Archives for August, 2008
Record Flight Of Solar Plane (Part 2)
There is a need to advance it in some ways. Therefore we are trying to design it in a sturdy and strong in its construction and make an authentic arrangement that will really stay up above for months. The test continued going on between 28 and 31 July. UK Ministry of Defense remained involved in that experiment. The 30kg Zephyr was operated by remote control. It made a flight at the height more than of 18km (60,000ft). It continue...
Record Flight Of Solar Plane (Part 1 )
A UK-based company constructed solar-powered plane which made up a new world endurance record. The test carried out was not official one. It was a flight of unmanned (remotely controlled) aircraft. The Zephyr-6 remained up in the air for more than 72 hours. At night it got power from the batteries which were recharged daytime in the light of the sun. The flight was a presentation for the US military. It was a Try to discover ne...
Researchers Discovered Cheap Way To Store Solar Energy (Part 2)
The new catalyst is amorphous without having any distinct structure. It is not stable in form and breaks down after performing its job. But it has the ability to repair itself which enables it to work continuously. In the experimental method adopted by Nocera, he inserts an indium tin oxide electrode in a container of water. That water was already mixed with cobalt and potassium phosphate. When he applied voltage to that electrode, the chem...
Researchers Discovered Cheap Way To Store Solar Energy (Part 1)
Researchers have developed a new advance method in organic chemistry regarding storing energy from the sunlight. The advantage of this advancement is that it would render a cheapest way towards producing electric power. The cost was considered as the top most issue in the energy generation process from sun light. Now it is much resolved by this method. The chief role in this method is played by a newly developed catalyst. It is developed by...
Cheaper Process To convert Natural Gas To Gasoline (Part 2)
The cost differs by $10 per barrel. This was stated by Hall. He says that a Fischer-Tropsch plant is having the capacity to produce a barrel of gasoline giving a production cost of $35 but by Synfuels refinery same amount of gasoline could be produced for just $25. By making the calculations under current fuel prices, it is said by the company that this plant can cover up its own manufacturing cost in four years. Texas A&M Univers...
Cheaper Process To convert Natural Gas To Gasoline (Part 1)
A Texas company has claimed of developing a new conversion method which is cheaper and cleaner one to create gasoline and other liquid fuels from natural gas. This method would render a way which is more economical to make use of natural-gas reserves which were difficult to develop due to small in size or located at far away places. Synfuels International which is an American company based in Dallas, is working behind this technology. The com...
Remains Of Moss Found On Antarctica Valley
There was a time when animal and green life was present in the valleys of Antarctica which are now barren and does not have any sign of life on them. This was revealed by the scientists doing research work on that frozen continent. They recovered remains of life from that land. These researchers further said that the fields we see now were tundra lands fourteen million years ago. Just as we see some regions of Alaska, Canada and Siberia. The...
New Advancement In The Field Of Artificial Eyes (Part 2)
In the next step they moved already fabricated central plane array and associated electronics from a silicon wafer to the tensioned membrane that is stretched taut over a drum. When this tension is free, the membrane attains its formal form. This procedure presses the focal plane arrangement. As a result of this electrical interconnects, which are especially designed, delaminate from the rubber surface and make arcs, fastened on the ends b...
New Advancement In The Field Of Artificial Eyes (Part 1)
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University developed electronic-eye camera. The 7th august publish of Nature – a journal – described that scientists have succeeded in preparing a superior, hemispherical “eye” camera. This camera is employing a number of single-crystalline silicon sensors and electronics. Those components are set up in a stretchable and interlinked mesh. These scientists ...
The Demise Of Computer Mouse
More than 40 years passed since the computer mouse has been invented. After this long time, today one renowned research company says that only few years are left when the use of mouse will end up. A Gartner, who is the analyst, said that in the next three to five years the use of computer mouse will end up. Gestural computer mechanisms will replace the mouse. Touch screens and facial recognition devices are the two examples of the machines ...
