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MIT designs small, modular, efficient fusion power plant
A cutaway view of the proposed ARC reactor (credit: MIT ARC team)
MIT plans to create a new compact version of a tokamak fusion reactor with the goal of producing practical fusion power, which could offer a nearly inexhaustible energy resource in as little as a decade.
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, involves fusing pairs of hydrogen atoms together to form helium, accompanied by enormous releases of energy.
The new fusion reactor, called ARC, would take advantage of new, commercially available superconductors — rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes (the dark brown areas in the illustration above) — to produce stronger magnetic field coils, according to Dennis Whyte, a professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
A jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions?
Lasers vaporize radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction — in effect, a small thermonuclear explosion (credit: Patent Yogi/YouTube)
Article: Harnessing “Black Holes”: The Large Hadron Collider – Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction
Harnessing “Black Holes”: The Large Hadron Collider – Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction
Why the LHC must be shut down
CERN-Critics: LHC restart is a sad day for science and humanity!
PRESS RELEASE “LHC-KRITIK”/”LHC-CRITIQUE” www.lhc-concern.info
CERN-Critics: LHC restart is a sad day for science and humanity!
These days, CERN has restarted the world’s biggest particle collider, the so-called “Big Bang Machine” LHC at CERN. After a hundreds of Million Euros upgrade of the world’s biggest machine, CERN plans to smash particles at double the energies of before. This poses, one would hope, certain eventually small (?), but fundamentally unpredictable catastrophic risks to planet Earth.
Basically the same group of critics, including Professors and Doctors, that had previously filed a law suit against CERN in the US and Europe, still opposes the restart for basically the same reasons. Dangers of: (“Micro”-)Black Holes, Strangelets, Vacuum Bubbles, etc., etc. are of course and maybe will forever be — still in discussion. No specific improvements concerning the safety assessment of the LHC have been conducted by CERN or anybody meanwhile. There is still no proper and really independent risk assessment (the ‘LSAG-report’ has been done by CERN itself) — and the science of risk research is still not really involved in the issue. This is a scientific and political scandal and that’s why the restart is a sad day for science and humanity.
The scientific network “LHC-Critique” speaks for a stop of any public sponsorship of gigantomanic particle colliders.
Just to demonstrate how speculative this research is: Even CERN has to admit, that the so called “Higgs Boson” was discovered — only “probably”. Very probably, mankind will never find any use for the “Higgs Boson”. Here we are not talking about the use of collider technology in medical concerns. It could be a minor, but very improbable advantage for mankind to comprehend the Big Bang one day. But it would surely be fatal – how the Atomic Age has already demonstrated — to know how to handle this or other extreme phenomena in the universe.
Within the next Billions of years, mankind would have enough problems without CERN.
Sources:
- A new paper by our partner “Heavy Ion Alert” will be published soon: http://www.heavyionalert.org/
- Background documents provided by our partner “LHC Safety Review”: http://www.lhcsafetyreview.org/
- Press release by our partner ”Risk Evaluation Forum” emphasizing on renewed particle collider risk: http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/newsbg.pdf
- Study concluding that “Mini Black Holes” could be created at planned LHC energies: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-mini-black-holes-lhc-parallel.html
- New paper by Dr. Thomas B. Kerwick on lacking safety argument by CERN: http://vixra.org/abs/1503.0066
- More info at the LHC-Kritik/LHC-Critique website: www.LHC-concern.info
Best regards:
LHC-Kritik/LHC-Critique
No nuclear waste: Fuel of future produced at Russia’s high-tech underground plant
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Russia’s ‘Breakthrough’ energy project enables closed a nuclear fuel cycle and a future without radioactive waste. The first batch of MOX nuclear fuel has been manufactured for the world’s only NPP industrially power generating breeder reactors.
The first ten kilograms of the mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) — a mixture of plutonium and uranium dioxides (UO2 and PuO2), have been industrially produced by Russia’s nuclear monopoly, Rosatom, at the Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK) in the Krasnoyarsk region.
Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany
By Justin Huggler, Berlin — The Telegraph
Twenty-eight years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its effects are still being felt as far away as Germany – in the form of radioactive wild boars.
Wild boars still roam the forests of Germany, where they are hunted for their meat, which is sold as a delicacy.
But in recent tests by the state government of Saxony, more than one in three boars were found to give off such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.
Hitachi developing reactor that burns nuclear waste
By David Szondy — Gizmag
The problem with nuclear waste is that it needs to be stored for many thousands of years before it’s safe, which is a tricky commitment for even the most stable civilization. To make this situation a bit more manageable, Hitachi, in partnership with MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley, is working on new reactor designs that use transuranic nuclear waste for fuel; leaving behind only short-lived radioactive elements.
In popular imagination, nuclear waste is a wildly radioactive goo that glows like the back end of a lightning bug. But in real life, the real problem of nuclear waste isn’t the “hot” stuff, but the mildly radioactive elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. That’s because highly radioactive elements have short half lives. That is, they burn themselves out very quickly – sometimes in a matter of minutes or even seconds.
The Future of Scientific Management, Today!
FEBRUARY 08/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
MITRE-Harvard nanocomputer may point the way to future computer miniaturization
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mitre-harvard-nanocomputer-may-poi…turization
New form of graphene allows electrons to behave like photons
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-form-of-graphene-allows-electr…ke-photons
The first flexible, transparent, and conductive material
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-first-flexible-transparent-and-conductive-material
Adidas Says Under Armour Infringed Its Wearable-Tech Patents
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-05/adid…ch-patents
The Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/2013-sciviz-winners/
How To Keep Museums Alive In The Age Of Minecraft
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026074/how-to-keep-museums-alive-…-minecraft
Disrupting Death: These Customized Tombstones Let You Take Your Colorful Personality To The Grave
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025033/disrupting-death-these-c…y-to-the-g
SolarCoin cryptocurrency pays you to go green
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25010-solarcoin-crypto…vQTboXSmHc
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Man With 3-D Printer Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer
http://thelapine.ca/man-with-3-d-printer-prints-3-d-printer-…d-printer/
The death of the statistician
http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/the-death-of-the-statistician
Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/fords-data-scientist-keep-all-t…out-later/
How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence)
http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3315-how-i-came-to-love-big-da…-existence
IBM opens access to SaaS portfolio to help African Universities with next-generation IT skills
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43122.wss
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF)
http://www.bt.com.au/help/anti-money-laundering-and-counter-…ancing.asp
3D Printing Central to Future Military Strategy
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…ategy.aspx
Elio Motors and the Three Wheeled Car — A Moonshot Project
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…oject.aspx
When will 3D Printing Reach a Mass Consumer Audience?
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…ience.aspx
7 Steps to an Awesome Technical Presentation (Part 1 of 4)
http://www.engineering.com/Jobs/JobArticles/ArticleID/7068/7…-of-4.aspx
Top 10 STEM Puns
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Puns.aspx
Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen Car?
http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesi…n-Car.aspx
New Farm Bill Provides Long-Overdue Eligibility for Renewable Chemicals
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/new-farm-bill-provide…-chemicals
Legislation Introduced To Communicate Prescription Changes to Patients & Physicians
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/legislation-introduce…physicians
Bioscience Economic Development
http://www.bio.org/articles/bioscience-economic-development
First graphene radio broadcast is a wireless wonder
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24976-first-graphene-r…nline-news
An nanoscale electrical switch for magnetism
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34222.php
How to Make a Better Invisibility Cloak—With Lasers
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/how-to-mak…ith-lasers
Can Graphene Enable Thermal Transistors?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/…ductors%29
A new twist to sodium ion battery technology
http://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/a-new-twist-to-sod…echnology/
New “Photodetector” Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=29284
Self-aligning DNA wires have been constructed for nanoelectronics
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/self-aligning-dna-wires-ha…lectronics
Nanocatalyst helps a greenhouse gas turn over a new leaf
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34230.php
IBM claims to make “first fully functioning” graphene IC
Quantum dots provide complete control of photons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/quantum-dots-provide-complete-control-photons
Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34226.php#ixzz2sark76Sf
Rice lab clocks “hot” electrons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/rice-lab-clocks-%E2%80%9Ch…-electrons
Arianespace Successfully Delivers Its 250th Launch
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/06/arianespace…ium=social
From Occupy to Climate Justice
http://www.thenation.com/article/178242/occupy-climate-justice?page=0,1
Chinese Factories Are Ordered to Release Data on Real-Time Emissions Levels
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/chin…ons-levels
When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/when-wil…er/355739/
Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/visitors-to-sochi-olympics-will…18818.html
FAO Food Price Index falls despite climbing dairy prices
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/213481/icode/?utm_sour…content=gk
Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install
23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-12/ff_…ntPage=all
20 unpronounceable tech brands — and how to say them
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/403502/20-unpronounceab…w-say-them
Can Twitter’s Big Data Influence The Music Business?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2014/02/06/can-twi…ium=social
Venture capital’s stunning lack of female decision-makers
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/06/venture-capitals-s…ign=buffer
Artificial intelligence: the companies behind Britain’s ‘smart’ revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10610734/Artifici…ution.html
As artificial intelligence grows, so do ethical concerns
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/As-artificial-intel…194466.php
Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128094539.htm
‘Friendly’ robots could allow for more realistic human-android relationships
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206082401.htm
6 Exponential Technologies of Tomorrow
http://www.wfs.org/content/6-exponential-technologies-tomorrow
Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials
U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/05/u-s-agencies-take-signi…e-another/
New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/06/new-stratasys-3d-printe…ingle-run/
Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/03/do-you-trust-internet-c…ur-home-2/
Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/02/illumina-claims-new-seq…1000-each/
Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/30/simple-method-for-creat…therapies/
Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/30/googles-ai-acquisition-…-as-usual/
Rejections for Sandy Grants Are Questioned
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230349680…l&mod=e2tw
New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/29/new-inexpensive-skin-te…n-instant/
uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/28/uarm-a-mini-robotic-arm…d-control/
QUOTATION(S): “…It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring…” AND “…Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion…”
CITATION(S): “…HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS].…COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS…”
BOOK(S): Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku. ISBN-13: 978–0307473332
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
The Future of Scientific Management, Today!
FEBRUARY 07/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
The Ryno Microcycle is a Sci-Fi Inspired Single Wheeler
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…eeler.aspx
Rigged rules mean economic growth increasingly “winner takes all” for rich elites all over world
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2014-01&#…ich-elites
Economist Debates: Democracy economist.com
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/196
Behavioral Economics Gives The Advertising Industry A Nudge In The Right Direction
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/05/behavioural…direction/
Penn State Students Seek Crowdfunding To Land A Hopping Rover On The Moon
http://realtime.rediff.com/news/realtime/Penn-State-Students…adheadline
Bitcoin Has the Power to Transform Digital Media Forever
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-power-transform-digital-media-forever/
The coin prince: inside Bitcoin’s first big money-laundering scandal
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5374172/the-coin-prince-cha…ng-scandal
Business consulting – helping you outperform in a digital world
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/consulting/
Be it bitcoins or dollars, money’s value rooted in beliefs
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-…n-zerocoin
Why Google Cannot Run The World: Wisdom = Data + Experience
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2014/02/05/why-googl…xperience/
Why Launching an Online Brand Takes Guts and 3 Tips for How to Do It Right
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2326949/why-launching-an…o-it-right
Satya Nadella’s First Email To Employees As New Microsoft CEO: ‘Who Am I?
http://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-email-to-micros…2014-2
Five things you should know about running your business from home
http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/jan/2…technology
UPDATE 2-JPMorgan to pay $614 mln in U.S. mortgage fraud case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/jpmorgan-settle-idUSL2N0L928N20140205
Three things to watch on information sharing
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/01/31/paul-on-info-sharing-2014.aspx
Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/senate-cyb…story.html
UK Governments 10 Step Guide to reducing risk of Cyber Attack
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm…cutive.pdf
Do You Want a Lot More Social Media Views?
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140204130648…k=RSS_Feed
Interview: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and cyberwar
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2014/02/04/Interview-Pet…p0.twitter
A Guide to the Internet of Things Infographic
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/i…nside.html
Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35284/facebook-domain-hacked-b…index.html
The Rise of Quantum Computing
http://csrspreadscience.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-quantum-computing/
Wozniak: Apple Could Build Droid Phones, Warns of ‘Police State’
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile-enterprise/wozniak-apple-c…024070.php
Your memory is no video camera: It edits the past with present experiences
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204185651.htm
Superhumans Created by Nanotechnology within 30 years
5 Emerging Technologies That Could Destroy The World
Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
http://news.yahoo.com/man-gets-first-prosthetic-hand-feel-202300302.html
PENTAGON CHIEF: The Military Is Facing A Potential Ethical ‘Breakdown’
http://www.businessinsider.com/hagel-ethical-breakdown-2014-2
The Future Of Stealth Camouflage In Special Operations
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-stealth-camoufl…2014-2
CONTAGION: Here Are 12 Frequently-Asked Questions About One Of The Most Serious Risks In Financial Markets
http://www.businessinsider.com/contagion-frequently-asked-qu…z2sVwwoExE
A New Quantum Communication Breakthrough Will Help Us Make A Super-Secure Internet
http://www.businessinsider.com/quantum-teleportation-fiber-o…z2sVyPBOCl
Extraordinary stem cell method tested in human tissue
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25004-extraordinary-st…vMaFrTSmHd
Is Google Building An Android Army? They Just Bought Another Artificial Intelligence Company
http://www.policymic.com/articles/81105/is-google-building-a…ce-company
Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near
http://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/
PayPal Is Cracking Down on Bitcoin Sellers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/idUS371088795720140205
QUOTATION(S): “…Change is hard. Change is hardest on those caught by surprise. Change is hardest on those who have difficulty changing too. But change is natural; change is not new; change is important…” AND “…Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition…”
CITATION: “…BEGINNING WITH THE AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE KNOWN WORLD AT THE TIME OF CHRIST, STUDIES HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THE FIRST DOUBLING OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TOOK PLACE ABOUT 1700 A.D. THE SECOND DOUBLING OCCURRED AROUND THE YEAR 1900. IT IS ESTIMATED TODAY THAT THE WORLD’S KNOWLEDGE BASE WILL DOUBLE AGAIN BY 2010 AND AGAIN AFTER THAT BY 2013…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK(S): Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier. ISBN-13: 978–1451654967
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC