Major IAA Space Based Solar Power Report

Space Solar Power: The First International Assessment of Space Solar Power: Opportunities, Issues and Potential Pathways Forward (272 pages by the International Academy of Astronautics) In the late 1960s, Dr. Peter Glaser of Arthur D. Little invented a fundamentally new approach to global energy: the Solar Power Satellite (SPS). The basic concept of the SPS …

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China has a Catalyst to Convert Shale Oil Directly into Transportation Fuel

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Greencarcongress.com – China has identified a catalyst—NiMoW—for the hydrotreating of the diesel distillate fraction from Fushun shale oil to produce a product that can be directly used as a transportation fuel. In China, reserves of oil shales account for about 500,000 billion tons. It is distributed …

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Dense Plasma Physics Update – A Great Month for Focus Fusion

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics reports good progress in March, 2010. At the beginning of March, good shots (those without pre-firing and with pinches) were a bit under 50% of the shots we fired. Since mid-month, we have increased that to 90% good shots. The two time-of-flight neutron …

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