South Korean company Nesscap Claim Ultracapacitors with 10 times the Power and Lifetime of Batteries

Nesscap Inc., a South Korean-based ultracapacitor manufacturing and power storage solutions company, announced today that it has closed a bridge financing round in the amount of $9 million. Nesscap ultracapacitor information * High energy density (2.7V 5000F Prismatic : 5.8Wh/kg, 7.1Wh/l) Which is not that special. Experimental electric double-layer capacitors from the MIT LEES project …

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South Korean company Nesscap Claim Ultracapacitors with 10 times the Power and Lifetime of Batteries

Nesscap Inc., a South Korean-based ultracapacitor manufacturing and power storage solutions company, announced today that it has closed a bridge financing round in the amount of $9 million. Nesscap ultracapacitor information * High energy density (2.7V 5000F Prismatic : 5.8Wh/kg, 7.1Wh/l) Which is not that special. Experimental electric double-layer capacitors from the MIT LEES project …

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Nvidia’s Next Generation Fermi GPU Unveiled

HPCWire reports: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled a seriously revamped graphics processor architecture representing the biggest step forward for general-purpose GPU computing since the introduction of CUDA in 2006. The new architecture, codenamed “Fermi,” incorporates a number of new features aimed at technical computing, including support for Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory and greatly enhanced …

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Nvidia’s Next Generation Fermi GPU Unveiled

HPCWire reports: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled a seriously revamped graphics processor architecture representing the biggest step forward for general-purpose GPU computing since the introduction of CUDA in 2006. The new architecture, codenamed “Fermi,” incorporates a number of new features aimed at technical computing, including support for Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory and greatly enhanced …

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Workshop on Small Nuclear Reactors

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a workshop at the agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9, to discuss generic issues regarding potential applications for so-called “small and medium-sized” nuclear reactors. We’re going to examine how these ‘small’ reactor vendors would need to address the NRC’s requirements in areas …

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Workshop on Small Nuclear Reactors

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a workshop at the agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9, to discuss generic issues regarding potential applications for so-called “small and medium-sized” nuclear reactors. We’re going to examine how these ‘small’ reactor vendors would need to address the NRC’s requirements in areas …

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Winterberg 100 Million Atmosphere Pressure Super-Explosives for No Fallout Nuclear Fusion Bombs

Friedwardt Winterberg has an update on this microfusion rocket. There is a lot of interesting material in his advanced deuterium rocket, but this will focus on the Appendix where he considers the possibility of replacing the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb with an alternative. It is the nuclear fission bomb part of …

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Winterberg 100 Million Atmosphere Pressure Super-Explosives for No Fallout Nuclear Fusion Bombs

Friedwardt Winterberg has an update on this microfusion rocket. There is a lot of interesting material in his advanced deuterium rocket, but this will focus on the Appendix where he considers the possibility of replacing the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb with an alternative. It is the nuclear fission bomb part of …

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Spectrum-splitting solar modules and Roadmap to 50% efficient Solar Cells

Energy Focus Inc. (Nasdaq: EFOI), a global leader in energy efficient lighting, has entered into a $3.1M, two-year contract with the DuPont-University of Delaware Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) Consortium as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded effort to deliver advanced solar research to enable high efficiency, low cost photovoltaics. DARPA …

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Optical transmission record breaks 100 Petabit per second kilometer Which Ten Times Capacity of Current Undersea Cables

Scientists in Bell Labs, the Alcatel’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago. This is the highest …

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Optical transmission record breaks 100 Petabit per second kilometer Which Ten Times Capacity of Current Undersea Cables

Scientists in Bell Labs, the Alcatel’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago. This is the highest …

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