1. Two U.S. Senators on Monday unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at doubling nuclear power in 20 years and increasing funding for research into low carbon sources of energy. Sponsored by Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander and Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, the bill would provide $100 billion in loan guarantees for carbon-free electricity projects, adding to the …
MIT Technology Review covers a proposed hub for connecting the three independent electricity grids that span the continental United States could make it easier to ramp up production of renewable electricity. Only a fraction of 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States can currently be transferred between the grids, and there is …
Test of relativistic gravity for propulsion at the Large Hadron Collider, 13 page pdf A design is presented of a laboratory experiment that could test the suitability of relativistic gravity for propulsion of spacecraft to relativistic speeds. The first exact time-dependent solutions of Einstein’s gravitational field equation confirm that even the weak field of a …