Oct
16
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Builds a Fusion Reactor
October 16, 2014 | 4 Comments
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has built and tested a new lab sized “compact fusion reactor” (CFR). The Skunk Works has built on more than 60 years of fusion research and investment to develop an approach that offers a significant reduction in size compared to government sponsored efforts such as the ITER multinational effort based […]
Oct
15
The Light that May Follow the LED
October 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes. The new flat panel technology has a very low power consumption of around 0.1 Watt for every hour’s operation making them about a hundred times lower in energy consumption than an LED. With only […]
Oct
14
Fast Lithium Ion Battery Recharge Breakthrough
October 14, 2014 | 1 Comment
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) have developed a new battery that can be recharged up to 70 percent in only 2 minutes time. The new battery technology also has a longer projected lifespan of over 20 years. The NTU scientist’s next generation of lithium-ion batteries could enable electric vehicles to charge 20 times […]
Oct
9
A New Fusion Reactor Concept
October 9, 2014 | 2 Comments
University of Washington (UW) engineers believe their new fusion reactor design has the greatest potential of producing economical fusion power of any current concept. The team’s analysis shows their reactor scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with a similar electrical output. The […]
Oct
8
Inventing the Blue LED Wins the Nobel Prize for Physics
October 8, 2014 | Leave a Comment
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Physics Prize for 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. The inventor recipients are Isamu Akasaki, of Meijo University in Nagoya and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan, and […]