Carnival of Nuclear Energy 14

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 14 is up at the Nuclear Energy Institute blog NNadir is now blogging at Nuclear Green and has an article about Whither the Steel. NNadir discussed a number of topics including “one of [his] favorite things to do”: discredit Amory Lovins …

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Nanofiber Energy Harvesters

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Researchers reported the creation of piezoelectric energy harvesting nanogenerators on both silicon and polymer substrates. Energy harvesters could eventually power small electronic devices from environmental motions. A medical implant, for example, might be powered by the mechanical energy in flowing blood. So far energy harvesters have …

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Ultrafast Digging and Super-foxholes

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software There is geojetting which highly pressurized water to bore geothermal tunnels about 5 times faster than conventional tunneling (about 25 meters per day for geojetting.) Geojetting can dig three 50 meter shallow geothermal holes for about 15000 euro. There are ordinary machines for personal digging. Like …

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Carnival of Space 166 – Project Argus

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Carnival of Space 166 is up at the Gishbar Times This site provided these two articles: High school student Erika DeBenedictis made prototype software for calculating and navigating low energy orbits using gravitational manifolds. This will enable autonomous robotic spacecraft to go anywhere in the …

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Designer spoof surface plasmon structures collimate terahertz laser beams

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The metamaterial patterns are directly sculpted on the highly doped GaAs facet of the device. Artificial coloring in the figure indicates deep and shallow micron scale grooves, which have different functions. The shallow “blue” grooves efficiently couple laser output into surface electromagnetic waves on the facet …

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China Hydro Power Now to 2020 and China Air Pollution Now

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. China is likely to expedite approving hydropower projects from the second half of this year, or face missing its ambitious renewable energy target after cutbacks in the past five years, local media said. China has set a goal to utilize renewables to supply 15 percent …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 5 – Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors, Energy Waste and More

UPDATE. Adding a missed article. From Idaho Samizdat Exelon and Entergy are retreating from new nuclear reactor builds Costs, risks, and lack of a price on carbon all play in their decisions. 1. Nuclear green Reports that an article on Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) will appear in the July/August issue of the American Scientist. …

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New Research on Extracting Uranium from Seawater using Self Assembled Ligands

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software US scientists have devised a new way to extract uranyl ions from aqueous solutions. There are 4.5 billion tons of uranium in seawater which is about 1000 times more than current conventional reserves. Japan has been looking at getting large quantitites of uranium from seawater using …

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Evaluation of High Power Density Annular Fuel for Korean OPR-1000 Reactor: Final Report

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Earlier MIT studies have shown that internally and externally cooled annular fuel makes it possible to significantly increase (by up to 50%) power density in the standard Westinghouse PWR while maintaining or increasing safety margin. The present project has evaluated feasibility of 20% higher power density …

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Evaluation of High Power Density Annular Fuel for Korean OPR-1000 Reactor: Final Report

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Earlier MIT studies have shown that internally and externally cooled annular fuel makes it possible to significantly increase (by up to 50%) power density in the standard Westinghouse PWR while maintaining or increasing safety margin. The present project has evaluated feasibility of 20% higher power density …

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