On Friday the first day of the quake, Google’s offices in Tokyo’s Roppongi district contacted Google.org, their employer’s philanthropic arm, to suggest it should get involved in the emergency response, as it had after recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand. Within an hour, and with aftershocks still rocking Tokyo, the Japan Person Finder …
There is a two year solar soldier project in the UK The system’s innovative combination of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells*, thermoelectric devices** and leading-edge energy storage technology will provide a reliable power supply round-the-clock, just like a normal battery pack. The team is also investigating ways of managing, storing and utilising heat produced by the …
Experiment to illustrate the P-CTC predictions of the grandfather paradox. a) Diagram of the quantum circuit. Using a CNOT gate sandwiched between optional Z and X gates, it is possible to prepare all of the maximally entangled Bell states. The Bell state measurement is implemented using a CNOT and a Hadamard. Each of the probe …
The IEA world energy outlook discusses the money spent subsidizing renewables and all other types of energy Energy is not cheap. There is a recent estimate that $25 trillion will need to be put into building what is needed to meet global energy demand increases between 2010 and 2030. A lot of that money will …
Etalim, based in Vancouver, Canada, says its engine, roughly the size of a basketball, could improve the economics of electricity production for the cogeneration of power and heat in homes, and as a way to harness the heat produced at concentrating solar collectors. The company has ambitious goals. A first prototype, completed last year, demonstrated …
Gordon Orr, a director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office, peers into 2011 and finds ways China may once again surprise the world 1. Inflation in food prices will take longer than expected to control. Chinese consumption patterns are shifting as people become wealthier—more meat eating requires more cereals to feed the animals. The food supply chain, …
China’s yuan ended 2010 at 6.59 to one US dollar China preliminary reporting is 9.9% GDP growth in 2010 and a projection of maintaining 10% growth in 2011. Other analysts are forecasting a slowdown to 8-9% GDP growth in 2011. Previous Projected GDP by NBF: Year GDP(yuan) GDP growth USD/CNY China GDP China+HK US GDP …
Repulsive Casimir forces with finite-thickness slabs We use the extended Lifshitz theory to study the behaviors of the Casimir forces between finite-thickness effective medium slabs. We first study the interaction between a semi-infinite Drude metal and a finite-thickness magnetic slab with or without substrate. For no substrate, the large distance d dependence of the force …
Eetimes reports that IBM is making good progress on racetrack memory and can control the spin bits Next they will try to make it work at density ten times greater than flash and then increase it to one thousand times flash density. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …
MIT Technology Review – a new planet formation theory the conventional model on its head. Planet formation begins at distances in excess of 50 AU from the mother star, when random variations in the density of the protoplanetary gas cloud begin to attract more gas and so grow under the force of gravity. Inside these …
Paralyzed marmoset monkeys are walking again after a Japanese research team transplanted induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) into the animals’ spines — the first time the treatment has succeeded in a primate subject. Getting closer to restoring paralyzed humans. Treatment works best within 9 days of injury, so it will work best to prevent …