Founded in 1867, Voith employs almost 40 000 people, generates €5.2 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is today one of the biggest family-owned companies in Europe. According to Voith calculations, the SteamTrac, which is connected to one of the two engines, generates an additional input power of 24 …
Arxiv – Mass of the universe in a black hole (4 pages) This is discussed on reddit science It’s the latest in a series of papers exploring the idea that black holes and the big bang/inflation are actually the same phenomenon, just looked at from opposite sides of an event horizon. The implication would be …
1. Cool Hand Nuke’s – Nuclear Energy Dead? Think Again Another round of good news about nuclear energy. Serious efforts to get reactors built continue to make progress. It is fashionable among green groups and others who have utopian visions of a low tech post industrial society to say that nuclear energy is finished as …
Berkeley Labs has partnered with colleagues at leading semiconductor manufacturers to create the world’s most advanced extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) microscope. Called SHARP (a succinct acronym for a long name, the Semiconductor High-NA Actinic Reticle Review Project), the new microscope will be dedicated to photolithography, the central process in the creation of computer chips. Kenneth Goldberg is …
Berkeley Lab, a partner in the Heavy Ion Fusion Sciences Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS VNL) with Lawrence Livermore and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been a leader in developing a special kind of accelerator for experiments aimed at fusion power, called an induction accelerator. The induction principle is like a string of transformers with …
BYD Co., the carmaker partly owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., began selling its all-electric E6 to individuals in China. The E6, which has a range of 300 kilometers (188 miles) per charge, has a sticker price of 369,800 yuan ($58,200), BYD said today in Shenzhen, where it is based. Buyers in the southern …
The latest breakthrough in cotton fiber research has scientists envisioning hospital gowns that monitor medical patients and jerseys that test athletic performance, according to Cornell University fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza, co-author of a new study that reveals how everyday cotton can be turned into high-tech fabric. The innovation represents a significant step forward because it …
Journal of the American Chemical Society – Boron–Boron σ-Bond Formation by Two-Electron Reduction of a H-Bridged Dimer of Monoborane Diborane(6) as a H-bridged dimer of monoborane can be converted cleanly by two-electron reduction into diborane(6) dianion, which is isoelectronic with ethane, through B–B σ-bond formation when each boron atom has a bulky ligand on it. …
Link to a 2.9 MB zip file with the report on the Rossi energy catalyzer test of October 28, 2011 Mats Lewan – Ny Teknik report Half a megawatt thermal power in self sustained mode, for over five hours. That’s what Andrea Rossi obtained with his E-cat plant on Friday, according to his customer. The …
Electrical engineers in Bochum have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, called spin, to successfully break the previous speed barriers. The new spin lasers have the potential to achieve modulation frequencies of well above 100 GHz in future. This …
1. Wired UK – Cold Fusion: Future of physics or phoney? David Hambling reviews the Rossi energy catalyzer and past tests and the testing controversy. The E-Cat is beginning to be noticed by the mainstream media, with articles in Forbes and the US National Reviewonline edition. While few appear to have much faith in the …