Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Taiwan Power Co., the island’s biggest electricity producer and monopoly grid operator, is considering adding as many as 10 reactors to existing nuclear power plants to cut its reliance on coal and gas. The utility’s grid has the capacity to accommodate two additional reactors at …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. For June 2010, nuclear generation was 68.3 billion kilowatt-hours compared to 69.4 billion kWh in June 2009. The average capacity factor for June 2010 was 94.2% compared to 95.7% in June 2009. Following last month’s trends, year-to-date 2010 nuclear generation is 0.8% behind the same …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Emerging mobile technologies Wimax and LTE and HSPA+ are advanced 3G or proto-4G but are not real 4G 4G will be technically defined by what the ITU qualifies as IMT-Advanced (with IMT 2000 being 3G), neither LTE nor WiMAX look to actually be 4G. 802.16m (802.16m …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Using super-high pressures Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. It is the most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy. The researchers increased the pressure to more than a million atmospheres and forced …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software GlobalData’s new report “Bakken Shale in the US – Oil Shale Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2020 forecasts 211.4 million barrels in 2020 from the US Bakken, at an AAGR of 9.9%.This would be 579,000 barrel of oil per day. April had 284348 barrels of oil …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Researchers have isolated collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time. Spin is a fundamental and intrinsic property of an electron, and refers to the electron’s angular momentum. Spin polarized atoms are atoms that are all in the same spin state. A …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Boston Consulting group has a report The Keys to the Kingdom – Unlocking China’s Consumer Power (27 page pdf) China’s growth will bring close to 100 million households earning at least 60,000 yuan per year (about $9,000) into the middle- and affluent-class (MAC) segments from 2010 …
Nanowerk reports on research from Ruhr-Universität Bochum Researchers have placed two nitrogen atoms a few nanometers apart, so that laser excitation can create a quantum mechanical coupling. The key to the solution: it works with high precision, reliably, and even at room-temperature only in a diamond. Nitrogen-vacancy center at wikipedia The nitrogen-vacancy center (N-V center) …
NY Times: “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris co-founder [Sirtis was bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million], “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” [H/T Michael Annisimov, Accelerating Future] SRT-501, the company’s special formulation of resveratrol, is being tested against two cancers, multiple myeloma and colon cancer that has spread …
Scientists at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako, and co-workers at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), have shown for the first time that the Casimir force has a complex dependence on temperature. They propose a related experiment that could clarify the theory around this important interaction, which has widespread applications in …
BlackLight Power (BLP) Inc. today announced its second commercial license agreement with Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, Inc. of New Mexico, (Farmers’ Electric). In a non-exclusive agreement, BLP has licensed Farmers’ Electric to use the BlackLight Process and certain BLP energy technology for the production of thermal or electric power. Farmers’ Electric may produce gross thermal power …