Making Aluminum Parts Non-Conductive

I have aluminum parts that I either have to treat with a (hard anodize) and or coat with a material that will withstand the outdoor elements while maintaining non conductive (or close to) properties?

Will a hard anodize and some sort or Rubber coating accomplish this?

What

Water Treatment Plants and Pumps

I am looking for information about water treatment plants ,and the water pumps used in water treatment plants , the complete procedure , and stages of water treatments.Please if any body has information about it please help me .

ajit

Cocoon Egg Shower Concept Lets You Pretend You’re In Darth Vader’s Isolation Pod [Concepts]

When asking each member of Giz what they planned on spending their hard-earned pocket money on this year, Jason Chen chose this shower. I'm sure after eyeing up this "cocoon shower stall" he'll change his mind.

Like an egg pod from space, the cocoon is not only a shower, but also a bathtub and hydro massager. Well, it would be, if it wasn't for the small fact that Arina Komarova's creation is just a concept. Rats. Still, at least I now know what to take to Bathroom & Tiles Co. when I want a new bathroom designed! [Yanko Design]


PLC vs. DCS

Hi,

I am new to Automation field, I want to know what is the difference between PLC and DCS. And what parameters decides whether to take PLC system or DCS system.

Thnx

Waiting for The Jury To Return a Verdict

NASA Internal Email From Mark Geyer: The Future

"A few news bureaus and bloggers have been reporting on some major changes coming our way. Sometimes the number of reports gives the impression of validity when in fact they are all reporting on the same rumor. I can tell you that I have not received any direction or information that would confirm what they are saying. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there will be some changes announced next week and that they may be significant. Again, I have no specific information on what that might be."

NASA tops off new Ares launch tower at the Cape, Spaceflight Now

"The total cost of the mobile launcher project is estimated at around $500 million, according to NASA. But the ultimate fate of the skyscraping tower is up in the air as the White House appears on the brink of canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scrapping NASA's Constellation program taking aim on the moon."

Keith's note: I can certainly emphathize with the Constellation folks: I was part of the Space Station Freedom team at Level II and we sat around for months working on a program that we knew was (more or less) going to be totaly overhauled as innumerable redesigns went on around (and without) us. It was maddening. But we just kept on working. We did not have the Internet back then - just NASAMail and fax machines. FWIW I do not think that all of the work done on Constellation will have been done in vain. Indeed, I see lots of "Freedom" in the ISS. Worry not: the hard work done by Constellation folks will certainly emerge elsewhere - eventually. Whatever happens, y'all done good.

AT&T Owns Up to Shoddy NYC and San Francisco Service [At&t]

Well, AT&T just finished up a call to discuss their earnings announced earlier today. The verdict on 3G performance its most heavily trafficked cities: still needs work! A lot of it. They even gave us a chart to prove it!

Apple executives described the system overload as a "high quality" problem, which from a business perspective may be so, but consumers may categorize it differently. The good news is that there's undeniable improvement over the last several months, particularly in Manhattan. The bad news is that we're still pretty far below AT&T's arbitrary "performance objective," which is still going to be somewhere below perfect.

AT&T expects "significant improvement" going forward, and they're increasing infrastructure spending by $2 billion to back it up. But until one in every fifty 3G calls stops getting blocked or dropped nationwide, I'm going to have to believe it when I see it.


Cascade Microtech, Inc. and SUSS MicroTec AG Agree to Pursue Technology Alliance

Cascade Microtech, a worldwide leader in the precise electrical and mechanical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures, and SUSS MicroTec AG, a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, announced today that they have agreed to pursue a strategic alliance to address the growing device complexities of emerging semiconductor technologies such as 3D TSV manufacturing and test.

Wyss Institute launches ‘molecular origami’ interactive feature

Molecular Origami is a process that allows researchers to build nano-sized structures out of DNA (or RNA). To help illustrate the basics of DNA origami, Harvard’s Wyss Institute has created a Flash-based interactive feature that allows users to build virtual nanostructures by sequencing a simple, abstract representation of a DNA molecule and then allowing it to self assemble.