& Technology and it comes in the same week that Hansen 72 said he will retire.
Solar and amazing energy storage technologies are advancing exponentially. By the time one more nuclear plant is built the materials based energy revolution will change the face of energy production foreverchernobyl may have caused almost 1 million deaths according to a recent study.
And its not new technology they are using some of the same tech developed for water reactors that has been going on for near a century.
and nuclear energy are true you do realize that most of that info is talking about decades old nuclear technology?
Nuclear plants were built with technology research and designed decades ago. Chernobyl and Fukushima built in the sixties
and finished in the seventies used technology invented in the fifties! That's only a DECADE after the FIRST nuclear fission in human history!
The nuclear plants finished recently (within the past decade) were built with technology developed in the seventies and eighties.
Also I believe that fossil fuel technology has been research to almost full potential. Nuclear fission and fusion and combination of the two have yet to reach the potentials
what University of Arkansas engineer Alan Mantooth calls a shock absorber for the grid. He's developing the refrigerator-size device at the university's National Center for Reliable Electric power Transmission.
As the US corps of engineers explains US infrastructure is already greatly underfunded and much of it outdated and in deteriorating state.
and whats left would be easy and cheap to engineer. Unfortunately same problem as with the smart grid.
Tesla's AC and transformer technology did enable the grid that we have today. Side note to the Euros--there are high voltage DC lines in the US they've been in place for years.
or an engineer he was a tinkerer. He and Henry ford got along very well because of that.
in the most basic sense they are wrong much in the same way every applied science is wrong;
every technique tool instrument we use in applied science and engineering requires some level of assumption to bring the tool to a practically usable level.
That is why we quantify the known variability in our instruments and techniques...but we do not disavow them until they are shown either entirely wrong
or less accurate than is needed to support the function we use them for. With that said...
but the various radiometric dating techniques used on those scales have other means of control
While I agree that there are a number of variables that we simply cant capture in radiometric dating techniques
I don't see that this invalidates the techniques or their results as you often insinuate in your comments on these articles (please correct me if
Engineers LOVE assumptions. Layla. I agree that Wanda`s bl0g is impossible last monday I bought a gorgeous BMW 5-series after having made $7872 this-past/4 weeks
and happily situated there is hardly anything impossible in civil engineering and building. This matchless piece of work now nearing completion testifies to the constructive genius of man
and he had the best engineers of his time and the brainiest supervisors; he had ample money and the latest machinery;
The unconquerable Gorgas with a good force of physicians surgeons nurses expert sanitarians skilled engineers and helpers with ample supplies of disinfectants were put in the lead.
ditches were dug only after the lines of skilled engineers so that drainage might be perfect; a large force of men were kept busy oiling three
The Panama canal is a wonderful feat of engineering and we can easily imagine civil engineers attempting in the near future to conserve
and utilize the motor power of the ocean waves and the trade winds. All due honor to the engineers.
But when the world's vessels sail through Lake Bohio whose waters will be impregnated with millions of dollars worth of the rusting iron of The french failure it will be a glorious triumph of scientific sanitation and a great lesson to all nations and peoples down the centuries;
#Another Chinese National Indicted For Stealing American GMO Cornsometimes even a high-tech heist requires a little digging around in the dirt.
Earlier this month a federal court indicted a Chinese national for trying to steal GMO corn technology from Dupont Monsanto and Agreliant Genetics.
The scientist's arrest is just the latest in a series of indictments against six other people linked to a Beijing seed-development company called Dabeinong Technology Group Co. The FBI alleges the Dabeinong staff were part of
And from Chemical & Engineering News: What's at stake here aren't the genetically modified seeds that farmers buy and plant.
Science Chemical & Engineering News. See also these court documents from December 2013 posted by NPR p
The High-tech Trashing of Asia. It provided the first substantial documentation of American e-waste dumping in the developing world.
A chemical engineer he had spent years making plastics for all kinds of products but in 1992 he reversed course
because we re using processes from so many other industries says Biddle who has poached separation techniques from mining metal recycling
and science into engineering he researched it and learned that chemical engineers earn the highest salaries.
The University of Louisville charged only $265 a semester and had a good engineering program so he decided to go there.
After graduation he landed In general Electric s plastics lab. Most people would look at this pile
Biddle later got a Ph d. in polymer science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
Which existing separation technologies could he employ? During this period Biddle befriended an Englishman named Ray Mann Europe s leading electronics recycler at the time.
He was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and is in talks with the Clinton Global Initiative on how to help people living
After shredding the raw materials Biddle employs dozens of separation techniques in a particular order. Here are some of the techniques he might use.
Overhead Magnet Belt This device consists of a strong magnet with a conveyor belt moving around it.
Nightclubs and tech start-ups arrived first on the promise of cheap rent and residents followed.
Along with them came architects urban planners and engineers many of whom make a pilgrimage to the same tower that Waugh now circumambulates.
Many engineers like to call it plywood on steroids. When it opened in 2009 Stadthaus was by far the world s tallest modern timber building.
Fortunately at around the same time engineers and architects discovered how to use steel and concrete to build high-rise structures that could climb far above the tallest balloon frames.
But over the last two decades architects and engineers have begun to rethink the possibilities of wood as a structural building material.
First came the technology itself. In the mid-1990s the Austrian government funded a joint industry-academic research program to develop new stronger forms of engineered wood to soak up the country s oversupply of timber.
and send them to an engineer who would convert the documents into specifications for each wood beam or steel plate.
When the Australian arm of Lend lease a global project management and construction company began to design Fortã Â a 10-story apartment building in the docklands neighborhood of Melbourne its engineers were not considering mass timber.
But for a blue-chip firm like Skidmore to embrace high-rise wood construction is a sign of how rapidly the technology is moving from the engineering vanguard to the mainstream.
but it s not that tall says William F. Baker who oversaw the Skidmore study with project engineer Benton Johnson.
As technology has advanced scientists have decoded many of nature s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
the microdrone. Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design says Peter Singer a fellow at the Washington D c. ased Brookings Institution.
Engineers have developed the first insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
Two decades later computational techniques caught up with theory and scientists began to apply these principles to manmade systems.
They assigned a graduate student named Rob Wood among others to help develop techniques to fabricate the tiny parts
It is not yet a mature technology but it s getting there. We are still getting feedback and making improvements.
After observing the fly at the bar the two engineers searched for someone with experience replicating insect flight.
since Harvard s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and together they applied for an Air force Grant wood s group then used an image-capture system to record
The two engineers used those insights to guide the development of a resilient flying machine.
Last February the engineers sent their drone called the Instanteye to Fort Benning near Columbus Georgia for its annual Army Expeditionary Warrior experiments where an infantry platoon used it to help complete a set of assigned missions.
As the first generation of microdrones reaches the market significant engineering challenges still remain. For Wood the big hurdle is power.
Whatever their application microdrones are no longer a Da vinci ike dream of engineers. They re taking off gile resilient and under their own power.
#Carbon capture technology could be vital for climate targetsthe future availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be pivotal in reaching ambitious climate targets according to a new comprehensive study of future energy technologies from IIASA the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change the Stanford Energy Modeling
Forum and researchers worldwide. The study published in a special issue of the journal Climatic Change provides an overview of the results of EMF27 a major research project combining 18 different global energy-economy models from research teams around the world.
It examines the role of technology in future climate mitigation asking which technologies will be needed and when in order to reach different climate targets.
Which technologies hold the most promise? Some technologies are more valuable than others particularly CCS
and bioenergy compared to wind solar and nuclear energy because the combination of the two can lead to negative emissions says IIASA researcher Volker Krey lead author of the study published last week.
CCS is a yet-unproven technology that would remove carbon from fossil fuel or bioenergy combustion and store it underground.
The future availability of bioenergy and CCS technologies would also take some pressure off other sectors in terms of required mitigation effort says Krey.
Unless stringent mitigation action in transport and other end-use sectors is implemented almost immediately the only way to still achieve the 2 degree target will be to rely on carbon dioxide removal technologies such as bioenergy with CCS.
while the other renewable technologies would require electric or hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure in order to power transportation.
and sheep was officiated by the Deputy Minister of Science Technology and Innovation Datuk Dr Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah in a brief ceremony on 24.oct 2013.
The patent for the STVAC7 vaccine Has been fed commercialised to Tech Sdn Bhd for RM4 million
and produced using sophisticated recombinant technology which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
and technology could be modified to produce vaccines against other diseases of animals and humans. In fact the technology can be modified further to produce test kits for various diseases he said.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM. The original article was written by Noor Eszereen Juferi.
Traditional techniques such as thin-sectioning require investigators to physically cut up the fossil in order to observe internal structures.
Using this technique X-ray images similar to those used in the medical field are captured providing virtual cross-sections of the specimen without ever cutting into the sample.
In the study Gee demonstrates how this technique allows the observation of internal features such as seeds vascular tissue and cone scales.
Dr. Gee hopes this study will provide researchers with an alternative to traditional techniques such as thin-sectioning
Coupled with 3d reconstruction techniques in color microct and image segmentation can become powerful tools in the study of fossil plants
Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.
For example the described technique is used to develop tomatoes with resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus
The technique includes reliably rearing whiteflies with a specific virus while omitting the possibility of cross-contamination to other viruses--an easily encountered problem because of the sheer number of whiteflies used in testing.
Polston said that she published this technique through Jove's video format because it was difficult to explain it through traditional text-only journals.
And it was very difficult to describe some of the details of this technique in writing.
Tour's breakthrough unzipping technique for turning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into GNRS first revealed in Nature in 2009 has been licensed for industrial production.
Parambath Sudeep a research scholar at Cochin University of Science and Technology India; Rice senior faculty fellow Robert Vajtai;
and Pulickel Ajayan the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry at Rice.
Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science at Rice.
The Air force Research Laboratory through the University Technology Corp. the Office of Naval Research MURI graphene program and the Air force Office of Scientific research MURI program supported the research.
The vast majority 85 percent of nitrogen deposition originates with human activities explains principal investigator Daniel J. Jacob Vasco Mccoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at the Harvard
School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS. It is fully within our power as a nation to reduce our impact.
Existing air quality regulations and trends in clean energy technology are expected to reduce the amount of harmful nitrogen oxides (NOX) emitted by coal plants and cars over time.
'The project was funded by the NASA Applied sciences Program through the Air Quality Applied sciences Team which is led by Jacob at Harvard
The above story is provided based on materials by Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and warehouses located in Sinaloa (Northwest Mexico) created a new technology of effective fumigation that solely uses ozone.
Until five years ago the main fumigation technique and pest control inside warehouses and silos was the use of chemical substances such as aluminum phosphide and methyl bromide
and modifying the internal atmosphere of the room using this technique pest free grains are obtained during the whole purchase sale and storage cycle.
The effectiveness of this technology meets the Official Mexican Standard (NOM. This innovation already has industrial property protection
In Mexico companies with large grain and flour warehouses already use this technology. Thanks to this technological innovations and the business plan created with the help of the Mexico-United Estates Foundation for Science (FUMEC) the Mexican enterprise that had 10 employees in 2008 today counts with 73 permanent employees and 20
The new technique is demonstrated in the September issue of Applications in Plant sciences. The beauty of time-lapse is that we can make observations in the plant's time scale.
In the current study Mary Nichols (of the U s. Department of agriculture-Agricultural research service) and colleagues demonstrated the technique in both indoor and outdoor settings.
The researchers chose to use a practical and affordable camera (the Canon G10) to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique to a variety of users.
The study describes the new technique in detail and provides a materials listing costs and example sources for components to build the solar-powered outdoor system.
As Steven emphasizes The technique has amazing potential to study the importance of the environment on plant phenology and behavior.
Researchers can further adapt the technique by adjusting the overall resolution which can be increased by capturing a larger number of individual images at a higher zoom.
This new technique will be a powerful tool to allow researchers to simultaneously examine environmental influence over time across a population as well as at a high-resolution on a single plant and to do so with a minimum of manpower.
and the operating costs said Dong-Yeon Lee a Ph d. student in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The study findings were reported July 16 2013 in the journal Environmental science and Technology. The research team took into account the sources of electricity used to charge the electric vehicles in evaluating greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology advances make predicting the long-term price of electric trucks difficult said Valerie Thomas one of the study's co-authors and a professor in Georgia Tech's Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and School
which the total cost of operating an electric vehicle is less than operating a diesel vehicle noted Marilyn Brown another co-author and a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy.
and we got a bigger picture that was enabled completely technology he said. The researchers used a new technique called genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to map genetic differences in 1160 sorghum lines.
Brown said GBS is a new technology developed in the last two years. Brown and his team along with other researchers have made refinements to the process.
Using GBS we're now able to cover the whole genome with some gaps in individual lines he said.
But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.
which bioscience and biological techniques are being applied to help solve the global energy challenge. The partnership funded from the energy company BP includes researchers from the University of California Berkeley;
If you can convince them you can make them money you're most of the way there to selling them your product says Jesse Austin-Breneman a graduate student in MIT's Department of Mechanical engineering.
Austin-Breneman and Maria Yang the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate professor of Mechanical engineering and Engineering Systems combed through the literature on product design in emerging markets and identified four case studies in
solar-lighting technology cookstoves drip irrigation and a line of Nokia cellphones. From their research as well as interviews with product designers the researchers drew up guidelines on how to design for emerging markets.
The team will present their results at the American Society of Mechanical engineers'(ASME) International Design Engineering Technical Conference in August.
#World-changing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the aira major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham
The implications for agriculture are enormous as this new technology can provide much of the plant's nitrogen needs.
Speaking about the technology which is known as'N-Fix'Professor Cocking said: Helping plants to naturally obtain the nitrogen they need is a key aspect of World Food security.
which have established proof of principal of the technology in the laboratory growth rooms and glasshouses.
Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
There is a substantial global market for the N-Fix technology as it can be applied globally to all crops.
The N-Fix technology has been licensed by The University of Nottingham to Azotic Technologies Ltd to develop and commercialise N-Fix globally on its behalf for all crop species. Peter Blezard CEO of Azotic Technologies added:
It is anticipated that the N-Fix technology will be commercially available within the next two to three years.
The technology is described online in a July 8 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
Halas Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering professor of physics professor of chemistry and professor of biomedical engineering is one of the world's most-cited chemists.
The technology has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent. Photovoltaic solar panels by comparison typically have an overall energy efficiency of around 15 percent.
The solar steam autoclave was designed by Rice undergraduates at Rice's Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen
Sanitation technology isn't glamorous but it's a matter of life and death for 2. 5 billion people Halas said.
For this to really work you need a technology that can be completely off-grid that's not that large that functions relatively quickly is easy to handle
and it's the only technology we've seen that can completely sterilize waste. I can't wait to see how it performs in the field.
Silicon oxide memories transcend a hurdlea Rice university laboratory pioneering memory devices that use cheap plentiful silicon oxide to store data has pushed them a step further with chips that show the technology's practicality.
The technique is based on an earlier discovery by the Tour lab: When electricity passes through a layer of silicon oxide it strips away oxygen molecules
From the engineering side of this integrating diodes into a 1k memory array is no small feat Tour said.
Douglas Natelson a professor of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering and Krishna Palem the Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computer science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of statistics.
Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science at Rice.
Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.
The findings by Sunarto who earned his doctorate from Virginia Tech in 2011 and co-researchers Marcella Kelly an associate professor of wildlife in the College of Natural resources and Environment and Erin Poor of East Lansing Mich. a doctoral student studying wildlife science and geospatial
The research applied spatial estimation techniques to provide better accuracy of tiger density than previous studies.
and Sybille Klenzendorf managing director of WWF's Species Conservation Program who earned her master's and doctoral degrees in wildlife science from Virginia Tech.
The above story is provided based on materials by Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic institute and State university. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
The Rice labs of lead investigator Jun Lou Pulickel Ajayan and Boris Yakobson all professors in the university's Mechanical engineering and Materials Science Department collaborated with Wigner Fellow Wu
Lou is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science. Ajayan is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering.
Yakobson is the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Mechanical engineering and Materials Science and a professor of chemistry.
Computations were performed on Rice's DAVINCI system and at the Cyberinfrastructure for Computational Research both funded by NSF.
#Songbirds may give insight to nature vs. nurtureon June 3rd Jove will publish a research technique that allows neural imaging of auditory stimuli in songbirds via MRI.
The technique developed by Dr. Annemie Van der Linden and her laboratory at the University of Antwerp in Belgium will be one of the first published in Jove Behavior a new section of the video journal that focuses on observational and experimental techniques that seek to understand human and animal
behavior through physiological neurological and genetic means. Species of animals that are more vocal in their expression like macaques parrots
Thus far songbird brains have been studied using electrophysiological and histological techniques. However these approaches do not provide a global view of the brain
The Van der Linden laboratory hopes to use this technique to conduct experiments that be done with humans.
and reproduce behavioral experiments such as bird fmri techniques as described in Dr. Van der Linden's article which are both novel and technically complex.
Proud to be included in this significant new section Dr. Van der Linden says MRI imaging techniques should in the near future lead to major conceptual advances in the study of how the brain changes behavior
#Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the worldin a new study published in Science Columbia Engineering researchers demonstrate that graphene
if it has no defects--its intrinsic strength says James Hone professor of mechanical engineering who led the study with Jeffrey Kysar professor of mechanical engineering.
The Columbia Engineering team developed a new process that prevents any damage of graphene during transfer.
In its perfect crystalline form graphene (a one-atom-thick carbon layer) is the strongest material ever measured as the Columbia Engineering team reported in Science in 2008--so strong that as Hone observed it would take an elephant balanced on a pencil to break through a sheet
The Columbia Engineering team wanted to discover what was making CVD graphene so weak. In studying the processing techniques used to create their samples for testing they found that the chemical most commonly used to remove the copper substrate also causes damage to the graphene severely degrading its strength.
Their experiments demonstrated that CVD graphene with large grains is exactly as strong as exfoliated graphene showing that its crystal lattice is just as perfect.
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