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Solar power breakthrough; add one photon of sunlight; get Two electrons' worth of electricity

Solar Cells on Steroids

If you want more efficient solar power-better then the 15-20 % efficiency we typically see today, Victor Klimov, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is the person to see.  What's his deal ?

"Give him one photon of sunlight, and he'll give you two electrons' worth of electricity", say New Scentist magazine today.

Not impressed by this claim?  Well,you should be. 

In all solar cells now in use - in everything from satellites to pocket calculators - each incoming photon contributes at most one energised electron to the electric current it generates. 

Now Klimov has broken through this barrier. 

"He has shown that by shrinking the elements of a solar cell down to a few nanometres, or millionths of a millimetre, each captured photon can be made to generate not one, but two or even more charge carriers."

Producing this multiplicity of electrons - an achievement that has been replicated by a group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado - is a remarkable piece of physics, hails New Scientist. 

If the effect can be harnessed, it could change the whole energy debate by making solar power much more efficient and economical.  While there are many ongoing efforts to improve solar efficiency - by concentrating sunlight, for example, or by making it easier for electrons to move around within a cell - the new approach is unique in that it gets to the very root of the process and also complements other methods.

For decades, photovoltaics have been stranded on the effete fringe of energy technologies - ideal for niche applications such as satellites, but not economically competitive here on Earth.  Made from semiconducting materials, most often silicon, solar cells convert a dismayingly small fraction of the sun's energy into electricity.  Radically improving efficiency could give solar energy a boost at a time when it is sorely needed and funding decisions hang in the balance. 

"If this could be translated into a robust system that could generate multiple carriers, it could be revolutionary," says Eric Rohlfing, acting director of the chemical sciences, geosciences and biosciences division in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the US Department of Energy.

The latest results trace back to 1982, when materials scientist Alexander Efros at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC showed it was theoretically possible for a photon to generate multiple charge carriers in certain semiconductors.

In his latest series of experiments, Klimov claims to have produced as many as 7 excitons per photon in crystals of lead selenide 4 to 8 nanometres in diameter (Nano Letters, vol 6, p 424).  "They're very cheap and only take a few minutes to grow," says Klimov.  "It's like making new atoms, to go beyond what nature provides."

Full story in New Scientist today (subscription required)

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Illumio collaboration Software spots Experts Among Your Friends

Problem:

Can't make a decision without polling your friends first?

Smart Solution:

The New York Times reported on May 29, 2006 that Tacit Software is preparing to introduce an novel online service next month, named Illumio, that will make it easier to pick the brains of friends and colleagues for opinions and expertise.

According to Tacit:

The service allows the user to mine the data on the computers of friends, business associates and others with shared interests on any subjects.

However, Illumio is not a search engine, like Google or Yahoo.  The system works by transparently distributing a request for information on questions like "Who knows John Smith?"  To the computers in a network of users.  The questions can then be answered locally based on a novel reverse auction system that Illumio uses to determine who the experts are.

The system is intended to extend a growing category of software that helps groups collaborate and work together more efficiently.  Efforts to create systems that augment the intellectual power of work groups go back to the earliest days of computing technology development.  The widespread availability of networks and Web browsers, however, has made such technologies far more accessible in recent years.

"The collaboration space is big and busy," said David L. Gilmour, president and chief executive of Tacit.  "We don't consider ourselves a collaboration environment, rather we are about communication and search."

Michael Schrage, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management says:

"This represents the eBayification of organizations,".  "The reality is that organizations are run off of informal connections and tools such as this facilitate gray markets in information and interpersonal exchange."

Tacit's top achievement in its software for connecting people and expertise may be in a design that keeps personal information private.

"The biggest problem we had to solve was the privacy problem," Mr. Gilmour said.

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Limb Regeneration; Not just for salamanders, newts and X-men, but normal humans too?

In chasing after what has to be one of the holy grails of medicine, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the USA, has awarded a $3.7 million grant to the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to oversee an ambitious, multi-center research program to better understand the intricate processes involved in wound healing and tissue restoration/regeneration. 

A large part of the team's effort will involve examining the cellular and molecular systems that allow certain animals to completely regenerate lost tissue.  The ultimate goal of the research is to identify ways for enhancing the capacity for wound healing and tissue restoration in humans

"We sincerely believe that the ability to promote tissue restoration in humans is not only possible, it will in fact be a reality some day." says Dr. Stephan Badylak

By working as a team and capitalizing on our collective expertise and experience, we're in a better position to succeed at unlocking the regenerative potential of mammals than would be possible working in the silos of our individual labs," contests Dr. Stephan Badylak. 

The investigators believe their goal is attainable due to a convergence of recent discoveries made in their labs as well as at other institutions in the areas of stem cell research, extracellular matrix biochemistry and the regulation of gene expression.

To some extent, humans already have the capacity for regeneration.  For instance, certain cells, such as liver cells and red blood cells, can self-renew; and during embryonic development mammals and birds can regenerate such diverse tissues and structures as their skin and spinal cord. 

However, humans can't perform the same trick of regrowing a severed limb like salamanders or newts can.  That is because in humans the cells that respond to the site of injury form scar tissue, whereas in salamanders the responding cells are genetically programmed to become the cell types of the lost structure, with full limb growth complete by two months.

When a salamander loses a limb, the wound sends out molecular signals that prompt surrounding tissue to begin production of new progenitor cells, also referred to as precursor cells.  These progenitor cells continue to divide and form a large pool of cells at the wound site, called a blastema, that will later specialize and mature to help form the bone, muscle, cartilage, nerves and skin of the regenerated limb.

Although most mammals cannot restore tissue efficiently, a certain type of mouse, known as the MRL mouse, has enhanced regenerative capabilities.  The MRL mouse can regenerate a portion of the ear as well as its heart tissue following injury.

The researchers aim to prove that mammals can form the required progenitor cells for regeneration just as a salamander does.  By studying salamanders and MRL mice, the researchers hope to identify the specific types of cells, molecular signals, genes and cellular scaffolding required for regenerative cell growth.  In essence, they seek as comprehensive an understanding as possible of the mechanisms and processes - to obtain the blueprint for regenerative growth.

With such information in hand, the researchers will turn their attention to studies using another mouse model incapable of tissue restoration - a model more representative of mammals, including humans.

Specifically, they will attempt to orchestrate the formation of a blastema in response to an injury at the site where nature would normally direct the accumulation of scar tissue.

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Russian scientists create the 24/7 solar and stellar battery

Too often we only focus on North America, Europe and Asia as our sole source of scientific discoveries and research breakthroughs.  We forget that there is exciting news from other parts of the globe

A story from Russia during the past week from AFP news agency peaked my curiosity, despite the lack of any solid information. Russians are notorious for their criptic news stories and not providing adequate news details...I guess it's still part of the old Soviet mindset ...inherited from the former Soviet Union.

AFP said that, Russian scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have developed what I see as a "combo super" battery that can harness both traditional solar power and star power as well.

Valentin Samoilov of the Dubna Nuclear Institute says that scientists:

"have successfully created a new substance... thanks to which this battery can work on earth, independently of meteorological conditions, using solar and stellar energy."  Samoilov also added that the new battery would be cheaper than a traditional solar panel, and added "This is a battery like no other," it could function 24 hours a day and is twice as effective as an ordinary solar panel at converting light into electricity.  Moreover, Samoilov declared, the new battery was cheaper than a solar panel." 

We located a second ITAR-TASS story that describes this new substance as a "heteroelectric" but doesn't go into any further elaboration;

Imagine harnessing the power of distant stellar bodies as well as the sun on a 24/7 basis.

We'll definitely try to contact the original source- Valentin Samoilov of the Dubna Nuclear Institute and get back to our blog readers.

see related past bog from Nov 6, 2005 Solar cells to double in efficiency in 4 years, due to smart manufacturing

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Google promises artificial intelligence (AI)-based search engine

Richard Wray in the Guardian reported on Tuesday that Google is working on an AI-based search engine

A search engine that knows exactly what you are looking for, that can understand the question you are asking even better than you do, and find exactly the right information for you, instantly - that was the future predicted by Google yesterday.

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"The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world.  It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly," Mr Page told an audience of the digerati representing firms from Warner Music and AOL to BskyB and the BBC. 

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"You could ask 'what should I ask Larry?'  And it would tell you."  Speaking after what was tabled an end of day 'fireside chat', Mr Page said one thing that he had learned since Google launched eight years ago was that technology can change faster than expected, and that AI could be a reality within a few years.

Full story in the Guardian

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Affordable Home-Generated Power for 3d & 1st world

Problem:

The number is staggering: Approximately 2 billion of the world's people -- nearly one-third of the human population -- have no access to electricity. Consequently, they do without many of the amenities that people in the developed world take for granted -- everything from air conditioning and refrigeration to television, indoor lighting, and pumps that supply drinking water. And without electricity to power factory operations or other commercial endeavors, those 2 billion people remain mired in an endless cycle of poverty.

Smart Solution

One Florida State University researcher is working to break that cycle through the development of new energy technologies that are easy to install, environmentally sound and -- perhaps most importantly -- inexpensive to produce. Anjane'yulu' Krothapalli holds the Don Fuqua Eminent Scholar Chair of Engineering at FSU. He has established a new research center at FSU, the Sustainable Energy Science & Engineering Center (www.sesec.fsu.edu), which is developing technologies that have the potential to transform much of the developing world. Such technologies also could help the United States and other developed nations deal with ever-rising energy costs and combat the spread of global warming.

"The principles really are very simple," said Krothapalli, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering since 1983. "At SESEC, we are exploring ways to combine existing technologies to convert solar radiation to heat; to use that heat to produce steam to run a low-cost, highly efficient turbine; and then to use the power generated by that turbine to run a small electric generator. Individual homes could be equipped with these technologies. So, rather than being connected to a vast power transmission system, which is prohibitively expensive in much of the world, individual homeowners would be able to generate the energy they need."

What SESEC brings to the energy table, Krothapalli said, is the ability to take existing technologies and find ways to make them simple to install and operate, much cheaper to produce, and more sensitive to the environment.

"For such a system to work in a rural village in India, for example, it has to meet those criteria," he said. "It must be easy enough for the average person to maintain, inexpensive enough for that person to afford or his government to subsidize, and clean enough that it won't exacerbate global warming."

To demonstrate the various technologies, plans are under way to build a small, completely self-sustaining demonstration house in a parking lot outside Krothapalli's office at the FSU Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory. The 800-square-foot facility, which will include both living space and an office, will be constructed entirely out of "green," or environmentally sensitive, materials, will produce zero greenhouse-gas emissions, and will feature low-energy LED lighting and other innovations.

The house's 5-kilowatt solar energy facility will even produce hydrogen fuel to run a specially equipped automobile. The house will serve as a precursor to the biannual "Solar Decathlon" competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy 

Already, Krothapalli's work has generated considerable interest around the world. Governmental officials from India, Brazil and a number of other countries have contacted him to find out more, and he travels regularly to conferences throughout the world to share his ideas with fellow scientists and others.

His research also is bearing fruit in other ways. A patent for one of his technological innovations was approved in 2005, and four others now are under review. With a colleague, Brenton Greska, Krothapalli recently formed an outside business, Sustainable Technology LLC, to help bring some of the energy systems he is developing at FSU to the marketplace. And his research has netted a $100,000 grant from FSU's Cornerstone Program, as well as a second $100,000 award funded jointly by the FSU Research Foundation and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Although his research keeps him more than busy, Krothapalli still keeps his eye on the bigger picture.

"The challenge is to fuel worldwide economic growth and a reliable energy supply without despoiling our environment," he said. "At SESEC, we're focusing on technologies that will ease some of the burden that humanity places on our planet."

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Mathematical Formula to predict Terrorism; Universal Law of Terrorism?

All kinds of patterns exist in nature: tree rings are one of the best know examples.  Fibonacci numbers dictate how seeds, flowers, petals, pine cones, fruits, vegetables  and trees will grow and develop.

Now, more and more scientists have begun to look for interesting patterns in human society and human nature.

PhysicsOrg.com recently observed:

The nature of war is a question of great interest to everyone, [especially post 9/11] and as the era of large-scale conflicts recedes into the past. 

The wars of today tend to be lopsided [asymmetric] affairs, where guerilla forces, insurgent groups, and terrorists oppose incumbent governments.  Instead of a few large-scale battles, this situation leads to an apparently random series of small-scale attacks against vulnerable targets of opportunity {soft targets].

While affected governments collect records of past attacks, the random nature of such wars means that these data are of limited use in predicting future attacks.  When classified according to their frequency and intensity, however, the events of any insurgent war appear to follow a power law.  It should come as no surprise that weaker attacks are more common than stronger attacks, but a power law distribution makes a much more specific prediction.  It turns out that if individual conflicts (for example, a terrorist attack or a guerilla raid) are classified according to the resulting number of fatalities n, then the number of such conflicts occurring in any given year is proportional to n raised to a constant power."

Let’s look at a specific example. 

"In the case of the Iraq war, we might ask how many conflicts causing ten casualties are expected to occur over a one-year period.  According to the data, the answer is the average number of events per year times 10-23, or 0.005. If we instead ask how many events will cause twenty casualties, the answer is proportional to 20-23.  Taking into account the entire history of any given war, one finds that the frequency of events on all scales can be predicted by exactly the same exponent."

Professor Neil Johnson of Oxford University has come up with a remarkable result regarding these power laws: for several different wars, the exponent has about the same value. 

"Johnson studied the long-standing conflict in Colombia, the war in Iraq, the global rate of terrorist attacks in non-G7 countries, and the war in Afghanistan.  In each case, the power law exponent that predicted the distribution of conflicts was close to the value –2.5."

"What’s more, in the case of Colombia and Iraq he was able to show that the exponent seemed to be evolving towards that value; Colombia from above, and Iraq from below." 

Does this hint at a simple underlying pattern driving the behavior of modern wars? and is this new ‘Law of Terrorism’ really universal? 

“Power law patterns will emerge within any modern asymmetric war being fought by loosely organized insurgent groups.” Johnson speculates, “Although future wars will provide the ultimate test.” Johnson’s research continues with the analysis of data from other conflicts, such as Senegal, Indonesia, Israel, and Northern Ireland.

see Citation:

Neil Johnson et al.  2006, “Universal Patterns Underlying Ongoing Wars and Terrorism”,

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Impacts of Super Human Intelligence ?

From: Are We Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans?  by Douglas Mulhall 05/22/2006

Most students of artificial intelligence are familiar with this forecast made by Vernor Vinge in 19931:

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.  Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

That was thirteen years ago. 

Many proponents of super-intelligence say we are on track for that deadline, due to the rate of computing and software advances. 

Skeptics argue this is nonsense and that we're still decades away from it.

Thanks in part to molecular manufacturing, accelerated developments in AI and brain reverse-engineering could lead to the emergence of superintelligence in just 18 years. 

Impacts: ?

Are we ready for the implications -- like possible annihilation of Homo sapiens?  And will we seem to superintelligence what our ape-like ancestors seem to us: primitive?

Originally published in Nanotechnology Perceptions: A Review of Ultraprecision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Volume 2, No.  2, May 8, 2006. 

Full article reprinted with permission on KurzweilAI.net, May 22, 2006.

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Robot surgeon performs heart operation all by itself for the first time; Human knowledge packaged into machines

By now, distance robot-assisted surgery is old hat in the medical community. A search on the internet reveals over 1200 examples.

But now for the first time, UPI reports today that a robot surgeon in Milan Italy  has carried out a long-distance heart operation all by itself on a 34-year-old patient suffering from atrial fibrillation, with dozen of human heart surgeons watching on in Boston. The robot surgeon has carried out at least 40 operations. all learned from experience gathered from operations on over 10,000 patients

Harbin Polytechnical University, in Harbin, China recently announced that it has developed a series of robot systems that can help set bones, conduct surgeries and do medical research. One robot system has helped conduct 21 bone setting surgeries, all of which were successful,

This is the start of a trend, which I call learning reciprocity between machines and humans, which brings learning full circle. It can be expressed using the following annotations; (H<>H; H>M; M>H; M<>M;) where H=human and M=Machines and the arrows indicate the direction of knowldge exchange.

The transfer of knowledge has traditionally been direct, -- Human to Human. Now a set of intermediaries are about to step in.

Using cased based learning, AI and other advanced methods, robots and other machines will be able to assemble the knowledge and practical experience of many of their human colleagues. These superior robots will then start replacing their human counterparts in both routine, mundane jobs and as well as more complex tasks like operations that require high level cognition and real-time problem-solving.

In time, we can expect that machines will then become our teachers, with a collective experience far greater then any one human being can acquire.. We can also expect that machines will start teaching other machines and transferring their knowledge and experience in real time, as part of one huge collective knowledge network..

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Just give me one nanosecond:…clocking events at the nanoscale

Problem:

As scientists and engineers build devices at smaller and smaller scales, grasping the dynamics of how materials behave when they are subjected to electrical signals, sound and other manipulations has proven to be beyond the reach of standard scientific techniques. 

Smart Solution:

But now a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found a way to time such effects at the nanometer scale, in essence clocking the movements of atoms as they are manipulated using electric fields.

The accomplishment, reported in the most recent edition (May 12, 2006) of the journal Physical Review Letters, is important because it gives scientists a way to probe another dimension of a material's structure at the scale of nanometers. 

Adding the dimension of time to their view of the nanoworld promises to enhance the ability to develop materials for improved memory applications in microelectronics of all kinds, among other things.

"Now we have a tool to look inside a device and see how it works at the spatial scale of nanometers and the time scale of nanoseconds," says Alexei Grigoriev, a UW-Madison postdoctoral fellow and the lead author of the Physical Review Letters paper.

With the advent of nanotechnology, the ability to make devices and products on a scale measured in atoms has mushroomed.  Already, products with elements fabricated at the nanoscale are on the market (over 60 according to a recent report), and scientists continue to hone the technology, which has potential applications in areas ranging from digital electronics to toothpaste.

The traditional tools of nanotechnology -- the atomic force microscope and the scanning tunneling microscope -- enable scientists to see atoms, but not their response to events, which at that scale occur on the order of a billionth of a second or less.

The ability to time events that occur in materials used in nanofabrication means that scientists can now view dynamic events at the atomic scale in key materials as they unfold.  That ability, in turn, promises a more detailed understanding -- and potential manipulation -- of the properties of those materials.

The Wisconsin work was accomplished using Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron light source capable of generating very tightly focused beams of X-rays.  The Wisconsin researchers, in a group led by materials science and engineering Professor Paul Evans, focused a beam of X-rays on a thin film of a ferroelectric material grown by another Wisconsin group led by materials science and engineering Professor Chang-Beom Eom.

The X-rays, according to Grigoriev, are delivered to the sample in fast pulses over an area no larger than hundreds of nanometers, one ten-millionth of a meter.

Ferroelectric materials respond to electric fields by expanding or contracting their crystal lattice structures.  Ferroelectric materials also exhibit the property of remnant polarization, where atoms are rearranged in response to electrical signals.  This property allows tiny ferroelectric crystals to be used as elements of digital memories.

"Physically, the atoms switch position," Grigoriev explains.  "And as devices are pushed to smaller sizes, they must switch in extremely short times.  It requires new tools to see those dynamics."

Using the X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source and measuring how the X-rays were reflected as the atoms in the material switched positions, the Wisconsin researchers were able to clock the event.

As a material is subjected to the X-rays and the electrical signals, "you can see in time how the crystal structure (of the material) changes as the switching polarization propagates through the lattice," Grigoriev explains.

The technique developed by Evans, Grigoriev and their colleagues is a combination of two existing techniques, making the technology easily accessible to science.  It might also be applied to studies of phenomena such as magnetism and heat dissipation in microelectronic structures

Source: Press Release, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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