The Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC), the huge annual trade show in Japan, has a very nice new light panel on display from Rohm Co Ltd. Rohm exhibited a planer LED lighting panel using LED packages with a high color-rendering index.  Arranging LED packages on a plane surface and covering them with a light […]

Yesterday Dr Francesco Romanelli, Leader of the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) and the Joint European Torus (JET) Leader, delivered a summary of the JET results at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in San Diego. The conference aims to discuss various options with the goal of building the first demonstration power plant before the middle […]

The cylinder block of your engine isn’t so stable as one might imagine.  Two factors change the shape so carefully engineered and machined into each piece. The first problem is bolting an engine together.  The assembly and compression of fasteners distorts the shape of the parts, which is known as static distortion. The second occurs […]

MTBE is a gasoline additive thought to make its way into drinking water and cause cancer. The big issue with MTBE, the chemical methyl tertiary-butyl ether, is it mixes easily, although sparingly, with water. If gasoline containing MTBE leaks from an underground tank at a gas station, it can get into groundwater and contaminate wells. […]

Indefatigable ignorance is hard to deal with.  Maybe the numbers about the money will do the trick for some that still have a bit of reason.  For the rest of us it’s a difference of a thousand times of earnings verses expense. The topic is used nuclear fuel. Next week scientists from around the globe […]

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