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Chinese Reactor Sets New Fusion Endurance Record at Over A Thousand Seconds
China has announced its newest achievement in making practical commercial fusion power. The announcement set a new record with a 1,066-second sustained fusion reaction taken by the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei, Anhui Province. A concerted effort to turn the incredible destructive power of the hydrogen bomb was needed to usher in […]
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TerraPower Project Hits Key Milestone for Its Nuclear Power Plant
TerraPower, a next-gen nuclear development company founded in 2008 by Bill Gates and several other high-wealth partners, recently received approval from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council for a permit for its first Natrium plant, Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1. The permit allows TerraPower to build the non-nuclear portions of its facilities, including the energy island […]
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China Works on Wave-Resistant Offshore Solar Platforms
Offshore wind turbines are becoming the norm for obvious reasons. To begin with, they don’t take up precious land space but also utilize stronger and more consistent winds. Now, the Chinese government wants to do the same with photovoltaics, i.e., solar panels. China already installed its first offshore photovoltaic platform called “Yellow Sea No. 1,” […]
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Rolls-Royce Receives More Funding to Build a Nuclear Space Micro-Reactor
Sustainable energy sources are undoubtedly the way forward for humanity. Still, nothing beats nuclear energy density and cost, and that is particularly true in space. That’s because getting heavy cargo in space is costly, with every gram flown out of the Earth’s orbit costing around $1,000! So, if we are to build lunar bases and […]
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Norway’s Massive Floating Wind Turbine Array Gets More Support
When Norway’s Windcatcher floating wind turbine array was introduced in 2021, there were a lot of people who doubted its design at over 1,000 ft (324 m) high and roughly just as wide. Over three years, it has made significant progress in realizing its vision that may quiet the doubters. Rotors on wind turbines with […]
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Hexagon Introduces Its First Battery-Powered Handheld 3D Scanners
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division in North Kingstown, RI, launched its new handheld 3D scanning devices that complement the company’s existing manufacturing inspection devices with an unprecedented ability to complete flexible measurements. The company’s first new system reportedly allows engineers and manufacturing personnel to easily do the measurements they need in many