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Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power

Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power

By Tom Metcalfe  Damien Jemison, photographer at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), captured this image of the NIF laser beam lines entering a part of the target chamber. Jemison needed five…

China is gearing up to activate the world’s first ‘clean’ commercial nuclear reactor

China is gearing up to activate the world’s first ‘clean’ commercial nuclear reactor

By Ben Turner – Staff Writer  Plans include building up to 30 reactors in partnered nations. A top down view of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 1960s molten salt reactor experiment, an early…

Physicists Levitate a Glass Nanosphere, Pushing It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics

Physicists Levitate a Glass Nanosphere, Pushing It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics

Quantum mechanics deals with the behavior of the Universe at the super-small scale: atoms and subatomic particles that operate in ways that classical physics can’t explain. In order to explore this…

World’s first new-energy air-rail vehicle rolls off production line in SW China’s Sichuan

World’s first new-energy air-rail vehicle rolls off production line in SW China’s Sichuan

By Global Times    The air-rail vehicle is in operation. Photo: China Central Television (CCTV) The first air-rail vehicle using new energy rolls off the production line in Chengdu, Southwest China’s…

Choo Choo! Meet China’s First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive

Choo Choo! Meet China’s First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive

by Nikita Folomov 0 360 When China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that China would be carbon neutral by 2060, he was dead serious. Although hydrogen is only one of the many elements to…

A new and efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices

A new and efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices

by University of Tokyo The copper probe can manipulate matter at the atomic scale. Credit: © 2020 Shiotari et al. Nanographene is a material that could radically improve solar cells, fuel…

Scientists Discover How to Control Light on the Nanoscale Over Wide Frequency Ranges

Scientists Discover How to Control Light on the Nanoscale Over Wide Frequency Ranges

An international team has proposed a novel method that allows to widely extend this range of working frequencies of phonon polaritons in van der Waals materials. Credit: University of Oviedo…

Researchers Have Found a New Way to Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity to Power Small Devices

Researchers Have Found a New Way to Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity to Power Small Devices

This diagram shows researchers how electrical energy exists in a sample of Fe3Ga. Credit: © 2020 Sakai et al A thin, iron-based generator uses waste heat to provide small amounts…

New droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water generates 140V power, lighting up 100 LED bulbs

New droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water generates 140V power, lighting up 100 LED bulbs

New droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water generates 140V power, lighting up 100 LED bulbs Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team led by…

New Droplet-Based Electricity Generator: A Drop of Water Can Light Up 100 LED Bulbs

New Droplet-Based Electricity Generator: A Drop of Water Can Light Up 100 LED Bulbs

New Droplet-Based Electricity Generator: A Drop of Water Can Light Up 100 LED Bulbs Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team led by scientists from…

New Way to Make Hydrogen Energy Out of Water Much More Cheaply

New Way to Make Hydrogen Energy Out of Water Much More Cheaply

New Way to Make Hydrogen Energy Out of Water Much More Cheaply Scientists show how using only water, iron, nickel and electricity can create hydrogen energy much more cheaply than before. Hydrogen-powered…

US sanctions on Russian pipeline is a declaration of ‘economic war’ that will backfire on American business interests

US sanctions on Russian pipeline is a declaration of ‘economic war’ that will backfire on American business interests

US sanctions on Russian pipeline is a declaration of 'economic war' that will backfire on American business interests It may be “quite favorable for Russia” to finish the Nord Stream…

First-Ever Complex Quantum Teleportation Paves Way for Next Generation Internet

First-Ever Complex Quantum Teleportation Paves Way for Next Generation Internet

First-Ever Complex Quantum Teleportation Paves Way for Next Generation Internet © Sputnik / Alina Polyanina Tech While the theoretical possibility of multidimensional quantum teleportation has been known to scientists for…

Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing

Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing

Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing Summary: Scientists have discovered that terahertz light — light at trillions of cycles per second — can act as…

Physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions

Physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions

Physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions Quantum computing concept (stock image). Credit: © Siarhei / Adobe Stock Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported…

Virutally energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses

Virutally energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses

  Virutally energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses Digital computing concept. Credit: © Jürgen Fälchle / Adobe Stock Superfast data processing using light pulses instead of electricity…

Harnessing sunlight to pull hydrogen from wastewater

Harnessing sunlight to pull hydrogen from wastewater

Harnessing sunlight to pull hydrogen from wastewater Zhiyong Jason Ren, principal investigator and professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Lu…

Researchers create hydrogen fuel from seawater

Researchers create hydrogen fuel from seawater

Researchers create hydrogen fuel from seawater A prototype device used solar energy to create hydrogen fuel from seawater. Credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney Stanford researchers have…

Scientists Verify Quantum Information Scrambling

Scientists Verify Quantum Information Scrambling

Scientists Verify Quantum Information Scrambling By Chris Cesare, Joint Quantum Institute Artist conception of information falling into a black hole. Researchers have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a…

This throws a wrench in America’s plans of holding Chinese oils supplies ransomed…on the high seas China reveals massive oil & gas discovery in Bohai Sea

This throws a wrench in America’s plans of holding Chinese oils supplies ransomed…on the high seas China reveals massive oil & gas discovery in Bohai Sea

China reveals massive oil & gas discovery in Bohai Sea © Reuters / Stringer The discovery of a high-quality and high-yield oil flow in the Bohai Sea area was announced…

South Africa oil discovery could be a game-changer

South Africa oil discovery could be a game-changer

South Africa oil discovery could be a game-changer © AFP / Martin Bureau South Africa’s offshore has just yielded a massive natural gas and condensate find that could open a…

Physicists create exotic electron liquid

Physicists create exotic electron liquid

Physicists create exotic electron liquid In conventional electronic devices, electricity requires the movement of electrons (blue spheres) and their positive counterparts, called holes (red spheres), which behave much like the…

Signs of interactive form of quantum matter observed

Signs of interactive form of quantum matter observed

Signs of interactive form of quantum matter observed False-color images showing variations in atom numbers (1 to 5 atoms, left to right) and density in different lattice cells of JILA’s…

With humongous economic ramifications on the geopolitical chessboard India, Iran, Russia push alternative to Suez Canal

With humongous economic ramifications on the geopolitical chessboard India, Iran, Russia push alternative to Suez Canal

India, Iran, Russia push alternative to Suez Canal The International North-South Transport Corridor is to link the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf via Iran to Russia and North Europe. India,…

US shale’s glory days are numbered

US shale’s glory days are numbered

US shale’s glory days are numbered © AFP / Juan Mabromata RT There are some early signs that the US shale industry is starting to show its age, with depletion…

A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As ‘Skirmish’ Escalates

A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As ‘Skirmish’ Escalates

A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As ‘Skirmish’ Escalates by Tyler Durden Following a surge in Chinese, European, and much of the US equity markets this week amid…

Remember that these 100’s of billions of dollars oil & gas trades are done outside of the US dollar using the Yuan: Russia to become China’s top supplier of gas soon

Remember that these 100’s of billions of dollars oil & gas trades are done outside of the US dollar using the Yuan: Russia to become China’s top supplier of gas soon

Russia to become China’s top supplier of gas soon © Reuters One of the world’s longest gas pipelines – the Power of Siberia – which is being created to deliver…

US underhanded hypocritical hegemonic actions being called out: Russia warns US against using energy as ‘tool of pressure’ on Europe

US underhanded hypocritical hegemonic actions being called out: Russia warns US against using energy as ‘tool of pressure’ on Europe

Russia warns US against using energy as ‘tool of pressure’ on Europe © Gleb Garanich / Reuters Energy should not be used as a tool to exert pressure on countries,…

Revolutionary battery can self-assemble and charge your phone in SECONDS

Revolutionary battery can self-assemble and charge your phone in SECONDS  by: RJ Jhonson (Natural News) What if you could fully charge your phone within seconds? That is exactly what researchers at Cornell…

All Hands on Deck: The Caspian Sails Towards Eurasia Integration

All Hands on Deck: The Caspian Sails Towards Eurasia Integration

All Hands on Deck: The Caspian Sails Towards Eurasia Integration By Pepe Escobar “Information Clearing House” –  The five states surrounding the sea – Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan – have…