Blomoberg reports – President Barack Obama, acting on a pledge to support nuclear power, will propose tripling loan guarantees for new reactors to more than $54 billion, two people familiar with the plan said. This is expected to be in the 2011 budget. If passed and the loans made promptly this should ensure that there …
Arxiv- Piezoresistive heat engine and refrigerator made smaller than half a cubic micron. (H/T MIT Technology Review blog Heat engines provide most of our mechanical power and are essential for long-range transportation. However, whereas significant progress has been made in the miniaturization of motors driven by electrostatic forces, it has proven difficult to reduce the …
1. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean volume of 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil in the Orinoco Oil Belt Assessment Unit of the East Venezuela Basin Province; the range is 380 to 652 billion barrels. (4 page pdf) Estimates of Original Oil-in-Place A comprehensive study by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) …
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A cheap and effective way to store solar power is needed to increase the usability and adoption of solar power. Molten salt storage has been seen as one of the best ways to create solar power storage that is scalable to megawatt hours or more. EMC Solar and partners are trying to achieve continuous, cost …
One week ago (Jan 3, 2010) Avatar had a domestic box office total: $352.1 million. and Foreign total: $670.2 million for a $1.02 billion world total This week (Jan 10, 2009) Avatar has over $300 million more worldwide at $1.33 billion with $430.8 domestic and $902.1 (67.7%) foreign There was only a 29% drop in …
Schematic drawing of the surface reconstruction in Ca(CoxFe1-x)2As2. The circles indicate the As position, the gray lines indicate the surface reconstruction lines seen in the topographic images. For better visibility, we don’t include possible surface dimerization (31) in this drawing. The black rectangle marks the orthorhombic unit cell with lattice parameters as reported by Ref. …
Proposer’s Day Workshop Announcement for Transformer (TX) The objective of the Transformer (TX) program is to demonstrate a 1 to 4 person transportation vehicle that can drive and fly, thus enabling the warfighter to avoid water, difficult terrain, and road obstructions as well as IED and ambush threats. The vehicle will be capable of driving …
New Scientist reports that John Hunter and two other ex-LLNL scientists have set up a company called Quicklaunch to make a light gas launch gun. The gun is larger than the Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP) of the 1990’s, but is smaller and cheaper than what was proposed for the Jules Verne Launcher Company. …