India Increases Nuclear Power Generation

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Uranium_imports_boost_Indian_reactor_output-1210104.html Electricity generation from India’s nuclear power plants has exceeded targets, partly through imports making uranium more readily available, according to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).  NPCIL executive director Sudhinder Thakur said in a statement that electricity output from the country’s nuclear power plants between April and September 2010 was 10.853 terawatt-hours (TWh), …

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Tri-alpha Energy Fusion Project releases some information

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Tri-alpha Energy has released a paper in the Physical Review Letters (H/T Talk Polywell) Dynamic Formation of a Hot Field Reversed Configuration with Improved Confinement by Supersonic Merging of Two Colliding High-β Compact Toroids A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 …

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New Graphene Fabrication Method Uses Silicon Carbide Template

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Georgia Tech researchers have fabricated an array of 10,000 top-gated graphene transistors, believed to be the largest graphene device density reported so far. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new “templated growth” technique for fabricating nanometer-scale graphene devices. The method addresses what …

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Controlled Power Technologies has a mild Hybrid electric Vehicle design that affordably improves efficiency by 20%

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A series of affordable modifications are made to allow a 1.4 Litre engine to perform about as well as a 2 Litre engine Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), in conjunction with AVL Graz, has been working for the past 18 months on addressing the currently uneconomic mild …

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Amory Lovins on Energy in 1976 Versus Today

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Amory Lovins wrote the Energy Strategy : The Road not Taken? in 1976 for Foreign Affairs and now is promoting Reinventing Fire. The Energy Strategy from 1976 and Reinventing Fire are very similar. Cogeneration at in 1976 was 4% of the energy of the United States. …

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Techonomy Cities as Solutions

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Cities as Solutions Discussion leaders: Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Discipline Saskia Sassen, Columbia University Padmasree Warrior, Cisco Moderator: Rik Kirkland, McKinsey & Company Urbanization history : 1800 3% in cities 1900 14% 2008 50% 2050 80% Getting the most dense urbanization and do it right is …

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Techonomy – Reinventing Intelligence

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Reinventing Intelligence: Why collective learning makes humans so different Speaker: David Christian, Macquarie University Introduced by: Brent Schlender David Christian, WCU visiting professor at seoul Understanding humans : like ants on elephants Scholarship of humanity – we do not have a whole view. Failed attempts to …

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Synthetic Sapphire a Transparent Ceramic and Also called Transparent Alumina

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The state of the art in synthetic sapphire for windows and small domes (one foot in diameter) was described in a 2004 review for the military. Synthetic sapphire production in 2003 was 250 tons per year worldwide. Current issues for sapphire production for windows and domes …

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