Nuclear Green has the 7th carnival of nuclear energy. ARC 100 and Other Small Reactors Dan Yurman talks about the Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC) company developing a 100 MW small modular reactor (SMR) which relies on well-understood fuel developed for a sodium-cooled fast reactor that was actually built and operated at the Argonne National Laboratory …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The cable news channels are using the Kagan confirmations as airtime filler. This is equivalent to watching a world cup game where one side will stand on the sidelines after being allowed to build a brickwall that completely covers their goal. Then the winner will be …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software FFI (Focus Fusion 1), LPP’s experimental device, has achieved higher fusion yields than have been achieved with any other DPF at the same peak current. Though remarkable, this yield is still 5 orders of magnitude short of the fusion yield required to prove scientific feasibility of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing optical networks that, in most cases, would eliminate converting optical signals to electrical ones for processing, then convert …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Paul Krugman is predicting/observing/declaring that United States (and the world economy) is in the early stages of an economic depression. Krugman is saying this would be more like the Long Depression of 1879 than the Great Depression of the 1930s. A more modern example is it …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new study from interactive research and technology firm Vision Critical looks at the features that would get consumers excited about the iPhone. iPhone Users or potential iPhone Users want features available now on google android phones but they would prefer them with all the rest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Sprint introduced the Samsung Epic 4G smartphone, which features a four-inch AMOLED touchscreen and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard. Sprint’s Epic smartphone is aimed at a wide range of buyers, including business customers who need push e-mail, Exchange ActiveSync corporate e-mail and integrated calendar services. Sprint said …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software President Barack Obama is expected to sign a memorandum Monday to nearly double the amount of federal and commercial spectrum available for smart phones and wireless Internet devices The move comes several months after the two federal agencies that control the nation’s airwaves—the Federal Communications Commission …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Russians have a new “stealth” fighter, the T50, which is claimed to be better than the US F-22 fighter. The F22 has been in production since 2005 and the T50 is expected 2015. The US is expected to procure 187 of the F22s and then …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The BP Gulf Oil spill ongoing and the possibility of capping operations causing a blowout (an explosion which would release more oil) of 240,000 barrels per day. Here is a consideration of the total volume of the oceans and the total volume of the world’s oil. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nano Letters – Self-Assembled Ultra-Compact Energy Storage Elements Based on Hybrid Nanomembranes Self-assembly methods combined with standard top-down approaches are demonstrated to be suitable for fabricating three-dimensional ultracompact hybrid organic/inorganic electronic devices based on rolled-up nanomembranes. Capacitors that are self-wound and manufactured in parallel are almost …