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New probe to uncover mechanisms key to fusion reactor wallsWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Aug 26, 2011 A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton University to learn precisely what happens when extremely hot plasmas touch and interact with the inner surface of the reactor. The work is aimed at understanding plasma-wall interactions to help develop coatings or materials capable of withstanding the grueling conditions inside fusion reactors, known as tokamaks. The machines house a magnetic field to confine a donut-shap ... read more |
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  Wind Power Now Less Expensive Than Natural Gas In Brazil The President and CEO of Brazil's Energy Research Company (EPE), Mauricio Tolmasquim, has announced that for the first time ever in Brazil, wind power prices are less expensive than natural gas pric ... more | .. |
  Sporian Developing Sensors for Generation IV Nuclear Systems Sporian Microsystems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to evaluate advanced materials, sensor designs and packaging for use in Generation IV nuclear reactors. Gen ... more | .. |
  Making Tomorrow's Bioenergy Yeasts Strong Cornstalks, wheat straw, and other rough, fibrous, harvest-time leftovers may soon be less expensive to convert into cellulosic ethanol, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists' s ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 A math-based model for deep-water oil drilling The main challenge presented in many of these models is the precise prediction of the pressure profile in addition to liquid/gas volumes and flow rates at various points along the oil well. "T ... more | .. |
 Cars could run on recycled newspaper, Tulane scientists say Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed "TU-103," that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofu ... more | .. |
  Arctic shipping routes open Satellite measurements show we are heading for another year of below-average ice cover in the Arctic. As sea ice melts during the summer months, two major shipping routes have opened in the Arctic O ... more | .. |
  Production shifts to China for rare earths As China tightens its grip on rare earth minerals, more foreign companies are moving manufacturing operations to China to gain access to the elements. ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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  New nanoscale parameter by Aalto University resolves dilemmas on silicon property The new discovery by Aalto University can have major impact on future nanoscale device design, such as ultraviolet photo detectors and drug delivery. In bulk size, many materials like silicon ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES The expression "beauty's only skin-deep" has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today's high te ... more | .. |
  China's BYD to raise up to $939 mn in bond sale Chinese car maker BYD, which is backed by US investment titan Warren Buffett, said Friday it plans to sell up to six billion yuan ($938.8 million) in bonds to repay loans and boost its coffers. ... more | .. |
 Quake-prone Japan looks at geothermal energy The forces that make Japan one of the world's most quake-prone and volcanic countries, and sparked a nuclear disaster, could become part of its long-term energy solution, experts say. ... more |
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  Japan enacts key bills, clears way for Kan to go Japan's parliament enacted two key bills on Friday, clearing the way for the promised departure of embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan. ... more | .. |
 Oil companies scramble for Libya's riches U.S., European and Asian companies are scrambling to get back into Libya to grab a slice of its oil wealth, even though Moammar Gadhafi's diehard loyalists refuse to submit to seemingly triumphant rebel forces. ... more | .. |
 Argentina keen for more nuclear power Argentina is keen to increase its capacity for nuclear power production, a major part of the national electricity grid, and has signed deals with Canadian supplier Candu Energy Inc. to help reach that target. ... more | .. |
 Activists flood immigration hearing Immigration activists flooded into a public hearing and confronted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in Virginia to protest a program they say is heavy-handed and a threat to public safety. ... more |
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China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce
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 Japan protests again over Chinese boats Japan on Thursday protested to Beijing a second time over the entry of two Chinese fishery patrol boats into waters near disputed Japanese-administered islands, the foreign ministry said. ... more | .. |
 GM, LG partner on electric vehicles General Motors and LG Group will jointly design and engineer electric vehicles, the companies said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  China's Hu 'confident' in the euro: Sarkozy China's president has expressed confidence in the euro, visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday, as concerns intensify over the future of the 17-nation eurozone. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam to release anti-China protesters: govt Vietnam was set Thursday to free the remaining three anti-China protesters in detention since a weekend crackdown on their rally in Hanoi, an official said. ... more |
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  Philippine Airlines lays off ground staff Loss making national carrier Philippine Airlines said Thursday it had sent termination notices to about 2,600 ground crew as part of its long-term survival plan. ... more | .. |
 China's ICBC first-half profit up 29% Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's largest bank by market value, said Thursday its first-half net profit jumped 29 percent year-on-year thanks to a rise in loans and fee income. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima caesium leaks 'equal 168 Hiroshimas' Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs, a news report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Air New Zealand earnings plunge after disasters Air New Zealand announced a 45 percent slump in annual earnings on Thursday as natural disasters in Christchurch and Japan contributed to conditions it described as the most difficult in a decade. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
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 Morocco taps benefits of Barbary fig oil Barbary fig oil, celebrated as an effective anti-ageing skin potion, is following argan oil as a great new cosmetic export from Morocco. ... more | .. |
 Air disaster narrowly averted in China: report A Chinese pilot's refusal to give up his landing slot to a passenger plane that issued a distress call to say it was running out of fuel almost caused a disaster, state media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 France's Sarkozy in China for talks with Hu French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Beijing Thursday for talks with his Chinese counterpart that are expected to be dominated by the eurozone debt crisis and reconstruction in Libya. ... more | .. |
  Hopes fade for 26 trapped in China mine Hopes faded Thursday that 26 miners trapped for over two days in a flooded mine in northeast China would survive, as local officials were punished for the accident, the government and press said. ... more |
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 Antennas in your clothes? New design could pave the way The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate ra ... more | .. |
 Etch-a-sketch with superconductors Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superco ... more | .. |
 Human gait could soon power portable electronics If the vision of Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor comes to fruition, one day soon your cellphone - or just about any other portable electronic device - could be powered by simply taking a walk. ... more | .. |
 Controlling magnetism with electric fields An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room temperature. Previously this was only ... more |
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