Existing Nuclear power can be uprated. Over 2008-10 EdF (France) plans to uprate five of its 900 MWe reactors by 3% [135Mwe, 1.1TWh/yr]. Then in 2007 EdF announced that the twenty 1300 MWe reactors would be uprated some 7% from 2015 [1820MWe], within existing licence limits, and adding about 15 TWh/yr to output. Spain has …
What if the Soviet Union still existed ?GDP estimates from wikipedia This GDP table is in billions. Country GDP (2008 nominal) GDP (2009 nominal) PPP 2009 Population Russia 1,700 2,016 2462 141.9 Ukraine 183 221 366 46.1 Belarus 53 61 125 9.7 Kazakhstan 134 148 196 15.4 Azerbaijan 49 63 93 8.5 Georgia 13.5 16.6 …
What if the Soviet Union still existed ?GDP estimates from wikipedia This GDP table is in billions. Country GDP (2008 nominal) GDP (2009 nominal) PPP 2009 Population Russia 1,700 2,016 2462 141.9 Ukraine 183 221 366 46.1 Belarus 53 61 125 9.7 Kazakhstan 134 148 196 15.4 Azerbaijan 49 63 93 8.5 Georgia 13.5 16.6 …
If the Soviet Union would not have broken up, they would have won the most medals in the Beijing Olympics. (H/T to reader Sera Jones and wisegeek) There would have been some reduction or shifts in the medal total Because a unified team would not have been able to send multiple teams to rhythmic gymnastics …
If the Soviet Union would not have broken up, they would have won the most medals in the Beijing Olympics. (H/T to reader Sera Jones and wisegeek) There would have been some reduction or shifts in the medal total Because a unified team would not have been able to send multiple teams to rhythmic gymnastics …
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new and fast method for making biological ‘chips’ – technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection of MRSA infections and rapid discovery of new drugs. They are aiming to develop ‘nanoarrays’. These would be much smaller than existing ‘micro arrays’ and …
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new and fast method for making biological ‘chips’ – technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection of MRSA infections and rapid discovery of new drugs. They are aiming to develop ‘nanoarrays’. These would be much smaller than existing ‘micro arrays’ and …
Year Carbon Fiber (CF) Market2007 35,000 tons2008 40,000 tons2009 46,000 tons 2010 52,000 tons2011 60,000 tons2012 69,000 tons2015 88,000 tons 70-80% of the CF market is for industrial purposes (10-15% growth in industrial), but the market for aircraft parts is growing the fastest (15-24% growth). The overall market is projected to grow at 10-15% per …
Progress on South Africa’s Pebble Bed ReactorCanada’s SNC Lavalin has gotten a C$253 million contract to help build the second phase of a demonstration Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) for completion by 2014 in Koeberg, South Africa. The small advanced reactor, a South African national project, would produce 165 MWe and could be built in …
Electron microscopes are great for magnification but they tend to destroy or damage what they are looking at. Similar magnification should be possible using a much lower-energy, gentler beam of helium atoms and recording how they are scattered by a sample. Up to this point only 1% of helium atoms can be reflected and focused …
Electron microscopes are great for magnification but they tend to destroy or damage what they are looking at. Similar magnification should be possible using a much lower-energy, gentler beam of helium atoms and recording how they are scattered by a sample. Up to this point only 1% of helium atoms can be reflected and focused …