Reviewing my predictions from 2006

For Space I predicted Solar sails in space 2006-2010. Solar sail by 2010 is clearly correct. Japanese solar sail was deployed and flew in space this year. IKAROS was the world’s first spacecraft designed to use solar sailing propulsion to be successfully launched China second largest economy in straight currency conversion measures 2013-2015 China passed …

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India has new 250MWe nuclear reactor will be connected the grid next month

Karwar (Karnataka): The fourth unit of the Kaiga Generating Station (KGS) — It is India’s 20th nuclear power reactor — achieved criticality on Saturday. The new unit would produce 250 MWe of nuclear power, which would be distributed among the southern States. The unit would be synchronised with the southern grid after certain mandatory tests …

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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) funded for a 2013 Ten MW system

The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992) in the field of Exploratory engineering that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. Step two was build seasteads powered by Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power. The …

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Kazatomprom Uranium Production on Target for 18,222 tons and Japan and UK are Restarting Reactors

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Kazakh national nuclear company KazAtomProm reported a 42% increase in uranium production during the first half of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. Total uranium output for the whole of 2010 is set to reach 18,222 tonnes, a 30% increase from 2009. The …

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