Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) is the company that is trying to develop focus fusion LPP is developing a portable, economical, extremely intense hard X-ray source using a dense plasma focus (DPF). DPF is the same core technology that is to be used for focus fusion. Such a source, transportable by truck, will allow economical non-destructive …
Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University have discovered that the new iron based family of superconducting material kept superconducting all the way up to 45 tesla. 45 Tesla is the most powerful magnet sustained field in the world. The researchers did not find the upper limit for magnetic field …
[From a reader who is a close follower of Focus Fusion]Re: CMEF [Just reported funding of $600,000 part of $10 million], Eric [Founder and CEO of LPP] responded, “This is based on years-out-of-date info. The $600,000 never actually materialized, but LPP is again at the point where we think we will have money in hand …
Carnival of Space week 56 is up at the main Lifeboat Foundation blog. Nextbigfuture contributed A reproducible cold fusion experiment might have been made and a promising regular nuclear fusion approach, plasma focus fusion, has received $10 million in funding There were several articles about the Phoenix space craft landing on Mars Phoenix spacecraft parachuting …
Blacklight power claims a 50kw prototype device UPDATE: Wikipedia details the controversy and doubts about the Hydrino theory upon which Blacklight Power bases their device. Mills’ work is not accepted by the scientific community, and has been largely ignored by it (as of November 2007, only four papers discussing hydrinos were present in the arXiv …
Previous outdated and incorrect: Focus Fusion has received funding of $600,000 with phased additional payments up to $10 million. Correction: That funding situation did not happen and this is a link to the current funding situation Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. is raising capital from accredited investors (those with more than $200,000 in income or $1,000,000 …
Photos and Annotations from Akito Takahashi taken at the Arata Cold fusion demonstration. Yoshiaki Arata, a retired (now emeritus) physics professor at Osaka University, Japan, together with his co-researcher Yue-Chang Zhang, uses pressure to force deuterium (D) gas into an evacuated cell containing a sample of palladium dispersed in zirconium oxide (ZrO2–Pd). He claims the …
Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), also sometimes called engineered geothermal systems, offer great potential for more than 100 GW of geothermal power which 40 times more than present geothermal power. Sandia national labs indicates ultimately geothermal global resources amount to 50,000 times the energy of all oil and gas resources in the world. Ormat Technologies (775 …
New Scientist reports on 200 nanometer polymer spheres that can get placed into living cells Nextbigfuture assumes that they could change the size to bigger to place larger amounts of material into cells. Human cells are about 20 microns across. Mitocondria are 1–10 micrometers across. Aubrey de Grey has indicated :if this works in vivo. …
It is 1.5 meters or 4 feet 9 inches across. The Hyperion Power Generation “nuclear battery” is a self contained, automated, liquid metal nuclear reactor. The company has venture capital funding. Each HPM provides 70 MW thermal energy or 25 MW electric energy via steam turbine for seven to ten years. This amount of energy …
Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a technique to scale-up the directed assembly of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks, from microns to inches, creating a viable circuit template that can be transferred from one substrate to another for optimum productivity. The revolutionary assembly process has the potential to change the way electronics and other applications …