Fifteen years of ThinkPad highs and lows
News Wearable ThinkPads, Transmeta-based ThinkPads, methane-powered ThinkPads, flaming ThinkPads, butterfly ThinkPads and even — briefly — coloured ThinkPads. IBM introduced fingerprint-based security and RFID "proximity badges" to the range in 2002 — a...
[July 20, 2007, 14:56]
Gas-powered notebooks get lighter
News Five years from now, the desktop will probably look pretty much like it does today, but the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making cellular calls on its own and running on methane.
[August 19, 2002, 17:05]
Magnificent MEMS and the micro-machines
News A kilogram of methane provides 15,000 watt-hours of energy. The difference is that lithium-ion is electrically charged, while methane provides thermal (i.e.it burns) energy. Disposable satellite transmitters, inexpensive medical testing equipment...
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
CONSOL Energy Reduces SAP Storage and Infrastructure Costs With NetApp FC SAN Solution
White Papers CONSOL Energy produces high-bituminous coal and coal mine methane gas. The company wanted to reduce data storage costs and manage data growth. The company also wanted to enable efficient data backup and recovery and reduce system administration...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Green Gas (SNG) Production by Supercritical Gasification of Biomass
White Papers At relatively low temperatures, just below the critical temperature, catalysts are required and gases rich in methane can be produced. The objective of this study was to evaluate the production of "Green Gas" (SNG) from relatively wet biomass/waste...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Star Wars Episode I Racer
Downloads Negotiate through flaming methane lakes, Tusken Raider assaults, anti-gravity tunnels and much more in a pulse-pounding, do-or-die fight to the finish where anyone will do anything to cross the finish line.
[February 4, 2000, 7:00]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Talkback Methane Cell vending machines - this is what a Toshiba spokesman said was one vision of the future. Instant power wherever you are
[June 27, 2004, 13:34]
Silicon's successor lurks in the lab
News They are stronger than steel and as flexible as plastic, conduct energy better than almost any material ever discovered and can be made from unexotic raw materials such as methane gas. The second, the modified gas method, involves spraying a...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
Nanosys does Sharp fuel cell deal
News Fuel cells that can run MP3 players, mobile phones or even TVs on small amounts of methane are expected to hit the market in the next few years, despite hitches that have already caused delays. Japanese electronics conglomerate Sharp has inked a...
[January 19, 2005, 8:30]
environmentally friendly people: an oxymoron
Talkback To stretch the 4-wheel drive analogy, we could even revert to using horses but they would still produce methane. This article makes a great point but I think it is important we keep a couple of things in mind.
[June 6, 2007, 15:41]
Slug-eating robot moves towards commercial release
News Captured slugs will be taken to a base station where they will decompose and release methane gas, which can then be converted to electricity. Scientists who have been developing a slug-hunting robot that could be powered by its prey are close to...
[December 12, 2001, 13:59]
Nanotube breakthrough paves path for carbon chips
News They also get produced by heating hydrocarbons such as methane in environments that can exceed 800 degrees Celsius. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on...
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
The IPCC Climate Change Report
Downloads More intense and longer droughts have been observed over wider areas since the 1970s .increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide is .unprecedented in more than 10,000 years. Untitled DocumentKiller heat waves, constant brownouts...
[February 5, 2007, 7:00]
IBM launches $1bn-a-year green initiative
News Eclipse, which is a member of the CarbonNeutral network, is investing in wind-farm technologies in India, a methane-capture project in Pennsylvania and a Ugandan forestry project. IBM is to launch a billion-dollar programme aimed at increasing...
[May 10, 2007, 14:34]
Gassy batteries pump up the power
News Some researchers are also working on more efficient solar cells and methane-powered fuel cells. The pace at which scientists are developing new energy sources for portable electronics is dramatically speeding up as the industry races to make...
[November 14, 2002, 7:53]
Researchers move toward plastic chips
News Batlogg achieved the "transition temperature" of 117 degrees Kelvin (-248 degrees Fahrenheit) by adding a methane-based compound to the material. They're neighbours on the periodic table of elements, but carbon and silicon are pretty much strangers...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Mobile application calculates carbon footprint
News The Java-based application takes the user's data on their activities such as cooking, transport, lighting and appliance use, and calculates their carbon footprint in terms of the three major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous...
[December 3, 2007, 12:05]
Subspace Computing With Inbuilt Web
Blog No probes no space craft, at least not if you want to quickly collect data from the chilly methane (and possibly water) seas of Europa. Just imagine it for a moment. The advent of quantum computing and what that really means.
[January 7, 2009, 11:28]
