Hyperion power generation has a new frequently asked question page. I had detailed coverage of the Hyperion Power generation uranium hydride reactor from their patent submission. I also had considered applying the device for space power. Power output of the device: Approximately 70 megawatts (MW) of heat (thermal energy) and 25 megawatts (MW) of electrical …
Liviu Popa-Simil, former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear engineer and founder of private research and development company LAVM and Claudiu Muntele, of Alabama A&M University, US, say transforming the energy of radioactive particles into electricity is twenty times more effective (up to power density of 1 kw/cm^3) than thermoelectric materials. It will be big impact …
McKinsey Global has an energy productivity plan (36 pages) An additional $170 billion per year invested in energy efficiency can provide 17% average internal rate of return and cut projected energy demand growth by half by 2020. We could use existing technologies to pay for themselves. It would provide up to half of the global …
Picture is the 16 qubit prototype. There was a 28 qubit prototype as well. A new announcement seems to imply 2000-4000 qubits by the end of 2008. “low thousands of qubits by the end of the year [2008]”. The die has room for a million qubits. A research paper has results that compare the time …
There will be snow boarding in a Dubailand dome which is part of a massive larger development shown in architectural drawing. DUBAILAND will cover an area of 3 billion square feet and a population of 2.5 million people, which includes tourists, workers and residents, once fully operational. The development will have multiple theme parks, culture …
The inspiration of Help Hookup is actually a comic book called Global Frequency by Warren Ellis. My brother, Alvin Wang, took the idea to startup weekend and they launched the idea this past weekend for hooking up volunteers. It is similar to the concepts of David Brin’s “empowered citizens” and Glenn Reynolds “an army of …
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has led a shift in political science toward quantitative models. Analyses of his model of political decision-making show that it has a 90 percent accuracy rate. Like a 0.1 version of the fictional character Hari Seldon of the Asimov Foundation series. The elements of the model are players standing in for …