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China likely to get Russia newest missiles, fighters, submarines and high...
[Business Week] Defying the U.S. and Europe is forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to aid his biggest rival to the east. To avert a recession, Russia is turning to China for investment, granting...
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Reports that China and Russia talking about $250 billion Beijing to Moscow...
There are severalreports that China and Russia are discussing a 4,350 mile long Beijing to Moscow high speed rail line. This would cost about $250 billion. The Beijing Times said that the line, which...
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Opportunity to Leverage the American Lead in Space to Build New Spaceways...
Previously Neil de Grasse Tyson called for doubling NASA's $17 billion space budget. Tyson promoted building a core fleet of launch vehicles that can be customized for a variety of missions and for a...
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LPP Fusion has installed their Tungsten Anode but Cathode Delayed
On October 10, LPPFusion team members Eric Lerner, Hamid Yousefi and Tony Ellis lifted the tungsten anode into place on top of the FF-1 dense plasma focus experimental device.The same week, Lerner and...
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China moving ahead with Trans African Rail Line, New Silk Road part of Global...
[Global Construction Review] Earlier this year, the Chinese Railway Authority announced that it was to expand its present network, which is somewhere north of 11,000km, by almost 7,000km. This...
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Cheaper Superconducting Computer Chips
Computer chips with superconducting circuits — circuits with zero electrical resistance — would be 50 to 100 times as energy-efficient as today’s chips, an attractive trait given the increasing power...
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Japanese make planar light source that is one hundred times more energy...
Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with very low power consumption of around 0.1 Watt for every hour's...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 230
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 230 is up at Areva BlogNew life for Idaho test reactor, are SMRs next? – Neutron Bytes, Dan YurmanA nuclear test reactor built in 1959, refurbished in 1988, and shut down...
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Gasoline in the $2.50 per gallon range for 2015 and possibly decades beyond
Many people ask if the imminent peak oil story is not correct then when will we pay less at the gasoline pump ? The average price of gasoline in the United States will soon be below $3 per gallon. This...
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Personalized Cellular Therapy Achieves Complete Remission in 90 Percent of...
Ninety percent of children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had relapsed multiple times or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an...
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Updated Prospects for Commercial Nuclear Fusion
Commercialization Targets for Nuclear Fusion ProjectsLPP Fusion (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics) - the target is to make LPP Fusion with a commercial system 4 years after net energy gain is proved. The...
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Isaac Asimov described How People Get New Ideas
Technology Review printed a 1959 essay that Isaac Asimov contributed to research project. The original essay was published with permission of Asimov Holdings.How do people get new ideas ? How are can...
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China ready for Thursday unmanned sample return mission from the moon
The Chang'e 5-T1 mission is set to blast off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan, China, on 23 October. It will fly around the back of the moon and return to Earth on October 31st.It's...
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Lightbridge will test their metallic nuclear fuel in Canada
Lightbridge on Monday announced a pact with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to carry out a key test for the McLean-based company's nuclear fuel technology.The initial agreement with Atomic Energy of...
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Conference Board Forecasts China's annual GDP growth will be 5.5% for 5 years...
The Wall Street Journal reports on a Conference Board forecast of China's GDP growth over the next ten years.The Conference Board forecasts that China’s annual growth will slow to an average of 5.5%...
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World’s Thinnest Electric Generator
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report today that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an...
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Braintree Founder has $100 million fund for quantum-leap discoveries to...
Bryan Johnson, founder of Braintree Inc., has launched a $100 million venture fund to pursue groundbreaking ideas.Mr. Johnson was getting his MBA at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 231
1. Robert Rock [President, Environmentalists for Nuclear, Canada] at Linkedin - Is Germany's Green turning Brown ? Robert Rock looks at the effect of Germany's Energiewende.The Energiewende has cost...
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For $10,000 you can get a real magnetic hoverboard to glide over conductive...
Hendo has a kickstarter for a magnetic hoverboard that can glide over conductive surfaces and you can have one for $10,000.While their hoverboard is primarily intended to be self-propelled, the actions...
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Factoring in underreporting there might be 12000 deaths from Ebola
The total number of confirmed , probable, and suspected cases) in the West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported up to the end of 5 October 2014 (epidemiological week 40) was 8033 with...
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