This article is being redone as there were significant inaccuracies derived from the source material. The Advanced Vehicle Research Center is in fact *not* pursuing fusion propulsion research anywhere, for anyone. The organization that is in fact pursuing this research is the World Institute for Science and Engineering (WISE). The plan is for one of …
Here is a new video (1 minute 44 seconds long) that summarizes dense plasma focus fusion. It shows the equipment being used in the latest validation of viability project ($1.2 million from 2009 through 2010). It shows animation of what is happening and has narration. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
An interview with Paul March on using the Mach Effect for propulsion The mach effect propulsion is research which still needs to prove that is has an actual effect which definitely exists as theorized and can be scaled and utilized for propulsion. IEC Bussard fusion has gotten $10 million in funding and it seems that …
A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. The most exciting thing about this work is its potential for scalability. The small …
Carnival of Space 102 is up the Space Writer. This site provided an article listing eleven highly promising nuclear fission and fusion technologies. This site also provided the Sander Olson interview of Richard Nebel which gave insight into the IEC Bussard fusion project prospects. Centauri Dreams looks at sending an interstellar probe with frozen embryos …
There is an iPhone application which assists a person at card counting while playing blackjack in a casino. Using devices to assist in playing in a casino is illegal. It operates in several modes, including a “stealth mode” where the screen is blanked, and can be operated by touching different zones on the screen. It …
Over the past two decades, nuclear power plants have achieved increasingly higher capacity factors with the same or greater levels of safety. The average capacity factor for U.S. plants in operation in 1980 was 56.3 percent; in 1990, 66 percent; and in 2007, 91.8 percent. A 1994 analysis as the capacity factors were being improved …
UCLA researchers developed a method of placing graphite oxide paper in a solution of pure hydrazine (a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen), which reduces the graphite oxide paper into single-layer graphene. This is the first reported instance of using hydrazine as the solvent. The graphene produced from the hydrazine solution is also a more …
Top: the ALS beamline 9.0.1 experiment used a uniformly redundant array (URA) 30 nanometers thick with scattering elements 44 nanometers square (left). At right is the lithograph of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The scale bar is two micrometers long. Bottom: the FLASH experiment used a URA with 162 pinholes, next to a Spiroplasma bacterium. The …