Sunday, May 9, 2010

Had to Start Somewhere

According to the website Nanotechweb.org, electronic and photonic IT plus renewable energy have reached a new advanced stage of development. Cost-effective measures have already been implemented, but significant challenges remain. With each new advancement comes a new set of problems. One such case in point: the nearly atomic dimensions of cutting-edge electronic devices have induced bottleneck effects upon the circuitry the connects these devices. As smart researchers tend to do, they try to innovate their around or through the problem. Here they introduce exotic new materials into microelectronics manufacturing at an accelerated rate and alternative technologies to CMOS architectures.

Perhaps more importantly, we need to wean ourselves (would "cold turkey" be a little more apt?) off fossil fuels. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an obscene reminder of that. Future entries will attempt to summarize a paper that discusses hydrogen storage.

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