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View ArticleProgress to Spray on Solar Power using Colloidal Quantum Dots
Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)—a major step toward...
View ArticleStick on solar panels, spray on solar, super-high efficiency solar and...
Promising new technologies, including more efficient photovoltaic cells that can harvest energy across the light spectrum, stick on solar cells and spray on solar cells have the potential to...
View ArticleMassive space colonization and industrialization is within reach by 2030s
There was a NASA analysis of a minimized technological approach towards human self sufficiency off earth. We can now look at building up from the basic level with likely new space capabilities Spacex...
View ArticleDecember open thread
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View ArticleSpacex scheduled to launch December 19
The Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launch has been delayed three days and is now scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 19, at 1:20 pm.SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is carrying the Dragon...
View ArticleSpacex close to certification for military launches
Spacex is close to winning the certification it needs to begin launching satellites for the U.S. military, according to an Air Force official. If Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, known as...
View ArticleAccounting revisions and a business census will boost China's GDP stats by...
China’s statistics bureau is predicted to announce results of its third national economic census this month after a year’s worth of interviews and data collection from millions of businesses. The past...
View ArticleEconomic reformer Japanese PM Abe has a two thirds supermajority will mean...
Japan's governing parties have won a two-thirds majority in the Lower House election.The Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and its coalition partner, Komeito, garnered 326...
View ArticleGene Therapy progress with clinical trials, possible cures and major investment
Pfizer is establishing a gene therapy platform to study potential treatments, led by a top UK expert, and had struck a deal with privately owned U.S. biotech firm Spark Therapeutics to develop a...
View ArticleCarnival of Nuclear Energy 239
1. Neutron Bytes - Nuclear Projects Come and Go in IdahoA group of local businessmen in rural Butte County, Idaho, wants to build a 1500 MW commercial nuclear reactor at a site on private land near...
View ArticleStar Trek Turbolifts will be reality in 2016 with multidirectional elevator
ThyssenKrupp develops the world’s first rope-free elevator system to enable the building industry face the challenges of global urbanization. MULTI is ThyssenKrupp’s latest offering in its extensive...
View ArticleStanford researchers are building layers of logic and memory into skyscraper...
Skyscraper chip researchers' leveraged three breakthroughs.1. a new technology for creating transistors, those tiny gates that switch electricity on and off to create digital zeroes and ones. 2. a new...
View ArticleChina will pass the nominal GDP of the EU in 2016 and the USA in 2019
The likely near term situation for when China will pass the exchange rate adjusted GDP for the USA and the collective GDP of Europe is becoming clearer based upon statistical method changes and more...
View ArticleSelf-arranging molecules could form the basis for efficient optoelectronic...
A way to use weak molecular bonding interactions to create well-ordered and stable metal–organic monolayers with optoelectronic properties has been found by researchers from the RIKEN Surface and...
View Article3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes
As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques, Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of...
View ArticleChina's November YTD electrical consumption was 5012 TWh
China's National Energy Board issued November total electricity consumption.November, the total electricity consumption 463.2 billion kwh, an increase of 3.3%.January to November, the national total...
View ArticleFibonacci Anyons could enable Topological quantum computing
Topological quantum computing (TQC) is a newer type of quantum computing that uses "braids" of particle tracks, rather than actual particles such as ions and electrons, as the qubits to implement...
View ArticleRussian Ruble exchange rate halved against US dollar in last 6 months
The russian Ruble has fallen to 70 rubles to 1 US dollar. In July it was 33 to 35 rubles to 1 US dollar.Russia appears to be falling into an economic crisis far more quickly than most had expected....
View ArticleCarnival of Space 384
The Carnival of Space 384 is up at The Venus Transit blogUniverse Today - A Universe of 10 DimensionsSuperstring theory posits that the universe exists in 10 dimensions at once. Image Credit: National...
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