NASA radiation shielding project videos

Nextbigfuture recently covered three NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts projects that are targeting lighter and improved radiation shielding. Here is a video on Electrostatic Active Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions. There is also a video on Radiation Shielding Materials Containing Hydrogen, Boron, and Nitrogen. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review …

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Liveblogging exercise debate – how much

David Asprey thinks just his bulletproof diet and maybe one session of intense exercise per week Paleo Exercise – 3 to 10 miles running every day or every other day with some weights. Bill Andrews – thinks that marathons and ultramarathons are ok if you do not go for great times. 5 to 6 hour …

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Liveblogging – John Mauldin talks about Stem cells and other biotech

John Mauldin has a free newsletter on financial information. Millenium Wave Securities. He discussed stem cell breakthroughs with ISCO (International Stem Cell Company) and Biotime ISCO can turn blood into Parthogenic stem cells into Organs 50 stem cell types (like blood cell types) can cover 95% of humanity and matching would prevent rejection. Eventually there …

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Apple and Foxconn maximum 76 hour work weeks and one billion mobile phones

1. WSJ – Apple and Foxconn have agreed to reducing work hours to a maximum of 40 hours a week and limiting overtime to a maximum of 36 hours a week—the legal maximum in China—by July 2013. Currently works hours aren’t strictly enforced at the local level, and up to 100 hours a week is …

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Reversible electrical switching of spin polarization in multiferroic tunnel junctions

Nature – Reversible electrical switching of spin polarization in multiferroic tunnel junctions Spin-polarized transport in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, characterized by tunnel magnetoresistance, has already been proven to have great potential for application in the field of spintronics and in magnetic random access memories. Until recently, in such a junction the insulating barrier played only a …

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Reversible electrical switching of spin polarization in multiferroic tunnel junctions

Nature – Reversible electrical switching of spin polarization in multiferroic tunnel junctions Spin-polarized transport in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, characterized by tunnel magnetoresistance, has already been proven to have great potential for application in the field of spintronics and in magnetic random access memories. Until recently, in such a junction the insulating barrier played only a …

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Veteran of China Natural gas and Oil Companies pushes for slower restart to Nuclear Reactor Approvals in China

Kevin Jianjun Tu is a senior associate in the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, where he leads Carnegie’s work on China’s energy and climate policies. He also worked in China 1995-2001 in large China natural gas and petroleum companies. His analysis is that China should go slow on approving new nuclear reactors. China’s 2020 nuclear …

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Ion Accelerator that is ten times as powerful enables 20 micron silicon wafers for solar power modules at 40 cents per watt

Technology Review – Twin Creeks Technologies—a startup that has been operating in secret until today—has developed a way to make thin wafers of crystalline silicon that it says could cut the cost of making silicon solar cells in half. Twin Creeks Technologies website provides details on the technology and economics of their process. Siva Sivaram, …

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