A team from Singapore and Taiwan have shown that carbon fiber cloths coated in inexpensive catalysts can generate hydrogen, and perform not only in water but in seawater as well. IEEe Spectrum notes, the new material generated pure hydrogen roughly as efficiently as other state-of-the-art catalysts, the researchers say. Moreover, the new catalyst was more …
GPUs are being used in neural network training and for near-real time execution of complex machine learning algorithms in natural language processing, image recognition, and rapid video analysis. Pedestrian detection is one of those areas where, when powered by truly accurate and real-time capabilities, could mean an entirely new wave of potential services around surveillance, …
China will invest US$50 billion to help overhaul Brazil’s ageing infrastructure, Brasilia said, ahead of an official visit by Premier Li Keqiang. “There are US$50 billion in new projects,” said Jose Graca Lima, Brazil’s undersecretary of state, who oversees Asia and Oceania. “We shall have to await the end of the visit to expand upon …
The BMO Blue Book ( BMO Investment Banking Group, Bank of Montreal, 26 page blue book), uses the expertise of BMO economists and information given to commercial bankers from local businesspeople. It projected B.C.’s real gross domestic product (GDP) would expand 2.6% this year before falling to 2.5% in 2016. Alberta’s GDP, which grew at …
A root cellar is a structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods. Root cellars are for keeping food supplies at a low temperature and steady humidity. They keep food from freezing during the winter and keep food cool during the summer months to prevent spoilage. …
There may not be life on the surface of Mars at the present, this does not exclude the possibility that life may have thrived earlier on the Red Planet. The early history of Mars seems to have been very similar to that of Earth, especially with respect to the ancient hydrosphere. The sedimentary structures in …
The Department of Energy has commissioned two supercomputers: one is a system codenamed “Summit”, and it will be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is designed to peak at 150 to 300 petaFLOPS – that’s 300 quadrillion calculations per second, or about five times faster than the 54 PFLOPS Tianhe-2. The …
The Black Knight Transformer’s patented technology is a first-of-its-kind in vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The vehicle design is highly modular for a wide variety of payloads including a ground drive-train unit that allows it drive like an automobile. The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer is a multi-engine rotorcraft drawing inspiration from small electric “multicopters” …
Conventional batteries take so long to charge that they cannot efficiently store braking energy. But now graphene supercapacitors that store almost as much but charge in just 16 seconds could do the job instead. Now Santhakumar Kannappan at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea and a few pals say they have a …