China largest telecom and 21 chinese cities are deploying multi-kilowatt wireless charging network for electric vehicles

April 7, 2017July 17, 2015 by Brian Wang

ZTE Corporation, China’s largest listed telecommunications equipment company, is developing high-power wireless charging systems and services for electric vehicles, with a focus on public charging infrastructure. At a China-US workshop on electric vehicle standardization held in June (earlier post), Academus Tian, VP of ZTE New Energy Vehicle Co., presented an overview of ZTE’s efforts in …

Japan could restart 9 nuclear reactors in 2015, 10 in 2016 and 12 in 2017

April 7, 2017December 25, 2014 by Brian Wang

Japan has four approved nuclear reactors for restarts, just after a general election win showed steady support for the pro-nuclear ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The first are not expected to restart until early in 2015. Sendai reactors aren’t expected to open until early 2015. Those friendly painted colors at the Sendai reactors are real Cantor …

SENS Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference-Keynote: Jim O’Neill

April 7, 2017August 22, 2014 by Traci Parker

This morning at the SENS conference, Edward James Olmos kicks off the day with some opening remarks before Jim O’Neill delivers his keynote. Mithril, the two year old investment firm which Jim serves as COO, specializes in emerging technology start-ups. For example, they recently invested in Magforce, a nanotechnology-based cancer treatment company, and Helion Energy, another impressive start …

Carnival of Nuclear Energy 220

April 7, 2017August 5, 2014 by Brian Wang

1 .James Conca at Forbes – Science Is Not Democratic Since the 1980s. the distrust of scientists in the United States has become a growing ideology used for political purposes. It is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Obama touched on this very subject recently while speaking to the League of Conservation Voters. 2. Yes Vermont …

Softbank $2000 Companion robot for 2015 will test many social issues such as Learning your families habits and technical ones like Cloud Artificial Intelligence

April 7, 2017June 5, 2014 by Brian Wang

Japanese firm Softbank has unveiled a robot called Pepper, which it says can read human emotions. It uses an “emotional engine” and a cloud-based artificial intelligence system that allows it to analyse gestures, expressions and voice tones. The firm said people could communicate with it “just like they would with friends and family” and it …

Waste heat engine finally moving to next commercialization phase

April 7, 2017January 17, 2014 by Brian Wang

Cyclone Power Technologies developer of the all-fuel clean-tech Cyclone Engine,announced today that it has completed the in-house development and testing phase of its Waste Heat Engine (the WHE-DR) and, as planned, has transitioned the next commercialization and manufacturing phases of the program to The Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research (CAR). The Waste Heat …

China is researching diamond quantum chips with qubits tempered by over 45 tesla magnets to achieve a code breaking quantum supercomputer

April 7, 2017January 10, 2014 by Brian Wang

The South China Morning Post reports that China, the US and other major powers are racing to develop another game-changer in intelligence encryption – the first quantum supercomputer, which would become the ultimate code-breaker. Quantum computers have so far existed mainly in the world of science fiction and research laboratories. But they hit the headlines …

A long way from Green lantern but double ring uses body heat to light an LED

April 7, 2017December 8, 2013 by Brian Wang

The basic idea for this ring was to take a piece of a aluminum to make the ring out of, design it to fit the PCB and peltier, and create a heatsink that mounts on the other side of the peltier unit. Originally he had planed to make this a single finger ring but somewhere …

Can success against HIV/Aids be matched with cancer, heart disease, alzheimers and preventable poverty deaths

April 7, 2017November 19, 2013 by Brian Wang

Huge gains in global public health are within reach over the next 10-20 years. The mean global life expectancy could move from 66 years to 75 years. The lowend 45-55 years should move to 65-75 years with progress against Aids/Hiv and extreme poverty. All developed countries should at least have life expectancy at 90 years …

Mark Halper reviews what happened in 2012-2013 with Thorium Reactors

April 7, 2017August 26, 2013 by Brian Wang

Mark Halper delivered a thorium year-in-review at the Thorium Energy Alliance’s 5th conference, in Chicago on May 30th 2013. Mark Halper writes for The Guardian and CBS SmartPlanet. Mark reviewed China’s thorium work, India, Transatomic, STL, Terrestrial Energy and more. China will use the reactors for heat and electricity. They will assist with coal gasification …

New rechargeable flow battery generates three times the power density of membraneless systems and ten times better than lithium ion

April 7, 2017August 18, 2013 by Brian Wang

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The palm-sized prototype generates three times as much power per square centimeter as other membraneless systems — a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other …