nuclear cafe Idaho Samizdat has coverage on the Areva high temperature reactor selected for the next generation reactor project According to the >a href=”http://nuclear.gov/HTGCR/overview.html” target=blank>U.S. Department of Energy, every 750 MWt of installed HTGR capacity will offset 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions …