Adding 1000 GWe of new nuclear energy capacity by 2050

The nuclear industry can achieve the momentum required to create an additional 1000 GWe of new capacity by 2050, Agneta Rising, director general of the World Nuclear Association said. This target is essential, she said, if the world is to ensure the International Energy Agency’s 2 Degree Scenario on climate change. Connections of new nuclear …

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NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts – Directed Energy Phil Lubin laser propulsion for interstellar travel and laser arrays for kilometer sized telescopes

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) had their 2016 symposium on August 23-25, 2016 From 21 minutes of this video up to 50 minutes At 45 minutes, some questions discussing the dopler shifting of the wavelengths. Absorptivity issues are not as much an issue for dielectrics and are already at 99.999% reflexivity. Coatings are broadband. Brian …

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Unworkable Concept for Solar Express Space Train for travel at 1% of light speed –

The Solar Express is an idea for a space train that would be designed and used to ferry humans, supplies and minerals between celestial bodies and space stations in our solar system. It would run non-stop, so smaller vessels would need to catch the train when it passed by. Charles Bombardier and his team see …

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Keith Wiley and Randal Koene on gradual versus instantaneous whole brain uploading on personal identity and personal survival

Carboncopies.org is a nonprofit organiaation with a goal of advancing the reverse engineering of neural tissue and complete brains, Whole Brain Emulation and development of neuroprostheses that reproduce functions of mind, creating what we call Substrate-Independent Minds (SIM). Carbon copies is led by Randal Koene. Randal and his team keep very close track of all …

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If Spacex Mars missions and colonization succeed then Musk becomes Columnbus, Isabella I

Spacex and Elon Musk plan to spend $300 million on their first Red Dragon mission to Mars in 2018. This will be ten times more than NASA will spend If this leads to Spacex performing a series of mainly successful unmanned and then a manned mission to Mars around 2024 or 2026 then that manned …

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Is Elon Musk Iron Man or a Bond Villian? Bond Villain may have the stronger case

Is billionaire Elon Musk more like Iron Man or a Bond Villian? Bond Villain may have the stronger case for now. In the bond film MoonRaker, Hugo Drax is a billionaire who owns Drax Industries, a private company which constructs space shuttles for NASA. Drax planned to colonize space in space stations. Elon Musk plans …

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Carnival of space 462

The Carnival of Space 462 is up at Brown Spaceman Universe Today – First 3D Tools Printed Aboard Space Station The first item ever manufactured in space was a replacement part for the printer itself, in November 2014. Image: NASA This simple wrench was the first tool printed with the Additive Manufacturing Facility on board …

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Google could replace some passwords with a ‘trust score” by the end of the year

Conventional passwords might soon be a thing of the past, or at least on devices running Android. Google announced at I / O last week that it’s pushing ahead with plans to replace passwords with “trust scores” that incorporate various data points about users to determine whether or not they’re legitimate. Its Trust API is …

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Quantum Fredkin Gate created which is usable for implementing Shor’s algorithm for decryption

Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realizing a challenging circuit — the quantum Fredkin gate — for the first time. “The allure of quantum computers is the unparalleled processing power …

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What is different about AlphaGo versus Deep Blue? AlphaGo is a learning system and a hybrid system

AI expert Ben Goertzel explains AlphaGo. We are using learning now and not just simplistic search Alphago is not just one system Deep Learning neural networks Monte Carlo Sampling Game tree search Goertzel at Hanson Robotics is using hybrid architecture as well Deep Learning Symbolic Reasoning Computational Linguistics Machine Translation- Google is using pure statistical …

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G20 looking at coordinated economic stimulus program and China repeats promise not to have sharp devaluation

A report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday called for a coordinated stimulus program to support a slowing global economy. An official with a European delegation to the G20 earlier in the week said policymakers recognize elevated risks and will express the need for coordinated action in their joint communique at the …

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