China Will Try to Put out Some Underground Coal Fires that have been Burning for Decades

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Image Creative Commons China will spend some money and effort to put out some of their underground coal fires from now to 2012. North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region plans to extinguish smoldering fires at nearly half of its coalfields with the problems by 2012. Smoldering …

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Super Acid Method for Bulk Graphene Could Drastically Lower Cost of Carbon Fiber Material

Technology Review talks about the Rice University superacid process for making large quantities of Graphene. This method for making bulk Graphene was presented here at Nextbigfuture a week ago. Technology Review interviewed the researchers on the potential of the process. The process could also be used to bring down the costs of lightweight, tough structural …

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Designing, Building and Using Larger Flywheels

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The U.S. Navy is presently pursuing electromagnetic launch technology to replace the existing steam catapults on current and future aircraft carriers. The present EMALS design centers around a linear synchronous motor, supplied power from pulsed disk alternators through a cycloconverter. Average power, obtained from an independent …

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Aubrey de Grey declares an end to generations

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software “There won’t be generations anymore,” says Aubrey de Grey of tomorrow’s world where anti-aging treatments will give us at least 30 extra years of life. You’ll be able to keep up with your granddaughter on the ski slopes, he told his host at the Lift 2010 …

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Prevention is Key to Roadmap to Make United States the Healthiest Nation

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine: Charting Future Directions is releasing its second report, “A 21st Century Roadmap for Advancing America’s Health: The Path from Peril to Progress,” emphasizing a comprehensive spectrum of actions to build a 21st century system that will …

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Augmented Reality Related Technology

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Augmented Steps This “haptic” floor can mimic the look and feel of sand.Credit: Yon Visell MIT Technology ReviewAugmented reality floor tiling Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. …

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Massively Parallel Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A superthin computer just two molecules thick can solve complex problems and, somewhat like the human brain, can evolve to improve and perform many operations simultaneously This is significant progress on molecular computing with molecular switches that is highly parallel and using cellular automata. * This …

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Avatar Will be the Number One Domestic Movie On Feb 3, 2010 and is Over Two billion Worldwide

The week 7 weekend domestic box office for Avatar was $30 million for a $594 million domestic total. Avatar will pass Titanic non-inflation adjusted box office on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 I had predictions about Avatar’s box office Week 6 – $260 million est, $1.97 billion world, $570 million domestic Week 7 – $200 million …

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Winterbergs Advanced Deuterium Fusion Rocket Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions

Winterberg’s design to obtain a high thrust with a high specific impulse, uses propulsion by deuterium micro-bombs, and it is shown that the ignition of deuterium micro-bombs is possible by intense GeV proton beams, generated in space by using the entire spacecraft as a magnetically insulated billion volt capacitor. The design could have exhaust that …

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Singularity Summit 2009 in New York

The fourth annual Singularity Summit, a conference devoted to the better understanding of increasing intelligence and accelerating change, will be held in New York on October 3-4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y. David Chalmers will be there talking about uploading. The Summit is branching out into topics like biotechnology and decision …

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