Japan's 13 month maintenance schedule shutting down most of the remaining reactors and Germany could face blackouts with nuclear exit
Updated: 2011-08-31 17:20:28
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Japan's 13 month maintenance schedule shutting down most of the remaining reactors and Germany could face blackouts with nuclear exit 1. Only 11 nuclear reactors will be operating in Japan with a combined power generation capacity of 9.864 GW in early September , which represents 20 of the country's total installed capacity of 48.96 GW spread over 54 reactors according to Platts calculations . Tuesday Platts calculations were made as Japan's Kyushu Electric and Shikoku Electric are scheduled to shut two nuclear reactors in western Japan in early . September Japan's Kyushu Electric said Tuesday it plans to start three-month-long scheduled maintenance at its 890 MW No.2 Sendai nuclear power plant in the country's
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MarsTravel: Today;s Mars Photo is a panoramic showing the remarkable geological smorgasbord around Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Odyssey Crater This photo was taken directly from The Road to Endeavour Blog and is the combination of the photos taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera on Sol 2699. To see the original, larger, and zoomable image, simply click on the image itself. See All Mars Photo of the Day Posts!
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Home , from the start of a long , long journey No , a new study does not show cosmic-rays are connected to global warming The way some of the media report on climate change can be simply stunning . For example , an opinion piece in The Financial Post has the headline New , convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun not humans There’s only one problem : that’s completely wrong . In reality the study shows nothing of the sort . The evidence , as far as the limitations of the experiment go that’s important , see below do not show any effect
Home Science News Articles Quizzes Videos Cinema Archives About Contact Blogroll Astroengine Bad Astronomy Centauri Dreams Discovery News Space Exoplanetology PeteUplink's Universe Universe Today You are here : Home A new type IA supernova in M101 Today is A new type IA supernova in M101 Posted on August 31, 2011 by Ashley Corbion There’s been some great news for amateur astronomers recently and not only for them A bit more than a week ago , a new type IA supernova appeared in the Pinwheel galaxy M101 ans that’s very important . news Of course , astronomers are carefully observing the event , gathering as much data as they can , but this is also an excellent occasion for amateurs to observe M101. Supernovae are stellar explosions , and they are among the most violent events in the Universe
, Astro Bob Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard Skip to content Home Cepheus the King stands in the shadow of his Queen Earth and moon seen from far , far away Posted on August 31, 2011 by astrobob A faraway photo of the Earth left and the moon taken on August 26 from a distance of 6 million miles by the JunoCam , Juno's onboard camera . Credit : NASA JPL-Caltech Ain’t much to look at , is it Yet it contains everything precious in our lives . This photo of the Earth and moon was taken by the Jupiter-bound Juno space probe from a distance of about 6 million miles last Friday August 26. That’s 25 times the distance to the moon from Earth . As the craft headed outward on its long journey to Jupiter , the mission team tested out its instruments  including the JunoCam to
Cassini Closes in on Hyperion Author : nbsp Tom Comments(0 Cassini took this image as it closed in on the Saturn moon Hyperion . Click for larger . Credit : NASA JPL-Caltech Space Science Institute Hyperion always reminds me of a . sponge Here’s the Cassini caption NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn’s oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with this cratered body on Thursday , Aug . 25. Raw images were acquired as the spacecraft flew past the moon at a distance of about 15,500 miles 25,000 kilometers making this the second closest . encounter Hyperion is a small moon just 168 miles 270 kilometers across . It has an irregular shape and surface appearance , and it rotates chaotically as it tumbles along in orbit . This odd rotation prevented scientists from
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Japan has wind lens turbine design that generates triple the power of regular wind turbines Japanese researchers say that they've discovered a simple way to make wind turbines up to three times as efficient . By placing a wind lens' around the turbine blades , they claim that wind power could become cheaper than . nuclear Kyushu University professor Yuji Ohya spoke of the merits of the 112-meter diameter structures being able to increase energy output two or three fold as well as being about to reduce the dreaded noise pollution so often associated with wind turbines , and improve safety . too The futuristic design was unveiled at Yokohama Renewable Energy International Exhibition 2010. The ultra efficient Wind
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 DBM Energy Lithium metal polymer reported by cost 9 times less Wall Street Daily DBM Enery has developed a battery-powered electric car capable of driving 450 kilometers 279 miles on a single charge . By comparison , the Nissan Leaf has a range of 160 kilometers 99 miles per charge and Chevrolet’s Volt , about 70 kilometers 43 miles DBM Energy’s new advanced battery Kolibri is constructed with a special lithium metal polymer . Early reports suggest this battery will cost 89 less than existing batteries and will only need to be replaced approximately every 20 . years Autoblog covered the Kolibri battery tests Wall Street Daily DBM Enery has developed a battery-powered electric car capable of driving 450
I’m venturing from my Canadian stronghold to the hotlanta for the next week to participate in DragonCon. I’m taking the whole family this time, and unleashing them on an unsuspecting crowd of sci-fi fans. Here’s what I’m scheduled to be doing: Parsec Awards: Saturday, 4:00pm Regency V Astronomy Cast Live: Sunday, 4:00pm Hilton 204. Junior [...]
Many planetary scientists suspect that Mars, now cold and very dry, once had a liquid water ocean covering parts of its surface. But this does not necessarily mean that the Red Planet was ever a tropical paradise… a recent paper by a team of astrobiologists suggests that Mars was much more bitter than balmy. (...)Read [...]
NASA’s solar powered Jupiter bound Juno orbiter has captured her first image – a beautiful portrait of the Earth & Moon – since the probe blasted off from the home planet. Juno lifted off 25 days ago at 12: 25 p.m. on August 5 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [...]
, , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hurricane Irene from start to finish No , a new study does not show cosmic-rays are connected to global warming Home , from the start of a long , long journey Sometimes , my favorite pictures from space are among the ones that look least interesting until you understand what you’re . seeing For example , this doesn’t look like much , does it Ah , but that picture shows so , so much . It shows everything That’s us . You , me , everyone . That fuzzy blob on the left That’s Earth . The one on the right : the Moon . In this one simple picture , you can see everywhere humans
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 NASA assessing procedures to leave space station vacant which brings increased risk of space station loss Space flight now Engineers are evaluating what steps are necessary to safeguard the International Space Station should the orbiting lab be temporarily evacuated in the wake of last week's Soyuz rocket failure . NASA officials are hopeful Russia will return the venerable Soyuz booster to service in time to avert such a circumstance , which would put the space station at increased risk in the event of serious equipment . malfunctions Engineers are analyzing what's needed to keep the station alive in case astronauts have to pull out of the international laboratory , according to Michael Suffredini , NASA's
Want to experience a “you-are-there” moment with the Opportunity rover on Mars? Grab a set of 3-D glasses (red/blue) and take a gander at one of the latest views from Oppy as she starts her explorations around the rim of Endeavour Crater. This stunning 3-D version of an image taken by the rover was created [...]
Even though the Moon is one of the most photographed celestial bodies, it’s still tricky to get it right. Anyone with a camera can actually point and shoot the Moon, but this photo is one of the best amateur photographs of the Moon I’ve seen so far. This high-definition photo of the Moon was captured [...]
The Russian news agency Itar-Tass is reporting that the cause of the August 24 failure and crash of the Progress re-supply ship that was supposed to bring supplies to the International Space Station may have already been determined. “Members of the emergency commission have determined the cause of the failure of the Soyuz carrier rocket’s [...]
A brand new Carnival of Space is hosted by Brain Wang over at Next Big Future. Click here to read Carnival of Space #212 And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 29, 2011 World Problem Solutions do not need Superintelligence just a little less stupidity and corruption A successful Technological singularity has been cited as being able to provide cures for diseases accelerated economic growth and solve human challenges in fields like medicine , physics , chemistry , engineering , politics , diplomacy , biology , sociology , and . economics The more optimistic forecasts are that a technological singularity is 30-60 years away . There is plenty of time to get things right before something that might not happen or which could happen far later than expected or which could be . different The developed countries of the United States and Europe are usually viewed as having pretty good
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Putting the eye in Irene AstroAlert : Type Ia supernova in M101 Moon over Afghanistan Posted without comment : the waning third quarter Moon over Afghanistan , as seen by astronaut Ron Garan on board the International Space : Station Click to embiggen . You can follow Ron on Twitter and see these amazing pictures as he posts . them Image credit : NASA . Technically , I saw this on Nancy_A’s Twitter stream before I saw it on Ron’s , so tip o’ the spacesuit visor to . her Related : posts Squishy moonrise seen from space What a falling star looks like from space Crescent Moonset
Over at io9, they have a summary posted about the recently completed Space Elevator Conference. I’ll be doing my own in the near future, but thought I would link to this for your enjoyment.
You should especially check out the brief interview with Mark Haase. Mark is a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati and [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Thursday , August 18, 2011 A Mission to Mars Speculation about Mars missions produces an irresistable temptation to design paper spaceships , and I won't even try to resist . So here we go : My bias , as expressed last post , is for reaching Mars and returning on fast transfer orbits , making the one way trip in approximately three months . Allowing a few weeks on or at least orbiting Mars , the mission can be done in six months and change . The alternative is using Hohmann transfer orbits , more or less , and accepting an 18-month round trip . This can be done with chemfuel rockets , and broadly speaking we already know how to do that part . What we don't
The 2011 Space Elevator Games - Strong Tether Challenge was held yesterday, August 12th, at the 2011 Space Elevator Conference.
This competition is part of the NASA Centennial Challenges program, a program funded by Congress and run by NASA, with the purpose of fostering new technologies. Successful competitors are awarded prize money. For the Strong Tether [...]
On Friday, August 12th, the next installment of the Strong Tether Competition of the Space Elevator Games, one of the NASA Centennial Challenges, will take place. It will be held on the first day of the Space Elevator Conference and is part of the ISEC theme this year of “Longer, stronger tethers - 30MYuri or bust!”
It looks like we have [...]
Long-time space elevator fan Maurice Franklin has created a very interesting document, the Space Elevator Analysis Spreadsheet. He explains it as follows:
The Space Elevator Analysis Spreadsheet provides you with the ability to calculate the characteristics of a Space Elevator and vary the inputs to those calculations. Thus the spreadsheet allows you to see the impact [...]
It’s still not too late to register - the 2011 Space Elevator Conference, to be held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington, is only a few days away. This year’s conference is going to be very good and somewhat different in than in year’s past - an entire day, Friday, is going to [...]
Sorry for the long silence again, but I’ve been busy doing cool things at Altius. More bloggy goodness to come soon, hopefully.