Two independent research teams report today in Science that they've taken key strides toward harnessing the energy in sunlight to synthesize chemical fuels.
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Fuji Electric Roles out new High-Voltage DC-type Circuit Breakers
Iowa State University’s Robert C. Brown thinks his new fast pyrolysis of lignocelluslosic biomass has the potential to be the cheapest way to produce biofuels or biorenewable chemicals. The competition is on – a post on sugar was up just two days ago on a private venture firm backed technology. Brown keeps a small vial [...]
Release of Industry’s Lowest Profile Micro SIM Card Connector for Mobile Devices
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A look at some of the kinds of images you can make with the 3-D scanner project that evolved from Microsoft's Xbox controller.
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 48-volt electric supercharger for micro-mild hybrids Currently the most cost-effective solution for reducing CO2 emissions is modular Micro-Mild’ MM hybrid , technology based on highly boosted and radically downsized gasoline and diesel powertrains . Modular micro-mild’ hybrid technology offers a compelling cost-effective route to reducing CO2 emissions in family cars says Controlled Power Technologies . Incremental manufacturing cost is 50-60 for every 1 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions compared with the 200-500 per cent typical for full hybrids . Further value enhancements are possible if the automotive industry were to standardise around the proposed 48 volt power networks developing in Europe . For a
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 28, 2011 Top ten Cybernetics and Mind Computer Interface Advances 1. Matti Mintz , from Tel Aviv University in Israel , has developed the artificial cerebellum which sits on the outside of the skull and is wired to the brain using . electrodes The chip mimics the cerebellum , a small region of the brain which plays an important role in motor control and movement . This demonstrates how far we have come towards creating circuitry that could one day replace damaged brain areas and even enhance the power of the healthy . brain Here is Ratcutus of Borg 2. Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind and suggests a visual brain machine interface is . feasible Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 First Energy-Storage Membrane A team from the National University of Singapore’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative NUSNNI led by principle investigator Dr Xie Xian Ning , has developed the world’s first energy-storage . membrane The new membrane promises greater cost-effectiveness in delivering energy , but also an environmentally-friendly solution . The researchers used a polystyrene-based polymer to deposit the soft , foldable membrane that , when sandwiched between and charged by two metal plates , could store charge at 0.2 farads per square centimeter . This is well above the typical upper limit of 1 microfarad per square centimetre for a standard . capacitor The cost involved in energy storage
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 CSpan has archived the Elon Musk Future of human space flight talk Cspan has an archive of the Elon Musk talk and a transcript We have pictures and animation of the vision of reusable Spacex rockets and highlights of the talk If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw at 9 29 2011 Labels : future space spacex CSpan has archived the Elon Musk Future of human space flight talk Cspan has an archive of the Elon Musk talk and a transcript We have pictures and animation of the vision of reusable Spacex rockets and highlights of the talk If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Please enable
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 China launches first space lab module Tiangong-1 Xinhua China's first space lab module Tiangong-1 blasted off at 9:16 p.m . Beijing Time 1316 GMT Thursday from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in China's northwest desert . area The unmanned module , carried by the Long March-2FT1 rocket , will test space docking with a spacecraft later this year , paving the way for China to operate a permanent space station around 2020 and making it the world's third country to do . so The Tiangong-1 will orbit the Earth for about one month to await Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft Once the two vehicles successfully rendezvous , they will conduct the first space docking at a height of 340 kilometers above Earth .
Release of High-Power LED Lighting Device with Industry’s Highest Luminous Efficacy
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 Pictures and video of Reusable Falcon 9 Spacex Vehicles Spacex has a page about the Elon Musk National Press Club talk Hobby Space has highlights and discussion of the Elon Musk talk Pivotal break-through is a fully reusable , rapid turnaround rocket 2-3 of expendable initial total mass gets to orbit Adding reusability cuts into that 2-3 Very tough engineering problem . Wasn't sure for awhile that it could be solved . In past year decided that it could . be SpaceX will try to do it . No guarantee of . success Calculations and simulations say it should . work See simulation video below Falcon 9 is the lowest cost rocket in world at 50M Fuel is only about 200,000 So if could reuse it would lead to 100 times
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 Stacked shrimp farms will enable 1 million pounds of shrimp per acre of water which is 15 to 50 times more per acre They may look like bunk beds on steroids , but a new shrimp production technology developed by a Texas AgriLife Research scientist near Corpus Christi promises to revolutionize how shrimp make it to our tables . The patent-pending technology , known as super-intensive stacked raceways , was created by Dr . Addison Lawrence at the Texas AgriLife Research Mariculture Laboratory at Port Aransas , who says the system is able to produce record-setting amounts of . shrimp These tanks require stringent control and supervision , 24 7 monitoring with computers tracking the shrimp , 8221 he said . But
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 29, 2011 Kindle Fire compared to iPad and other tablets PC World has a comparison of the Kindle Fire with most of the other major . tablets Barnes and Noble is also rumored to be launching a 10-inch version of the Nook Color before the end of 2011. It is expected to sell for 349, and will give Barnes Noble a head start against a larger Kindle tablet for users who prefer the 10-inch tablet form factor . The Amazon silk browser is a key differentiator for the Kindle Fire If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw at 9 29 2011 Labels : amazon android gadgets google internet tablet Kindle Fire compared to iPad and other tablets PC World has a comparison of
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes the announcement that researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace today’s standard fuel for diesel engines. It would be clean, green, renewable and produced in the U.S. JBEI research team used synthetic biology tools [...]Filed under: Energy News
Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review September October 2011 Subscribe now The TR35 Get a glimpse of the future of technology with this year's selection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Streetbook Growing Heart Cells Just for You Letters From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 44 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Power : pack ThinkEco’s Modlet sits between any electrical device and a power outlet . ThinkEco Energy Device Keeps Power-Gobbling Gadgets in Check The Modlet lets you monitor your power usage via mobile device , and turn off appliances . remotely
New health-tracking apps, devices, and platforms from the Health 2.0 conference.
TRSF, an anthology of original science fiction stories, is in stores on October 4.
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 28, 2011 BullDog Robot In early 2010, Sander Olson of Nextbigfuture interviewed Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics . Marc discussed a new contract for the LS3 robot which would be a larger version of the Big Dog robot BigDog carries 340 pounds on flat terrain , and climbs difficult terrain carrying 100-125 pounds . It has a maximum range of about 12 miles , but not while carrying maximum payload . By contrast , the LS3 is designed to carry 400 pounds for 20 miles over rough terrain . The LS3 will weigh about 1000 pounds , including the weight of the robot , fuel and 400-pound payload . It will also be able to walk , trot , run , and wade through water . It will be able to operate at night , though probably with less
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 28, 2011 Computer Chip Replaces the Cerebellum in a rat Daily Mail UK Scientists have used a computer chip to restore cognitive function in a rat's brain sparking hopes the technology could one day help . humans UPDATE : Picture of the cyborg rat Ratcutus of Borg with the computer chip . cerebellum The chip mimics the cerebellum , a small region of the brain which plays an important role in motor control and movement . This demonstrates how far we have come towards creating circuitry that could one day replace damaged brain areas and even enhance the power of the healthy . brain Matti Mintz , from Tel Aviv University in Israel , has developed the artificial cerebellum which sits on the outside of the skull and is
Release of a New Silicon- Germanium Carbon based HBT for Low-Noise Amplifier Transistor in Wireless LAN System
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 28, 2011 Carbon fiber for cars Carbon fiber composite autoparts can be 50 lighter than steel and 30 lighter than . aluminum Industrial-grade carbon fibers suitable for use in cars cost close to 30 per kg , Roberts says . High-end vehicle builders can afford expensive carbon fiber parts . But how many people will really spend an extra 5,000 to 6,000 beyond the usual cost for a small car to own an electric car with a carbon composite body he asks . In 2013, BMW plans to launch two mass-produced vehicles with carbon fiber composite passenger cages : the battery-powered i3, formerly known as the Megacity , and the hybrid i8, which can run on batteries or an internal combustion engine . Two years ago , the carmaker formed
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard September 28, 2011 Hyperbolic metamaterial reflects 15 times less light than black paint Black paint absorbs 85 of light and a new hyperbolic metamaterial absorbs 99 Arxiv Darker than black : radiation-absorbing metamaterial We show that corrugated surfaces of hyperbolic metamaterials scatter light preferentially inside the media , resulting in a very low reflectance and ultimate dark appearance in the spectral range of hyperbolic dispersion . This phenomenon of fundamental importance , demonstrated experimentally in arrays of silver nanowires grown in alumina membranes , originates from a broad-band singularity in the density of photonic states . It paves the road to a variety of applications ranging from the stealth
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Renmatix using only pressurized hot water turns wood, agricultural stover, grasses, other hemicellulose and cellulose rich crops and perhaps separated household and business waste into the sugars used to make vehicle fuels and other useful chemicals by treating the materials with compressed water heated to very high temperatures. The idea is to achieve the sugar [...]
Scientists devise a trick to make a material absorb 99 percent of the light that strikes it.
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered a new material that has 10 times the piezoelectric effect of crystals and ceramics making it suitable for perhaps hundreds of everyday uses. A 10-fold increase is going to have impact. ORNL’s Volker Urban and colleagues at Technical University Aachen in Germany noticed the reverse piezoelectric effect [...]
Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video From Concept to Cover Chris Foss has created some of the most iconic images in science fiction over the course of his 40-year career . He has painted covers for the books of Isaac Asimov , James Blish , Arthur C . Clarke , Philip K . Dick , and many more . TRSF is his first major U.S . commission in recent years , and this video shows how Foss developed the painting from the sketch of an idea to a gripping image . For more about Foss’s work , visit . www.chrisfossart.com 09.26.2011 Video by Brittany Sauser Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT
An electric double layer energy storage device manufacturing line by Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in Japan has started up. The electric double layer energy device has an equivalent series resistance as low as several tens of milliohms. The devices will come in two models. One is 1.5mm thick and has an instantaneous maximum allowable voltage [...]
Home Introduction GNR SWNTs a new hybrid carbon nanomaterial Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Finish researchers developed a new hybrid material which combines graphene nanoribbons and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes SWNT They call this GNR SWNT and they say that its synthesis is simple . The graphene nanoribbons should keep their unique properties inside the nanotubes , and they will be protected and . aligned Nanoribbons can be either metallic or semiconductor depending on their width and type and the SWNTs can be either metallic , semiconducting depending on their chirality or insulating when chemically modified So you can create GNR SWNT in six combinations which creates all sort sof interesting applications transistors , solar cells , radio signal transmitters and . more
Entropic energy offers a tremendous resource available from the salinity difference between freshwater and seawater, but this energy has yet to be efficiently captured and stored. Penn State’s Bruce E. Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering has demonstrated that di-hydrogen gas can be produced in a single process by capturing the salinity driven energy together [...]
Fermentation has relied on natural yeasts for centuries – now researchers at John Hopkins University School of Medicine have equipped yeast cells with semi-synthetic chromosomes. It is the first such achievement in eukaryotic, or complex-celled, organisms, and marks a step towards large-scale genome engineering in these cells with synthetic biology. The full paper is now [...]
Home Introduction IBM fabricated a graphene 2-Ghz doubler RF circuit in a CMOS-compatible process Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research IBM researchers has fabricated a 2-GHz graphene frequency doubler RF circuit in a CMOS-compatible manufacturing process , on 8 wafers . To fabricate this the researchers inverted the usual manufacturing process and define gate structures first on silicon wafers and then transfer graphene layers fabricated using chemical vapor deposition to the silicon . After defining the areas of graphene IBM was able to attach source and drain contacts to the graphene to complete FET . structures Inverted-T gate structure The device itself , the frequency doubler , integrates multiple field effect transistors and radio frequency passives and demonstrated a