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1. Forbes - Are EPA’s Carbon Rules Really About Nuclear?Although it's been difficult for the President to advocate for nuclear power within his own party, President Obama's promise of a world with...
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From the Hindu Gods to Doctor Octopus the Vision of Multiple Extra Arms is...
The vision of humans with extra limbs is taking shape at MIT with researchers adding "supernumerary robotic arms" to assist with tasks that ordinary two-armed humans would find difficult.The extra...
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Biobots powered by muscle tissue
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented...
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Military invasion of Taiwan would achieve nothing for China and the most...
The Week noticed one comment during a series of talks about China's military modernization and aims.At the end of page 3 and beginning of page 4 (of 12 pages of testimony), Lee Fuell, Technical...
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US daily crude oil production over 8.5 million barrels per day and is within...
US daily crude oil production over 8.5 million barrels per day and natural gas liquids nears 3 million barrels per day. US crude oil production is within about 5% of the mid-1980s peak. There was a...
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Perfecting Venus atmospheric Colonies and using Venus resources to make Cloud...
Selenian Boondocks had an excellent series of articles about colonizing Venus.At about 50 kilometers (30 mies) altitude, the atmospheric density on Venus is close to “sea level” density on Earth, and...
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A roadmap to colonizing Venus - making concrete, plastics, water, fuel and...
Selenian Boondocks had developed a roadmap for the phases for proving out ISRU Venus Resources.Phase 0–Terrestrial Analog ISRU Prototyping: This is where we’re at now. As far as I know there has been...
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IBM investing $3 billion to create 7 nanometer and beyond technology over the...
IBM announced it is investing $3 billion over the next 5 years in two broad research and early stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of...
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Applied Materials believes FinFETs can be improved and Gate All Around...
Applied Materials has plans to get to 3 nanometer features.FinFET scaling requires precision control of materials * CMP: precision through in-situ process control * Dielectrics: composition tuning *...
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China leading creation of infrastructure and development banks
Developing countries need over $1 trillion a year in infrastructure. The figure greatly exceeded private-sector investment of about $150 billion a year.China, which aired the idea of creating the Asian...
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China high speed rail costs are two thirds the cost of the next lowest cost...
By the end of 2013, China had built a high speed rail[1] network of over 10,000 route-km, far exceeding that in any other country and larger than the network in the entire European Union. It has been...
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Metals that mimic Bamboo Gradient structure will make stronger and more...
Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger, tougher materials that can be...
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NASA Finds Friction from Tides Could Help Distant Earths Survive, and Thrive
computer modeling by NASA scientists shows that friction could be the key to survival for some distant Earth-sized planets traveling in dangerous orbits.The findings are consistent with observations...
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Will China's per capita energy usage reach at least European levels and...
Will China consume energy like Europeans or follow the more excessive American model? And will China's energy consumption continue to be dominated by coal?China is developing coal gasification and may...
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Monolithic 3D Integration of Carbon Nanotube Logic Transistors could provide...
The crystal ball is murky beyond the 7-nm node. Transistors made with carbon nanotubes as the channel material hold special promise because of the ultra-thin body of the carbon nanotube of about one...
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Surviving in bad housing without electricity and with unsafe cooking is Rich...
Surviving in bad housing, without electricity and with unsafe cooking is Rich World Reality TV and is an entertaining challenge for a few weeks or months. However, it sucks badly for the everyday life...
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France and Sweden show you can use more energy and be richer if you use hydro...
France and Spain are relatively close in the amount of per capita emissions but French people get to use 50% more energy than each person in Spain.The Swedes get to use even more energy than the French...
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Self assembly of 15,000 semiconductor chips per hour
A first automated reel-to-reel fluidic self-assembly process for macroelectronic applications is reported. This system enables high speed assembly of semiconductor dies (15,000 chips per hour using a...
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Digital eye in the sky used to capture 34 murderers and solved 75 murders and...
Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) flies a small Cessna aircraft 10,000 feet overhead. The surveillance planes is loaded up with specialized 192 megapixel cameras that could watch 25 square miles of...
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Reviewing Current and Near term Surveillance - all of your emails, all of...
A few thousand digital video cameras flying 15-30 miles high can be used to record all human size or larger movement across the entire country. This has already been used to track movement in US cities...
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