Interview with Desico Co-Founder and CEO Laimonas Noreika Interest for tokenized securities has been growing lately as people begin to realize the potential held on the blockchain. As has been commonly mentioned throughout the public, traditional securities markets have many borders and inefficiencies that blockchain can improve upon. At present, the cryptocurrency/utility token market is …
A laser-driven capacitor–coil target was used to generate a strong 600-700 Tesla magnetic field. The strength of the magnetic field was measured on GEKKO-XII23,24, LULI200025, Shengguang-II26, and OMEGA-EP laser facilities. Experimental results revealed that a 600–700-T magnetic field was generated by using a tightly focused kilo-joule and nano-second infrared (λL = 1.053 μm) laser beam. A diverging relativistic …
NuScale Power has selected BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) as the first manufacturer of its small modular reactor (SMR). This marks the transition to the manufacturing phase and represents major progress in bringing the technology to market. BWXT will immediately start work on this first manufacturing phase of NuScale’s SMR, which we expect will continue through …
New estimates put the number of people in Japan age 70 or older at more than a fifth of the population for the first time. Japan’s population is one of the fastest-aging and declining in the world. The working-age population fell by 4.6 million from 2012-2017, from 80.6 million to 76 million. There have been …
The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target. 2 mega-amps would be sent through a uranium-deuterium-tritium target. The uranium would fission first and then it would trigger a fusion reaction. The resulting deflagration expands against a magnetic nozzle to produce thrust and generate recharge energy for …
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HKZMB) is a 24-mile long bridge–tunnel system which is set to open in October of this year. It consists of a series of three cable-stayed bridges and one undersea tunnel, as well as 3 artificial islands. It supports 6 lanes of traffic. The multibillion-dollar bridge will put the three cities within …
Cornell University has a NASA NIAC study for a fully modular self-assembled massive space telescope. They are taking mirrors segments based on the current James Webb space telescope mirror segments and then adding in some adjustments so that each piece can function in any random location. They also add solar sails and velcro attachments so …
Princeton Satellite system is creating a direct drive fusion propulsion and power systems for a phase II NASA NIAC study. They have follow up government studies to develop the superconducting magnets and other components. They are using radio frequency heating to reach fusion conditions. They need helium 3 which is scarce. There is enough helium …
It was previously thought that small asteroids could be placed into a large bag and baked to get out water and other materials. Experiments performed by Transastra show that this would take too long and need too much energy. They have found what does work is optical mining. 16 kilowatt light sources focused onto small …
Meteoroids are 62 microns to 1-meter-size natural solid object moving in interplanetary space. There are 100 billion impacts of these objects every day. They cause high-velocity impacts and create a plasma. The plasma can be detected and used to analyze the composition of the asteroid. Asteroids contain a wealth of resources including water and precious …
50000 ISP lithium ion thrusters will be tested at JPL within 6 months. NASA NIAC phase 2 study to use lasers to beam 10 megawatts of power to power new ion drives. This will enable a system to go ten times faster than any previous space mission. This will go 40 AU per year. It …