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China seriously looking at supercritical water cooled reactors - they could...
China has completed the basic technology research and published a development roadmap for a Generation IV demonstration supercritical-water-cooled reactor that could be commissioned in 2022.This...
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Another layer of oil under the Bakken in the USA and Canada is proving to be...
Oil producers are now “cracking the code” on the Torquay, or Three Forks formation below the Bakken, and coming up with incredible economics—these wells are paying back in only seven months.This news...
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Supermaterial with the weight and density of aerogel but 10,000 times the...
Engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a way to translate that airy, yet remarkably strong, structure down to the microscale — designing a system that could be...
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Researchers have demonstrated an almost four-fold boost of the carrier...
Los Alamos researchers have demonstrated an almost four-fold boost of the carrier multiplication yield with nanoengineered quantum dots. Carrier multiplication is when a single photon can excite...
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120 tons of iron sulphate of fertilization into the ocean boosted fish catch...
About 20 months ago, an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, fertilizing around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may...
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More information about salmon and iron fertilization
The largest run of Pink salmon occurs 12-20 months after the fertilization of iron sulphate in the ocean. The iron fertilizer clearly triggered a very large plankton bloom visible from space.[Fish and...
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39 meter European Extremely Large Telescope construction process has begun...
The European Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT first light is planned for 2024, when it will begin to tackle the biggest astronomical challenges of our time. The giant telescope is expected to allow the...
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Joe Eck reports a superconductor transition at 77 celsius or 170 farenheit
Superconductors.ORG herein reports high Tc has been advanced to 77 Celsius (170F, 350K) with the discovery of the compound Tl7Sn2Ba2MnCu10O20+. This exceedingly high transition temperature (Tc) was...
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Superlattice material pictures
More charts and pictures of the superlattice material created by Lawrence Livermore Labs and MITFramework or lattice structures can be remarkably strong despite their very low density. Using a very...
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Spacex Dragon lander could land on Mars with a mission uner the NASA...
One of Ames' long standing science interests has been to robotically drill deeply into Mars' subsurface environment (2 meters, or more) to investigate the habitability of that zone for past or extant...
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Spacex reusable rocket video shows newly added steerable fins for hypersonic...
A new video from SpaceX shows the Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) rocket during a 1,000 meter test flight at the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas. This was the first flight test of a set of steerable fins...
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Startup Can Power Trillions of Sensors in Everyday Objects with vibration...
In a few short years, trillions of wireless sensors — embedded in everything from buildings to vehicles to household appliances to the bloodstream, up from 10 billion shipped annually today — will...
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Carnival of Space 358
The Carnival of Space 358 is up at io9Boeing unveiled a full scale mockup of their CST-100 commercial ‘space taxi’ on Monday, June 9, at the new home of its future manufacturing site at the Kennedy...
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Treehugger interviewed Russ George about the success of increasing fish
John Laumer (at Treehugger) contacted Russ George, our local iron man, about Zubrin’s story and asked for his [Russ’] comments about the his latest iron seeding project off British Columbia, which, it...
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Russ George blogged about the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Run getting almost...
About 20 months ago, an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, fertilizing around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may...
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Super-stretchable yarn made of graphene
A simple, scalable method of making strong, stretchable graphene oxide fibers that are easily scrolled into yarns and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar is possible, according to Penn State and...
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Critics of Iron Fertilization said there would be toxic algal blooms, but...
In 2013 and 2014 we are seeing record Salmon runs, it seems possible that iron fertilization has played a part in this success.In 2011, Scientific American ran an article asking what is killing off the...
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Bureaucracy and hurdles for attempting to reduce excess carbon or feed the...
Iron Fertilization sequesters carbonAn international research team has published the results of an ocean iron fertilization experiment (EIFEX) carried out in 2004 in the current issue of the scientific...
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Concrete domes and shells 50 meters in diameter or even larger could be built...
When concrete shells are constructed, they usually have to be supported by elaborate timber structures. A revolutionary technique developed at the Vienna University of Technology now uses inflatable...
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Greenhouses will get more energy efficient and productive with LED that...
LED lighting for greenhouses is an investment that should pay for itself within a few years. LED Lights should improve yields and the quality of output even more in the next few years.This is a complex...
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