Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 14 is up at the Nuclear Energy Institute blog NNadir is now blogging at Nuclear Green and has an article about Whither the Steel. NNadir discussed a number of topics including “one of [his] favorite things to do”: discredit Amory Lovins …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 166 is up at the Gishbar Times This site provided these two articles: High school student Erika DeBenedictis made prototype software for calculating and navigating low energy orbits using gravitational manifolds. This will enable autonomous robotic spacecraft to go anywhere in the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scientists are seeking the recipe for regrowing a missing limb. Molecular biologist Ken Muneoka, who studies limb development and regeneration at Tulane University, in New Orleans, is exploring how a digit loss that can be repaired differs from one that can’t. Working with mice, his team …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Edison2 is the Mainstream unofficial winner The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of super fuel efficient vehicles, announced today the Finalist teams who have survived all on-track testing at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), and who now move …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A sealing cap is to be installed this weekend that will enable up to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels per day to be captured and provide accurate measurement of the flow rate. BP could start replacing the current cap with a new sealing cap as early as …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content that offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor rather than an insulator. In 2008, french researchers calculated that BC5 would superconduct with a critical temperature of the same order …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A start-up from Vancouver, Canada called Saltworks Technologies has a new desalination process called “thermo-ionic desalination.” * most of the world’s desalination plants today separate salt by distilling seawater, but this requires an immense amount of energy * Newer desalination plants typically use a process called …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software (a) The experimental resonant metalens on the ground copper plane. Experiments are performed in an anechoic chamber. (b-c) Signals and spectra received in the far-field after emission from central monopole with the lens (blue) and without as a control curve (red). (d) Focal spot obtained after …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) sends out emails that claim that they are not anti-nuclear. On the Union of concerned Scientists website they have a large section on nuclear power that discusses costs and risks. I think their analysis is flawed but I think it …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In 2010, China is expected to approve the construction of five nuclear power generating units, including Tianwan Phase III project, Fangchenggang Phase I project, Shidaowan high temperature gas cooled reactor demonstration project. China has approved 30 generation units of 11 nuclear power generation plants with installed …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This is a clarification of the Mach Effect propulsion experiments of Paul March. Paul March commented at Talk Polywell. The Mach-2MHz M-E test article used two, Vishay/Ceramite 500pF at 15kV, Y5U high-k ceramic caps with an e-r = ~5,000 and a DF= ~2% at 1.0 kHz …