1. Nuclear Green has an article Mark Z. Jacobson’s proliferation of errors Stanford’s Mark Jacobson has a new paper “Providing all Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials” Jacobson, in effect, argues that by avoiding the construction of civilian power reactors, the …
Circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang but that our universe in fact continually cycles through a series of “aeons”. That is the sensational claim being made by University of Oxford theoretical physicist Roger Penrose, who says that data collected by …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new remote-controlled helicopter is the first to have a robotic hand to pick objects off the ground and fly away with them. The helicopter can fly up to 80 miles per hour while carrying objects that weight as much as 4.5 pounds. It could pick …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NEI Corporation and the University of California, San Diego won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials for lithium batteries The outcome of the program will be a commercially useable cathode material with exceptionally …
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first room temperatur laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. Germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips. So the result could prove an important step toward computers that move data — and maybe even perform calculations — using …
Kazakhstan mined 13,500 metric tons of uranium as of Dec. 21 and will mine at least another 400 tons before the end of the year, Almaty-based, Kazatomprom said in a statement e-mailed today. The press release also discussed Australia and Canada production from second hand source quotation. Actual quarterly and annual reports should be available …