• Supercomputers to explore nuclear energy

    Updated: 2010-02-27 05:42:36
    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........

  • New Lithium Sulfide Batteries Could have Four times the Specific Energy of Lithium Ion Batteries

    Updated: 2010-02-26 17:27:14
    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 February 25, 2010 New Lithium Sulfide Batteries Could have Four times the Specific Energy of Lithium Ion Batteries Nanoletters New Nanostructured Li2S Silicon Rechargeable Battery with High Specific Energy The Lithium Sulfide batteries theoretically can have four times the specific energy of lithium ion batteries and have been experimentally produced at 150 the specific energy of lithium . ion Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are important energy storage devices however , the specific energy of existing lithium ion batteries is still insufficient for many applications due to the limited specific charge capacity of the electrode materials . The recent development of sulfur mesoporous carbon nanocomposite cathodes represents a particularly exciting advance , but in

  • Crystal control moves towards 3D displays

    Updated: 2010-02-26 11:38:59
    Visible-emitting 'upconversion nanocrystals' tipped to play a key role in the development of 3D display technology

  • eSolar Targets Solar Electricity Less than The Price of Coal and Has 2 Gigawatt Project in China

    Updated: 2010-02-26 07:39:09
    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 February 25, 2010 eSolar Targets Solar Electricity Less than The Price of Coal and Has 2 Gigawatt Project in China eSolar , a global provider of reliable and cost-effective concentrating solar power CSP plants , and Penglai Electric , a privately-owned Chinese electrical power equipment manufacturer , today announced a master licensing agreement to build at least 2 gigawatts GW of solar thermal power plants in China over the next 10 . years The deal was signed in the Chinese State Council building with government officials in attendance and represents the country's largest CSP project . Groundbreaking of the first 92 megawatts MW will take place in 2010. Penglai Electric plans to develop 2 GW of power plants by 2021 using eSolar's proven solar thermal technology .

  • Bloom Energy Opens Website and Reveals more information and has a Media Event

    Updated: 2010-02-24 22:05:17
    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 February 24, 2010 Bloom Energy Opens Website and Reveals more information and has a Media Event The Bloom energy Website is now open and has information What still needs to be provided is some kind of white paper or research article that lays at a roadmap that does not have to reveal secret sauce about where they are and will be with bringing costs down and production volume . up There are press releases , technical highlights and datasheets on the site Reader MVetsel provides calculations Okay , so all of the critical information can now be gleaned from the data sheet . The efficiency is 52 excluding any heat produced and based on my generous assumptions below this would produce electricity at roughly 0.13 kwh if the excess heat is not . recaptured Here are the :

  • South Africa Plans to Displace 7 Gigawatts of Coal Power Plants with Nuclear Energy

    Updated: 2010-02-24 17:37:51
    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 February 24, 2010 South Africa Plans to Displace 7 Gigawatts of Coal Power Plants with Nuclear Energy South Africa's Director General at the ministry of energy Nelisiwe Magubane said a fleet nuclear plants will be used to replace ageing coal-fired power plants , adding that between 2020 and 2030 some 7,000 MW would need to be . built Bidders for the nuclear plant included France's Areva CEPFi.PA and Westinghouse owned by Japan's Toshiba Something to make note of is that the explicit statement is nuclear energy will be used to displace air polluting coal . There are many environmentalists who like to dispute that nuclear energy displaces . coal Advertising Trading Futures Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Future Predictions Posted by bw at 2

  • 'Broadband plasmonics' makes its debut

    Updated: 2010-02-24 15:04:53
    2D metallic nanostructures support plasmon resonances over wide frequency range

  • Sony TransferJet Technology

    Updated: 2010-02-19 03:43:54
    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. .........

  • Newswire: March 2: Fermilab invites reporters to Large Hadron Collider orientation and overview of future laboratory plans

    Updated: 2010-02-18 06:00:00
    Batavia, Ill. - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland has reached record-breaking energies, but that doesn't mean it's time to close up shop at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Find out what's next for the premier particle physics laboratory in the U.S. and get your LHC questions answered at a two-hour Q&A session with LHC and Fermilab scientists on Tuesday, March 2, from 1-3 p.m. in Wilson Hall. Reporters will also have the opportunity to tour the LHC Remote Operations Center at Fermilab.

  • New optical clock breaks accuracy record

    Updated: 2010-02-17 16:02:21
    Aluminium-ion device makes use of quantum logic

  • Black nanoneedles for anti-reflective coatings

    Updated: 2010-02-16 11:46:20
    Ge nanostructures could be used in high-performance photodetectors and photovoltaic devices

  • Newswire: Brookhaven National Laboratory - 'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup

    Updated: 2010-02-15 15:40:00
    Protons, neutrons melt to produce quark-gluon plasma at RHIC UPTON, NY -- Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun. This temperature, based upon measurements by the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC, is higher than the temperature needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons. Details of the findings will be published in Physical Review Letters.

  • Newswire: Brookhaven National Laboratory - 'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC

    Updated: 2010-02-15 15:00:00
    Data suggest symmetry may melt along with protons and neutrons UPTON, NY -- Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC's most energetic collisions. In particular, the new results, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, suggest that "bubbles" formed within this hot soup may internally disobey the so-called "mirror symmetry" that normally characterizes the interactions of quarks and gluons.

  • First light for germanium laser

    Updated: 2010-02-11 11:06:59
    First infrared-emitting germanium laser could help to shape next-generation optical components for communications, computing

  • Newswire: Brookhaven National Laboratory - New Findings on Hot Quark Soup Produced at RHIC: Scientists to present latest findings from heavy ion collisions at APS meeting Feb. 15

    Updated: 2010-02-09 06:00:00
    EVENT: Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world's largest particle accelerator dedicated to nuclear physics research, will present compelling new findings about the nature of the "perfect" liquid created in near-light-speed collisions of gold ions at RHIC.

  • Quantum mechanics boosts photosynthesis

    Updated: 2010-02-05 13:31:29
    Solar energy is converted into chemical energy more efficiently thanks to quantum coherence

  • Tonight's "Top Ten List" of Fusion Projects Around the World

    Updated: 2010-02-02 12:55:21

  • Newswire: Oak Ridge National Laboratory - New neutron studies support magnetism's role in superconductors

    Updated: 2010-02-02 06:00:00
    OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 2, 2010 -- Neutron scattering experiments performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory give strong evidence that, if superconductivity is related to a material's magnetic properties, the same mechanisms are behind both copper-based high-temperature superconductors and the newly discovered iron-based superconductors.

  • Lasers zap fusion doubts at NIF

    Updated: 2010-02-01 14:43:45
    First results at the National Ignition Facility delight researchers

  • Newswire: Announcement of the first ACFA/IPAC Accelerator Prizes

    Updated: 2010-02-01 06:00:00
    With the introduction of a 3-year cycle among the Asian, European and North American Particle Accelerator Conferences, the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators, ACFA, has decided to award prizes in conjunction with the new series of International Particle Accelerator Conferences when they take place in Asia.

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