China has started a Thorium molten salt reactor project

The Chinese Academy of Sciences started the first one of the strategic leader in science and technology projects, “the future of advanced nuclear fission energy – nuclear energy, thorium-based molten salt reactor system” project was officially launched. The scientific goal is to use 20 years or so, developed a new generation of nuclear energy systems, …

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BA-2100 module and other Bigelow Aerospace news

the Bigelow BA-2100 models Hobbyspace reports that Bigelow Aerospace presented a model of the BA-2100 (2100 cubic meter volume space hotel module.) The current BA-330 has 330 cubic meters of volume) Bigelow, in addition to showing off his modules, revealed for the first time the six “sovereign clients” that have signed memoranda of understanding to …

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Transconic Supercritical Fuel Injection Could Be Used by 2014 to Make Gas Engines 30% More Efficient

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Transonic supercritical fuel injection system and its potential for 50-75% efficiency improvement of regular gas engines was covered here before Autoblog Green has updated information. Transonic Combustion CEO Brian Ahlborn goal is to have Transonic go into business as a supplier of fuel systems to the …

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Techonomy – Moving from an Oil based to Bio-based Society

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Bio-based Society Speaker: Steen Riisgaard, Novozymes A/S Joined by: Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Steen Riisgaard- A lot of the worlds products is based upon cheap oil. We need to replace oil at its low price but without its high cost. Projection of $232 billion biofuel …

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Stem cells from blood

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 Cell Stem Cell. The new technique will allow scientists to …

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Potential Breast Cancer Vaccine Could be Just a Few Years Away

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, an immunologist and researcher in the department of immunology at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, and his team, supported by the National Cancer Institute, have been studying “the possibility of a vaccine that would protect women from breast cancer.” On May …

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Human Space Travel to the Outer Solar System

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Ralph McNutt takes a detailed but flawed look at human missions to the outer solar system. He looks at using Extremely heavy lift launch vehicles (EHLLV chemical rockets) to lift about 1000 tons to low earth orbit and then scaled up versions of the Vasimr magnetoplasma …

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Mach Effect Propulsion, IEC Fusion for Space and Heim Theory Updates and More at SPESIF Conference

H/T to the Talk Polywell forum for a conference that will present updates on Mach Effect propulsion and other advanced space propulsion research Conference – Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum February 23-25, 2010 The agenda is here Abstracts are here Test for the Existence of Mach Effects With a Rotary Device James F. …

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Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherland Also Have Nuclear Weapons

Time Magazine reports that nuclear bombs are stored on air-force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands — and planes from each of those countries are capable of delivering them. The Federation of American Scientists believes that there are some 200 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs scattered across these four countries. Under a NATO agreement …

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