1. The Sanmen 1 nuclear plant reached a milestone where they completed the lift and setting of the containment vessel bottom head (CVBH) of Unit 1. The Sanmen AP1000 should be the first AP1000 reactor when it is completed about Oct 2013. 2. South Korea aims to export 80 nuclear power reactors – worth some …
Grist has the text of the climate deal made in Copenhagen There is some money that is to collected to bribe/fund developing countries. going from $10 billion per year 2010-2012 and rising to $100 billion per year in 2020. There is some technology transfer and some kind of reporting on progress every two years and …
After seven years of theoretical work and raising money, five months of design, five months of construction and assembly, and a week of testing, LPP (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics) now has a functioning dense plasma focus, Focus-Fusion-1. The first shot, using helium as the fill gas, was achieved at 5:29 PM today, Oct.15, and the first …
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist: The long-term ratio between the real price of oil and the real price of natural gas has constantly varied between 1 and 2 with the long-term average hovering at 1.6. Since January, however, that ratio has jumped to more than 4 to 1, which is unprecedented and has …
Green bars are the engine efficiency. Conventional diesel on the left is 44% and the the best gas-diesel mix would be 53% efficient. Less heat trasfer and exhaust thermal losses. 1. What if an engine could be programmed to harvest the best properties of both diesel and gasoline fuel sources at once, on the fly, …
Computer simulations show that the breaking strength of neutron star crust is about 10 billion times more than for terrestrial engineering materials such as metal-alloys where the strength is measured in fractions of a GPa. The largest contributor to this tremendous difference is of course the enormous pressure and thus density of the crust. The …
The BLEEX/HULC exoskeleton was developed in the City of Berkeley and State of California. There should be Federal stimulus dollars directed to a proposed BLEEX/e-bike electrified transportation system. * Lower medical costs * Help senior citizens stay mobile * Accelerate the electrification of transportation at lower cost than current plans * Reduce gasoline usage * …
University of Missouri scientist and his team have identified the location of the genetic material responsible for a molecular compound that is vital to curing the Muscular dystrophy (MD). The new advance will improve gene therapy strategies and they have turned muscle in mice with muscular dystrophy into regular muscle again. Even if there is …