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Korea made graphene nickel composite that were up to 4 times stronger than...
Nature - Korean researchers developed graphene copper composite material that is 50% stronger than titanium and a graphene nickel composite that is 4 times stronger than titanium.They demonstrated a...
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Monolayer graphene offers a 7-fold enhancement of evanescent for better...
[NanoLetters] Graphene-Enhanced Infrared Near-Field MicroscopyGraphene is a promising two-dimensional platform for widespread nanophotonic applications. Recent theories have predicted that graphene can...
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China's TCL announces quantum dot enabled 55 inch OLED TV that will one third...
TCL announced a quantum dot enabled 55-inch full-gamut 4K UHD [3840 x 2160] TV with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price at one-third the cost of comparable OLED color televisions. The QD (Quantum...
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Thorium Isotope breeder proposed by Maglich who had created four Migma...
Th/U233 breeding by fusion neutrons from tokamaks is not feasible at thermonuclear ion energies, but it is viable at Ti above 200 KeV.Bogdan Maglich says that the cause of 50 years of failures to...
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Fusion isotope breeders can work with thorium molten salt reactors for...
Nonproliferation role of 231Pa and 232U from a fusion breeder for the thorium molten salt reactor by Ralph Moir [21 pages] Initial and makeup 233U fuel for a thorium molten salt reactor can be produced...
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Terrestrial Energy has updated its molten salt reactor design
Terrestrial Energy is rethinking energy. In this video, members of the Terrestrial Energy team explain the benefits of IMSR technology, and explore the business itself.Atomic Insights took a recent...
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Kirk Sorensen describes the liquid thorium development at Flibe Energy
Kirk Sorensen (of Flibe Energy) offers "the industrial perspective" on how the upcoming "nuclear retirement retirement cliff" of today's plants, combined with large numbers of coal plants facing...
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Africa potential and challenges for increasing agricultural yield
[NY Times] Africa’s agricultural yields are less than half the global average, and about 25 percent of what they could potentially yield. Agricultural productivity in Africa is growing at about half...
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Nextbigfuture should finally get a site redesign
Nextbigfuture should finally get a site redesign.We will be switching from Disqus to SolidOpinion in the comments.For the site redesign please comment with1) What are 3-4 websites that you like and see...
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US Army tested 10 KW truck mounted laser and scaling to 50 kw and then 100 kw...
[Army-technology.com] Boeing has successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of the high-energy laser mobile demonstrator (HEL MD) in maritime conditions during a testing at Eglin Air Force Base in...
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Project Dragonfly is competition to design interstellar laser sail probes...
Project Dragonfly is a feasibility study for an interstellar mission, conducted by small, distributed spacecraft, propelled primarily by laser sails. The spacecraft shall be capable of reaching the...
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Spacex has twelfth successful launch and musings on reuse, refueling and...
SpaceX delivered another commercial communications satellite to orbit early Sunday, completing its second launch in just over a month for Hong Kong-based AsiaSat.SpaceX confirmed the rocket deployed...
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Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225
The Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225 is up ANS Nuclear Cafe.Neutronbytes - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plans to kick off a much talked about $80 billion program to shift 15% (17 GWe) of its electric...
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IHS projects that China will pass the USA on nominal GDP in 2024
IHS forecasts China will pass the United States as the largest world economy in nominal (currency exchange) GDP basis in 2024.Nextbigfuture believes China will pass the USA on nominal GDP in 2019 or...
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US economy may only average 1.6 to 2.1% in GDP growth over the next ten years
The quarterly GDP growth for the USA compared to one year ago is a lot smoother than the quarterly changes in GDP according to research data from the St. Louis federal reserve.The US economy has been...
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Problems with US economic growth
Here is a 13 page report of Robert Gordon's work from 2012 which is similar to his 2014 work about lower GDP growth in the USA.The US economy still faces six daunting headwinds that will limit future...
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Diamond Nanophotonics
The burgeoning field of nanophotonics has grown to be a major research area, primarily because of the ability to control and manipulate single quantum systems (emitters) and single photons on demand....
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Industrial-scale production of Graphene
A new route to making graphene has been discovered that could make the 21st century's wonder material easier to ramp up to industrial scale. Graphene -- a tightly bound single layer of carbon atoms...
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Summary of the Diet and Health Ideas of Karl Denninger
A guest post by Joseph FriedlanderWarning: a long article, (3500 words or so) with opinions (not all of them mine!) . A quick summary is available below if you don’t like controversy.Summary: Karl...
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A Little Known Fact About The Rosetta Comet Rendezvous and Landing Mission
A guest post by Joseph FriedlanderThe current Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is remarkable for this reason: It is the first probe using gravity assists to a target that itself has...
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