Ann’s earlier post regarding the accelerating drop in costs in 2009 and 2010 for installed photovoltaic solar energy systems general jibes with the estimates by Emanual Sachs, of 1366 Technologies/MIT. Sachs…
Read MoreVanku’s Tiger Stone machine Via, Gizmag and Gizmodo, I found this video of this Dutch-made brick paving machine. I wouldn’t go so far as Gizmodo does in describing this as…
Read MoreWe’ve received a lot of feedback questioning some of the science presented in this video. I forwarded some of the comments on to the producers and requested a response. I…
Read MoreChemist Martyn Poliakoff of University of Nottingham has featured a graphene edition of the Periodic Table of Videos. The video offers a short introduction of graphene, a reenactment of the…
Read MoreTruly amazing! OSU Materials blog has shared this slow motion film of water droplets falling on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array. The video was filmed by Adrianus Aria and Morteza…
Read MoreGerald Schotman, chief technology officer, Royal Dutch Shell, right, signs the agreement with MIT President Susan Hockfield. (Credit: MIT) MIT announced that Shell and MIT today signed an agreement to…
Read MoreAny theories? (The creators, citoplasmas, do a lot of work in stop-action animation.)
Read MoreThis is a great introductory 54-minute video of a lecture presented earlier this year by Alex Gash and Dean Reese as part of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s excellent Science on Saturday…
Read MoreAccording to a press release from Tile Edizioni, 2009 marked the first year in the tile production sector’s history that production fell. Although Asia’s share of the production and consumption…
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