world uranium production by country up to 2008 The Ux Consulting Company (UxC) has the Uranium Suppliers Annual. This is a report that nuclear industry businesses pay money to get. They are projecting Kazakhstan increasing their uranium production to about 40,000 tons/year. Kazakhstan will continue its growth until 2015-2017. Kazakhstan is producing about 12,500-13,000 tons …
In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Peter Hagelstein (MIT) worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot Limit. Moreover, the calculations show that this new kind of system could ultimately reach as much as 90 …
The US Army is funding Missile Delivered UAVs amongst dozens of other projects A10-006 Missile Delivered UAVA10-010 Real-time Visualization Tool for Distributed Intrusion Detection System DataA10-011 Intelligent Agents for Improved Sensor Deployment and SurveillanceA10-012 Coordinated Responses through Knowledge Sharing in Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection SystemsA10-013 Intrusion Detection System (IDS) With Automatic Signature Generation for Self …
DARPA intends to award a 24-month contract to either or both of the HELLADS developers – General Atomics and Textron Defense Systems – to build and ground-test a 150 kilowatt laser compatible with the requirement for a weapon-system weight of 750kg. High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) The goal of the High Energy …
Forbes reports that North Dakota’s oil production is expected to approach 350,000 barrels next year, an increase of more than 50 percent, because of a major pipeline expansion and the anticipated startup of a shipping terminal near Stanley (SXE) that will be able to haul 60,000 barrels a day by rail to refineries near Cushing, …
The Carnival of Space 129 is up at Tiny Mantras Nextbigufuture provided the first part of coverage of the new lunar ice discovery from the Lcross satellite impact and part 2 of that coverage is here Centauri Dreams sends the two-part report on the Project Icarus starship symposium, which was recently held in London: Part …
At the highly anticipated Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society on November 18, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. will present the “launch” design for the Hyperion Power Module (HPM) to be deployed into the global market. Details will be revealed by Mark Campagna, Hyperion Power’s Chief Nuclear Officer, at the technical session on small …
Jamais Cascio has a talk about the Singularity where he feels that what concerned people do about the development of Artificial General Intelligence technology is the most important aspect. The politics of the different groups and the reaction of governments and markets. Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future notes that Jamais is wrong about several criticisms …
There is a 41 minute video of Steven Chu talking about clean energy (including nuclear fusion) at Google. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, …
Although one and two-qubit gates have already been built and used to perform specific algorithms, no one had yet built a device capable of all possible quantum routines. Until now. The experimental device uses beryllium ions to store qubits in the way they spin while the laser-pulse quantum gates perform simple logic operations on the …
From Wired and Techcrunch – Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype — but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. Gizmo5’s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P back end. It’s a potent recipe — take Gizmo5’s open standards-based online calling system. Add to …