Defkalion press conference videos and translated description of the event

Xanthipress – The first official presentation of Defkalion Green Technologies in Xanthi, was held Thursday afternoon in the auditorium of Town Hall Paleo Faliro, Greece. Defkalion is trying to produce energy from the fusion of hydrogen-nickel using the Energy Catalyzer invention of Focardi-Rossi. The presentation was made by the company president Alekos Xanthoulis, accompanied by …

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Formation of a long-lived hot field reversed configuration by dynamically merging two colliding high-β compact toroids

Physics of Plasmas – Formation of a long-lived hot field reversed configuration by dynamically merging two colliding high-β compact toroids (H/T Talk Polywell Tri-Alpha energy (which has about $100 million in funding for field reversed nuclear fusion) had a paper in May 2011. Colliding toroids sounds like Helion Energy. This picture is from Helion, do …

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Superconductivity’s third side unmasked by RIKEN

Figure 1: The three types of glue for superconducting electrons: lattice vibrations (top), electron spin (middle), and fluctuations between two electron orbitals (zx and yz) (bottom). The yellow spheres represent Cooper pairs of electrons. © 2011 Shik Shin A previously unknown and unexpected mechanism gives rise to superconductivity in specific types of materials. The debate …

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Electrolytic method could produce carbon nanotubes 100 times cheaper

The new electrochemical process (a) Schematic diagram of the cell for fabrication of carbon nanotubes (b) Scanning electron microscope image showing that the graphite electrodes are almost entirely converted to carbon nanotubes in the new process A team at Cambridge University is investigating whether nanotubes made with the new method could be used to improve …

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U.S. Navy Needs Diesel Submarines

German 212 diesel submarine The American Enterprise Institute makes the case for Diesel Submarines. The US Navy should procure a fleet of diesel-powered subs. Not only are diesels cheaper than nuclear-powered subs, but they have the advantage of being better platforms for many of the tasks the Navy faces today. The list of actual and …

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26 Terabit per second transmitted using one laser over one fiber channel

Nature Photonics – 26 Tbit per second line-rate super-channel transmission utilizing all-optical fast Fourier transform processing There has been transmission of data at over 100 terabits per second but those involved up to 370 lasers. German scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second …

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Beam Powered Space Propulsion Work from NASA, DARPA and some other companies

NASA’s Ames Research Center has recently spent $2 million on a powerful microwave source to be used primarily for propulsion research. Kevin Parkin’s team is collaborating with Escape Dynamics in Broomfield, Colorado, which is likewise dedicated to developing microwave-based rockets. High-power microwave sources called gyrotrons have been developed for nuclear fusion research, and the gyrotron …

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George Monbiot describes the double standard against nuclear power

George Monbiot is a reporter and environmentalist at the UK Guardian. He describes his support for nuclear power and for a clean environment. He lists the double standards against nuclear power Double standard one: deaths and injuries Chinese coal mining alone kills as many people every week as the worst nuclear power accident in history …

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Fukushima reactors as of March 26

UPDATE AS OF 9:30 A.M. EDT, MARCH 26 Japanese scientists yesterday detected higher levels radioactive iodine in seawater at water outlets near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. “Iodine 131 was detected at a level 1,250 times the national safety limit,” Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said during a news conference. …

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