A guest article by Joseph Friedlander Neil Craig back in 2012 made a few posts on direct correlation of energy + economic growth that made the astonishing assertion, IIRC that simply building enough energy sources would generate very rapid economic growth. Alas, I can no longer email him to find out more details as he …
1. ANS Nuclear Cafe – Nuclear Artifacts The latest crowd sourced blog post at ANS Nuclear Cafe brings readers a series of very special historical objects, papers, and other pieces of the past of nuclear energy — as depicted in personal descriptions and stories told by their owners… 2. NEI submissions: NEI’s Richard Myers on …
DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies released a series of 12 briefs on their top 12 areas for high impact technology innovation through 2025. 1. Personalized medicine [I agree and have covered personal genomics ]2. Distributed energy (DE) [Here I think nuclear energy has more potential]3. Pervasive computing [Fully realizing smart phone and wireless …
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received its first application since the 1970s to build a new nuclear power plant, a spokesman for the NRC said on Wednesday, August 1, 2007. The proposed plant in Maryland won’t come online until at least mid-2014 and is among a new wave of about 19 reactors that will …
One of the common arguments that some in the environmental movement have against nuclear power is “we cannot make enough reactors” and if we do then the price will go up. I will show that historically the world build at a reasonable fast rate (28/year). Currently there are more and more nuclear reactors on order …
digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/engines-of-creation-predictions-are-not.html’; digg_skin =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/engines-of-creation-predictions-are-not.html’reddit_url=’advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/engines-of-creation-predictions-are-not.html’ An updated version of Engines of Creation is online The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), has an article that points out that the term “molecular nanotechnology” has been associated almost invariably with fantastic notions like bloodstream nanobots, true universal assemblers (“meat machines”), and theoretically ubiquitous “utility fog.” Such concepts admittedly are …
