Posts tagged: Energy

Tänk om Andrea Rossis energikatalysator verkligen fungerar?

För något år sedan skrev jag om spän­nande nya forskn­ing­spro­jekt inom fis­sion, lik­som om bety­delse­fulla fram­steg inom kon­ven­tionell fusions­forskn­ing (här och här). Nu har något nytt och ovän­tat inträf­fat: så kallad “kall fusion”, eller en likvärdig process, kan eventuellt ha förverk­li­gats. Det innebär i så fall inget min­dre än en sen­sa­tion och bör­jan på en […]

Tuesday April 12th, 2011 in , , , | 5 Comments »

Batteries of seaweed

Imag­ine an e–book con­sist­ing only of a paper bat­tery with elec­tronic ink and cir­cuits printed directly on the bat­tery. Sounds inter­est­ing? This may become real­ity with a newly invented bat­tery. Read on. Algal–blooms have been a major prob­lem in the Baltic sea over the last decade or so. Causes are attrib­uted to be global warm­ing, excess […]

Wednesday March 24th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Polluting ships prevent global warming

The Inter­na­tional mar­itime organ­i­sa­tion (IMO) is about to ban the high sul­phur con­tent fuel burned by most of the world’s ships today. Accord­ing to New Sci­en­tist this will reduce sul­phur diox­ide (SO2) emis­sions will by as much as 90 per­cent, and with them the result­ing haze of sul­phate particles.

More on the travelling wave reactor

As I wrote in a pre­vi­ous post, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is invest­ing in research on, and devel­op­ment of, the so–called trav­el­ling wave reac­tor. Accord­ing to an arti­cle pub­lished by Ny Teknik today, Ter­rapower, the devel­op­ment com­pany owned by Gates, is plan­ning reac­tors in dif­fer­ent sizes rang­ing from 0.1 GW to sev­eral GW. How­ever, we’ll have […]

Tuesday March 2nd, 2010 in , , , , | 1 Comment »

New era in energy innovation taking off?

Dur­ing the last week I’ve come across two inter­est­ing pieces of news that breethes enthu­si­asm about the future of energy. One was the talk of Microsoft founder Bill Gates at this years TED con­fer­ence. The other, reported on Jan­u­ary 28 by, is a claim by the National Igni­tion Facil­ity (NIF) pro­gram at the Lawrence Livermore […]

Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »