University of Missouri researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient. Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries.” The nuclear batteries are providing power for a decade or …
WB-8 Contract Progress from Classical Values: The US Navy has just published a Justification and Award for EMC2’s Polywell Fusion Reactor experiment. The highlights: * The award is for $10 million* WB-8.0 report to be delivered 30 March 2010* WB-8.1 report to be delivered 30 March 2012 The WB-8.1 effort is contingent on success with …
Winterberg compares his Super Marx generator pure deuterium micro-detonation ignition concept to the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser DT fusion-fission hybrid concept (LiFE) In a Super Marx generator a large number of ordinary Marx generators charge up a much larger second stage ultra-high voltage Marx generator, from which for the ignition of a …
1. Two independent teams have shown that it is possible to produce stable suspensions of single-layer graphene from graphite crystals using chemical techniques. 2. A numerical model of a cell from the electric eel shows that artificial cells can be built to have higher power output densities and greater energy conversion efficiencies than natural cells, …