Time Magazine reports that nuclear bombs are stored on air-force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands — and planes from each of those countries are capable of delivering them. The Federation of American Scientists believes that there are some 200 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs scattered across these four countries. Under a NATO agreement …
Scientists at Monash University, in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Wollongong and Ulm in Germany, have produced tandem dye-sensitised solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitised solar cells. Lead researcher Dr Udo Bach, from Monash University, said the breakthrough had the potential to increase …
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 …
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 …
Are Black Hole Starships Possible? (20 page pdf) By Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland, Kansas State University (H/T Crowlspace) The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether it is possible to build artificial Black holes of the appropriate size, and to employ them in powerplants and starships. The conclusion we reach is that it …
Quantum dots could widen the collection of the solar spectrum by 14 times to gather ten times more energy Chemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and further …
North Dakota oil production has reached new highs and the two month lag in monthly statistics will likely show about 250,000 barrels of oil per day in October or November. The latest monthly statistics are 231,252 barrels of oil per day (bopd) for August 2009. Brigham Exploration Co. on Friday said that one of its …
139 page pdf with Abstracts from the condensed matter nuclear science conference (Oct 5-9, 2009 in Rome). On page 43 of the abstracts Does Gas Loading Produce Anomalous Heat? David A. Kidwell, Allison E. Rogers, Kenneth Grabowski, and David KniesChemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375;Materials Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, …
Immortality as a Cure for Climate Change by Aubrey de Grey Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation Would an ageless society be a more humane society? Aubrey de Grey explains why he believes that, when we defeat aging, the world will band together to finally solve the major crises of our time. Two videos are below. …
Hexus features the Colfax CXT8000; a server with eight NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and purportedly the world’s first such system. (H/T Sander Olson) Bright side of news covers the CXT8000 as well. The Colfax GPU server section of their website. The eight GPU (eight Tflop), 4U, rack-mounted supercomputer was rendered even more impressive by its specially …
IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Construction Technologies for New Nuclear Power Projects. Rod Adams, nuclear Australia, reviews several of the new construction methods. The IAEA is trying to document construction technologies for all steps in the construction process • Identify technology options for each step (conventional and advanced)• Utilize developments and experiences from all countries• Ensure …