Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software tlantis Resources Corporation one of the world’s leading developers of electricity-generating tidal current turbines, unveiled the largest and most powerful tidal power turbine ever built, the AK1000 which can generate 1 megawatt Dispatching 1MW of predictable power at a water velocity of 2.65m/s, the AK1000™ is …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Techonomy conference has a pre-conference workshop on ‘How to Measure the impact and transformational power of technology ? They have presented a networked readiness index to rank all countries with a single metric on information, communication technology The World Economic Forum’s Networked Readiness Index (NRI) …
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Welcome to the third Carnival of Nuclear Energy. 1. NEI summarizes the updated 2009 nuclear statistics. * US nuclear plants generated slightly less electricity in 2009 than in 2008, yet nuclear’s fuel share increased from 19.6% in 2008 to 20.2% in 2009. That’s simply because electricity generation declined by four percent in the US due …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research — a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas — have been combined for the first time by researchers at Cambridge. The successful creation of this hybrid system opens the way to new types of experiment, …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The status of nuclear reactors expected to start in 2010 Nuclear Power Reactor Details – LINGAO 3 (Ling Ao II Phase 2) (China) Connected to Electricity Grid 2010/08/31 Net Capacity 1000 MWe Commercial Operation 2010/12/15 Construction Started 2005/12/15 Nuclear Power Reactor Details – QINSHAN 2-3 (China) Connected …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new study published in the March 8 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows more than one-third of CO2 emissions related to the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually emitted outside their national borders For France, Sweden and …
BBC News is among many places reporting the opening of the new Tallest building in the world – the Burj Dubai USA Today reports that the tower was renamed the Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighboring Abu Dhabi— the oil-rich sheikdom which came to its rescue during the financial meltdown. Abu …
1. Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells — a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases they have made the equivalent of a genetic …
Cross-sectional diagram of the planned 32-tesla superconducting magnet. The magnet will consist of three YBCO coils (yellow), three niobium-tin coils (red) and two niobium-titanium coils (blue). A magnet, funded by a National Science Foundation grant of $2 million and a matching award from The Florida State University of $1 million, is projected to generate a …
Continuous and simultaneous excitation and detection. Both excitation and detection occur without interruption through the transparent glass bottom of the SMRT™ chip. Pacific Biosciences has a Single Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) DNA sequencing, due to be released commercially in 2010 and could enable $100 genome sequencing in 15 minutes in 2013. The second generation real time …