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Nextbigfuture Highlights for Weeks 46-52 of 2009

Updated: 2009-12-31 01:11:16

skip to main skip to sidebar Next Big Future Tracking high impact progress to the technology future , future technology and especially advanced nanotechnology , nuclear and energy technology , quantum computers , life extension , space technology and AI . Proposing and tracking the best societal , business and technical choices to the next big things that will shape our future . Official Lifeboat Foundation news . source December 30, 2009 Nextbigfuture Highlights for Weeks 46-52 of 2009 This is the seventh set of highlights for Next Big Future for 2009. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 39-45 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 33-38 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 20-32 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 13-19 Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 7-12. Here is the link to the highlights for weeks 1-6 Nanotechnology and nanoscale tech 1. New nanobot designs from Robert Freitas included nutribots that let you eat bad food while staying healthy and a nuclear nanobot for making ATP to replace eating food 2. Boron Nitride nanotubes spun into commercially usable fibers . They have higher usable temperatures than carbon nanotubes and

World Nuclear 2009

Updated: 2009-12-30 23:09:25

skip to main skip to sidebar Next Big Future Tracking high impact progress to the technology future , future technology and especially advanced nanotechnology , nuclear and energy technology , quantum computers , life extension , space technology and AI . Proposing and tracking the best societal , business and technical choices to the next big things that will shape our future . Official Lifeboat Foundation news . source December 26, 2009 World Nuclear 2009 The IEA nations currently generate about 80 of the worlds nuclear power and for the first nine months of the year are down 1.2 from 2008. The OECD total for Jan-Sep,2009 is 1602.9 TWHe . For 2008 the OECD total was 2171 TWHe . The world total was 2601 TWhe in 2008. This is an update of a November , 2009 report Japan generated 22.41 GWH in November , 2009 and 21.78 GWH in Oct , 2009. Hokkaido Electric Power Co 9509.T started generating power to sell from a new nuclear reactor on Tuesday , the first new unit in over three years in Japan , and a move that will limit fuel purchases for the . firm Commercial operations at the 912-megawatt No.3 nuclear generator at its Tomari plant on Japan's northernmost island started in the late .

Optical inspection goes the distance

Updated: 2009-12-30 15:11:37

Manufacturers could benefit from a non-contact distance sensor that can operate on rough or transparent objects

Nuclear Plans Around the World

Updated: 2009-12-29 23:07:24

skip to main skip to sidebar Next Big Future Tracking high impact progress to the technology future , future technology and especially advanced nanotechnology , nuclear and energy technology , quantum computers , life extension , space technology and AI . Proposing and tracking the best societal , business and technical choices to the next big things that will shape our future . Official Lifeboat Foundation news . source December 29, 2009 Nuclear Plans Around the World 1. Nuclear power plans in Africa , Middle East Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station by around 2020 and to build another every five years after that , energy minister Chakib Khelil Egypt announced plans to build several nuclear reactors to meet rising power demand in 2007 Russia plans to start up Iran's first nuclear power station in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New . Year Jordan plans to build a nuclear power plant by 2017 Kenya's energy minister said in September 2008 the country was seeking investors to build a small nuclear plant to meet growing electricity needs Kuwait is considering developing nuclear power to meet demand for electricity and water desalination . Moscow and

Mundane future for Nuclear power to achieve Simple goals

Updated: 2009-12-29 22:27:43

skip to main skip to sidebar Next Big Future Tracking high impact progress to the technology future , future technology and especially advanced nanotechnology , nuclear and energy technology , quantum computers , life extension , space technology and AI . Proposing and tracking the best societal , business and technical choices to the next big things that will shape our future . Official Lifeboat Foundation news . source December 29, 2009 Mundane future for Nuclear power to achieve Simple goals There are people who look at the Energy Information Administration projection that is some nuclear favorable energy bill passes that the US cannot make 140 more nuclear reactors and sustain current nuclear power and achieve 240 of current nuclaer power by 2050. I think the build rate and increase of nuclear power can be far more , but here is how to make 240 of current nuclear power is the easiest way which I think can be done by 2030. This is describing what can be achieved with mainstream nuclear fission technology and does not include liquid flouride thorium reactors or nuclear . fusion Build 80 reactors , extend current reactors to 80 year operation , uprate existing and new reactors 30

World's smallest semiconductor laser

Updated: 2009-12-29 14:15:52

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, which may have applications to the Air Force in communications, computing and bio-hazard detection........