• World Nuclear Power for 2009 and 2010 and up to 2014

    Updated: 2010-01-31 16:09:51
    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 January 29, 2010 World Nuclear Power for 2009 and 2010 and up to 2014 There are scheduled to be the following new reactors 2010 9 new reactors , 6.2 GWe shifted the two Canadian Reactors to 2011 2011 11 new reactors , 9.3 GWe 2012 10 new reactors , 9.92 GWe 2013 12 new reactors , 13.08 GWe 2014 14 new reactors , 13.63 GWe France , Germany and Sweden had significantly lower nuclear power generation in 2009. The United States and South Korea also had a slight under performance . There were varying degrees of operational issues in each . country There was growth in generation in Japan , Russia and the UK . This was due to some earthquake damaged reactors being brought back online in Japan and overall capacity factor improvements in all three . countries The russian

  • Seven Million Dollar Research Center Focused on inertial electrostatic confinement for cheap energy and Space Propulsion

    Updated: 2010-01-29 07:32:13
    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 January 28, 2010 Seven Million Dollar Research Center Focused on inertial electrostatic confinement for cheap energy and Space Propulsion The Advanced Vehicle Research Center AVRC has been awarded a contract by Wise County's Industrial Development Authority to manage a 7 million energy research center focused on the development of inertial electrostatic confinement aneutronic fusion energy Plans are in the works to conduct a multimillion-dollar research project in Wise to develop fusion technology into a cheap source for everything from electricity to spacecraft propulsion . Invented by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Dr . George Miley , the process involves pumping aerosol boron plasma into a spherical container where it is made very , very hot .

  • Sony TransferJet Technology

    Updated: 2010-01-28 14:10:30
    Move over Bluetooth, Sony is about ready to release a new technology that supposedly does everything Bluetooth promised only without the complication of recognizing like devices security difficulties. .........

  • What Would it Take for a Yottawatt Civilization

    Updated: 2010-01-27 22:00:46
    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 January 27, 2010 What Would it Take for a Yottawatt Civilization There is a new website yottawatts from Thorium , which prompted this post to answer how in general to get yottawatts from fission , fusion or solar Here are the units prefix definitions from . wikipedia 10^3 W kW kilowatt 10^6 W MW megawatt 10^9 W GW gigawatt current large hydro have 1 to 20 gigwatts . Nuclear and coal plants can have 1-2 gigawatts 10^12 W TW terawatt The total power used by humans worldwide about 16 TW in 2006 is commonly measured in this unit . 10^15 W PW petawatt the total energy flow of sunlight striking Earth's atmosphere is estimated at 174 PW 10^18 W EW exawatt 10^21 W ZW zettawatt 10^24 W YW yottawatt the Sun outputs approximately 386 Yottawatts A yottawatt civilization would

  • Ions trapped by optical fields

    Updated: 2010-01-27 14:06:43
    New laser-trapping technique for charged particles opens door to advanced quantum simulations

  • Spaceship Technology in Avatar is the Valkyrie Antimatter Rocket Design

    Updated: 2010-01-27 01:16:29
    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 January 26, 2010 Spaceship Technology in Avatar is the Valkyrie Antimatter Rocket Design H T to Joel Upchurch for the links The interstellar spaceship that is used in the Avatar movie story is based upon the Valkerie Antimatter Starship designed by Charles Pellegrino and Brookhaven physicist Jim Powell Dr . Pellegrino served as a scientific consultant on James Cameron's Avatar movie . The interstellar vehicles seen in the film are based on the designs of Pellegrino and Powell's Valkyrie rockets , fused with Robert L . Forward's . designs Project Valkyrie at wikipedia Instead of a solid spacecraft with a rocket at the back , Valkyrie is built more like a train , with the crew quarters , fuel tanks , radiation shielding , and other vital components being pulled

  • Supercomputers to explore nuclear energy

    Updated: 2010-01-25 14:08:27
    Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory allows researchers to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before. A team of nuclear engineers and computer researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are in the process of developing the neutron transport code UNIC, which enables scientists for the first time to obtain a highly detailed description of a nuclear reactor core........

  • High-resolution OCT explores the gut

    Updated: 2010-01-25 13:08:42
    OCT inside the gastrointestinal tract could one day replace invasive biopsies.

  • Bright colour-changing skins

    Updated: 2010-01-21 09:00:00
    Electronic paper technology that can change colour without backlights

  • The pulse quickens for ultrafast optics

    Updated: 2010-01-18 00:35:54
    German researchers are making waves in ultrafast physics

  • Practical 3D holographic screen debuts

    Updated: 2010-01-15 16:01:31
    For your viewing pleasure, Chinese scientists unveil a glimpse of the future – and it's in 3D

  • Newswire: Brookhaven Lab - Advanced Energy Systems Open Hi-Tech Production Facility

    Updated: 2010-01-15 06:00:00
    MEDFORD, NY - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Advanced Energy Systems, Inc. of Medford, N.Y. (AES) celebrated the opening of a new hi-tech facility at the AES site that will produce crucial components used in particle accelerators around the world. Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven Lab for DOE, purchased equipment worth approximately $2 million as its contribution to the facility. AES invested in the infrastructure improvements it needed to expand its operations, assisted by a $200,000 grant from the Empire State Development Corporation.

  • Yet Another Fusion "Breakthrough"

    Updated: 2010-01-11 12:58:20

  • Lidar tracks forest-fire pollution

    Updated: 2010-01-11 11:37:31
    Optical technology is helping the US Forest Service to gain a better understanding of wildfire behaviour

  • Another "Student Fusor" Makes the News

    Updated: 2010-01-07 15:07:35

  • World's smallest semiconductor laser

    Updated: 2010-01-06 22:22:38
    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........

  • Full-body scanners and radiation

    Updated: 2010-01-06 22:22:38
    Amid concerns regarding terrorists targeting airliners using weapons less detectable by traditional means, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ramping up deployment of whole body scanners at security checkpoints in U.S. airports. These systems produce anatomically accurate images of the body and can detect objects and substances concealed by clothing........

  • Laser fusion gets HiPERactive

    Updated: 2010-01-04 14:17:22
    Over the next decade, a new generation of planned "super lasers" will give Europe's scientists access to unprecedented optical powers and intensities. Chief among them is the HiPER project

  • Tapping into the ocean colour scene

    Updated: 2010-01-04 11:54:46
    The eyes of the mantis shrimp point the way to better optical-storage devices

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