EMC2 Fusion is the company that Dr. Richard Nebel is leading to develop IEC/Bussard Fusion. This interview was conducted by Sander Olson as an exclusive for Nextbigfuture. This site has many articles on IEC fusion and other nuclear fusion efforts. Question: Could you provide an overview of your nuclear fusion process? Answer: Our machine is …
(H/T to Torulf Greek who created several of the images of Bussard/IEC fusion) and found or created one of the tri-alpha energy images) 1. High Temperature Pebble Bed Reactors China is starting a full size 250 Megawatt high temperature pebble bed reactor this year (2009) China will be following up by developing factory mass production …
The Hoverpod is Entecho’s personal flight Compact Air Vehicle (CAV) and employs their patented radial drum fan lifting system. With its small footprint and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) ability, it is easily transported, can be launched from anywhere and fly over any surface; be it snow, water, sand or wetland. The Hoverpod is the …
The new computation engine will interpret natural language questions like:What is the GDP of France ? It provides a historical graph of the GDP of France and definitions of GDP and has dropdowns for drilling deeper into the range of presented information. Lexington ? Based on your location it will assume which Lexington is being …
Carnival of Space 101 is up at Robot Explorers This site provided one of the articles on Helion Energy’s nuclear fusion effort. Crowlspace takes another look at the Fermi Paradox (which is an argument that aliens should be here so long as one race of alien in the galaxy is successfully able to colonize space.) …
Strength for spider silk with metals added using Atomic Layer Deposition. Ten times stronger with titanium, nine times with aluminium and five times stronger with zinc. New Scientist and the article in the Journal Science report that : the team fired beams of ionised metal compounds at lengths of silk from the orb-weaving spider Araneus …
X-51 WaveriderThe Boeing X-51 WAverider will be undergoing testflights at the end of 2009 and into 2010 The tests are to try and fly hypersonic for 5 minutes instead of previous tests that lasted for a few seconds of hypersonic flight. The Waverider, a.k.a. the X-51, is designed to fly more than six times faster …
AMSC (American Superconductor and Texas-based TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co have been working an estimated $6.8 million project to design components for a 10-MW HTS generator. Another HTS device manufacturer, Germany’s Zenergy Power Group, is working with Converteam Ltd in the UK to commercialize an 8-MW HTS wind-turbine generator. Because of the practical limitations to erecting large …
This is a more detailed follow up to the original nextbigfuture article announcing the development of a method to grow DNA origami. This article discusses more details of the methods and error rates of what was done. This is a pathway to assembling larger complex molecularly precise structures. Recently there was success with the algorithmic …
IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that are much smaller than conventional optic components. Plasmonic technology, today still in an experimental stage, has the potential to be used in future …
Molecular-level computer simulations of dendrimer/DNA complexes in the presence of a model cell membrane provide insights that directly pertain to critical issues arising in emerging gene delivery therapeutic applications. This work “Dendrimers as synthetic gene vectors: Cell membrane attachment” appeared in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Key Finding: Dendrimers should be able to work effectively …