The lines on the graph depict what are called “zero net present value (NPV)” curves. These lines represent what a project would need to achieve in total installed and O&M costs to be economically viable from a commercial market perspective. Based on the economic assumptions shown in the lower right box, projects that can achieve …
About a 45 minute interview of the cold fusion researchers. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Organizer, Jan Marwan, first 5 minutesSteven Krivit, New Energy Times, 6-10 minutes. Overview of the last 20 yearsAntonella De Ninno, 10-13 minutesPamela Boss, 13-17 minutes, Navy researcher who detected neutrons John Dash, 17-22 minutesMahadeva Srinivasan, 22-28Q & A 29-45 minutesTriple …
The Wall Street Journal reports on an update to the bug zapper, lasers to add 100 feet or so of range to mosquito zapping. Malaria remains a major global public-health threat, killing about 1 million people annually. Scientists around the world are testing ways of thwarting mosquitoes with microwaves, rancid odors, poisoned blood and other …
The UK rolled out plans for a lot more robots in their future military. This is for air and ground forces. The MOD’s research needs the plan also introduces five Capability Visions designed to stimulate new technologies and new uses of existing ones. They are: • Reducing the burden on the dismounted soldier – challenging …
The explosions for Orion that occur in the magnetosphere where the magnetic field lines lead back to earth is where fallout will come back down and be a problem. We have already studied that reducing the fission component of any bomb and getting to higher fusion purity greatly reduces fallout and also a north pole …
Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. A local middle-class person in a developing country begins where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter. This allows them not just to buy things …
One concern for the conversion kits is their reliability and whether they would void a vehicle’s original factory warranty. In this regard, plug-in hybrids built by automakers are a safer bet than conversion kits Hybrid Conversion Kits: 1. A123 systems has the Hymotion L5 Plug-in Conversion Modules (L5 PCMs) are expected to ship March, 2009 …
Sander Olson provided this report from the Space Transportation conference. Last week (Feb 5-6, 2009), I [Sander Olson] attended the 12th annual FAA Space Transportation Conference in Virginia, which is dedicated to promoting commercial space flight. It was a fascinating conference, and I wanted to share what I gleaned from the conference. Here is some …
Startup 4DS Inc. has emerged from stealth mode and claims to have made a major breakthrough in resistive random access memory (RRAM) technology. FRAM, MRAM, phase-change, RRAM and other technologies are vying for dominance in the ”universal memory” race. 4DS’s website and technology details are at this link. The companies chart and the announcement are …
U of T at Austin scientists propose destroying nuclear waste from other nuclear fission reactors using a fusion-fission hybrid reactor, the centerpiece of which is a high power Compact Fusion Neutron Source (CFNS) made possible by a crucial invention, the Super X Divertor. This has a different fusion system than the Lawrence Livermore fusion fission …
Christian Bale is signed up for three Terminator Movies as the character John Conner who is the savior of humanity in the Terminator Movies. Christian Bale has a more important role in reality as the savior and revivor of major hollywood action movie franchises. Christian Bale was Batman for the fifth and sixth Batman movies. …