Facebook petition to Hella the SI prefix for 10^27 Hella would be 1000 times bigger than yotta and a trillion times bigger than peta. Factor Name 10^24 yotta 10^21 zetta 10^18 exa 10^15 peta 10^12 tera 10^9 giga 10^6 mega 10^3 kilo 10^2 hecto 10^1 deka 10^-1 deci 10^-2 centi 10^-3 milli 10^-6 micro 10^-9 …
There is a new website yottawatts from Thorium, which prompted this post to answer how in general to get yottawatts from fission, fusion or solar Here are the units prefix definitions from wikipedia. 10^3 W kW kilowatt 10^6 W MW megawatt 10^9 W GW gigawatt (current large hydro have 1 to 20 gigwatts. Nuclear and …
Grist has the text of the climate deal made in Copenhagen There is some money that is to collected to bribe/fund developing countries. going from $10 billion per year 2010-2012 and rising to $100 billion per year in 2020. There is some technology transfer and some kind of reporting on progress every two years and …
1. Japan’s first ever nuclear power reactor to use mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies is now operating at full capacity, fuel supplier Areva has announced. Kyushu’s Genkai 3 was loaded with the fuel fabricated from uranium and the plutonium recovered from previously used nuclear fuel in October. Recycling of plutonium in MOX is to play …
There was work (37 page pdf) done by Jan S. Brzosko, “High Efficiency Plasma Focus: Fusion and Applications” which showed 500 repeated firings of a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) device (H/T Culled from links at Focusfusion.org which collected this and other relevant research) This is related to the work of Lawrenceville plasma Focus to develop …
From New Scientist, existing sky surveys miss many asteroids smaller than 1 kilometre across, leaving the door open to damaging impacts on Earth with little or no warning, a panel of scientists reports. Doing better will require devoting more powerful telescopes to asteroid hunting, but no one has committed the funds needed to do so, …
MIT researchers have developed a device, right, that can be implanted into a tumor to monitor how it responds to treatment MIT, Boston General Hospital and other researchers have developed an implantable device for monitoring cancer. An implantable diagnostic device that senses the local in vivo environment. This device, which could be left behind during …
Pixel Qi is a fabless ASIC company that specializes in screens. The screen is just a big ASIC chip – we work closely with the large LCD factories. The trick – we use their standard processes and materials and can produce new screens with radical new performance in about a year. Rather than just a …
Carnival of Space 101 is up at Robot Explorers This site provided one of the articles on Helion Energy’s nuclear fusion effort. Crowlspace takes another look at the Fermi Paradox (which is an argument that aliens should be here so long as one race of alien in the galaxy is successfully able to colonize space.) …
Carnival of Space #99 is up at Alice Astro Info. This site provided information on microscale solar sails and the article with details on PGE (Pacific Gas and Electric) signing an agreement with startup Solaren for Space based solar power by 2016. Innumerable Worlds looks at the tiny movement of our sun caused by Earth …
A method which eliminates the radiation damage problem is a Two-Step Photon Intermediate Direct Energy Conversion (PIDEC) method that uses the efficient generation of photons from the interaction of particulate radiation with fluorescer media. The photons are then transported to wide band-gap photovoltaic cells where electrical current is generated. PIDEC holds the promise of 40% …