Here is an interview with Peter Voss by Sander Olson. Mr. Voss is an artificial general intelligence researcher who is confident that AGI can be created within the next decade given sufficient funding. He has created a company, called Adaptive AI, Inc., which produces call-center software but which has the express purpose of developing and …
Helion Energy Researchers proposing two intermediate systems that last one could be useful for fusion/fission hybrid on the way to full fusion energy Development of a High Fluence Fusion Neutron Source and Component Test Facility Based on the Magneto-kinetic Compression of FRCs by John Slough who is working on developing a Fusion Reactor This was …
There will Definitely Be a Lot of CO2 Generated for Energy Production for Decades There will be plenty of natural gas and coal for many decades to centuries. Unconventional natural gas and underground coal gasification are likely to provide affordable fossil fuel for a long time. The THAI (Toe Heel Air Injection) oil recovery process …
Superpower Inc a subsidiary of Philips talked about a potential 70 Tesla Superconducting magnet based on REBCO. they built a 26.5 Tesla magnet but the REBCO has 70 Tesla critical field. (17 page pdf) Aug 2009 Superpower presentation indicates a 33.8 Tesla superconducting magnet was created and 35 Tesla is “within their grasp” REBCO: melt-processed …
Physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli at Boston University in Massachusetts, have calculated a quantum speed limit on computing. In a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Levitin and Toffoli present an equation for the minimum sliver of time it takes for an elementary quantum operation to occur. This establishes the speed limit …
Friedwardt Winterberg has an update on this microfusion rocket. There is a lot of interesting material in his advanced deuterium rocket, but this will focus on the Appendix where he considers the possibility of replacing the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb with an alternative. It is the nuclear fission bomb part of …
Muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion. (1) A beam of negatively charged muons is produced and injected into a mixed fuel of deuterium and tritium, (2) resulting in the creation of many muonic tritium atoms (tµ). As muons are 207 times heavier than electrons, the muon orbits the nucleus at a much closer distance to the nucleus than …
On August 4, 2009, Petrobank and TriStar agreed to a strategic combination of TriStar and Petrobank’s CBU. The combination will create a new publicly listed company, PetroBakken, that will be a premier, Bakken-focused, light oil exploration and production company. Petrobank pioneered the horizontal fracture stimulation techniques that opened up the true potential of this substantial …
Carnival of Space 115 is up at New Frontier News From Nextbigfuture there is Finallyofficial talk of a worthy new purpose for the Space program: theunderlying reason why we do human spaceflight is the extension ofhuman civilization beyond Earth. and Fromthe Bae Institute continued work on photonic propulsion and a newapproach to nuclear fusion with …
What if Nuclear Fusion Power became cheap and abundant ? Note: several technologies that could work out for providing commercial nuclear fusion would not lead to cheap and abundant nuclear fusion. They would have power that is about the same price as current 3rd generation nuclear fission. The regular ITER project is such a system. …
This site had examined a study of the economics of nuclear power for commercial shipping. The study showed that a nuclear ship would be $40 million per year cheaper to operate when bunker oil is at $500/ton. Those studies had indicated improved economics when bunker fuel is over $300/ton. Bunker oil is currently about $375/ton. …