Philippines and Vietnam Future Nuclear Energy Plans and Deals

1. The Philippine Energy Plan 2007-2014 indicates room for the existing Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as well as four more nuclear plants, the earliest to be commissioned by 2015. Candidate sites are also opening up across the country: in Palawan, Cagayan, Cavite, Negros Oriental, Zamboanga del Norte, Bataan, Negros Occidental, Quezon, Batangas, and Sarangani, the …

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Discovery in Salamanders Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration

By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs. Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been before. The findings …

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Nuscale Presentation at Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Dr. Paul Lorenzini, CEO of Nuscale presented on the planned NSSS reactor on Aug 30, 2010 Initial pre-application review meeting was held with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 2008. NuScale anticipates filing Design Certification application in 2012. NuScale forecasts the first plant can be online …

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Steve Jobs Officially Revealed the iPhone 4

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Steve Jobs officially revealed the iPhone 4 Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, a stainless-steel-and-glass mobile device that is nearly 25 percent thinner than the current version. “In 2010, we are gong to take the biggest leap since the original iPhone,” Jobs said. “We are introducing …

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Carnival of Space 155 – Backseat Driving Haiku Format

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Carnival of Space 155 is up at backseat driving and it is in Haiku format This site provided two articles Details on a SSTO magnetohydrodynamic and inertial electrostatic space plane. This design was covered at STAIF 2005 but there is continuing research into both MHD …

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NASA WISE Telescope has found at least two cool Brown Dwarf Stars and 11000 Asteroids so Far

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software NASA WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore) space telescope has discovered at least two cool, substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. One of the brown dwarfs, dubbed WISE 2, appears to be as cold as any that are known. It may even be colder, Wright said, than …

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University of Rhode Island Make Transgenic Trout that are Myostatin Unhibited So They Have 20% More Meat for Better Aquaculture

A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide a boost to the commercial aquaculture industry. Terry Bradley, a URI professor of fisheries and aquaculture, said his research …

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All Time Inflation Adjusted Movie Box Office Record Predictions

Avatar has a domestic box office of $630 million and will have a final domestic box office of $730-760 million Box Office Mojo Inflation Adjusted totals This will place Avatar 11th-14th on the inflation adjusted all time domestic list. There is talk about re-releasing Titanic in 3D in late 2010 There is no uncertainty that …

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Biologist Develop New Microscope So Powerful It Will See Individual Molecules

The image shows the set-up of a new microscope so powerful it can allow researchers to see individual molecules. The picture was taken in the dark in order to better show two lasers (blue and green lights) going into the microscope at right. Photo credit: UMass Amherst Jennifer Ross, a University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist, …

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John Cramers Retrocausal Experiments

From a slide from 2007, later slides below are from a 2009 talk. From wikipedia: Retrocausality (also called retro-causation, backward causation and similar terms) is any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause. According to Paul March from a Talk Polywell comment: Dr. Cramer’s retrocausal …

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