energy
GE Hitachi Starts Licensing Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
Posted in Business, Science on 3rd Feb, 2020
by Alex Muller
They say it will be price competitive with natural gas. Small Reactor projects will be $1-2 billion instead of $10+ billion for large reactors.
Flue gases extract methane from permafrost while reducing emissions
Posted in Science on 3rd Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller
University in Edinburgh are looking at a way of extracting methane from Arctic permafrost in a manner that reduces carbon dioxide emissions.
Concentrated solar viable for industrial uses after exceeding 1,000°C
Posted in Hardware, Science on 22nd Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
Advanced computer vision software that allows a large array of computer-controlled mirrors (known as heliostats) to focus their reflected sunlight onto a target with ultra-high accuracy, resulting in ultra-high temperatures.
Progress to a Hydrogen Economy With Better Production from Seawater
Posted in Business, Science on 21st Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
The device, composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides, manages to avoid many of the obstacles that have limited earlier attempts to inexpensively produce hydrogen or safe drinking water from seawater
China Makes Innovation Alliance to Accelerate Extracting Uranium from Seawater
Posted in Science on 15th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
It is estimated that about 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium is reserved in seawater, about 1,000 times of the land proven reserves, but the concentration of uranium in seawater is extremely low.