Science!

[Colonel Flagg]

It's been awhile, but this article caught my eye.

It's a little misleading - as if Uranium could be made non-radioactive. However, there is a great deal of U238 left over from the enrichment process that is useless for anything other than a curiosity. There are catalytic compounds that use uranium, and of course for science experriments on radioactivity, but this is a real, honest-to-goodness opportunity to radically shrink the physical size - or increase the capacity - of mass storage media. It's not yet ready for commercialization (as if!) but there is potential for some serious speculators in the IT marketplace with some excess capital to make a go at developing the technology.

Know anybody? :D

[Pub Lover]

Wouldn't it be usable in a cloud facility where people don't generally hang out?

Originally Posted by BBC News [Link]

Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second.

At those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds.

The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.

Superlasers firing into a Uranium harddrive? Yes, please.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Pub Lover

Wouldn't it be usable in a cloud facility where people don't generally hang out?

Or in a thumb drive with shielding? I'm still a little unclear on how much reduction in spatial size is possible.

And I FFT's.