NASA announced its groundbreaking discovery of lunar water last November. Now, a more detailed analysis of the data—the subject of six research papers being published in the journal Science—concludes that there is a lot more water on the moon than anyone expected, about twice the concentrations seen in the Sahara Desert “It’s really wet,” said …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Nuclear power could be the lowest-cost option for new electricity generating capacity in Sweden, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers conducted for an electricity-intensive industry group. The report shows that when taxes, fees and contributions are excluded, both nuclear and hydro power are far more …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software If a country’s public debt reaches 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), bad things start to happen according to a study by North Carolina State University. There is a tipping point for national debt, and if you exceed that point the amount of debt …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Turkey and South Korea are planning in mid-November to enter into one of the most important phases of the process of building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey worth nearly $10 billion. (H/T Dan Yurman) Under an intention voiced jointly by Turkey and South Korea …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software CompositesWorld’s Carbon Fiber 2009 conference had a forecast of carbon fiber supply and demand World carbon fiber production should increase from 41240 tons to 113500 tons in 2018. * carbon fiber will be used in flywheels, which are being developed for storage of wind energy during …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NASA’s Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky. Kepler will continue conducting science operations until at least November 2012, searching for …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that is the first to use a global model to study the question has found that implementing cool roofs and cool pavements in cities around the world can not only help cities stay cooler, they can …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software We stand at a cusp of an unique demographic transition. For the first time in human history, the whole planet is aging: within a few decades, people that have been made sick, dependent, or unproductive by the damage of aging will outnumber the young and healthy. …
Welcome to the first Blog Carnival of Nuclear Energy. The Carnival will cover nuclear or energy related articles. Talk about reactors, fuels, environmental impacts, policy and more. If you have a nuclear blog or website join the carnival of nuclear energy by contacting this site. A variety of other nuclear and energy sites and this …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Microwires and nodes are connected on a small grid but that surface and the wires are designed to be stretch up to 256 times larger area (16 times linearly). So what starts as a 8X8 centimeter square could become 1 meters by 1 meters of connected …