• Minirailguns for commerical nuclear fusion update

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:42:23
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Minirailguns for commerical nuclear fusion update HyperV Technologies is trying to develop minirailguns for the world’s first commercially viable fusion reactor . technology Their research could result in the development of a controlled hot fusion reactor that is scalable to provide between 100 MW and 2,000 MW of clean base load electric power . There was a 20 page presentation from June of 2011. Imploding Plasma Liners as a Standoff Driver for Magneto-Inertial Fusion They are firing milligrams of plasma at 140 times the speed of sound . The commercial energy generating version will fire the plasmas at 285 times the speed of sound . The breakeven nuclear fusion facilities will cost less than 100 . million

  • Navy is scaling up a component to connect bigger capacitor banks to railguns

    Updated: 2012-01-30 08:07:00
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Navy is scaling up a component to connect bigger capacitor banks to railguns Raytheon Company has been awarded a 10 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to develop a pulsed power system that will enable railguns to fire projectiles without explosive charges or rocket . motors The contract for the preliminary design of a Pulse Forming Network PFN is part of a larger effort by the U.S . Navy to develop a multimission weapon system for use on naval warships to defend and attack with pinpoint . accuracy Under the contract , Raytheon will provide the research and development of an advanced Integrated Power Systems power load module that may be used for PFNs to power future lasers , railguns or . radars

  • What if we get super cheap D-D (Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power?

    Updated: 2012-01-29 08:01:01
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 29, 2012 What if we get super cheap D-D Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power A guest article by Joseph Friedlander What if thermonuclear power was as easy to build as a plasma torch , or rocket engine-- some simple electromechanical assembly with precise electronic controls that could be built in a home workshop and unleash a horrific fusion plasma with the power output of a rocket engine not in vacuum but from induced direct fusion of D-D Deuterium-Deuterium fusion power--using just a tiny feed line of gas from a bottle of D . Knowledgable readers will know this is quite a what if-- this article will only be considering if the end result happens and not how it could be achieved . First of all no prospective fusion reactor

  • Light control technique could lead to tunable lighting and displays

    Updated: 2012-01-11 14:53:46
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past several years, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become a popular light source due to their advantages including bright displays, wide viewing angles, and the ability to be printed on flexible substrates. A lesser known alternative to OLEDs, which has these advantages plus some additional ones such as low turn-on voltage, is electrochemical light-emitting cells (LECs). In a recent study, scientists have merged LECs with transistors to create light-emitting electrochemical transistors (LECTs), and for the first time have demonstrated that the light-emitting zone of these devices can be spatially controlled.

  • Newswire: CNRS - GUINEVERE : towards cleaner nuclear energy

    Updated: 2012-01-11 06:00:00
    It's a worldwide first: the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) has succeeded in operating a lead-cooled nuclear reactor controlled by a particle accelerator built by CNRS. The objective is to control the operation of nuclear reactors more easily and produce less polluting nuclear waste in the long term. This operational model, known as GUINEVERE, was also built in collaboration with CEA, the European Commission and around ten European laboratories.

  • Newswire: KEK - Belle Discovers New Heavy 'Exotic Hadrons'

    Updated: 2012-01-10 06:00:00
    Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, electron-positron collider. These new particles have electric charge and are thought to be "exotic" hadrons -- non-standard hadrons, containing at least four quarks. Previously, a series of new and unexpected exotic hadrons containing charm and anti-charm quarks have been observed. This latest discovery from Belle demonstrates the existence of exotic hadrons containing at least four quarks in a particle system including bottom quarks.

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