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World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

By John Boyd
Posted  on IEEE Spectrum 26 January 2016

Japan's floating solar plants are eco-friendly, space efficient, and require no civil engineering
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National Institute of Informatics

Laser Links Give Aging Supercomputers a Second Wind

By John Boyd
Posted on IEEE Spectrum  27 May 2015

Free-space optics help old supercomputers learn new tricks
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Source: Kyushu Univesity

A Blast of Plasma Makes Plants Grow Faster
By John Boyd
Posted on IEEE Spectrum 30 Nov 2015

According to a United Nations forecast, demand for food and animal feed will nearly double over the next 25 years as the world adds another two billion to the population. Scientists at Kyushu University in southwest Japan are betting their research in the fourth state of matter—plasma—will help head off mass hunger.


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