New Source of Energy from Nanotechnology?

Wrap your head around this little goody.  If this is something that can be brought to market we really are on the verge of a new age.

Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline vehicle? For that matter, think about environmental sensors that could be scattered into the air like dust and collect data. While the last thing might not exactly be what you want for Christmas, a breakthrough in energy production made by MIT researchers could make such technology a reality during the next few years.

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Robot Scientists Better Pay!

Actually I doubt they would care about money and instead start demanding more equipment if they continue on the course set by this first robot scientist.

When it comes to being a scientist, Adam is quite the standout. No, he is not a Nobel Prize Laureate or even a prodigy. He’s more like a prototype – the first robot to design, perform, and interpret a series of scientific experiments leading to a new discovery. As anyone who has taken a high school science class can confirm, taking detailed notes is an integral part of doing science. Unfortunately, this is one area where even the most dedicated scientists can fall short. Unless of course that scientist is a robot that can record the experiments as they are being performed. As if the development of an autonomous robot with a knack for science wasn’t impressive enough, Adam quickly wowed his creators by solving a yeast genetics puzzle that had baffled researchers for decades! And it’s not difficult to imagine the advantages of a robot scientist in the laboratory. Adam and his counterparts will significantly increase the rates at which important advancements are made, inching us closer to the time when robots are more our colleagues than our tools. Check out the video below to see Adam carrying out a typical experiment.
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Is it possible to control hurricanes?

This is an interesting idea but I think for it to work it would require a lot more surface cooling to actually work. When you’ve been through several hurricanes as I have here in Florida, it’s hard to imagine being able to make a difference in the power of a hurricane. I think you would have to also consider the long term effects a device like this would have on ocean.

Source: Busting hurricanes with ocean cooling pumps

64 Miles Per Gallon with Fuel-injection?

Getting more from what you already have is a key to true invention.

The new fuel-injection system is placed into this sports car which weighs approximately the same as the Toyota Prius hybrid and has similar aerodynamics. The new fuel injection system gets better gas mileage than the Prius hybrid.
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Exhaust Gases as Solar Cells?

Conservation is the optimum way to save energy and this is a promising idea.
The hot gases passing through a vehicle’s exhaust could be tapped to generate power, using “cuffs” made from a new carbon-nanotube-based material. The “thermocell” produces electricity at a similar cost per watt as commercial solar cells.
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A Real Tree of Life

And nature again gives more than we could believe possible.

A recipe for using “the world’s most useful tree” to purify water is being offered for free download, in the hope that this will help get clean drinking water to billions of poor folk around the world.
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