2G HTS Wire for High Magnetic Field Applications

2G HTS Wire for High Magnetic Field Applications (37 pages, May 27, 2011) 10-fold improvement by combination of higher self-field critical current and improved retention of in-field performance through technical innovations. Even at 4.2 K, 15 T, 2G HTS wire is comparable now with Nb3 Sn wire. Opportunity to improve to be 10X better than …

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Laser enabled megawatt class fusion propulsion

IEEE Spectrum – John J. Chapman, a NASA engineer, is proposing nuclear fusion propulsion for space satellites and space probes. He made a presentation at the IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering in Chicago. In Chapman’s aneutronic fusion reactor scheme, a commercially available benchtop laser starts the reaction. A beam with energy on the order of …

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Laser enabled megawatt class fusion propulsion

IEEE Spectrum – John J. Chapman, a NASA engineer, is proposing nuclear fusion propulsion for space satellites and space probes. He made a presentation at the IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering in Chicago. In Chapman’s aneutronic fusion reactor scheme, a commercially available benchtop laser starts the reaction. A beam with energy on the order of …

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Report #2 – Energy Catalyzer: Scientific Communication and Ethics Issues

Entire By Steven B. Krivit, Senior Editor, New Energy Times article [This article is Copyleft 2011 New Energy Times. Permission is granted to reproduce this article in English only so long as the article, this notice and the publication information are included in their entirety and no changes are made to this article.] [This is …

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Report #2 – Energy Catalyzer: Scientific Communication and Ethics Issues

Entire By Steven B. Krivit, Senior Editor, New Energy Times article [This article is Copyleft 2011 New Energy Times. Permission is granted to reproduce this article in English only so long as the article, this notice and the publication information are included in their entirety and no changes are made to this article.] [This is …

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Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors

Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors (OECD, June 2011, 177 pages) Small and modular reactors should be competitive with non-nuclear technologies for generating electricity in cases where large nuclear power plants cannot compete for whatever reason. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. …

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Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors

Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors (OECD, June 2011, 177 pages) Small and modular reactors should be competitive with non-nuclear technologies for generating electricity in cases where large nuclear power plants cannot compete for whatever reason. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. …

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Google Plus is the latest attempt by Google at Social Networking

Google Plus is currently only usable by selected users on a field trial basis. During this invite-only stage, Google+ has four components: +Circles, +Hangouts, +Mobile and +Sparks. This is different from the +1 button that was introduced in March, 2011. Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of Engineering, introduced Google Plus +Circles: share what matters, …

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Google Plus is the latest attempt by Google at Social Networking

Google Plus is currently only usable by selected users on a field trial basis. During this invite-only stage, Google+ has four components: +Circles, +Hangouts, +Mobile and +Sparks. This is different from the +1 button that was introduced in March, 2011. Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of Engineering, introduced Google Plus +Circles: share what matters, …

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New world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas

The capacitor bank of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas. To reach this record, Sergei Zherlitsyn and his colleagues at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (HLD) developed a coil weighing about 200 kilograms in which electric current create the giant …

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