The United Kingdom turns around from plan to phase out nuclear power and will build ten new generation reactors for a cost of £1.2 billion ($2.4 bn) each. Electricity grid connections make Hinkley Point and Sizewell the two sites best suited to accommodate either a 1600-megawatt single reactor, or a 3200-MW twin-reactor station. Seven other …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has also recently published a report which provides more detail on global trends that reinforce the importance of developing aquaculture. In 2004, capture fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about 106 million tonnes of food fish, providing the highest apparent per capita supply on record. Of …
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology has a recent article that recalls a passage from Unbounding the Future (1991) which discusses virtual reality with sensory feedback What do we have now for the state of the art in virtual reality? We have a 100 million pixel virtual reality room The 10 foot by 10 foot cube room …
A description of how the Robert Bussard Inertial Electrostatic fusion system would work His fuel of choice is one of the earth’s most common and least exotic elements: boron. It can be scooped from the Mojave Desert in California, possibly even extracted from sea water. Boron is used in the production of hundreds of products …
