2012 Japan Prize Honors Magnet Creator and Cancer Researchers 28
alphadogg writes with an excerpt from a Network World article: "The 2012 Japan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious science and technology honors, has been awarded to three American medical experts who are fighting cancer as well as to a Japanese inventor whose magnet technology has implications for energy conservation. In years past, the prize (which comes with a $650K purse) has honored computing accomplishments, including last year, when Unix inventors Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were honored."
Magnets? (Score:5, Funny)
Magnets how do they fucking work. I know this motherfucker knows....
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Everythings been much better ever since scientists invented magic.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced..
Now Solve for -
magic: TYPE float
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Nicholas Lydon (Score:2)
I thought Nicholas Lydon was British. He sounds Brit.
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According to the Wikipedia he's British. And there's no reference to him moving to the US and becoming a citizen either.
The Wikipedia could be wrong, but it seems more likely in this case that he's not American.
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Magnet Creator? (Score:1)
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I invented rain. IN fact I took a patent out on it.
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O tsukare sama deshita.
Link to da magnet patent (Score:3)
I think this is a link to Masato Sagawa's magnet patent:
http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20110324ptan20110070118.php [freshpatents.com]
The one liner /. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.
Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)
They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.
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I think this is a link to Masato Sagawa's magnet patent:
http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20110324ptan20110070118.php [freshpatents.com]
The one liner /. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.
Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)
They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.
If he had worked carbon nanotubes into the process it would have also received the Good Slashkeeping Seal of Approval
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Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp
I'm not a EE, but wouldn't finding a stronger permanent magnet increase the energy efficiency of any electric motor or generator, thus leading to energy conservation across the board?
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Nowhere does the patent say the magnetic part of the magnet is stronger. It says the material strength of the magnet is easier to machine and does not become embrittled.
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No, the article says that:
Separately, Japan's Masato Sagawa, president of Intermetallics Co., was honored with the prize for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure for "developing the world's highest-performing neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) type permanent magnet and contributing to energy conservation."
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I'm not a EE, but wouldn't finding a stronger permanent magnet increase the energy efficiency of any electric motor or generator, thus leading to energy conservation across the board?
Relatively few watts worldwide are dropped into permanent magnet motors. Its "unusual" for a motor bigger than fractional HP to be a permanent mag design, although they do exist. Shunt wound, or series wound, that's your field coil choice, more or less, or you get into induction, synchronous, slip-pole, and probably a bunch of others I've forgotten... Its a race, kind of, will permag motors improve faster than AC VFDs get cheaper? Then there's brushless, and the people who do things that on the surface a
Uses cheaper materials (Score:2)
I appreciate your simplification, but his method avoids deforming, embrittling, is easier to machine and uses cheaper materials. So there are efficiencies to be had in manufacturing costs and cost of raw materials.
Yeah, nowhere does it say they are more energy efficient, except possibly in making them.
Is it possible that Japan, under threat from China of not getting any Rare Earth shippments considers this guy's Iron-Nickel-Boron magnets to be less of a supply chain liability. I was reading somewhere that T
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi! (Score:3)
Here in Australia we award sportsmen, celebrities, wealthy businesspeople and public service fatcats. Scientists are spurned. (this article says 'scientists', but doesn't mention any. Googled around the other news websites and couldn't find any mention of them either.)
Foodie icon Maggie Beer received an AM for her service to the tourism and hospitality industries and the promotion of Australian produce and cuisine. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-26/australia-day-honours-2011/3792896?section=sport [abc.net.au]
Oh joy!