The January 2009 issue of Popular Science has several pages on General Fusion. 32 page patent for acoustic generator for nuclear fusion. 24 page patent for magnetized target fusion generator Popular Science indicated that General Fusion has raised $7 million of their $10 million second round which would fund an almost full scale version (2 …
Here is a picture of the 128 qubit silicon chips on a wafer. The quantum computer chips are shown in a stage before they have metal applied because at a later stage they look more like a mirror. So this is a more visually interesting point. The main point is that 128 qubit quantum computer …
President Obama and new Space Policy and Direction1. Astroengine looks at the “Space Exploration Crisis”. NASA’s future is on a knife-edge and this could severely damage the US future in space. How can a short term five year case be made for long term benefits ? 2. Tomorrow is Here asks the related question: “Does …
General Fusion is a venture capital funded company that is taking an acoustic wave approach to magnetized target fusion (MTF). The approach is to have a sphere surrounded by steam pistons that drive a pressure wave inward to generate fusion compressions twice every second. They have performed some actual proof of concept experiments at 25 …
Here is a study of future scenarios where there is a lot of nuclear power. Can Future Nuclear Power Be Made Proliferation Resistant ?” by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. From that study it seems clear the problems are manageable, especially with proper reactor design selection and looking at processing, reprocessing …
Non electric uses for nuclear fusion were presented in a 2003 report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). There are at least 5 unique products that we can “sell” from fusion reactions before the fusion community enters the main market for fusion energy (the generation of electricity): A.) high energy neutrons (2-14 MeV) …
Astroblogger has the Carnival of Space week 83 This site contributed its article on laser ignited hybrid fusion/fission power. Colony Worlds reviews five key pieces of solar system real estate and how one power/country could dominate the solar system by controlling them. 1. the moon, for lunar oxygen2. Ceres asteroid, control metal rich region of …
China has officially broken ground on six domestically engineered CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors, generating around 1080 MWe each. The total investment in Yangjiang’s six reactors is to be 69.5 billion reminbi ($10.1 billion), giving a construction cost of 10,700 reminbi per MWe ($1565 per KWe), according to Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Bureau. …
Research by the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey’s Climate Change Special Initiative carbon productivity must reach $7,300 by 2050—a tenfold increase over today. A tenfold increase in carbon productivity sounds daunting, but it is a type of challenge that humankind has met before. U.S. labor productivity increased tenfold over a 125-year period from 1830 to …
Information on the Inertial Electrostatic Fusion project by EMC2 Fusion Inc which is carrying on the work of the late Robert Bussard Alan Boyle reports that the review of the WB7 experiment is done and the verdict is positive. The team has turned in its final report, and it’s been double-checked by a peer-review panel, …
Hale Bonddad Steward at Huffington Post has a lot of charts that show the bad financial situation. Brad Delong, economist, seems to be indicating that the USA is at or near a depression. There is serious talk and moves toward a $3 trillion stimulus package that would allow everyone in the USA to refinance a …