Rod Adams at Atomic Insights talks about the joint venture between China and South Africa to develop pebble bed reactor technology China has started construction of the first of many 210 MWe high temperature reactors which they are targeting to complete in 2013. The first commercial-scale plant (HTR-PM) in China will make use of indirect …
Alberta has several large scale pilot projects to perform many more oil refining and combustion steps underground and coal gasification underground. The advantages can be significantly lower costs and improved environmental effects. This site has covered the work of Petrobank to develop the THAI (Toe-to-Heel Air Injection)and CAPRI processes for upgrading oilsand bitumen underground for …
There has been a fair bit of activity for a grass roots anti-tax movement. On February 27th, 2009 an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities accross the country in the first nationwide “Tea Party” protest. The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, …
The Enterprise solid state storage disruption is happening now. Enterprise solid-state drives typically offer much better performance than even the fastest hard-disk drives. Fusion-io claims that its IoDrive improves storage performance by as much as 1,000 times over traditional disk arrays while operating at a fraction of the power and at a tenth of the …
The yuan has appreciated 3.12 percent since late October, 2007 far exceeding a 2.1 percent jump on July 21, 2005, in what Shanghai dealers dubbed as a “mini-revaluation”. Several traders now predict the yuan will climb above 7.20 to the dollar before the end of next week. Just a day earlier, they had forecast the …