A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe. This finding means that in the Milky Way galaxy alone, 60 billion planets may be orbiting red dwarf stars in the habitable zone. Researchers …
Thorium-based nuclear reactor and method US 20100067644 A1 by Hector A. D’Auvergne is the design that is being proposed by Thorium Power Canada and DBI. There was a second patent application – Reactor tray vertical geometry with vitrified waste control US 20060171498 A1 Thorium Power Canada is in talks with Chile and Indonesia for 10MW …
The TPC (Thorium Power Canada) Thorium Reactor is a one-of-a-kind technology whose modular design can achieve any output desired at significantly reduced capital and carrying costs. The cost to build a reactor is estimated at $2.0 million per MW and can be built in 18-24 months versus conventional reactors at 5-7 years. Through a partnership …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 163 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome. Mark Lynas blog -Under the proposed Contracts for Difference system currently passing through Parliament as part of the Energy Bill, if the wholesale price of electricity is higher than the strike price in future, the generator will pay the difference back to the taxpayer; …
Planet Labs hitches rides on commercial rockets made by the likes of Orbital Sciences (ORB) and SpaceX, and has its devices ride as secondary payloads to larger, more expensive satellites. CubeSats can take pictures, perform science experiments, and communicate with Earth. They just do so way cheaper than traditional gear by playing off increasingly powerful …
The opening of a new high-speed train line linking Nanjing, Jiangsu province, with Ningbo, Zhejiang’s only deepwater port, will not only make the integration of the Yangtze River Delta region (population 75 million) almost a certainty. The new high-speed rail line passing through Hangzhou, Zhejiang’s provincial capital, will commence operations on Monday. Formerly, it took …