Areva SA said the EPR (1700MWe) nuclear reactor costs 3 billion euros ($4 billion) to build in China, 40 percent less than the price tag Electricite de France SA has put on building one in Normandy. Chinese nuclear builders’ grasp of the technology is “very worrying” for European companies, Areva Chief Executive Officer Anne Lauvergeon …
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992) in the field of Exploratory engineering that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. Step two was build seasteads powered by Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power. The …
Even though China’s central economic indicators have yet to be finalized, quite a few provinces have already set ambitious targets for the 12th Five Year Program (2011-2015). Under the local development plans that have been published so far, there are already four provinces or municipalities that have set targets to double GDP or even GDP …
1. Officials in North Korea have warned that they are on the brink of war with the South, as the United States and South Korea prepare to conduct a joint training exercise in the Yellow Sea. North Korea also conducted artillery test fires audible on Yeonpyeong. The rounds fired on Friday were the first heard …
OSRAM’S UX:3 Chip in a new package is 50 percent brighter than the precursor package. High power LED applications like automotive headlights, general lighting, or pocket projectors demand ever increasing brightness. High driving currents yield high brightness, but as the current rises, the efficiency of the LED declines. Hence high efficiency at high currents is …
Scientists have turned photons, the wave/particles we see as light, into one huge super-particle. The photons share the same energy level and can’t be distinguished from each other. Nature – Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC)—the macroscopic ground-state accumulation of particles with integer spin (bosons) at low temperature and high …
Lunar Surface Rendezvous as an Exploration Strategy Hi, everybody, Joseph Friedlander here in a guest post on Next Big Future. Everybody who is into the history of space knows the CSM-LM (Command and Service Module/Lunar Module) Lunar Orbit Rendezvous method that was finally chosen as payload aboard the Saturn V, but was that really the …
Optics.org- Spectrolab, the Boeing subsidiary that specializes in high-efficiency solar cells, says that it has begun mass production of its newest “C3MJ+” devices (updated triple-junction devices) – which have an average conversion efficiency of 39.2% at a 500-sun concentration. That is an improvement of 0.7% on its existing “C3MJ” cells (the product nomenclature reflects the …
The Sahara Solar Breeder Project, which will start from the basic research stage, has the grand goal of providing 50% of the energy used by humanity in 2050 as electrical energy converted from sunlight. The project’s leader, Professor Koinuma, calls it the Super Apollo Project. In this initial project, it will be important to demonstrate …
Southwestern China’s Guizhou province has proposed a 5 million tonnes-per-year (36 million barrels/year or 100,000 barrels per day) coal-to-oil project after China’s home-grown indirect coal liquefication technology was endorsed by the National Energy Administration . Officials with the administration agreed to include the project in China’s energy development plan for the five years ending 2015, …
Starting from French reactors imported in the 1980s, Chinese engineers have developed their own large reactor systems to the point that exports appear possible from 2013. Having imported two 900 MWe pressurized water reactors for the Daya Bay nuclear power plant, CGNPC engineers embarked on a development program that led to the CPR-1000 design. The …