Multiple modular fuselage airplanes

Switzerland’s Federal Polytechnic Institute have an aircraft design which is inspired by shipping containers and Thunderbird 2 but with multiple fuselages. The Clip-Air team though—they’re preparing to build a smaller 10-meter drone prototype soon. Clip-Air capsules would also be able to be transported by rail. They would be for lighter containers for passengers that would …

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Nuclear power build China, USA, and the world

There are Combined license applications for 15 nuclear plantsthat have been received by the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 34 plants from 23 applications are expected by 2010 China has 21 reactors under or about to start construction and another 18 should start construction after that. 35 nuclear plants are under construction right now in the …

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Printable electronics and Fijitsu uses carbon nanotubes to grow Graphene

NEC has printed carbon nanotube transistors on plastic with an electron mobility of 100 cm**2/Vs More information is here I had previously covered work at many other labs working on improving printable electronic speed using many different methods Fijitsu has used a forest of carbon nanotubes (MCNT) to grow graphene at low (510 degrees Celsius …

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