Mar
12
A New and Promising Battery Charging Idea
March 12, 2010 | 20 Comments
A group of Mississippi State University researchers in the school’s Center for Computational Sciences, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Chemistry with collaborators at Florida State University’s Department of Physics and the Center for Materials Research and Technology has a new lithium ion battery charging technique in early research. The results are […]
Mar
11
Will There Be Enough Fuel For Fusion?
March 11, 2010 | 8 Comments
The National Ignition Lab expects to fuse a compound form of hydrogen made of tritium and deuterium later this year releasing high energy neutrons that should, for the first time, produce more power than the laser itself has put in.. It’s the first large scale and credible attempt after 5 decades of effort and investment. […]
Mar
10
Nuclear Progress in the Face of Overwhelming Odds
March 10, 2010 | 23 Comments
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is 35 years old. Over those 35 years the NRC has not certified any new reactor types. Not One. Today, only four designs can be referenced for applications to build and operate a nuclear power plant. They are: 1. Advanced Boiling Water Reactor design by GE Nuclear Energy last […]
Mar
9
Where Policy Starts for Right Now
March 9, 2010 | 19 Comments
Some commentary is so well organized and on point it deserves a wide hearing. At this blog we tend to look down the road at what might be coming, but. We have to get down the road in the meantime. John C. Felmy of the API has thought this through and managed to compress the […]
Mar
8
The Transonic Way to Improved Gas Mileage
March 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
Transonic was exhibiting at the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington earlier last week with a supercritical fuel injection system that can improve the fuel economy or gas mileage of internal combustion engines by between 50-75%. That’s almost unbelievable, but stay with me. The Transonic fuel injection system is based on supercritical […]
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