Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and consumer applications. TCOs – materials that combine transparency and conductivity, qualities that are not usually found together …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software B9 Coal is working on combining Alkaline Hydrogen Fuel Cells with Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)to make 47% efficient coal power that has carbon capture and sequestering (versus 26% efficient with carbon capture at current plants and 28% with carbon capture at IGCC plants) [12 page pdf] …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its breakthrough Applied Producer(R) Eterna(TM) FCVD(TM) (Flowable CVD(1)) system, the first and only film deposition technology capable of electrically isolating the densely-packed transistors in 20nm-and-below memory and logic chip designs with a high-quality dielectric film. The system will enable NAND skyscraper …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Union of Concerned Scientists recently covered a 1988 nuclear power accident which caused no deaths. There are plenty of fatal coal and oil and natural gas accidents that the Union of concerned scientists are unconcerned about. There were 161 oil pipeline deaths and 576 injuries …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A ceremony has been held to mark the start of groundbreaking for units 7 and 8 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) in India. First concrete is scheduled to be poured at the site before the end of the year. RAPP 7 and 8 …
China is developing mega straddle buses to help solve traffic congestion like a recent 9 day 60 mile long traffic jam. This bus straddles the road allowing it to pass over the normal road traffic on China’s busy city streets. The buses are 6 meters (18 feet) wide and 4.5 meters (13.5 feet) high which …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC will unveil the EN-V two-seat electric concept at the Shanghai Expo in May EN-V’s platform has evolved from the platform of the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) prototype that was developed by Segway and debuted in April 2009. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software * For China and Russia: 2.5c is added to coal and 1.3c to gas as carbon emission cost to enable sensible comparison with other data in those fuel/technology categories, though within those countries coal and gas will in fact be cheaper than the Table above suggests. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) Lions on the move: The progress and potential of African economies projects that at least four groups of industries in Africa could together generate as much as $2.6 trillion in annual revenue by 2020, or $1 trillion …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Silk optical material Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and Boston University have fabricated and characterized the first large area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates. This is a promising path towards the development of a new class of metamaterial-inspired implantable biosensors …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Gopinath Sutendra and a group of collaborators have found that excessive cell growth can be reversed. Note: excessive cell growth is one of the seven damages from aging that SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence ) is trying to address Hypertension causes 5 million premature …