Estimating the Health Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants Receiving International Financing (9 pages) Of the 88 coal plants and companies considered in this report, 57% of those in High and Upper middle income countries used (flue-gas desulfurization) FGD compared to only 30% of those in Lower-middle and Low income countries. Theoretically, if all of the …
Wired UK – the US’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission may be split into separate branches for conventional and unconventional nuclear to expedite the revolution in new nuclear energy technology, and that up to $904 million (£650 million) of US government funding for small modular reactors may be opened up to all reactor types. Helion Energy claims …
Wired Danger Room – DARPA has a new $7 million for a project titled “Avatar” The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate. These robots should be smart and agile enough to do the …
The carnival of nuclear energy 92 is up at the ANS Nuclear cafe Idaho Samizdat has coverage on the Areva high temperature reactor selected for the next generation reactor project According to the >a href=”http://nuclear.gov/HTGCR/overview.html” target=blank>U.S. Department of Energy, every 750 MWt of installed HTGR capacity will offset 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions …
Here is the energy flow Lawrenceville Plasma physics is trying to achieve with their nuclear fusion project. they are still 10,000 to 100,000 times too low on their power generation If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …
Guest posting by Goat Guy. Widom-Larson theory relies on • 1. Local electric-field strengths from tera-volts/meter to 1000× that, on small scales • 2. Two forms of “physics magic” that have no prior physics to support • 3. A third form of “physics magic” that depends critically on geometric anisotropy It further ends up predicting …
An Areva prismatic steam-cycle high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (SC-HTGR) concept has been selected by the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industry Alliance as the optimum design for next generation nuclear power plants. In addition to generating electricity, these modular plants could produce process heat for use by industry. Three companies were selected to conduct design and …
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft’s Kinect The system, being developed by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory …
Metabolomx, has developed technology enabling the identification of lung cancer from breath. Using the first generation of our breath analysis system, the Cleveland Clinic announced the results of a 237 subject trial at the American College of Chest Physicians conference in November 2010, reporting 81%, accuracy of lung cancer detection, comparable to CT scan, the …
There were some errors that have been identified in a prior version of this article 1) needed to apply sources of particulates (Done) 2) construction dust and road dust are major sources. Factory built buildings can be a major reduction of building dust 3) Collecting the full economic justification for the costs from air pollution. …
1. DARPAs Mobile Hotspots program intends to develop and demonstrate a scalable, mobile, millimeter-wave communications backbone with the capacity and range needed to connect dismounted warfighters with forward-operating bases (FOBs), tactical operations centers (TOCs), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets, and fixed communications infrastructure. The backbone should also provide reliable end-to-end data delivery among the …