Further improvement of buildings for more resistance to nuclear bomb effects

This a follow up to prior article about re-inventing civil defense using simple and affordable defenses for residential buildings, such as better nails (hurriquake nails which you can buy from amazon.com.) This is not a plan to make buildings nuclear blast proof, but a lot more blast resistant. A direct hit would be too tough …

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Hyperion uranium hydride nuclear reactor gets eastern european customer

Hyperion Power Generation’s CEO, John R. ‘Grizz” Deal has announced that the company has received its first Letter of Intent to purchase the Hyperion Power Module (HPM), a small, compact, transportable, nuclear power reactor. (H/T Energy from Thorium forum) The intention to purchase up to six units for various projects, at approximately $25 million each, …

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Tata s Electric Car’s

A radical redesign of cars to cheap, safe, lightweight electrical cars is beyond the imagination or believability of some people. “We cannot have lightweight electrical cars, they are not safe because we have SUVs and trucks”. – Air bags work to protect in a collision. Lightweight cars bounce from collision with heavier vehicles. – Formula …

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How long can Uranium last for nuclear power ? 5 billion years at double current world electricity usage.

Breeder reactors: A renewable energy source by Bernard L. Cohen, American Journal of Physics, 1983 (H/T Crowlspace Uranium can last for 5 billion years with a withdrawal rate of 6,500 tonne per year from the oceans [with breeder reactors this would be double current world electricity usage]. This estimate does not include using Thorium which …

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Carbon nanotubes as strong as theory and irradiation makes them stronger

True strength properties of carbon nanotubes measured and they match with theoretical predictions. Previous measurements came up a lot weaker than theory. Not only do the new measurements show that defect free carbon nanotubes are as strong as predicted but the an irradiation strategy can fix defects and provide cross links to help carbon nanotube …

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Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

In a collaborative effort between academic and industry, chemical and biological engineering professors Nealey and Juan de Pablo and other colleagues from the UW-Madison NSEC partnered with researchers from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to test a promising new twist on the traditional computer memory and storage methods. In the Aug. 15 issue of the journal …

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Myostatin manipulation doubling lean muscle

Wired talks about new strength and muscle enhancement technology Johns Hopkins’ Se-Jin Lee recently found that overproduction of one myostatin inhibitor pumps the mice up even more than previous results instead of 60% up to 81 percent in females and a whopping 116 percent in males. Results of human clinical trials are pending. Researchers at …

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Carnival of Space #67

Carnival of Space #67 is up at next generation blog at discovery.com Centauri Dreams looks at space anomalies and implications in regards to the search for extraterrestrial life This site contributed the article on progress to radiation protection 21st century waves considers the future of nasa and the economic impact of exploration There is a …

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Blacklight Power follow up and other claims

Blacklight Power has claimed to have produced 50KW power generator prototypes which they expect to start selling in 2009. They also claim that the Hydrino technology will enable better lasers, batteries and new materials. It will be interesting to see what happens in 2009. The latest expected unit costs for the Blacklight power system compared …

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Stanford, Korean nanofab center, Oregon-based semi startup claim 3D computer chipbreakthrough

The 3D IC, which was processed on 8-inch wafers with industry standard 0.18-micron CMOS technologies both at NNFC and SNF, contains 128 million vertically oriented devices as a test vehicle, and was uniquely processed at low temperatures — below 400 degree Celsius, the parties explained. Also, a sub-micron-thick single crystalline silicon layer was initially formed …

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