1&1 Internet turn nuclear facility into green data center
A former nuclear power site located in Germany is about to become a very green data center. The Hanau facility in Karslruhe, Germany, used to create mixed oxide rods, which involved the use […]
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Bill Gates has drastically changed his role since leaving Microsoft and now focuses on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To that end, he recently gave a talk at the TED conference. Not about […]
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Jellyfish invasion forces closure of UK nuclear plant
Even after the massive earthquake in Japan that disabled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility there, we tend to think of nuclear plants are largely robust and sturdy facilities with redundancies to...
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NASA is developing a nuclear-powered Stirling engine for planetary outposts
Last week we reported on how NASA is testing a new lasercom system that could eventually see a HD video feed beamed back from Mars with just a 5 minute delay. It sounds […]
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Arizona wind farm to produce 500MW, power 175,000 homes
Nicely out of the way about 40 miles from Kingman in Mojave County, Arizona, this wind farm is set to produce anywhere from 425 to 500 megawatts of power for the area.
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Geek Answers: What is radiation sickness and why does it happen?
It's an invisible threat, but radiation can cause a whole range of problems in the body. Just how does it work?
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Japanese company launches anti-radiation swimwear and underwear
The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant continues to be a dangerous headache for Japanese authorities more than two years after an earthquake damaged the facility leading to a meltdown. Radiation levels...
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The most important geek stories of 2013
2012 was one of the biggest scientific years in memory -- could 2013 measure up? We run through the year's top stories to find out.
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Laser array brings fusion a big step closer, but we’re not there yet
A new fusion breakthrough has many once again projecting that useful fusion power is on the horizon -- but what does the achievement really mean?
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MIT invents meltdown-proof floating nuclear reactor
Nuclear power is going to have a hard time rehabilitating its image after the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. That disaster followed an earthquake and tsunami, but it wasn’t […]
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Geek Answers: Does nuclear waste really glow?
Cherenkov radiation is like an optical sonic boom -- but amazingly, the eerie blue glow of a nuclear storage site is totally safe to stare at.
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Spray-on solar cells could solve the ‘panel problem’
A breakthrough in spray-on thin film photovoltaics could dramatically lower the costs of cells while keeping efficiency high.
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Lockheed Martin says fusion power will be here in a decade
Our options are limited when the need arises to generate a great deal of power. Being we live in an increasingly industrialized world, that need arises quite a lot. Lockheed Martin says it […]
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Could the moon provide all of Earth’s power?
Next time you look up at the night sky, focus on the moon. One day It could be a global power station, and the end of energy shortfalls.
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“Black hole of sunlight” converts 90% of captured light to heat
Concentrated solar power, which uses the heat of sunlight to generate electricity, may just have gotten a whole lot more powerful.
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Fukushima radiation has reached California, but it’s really nothing to worry...
A new study show Fukushima is having zero real effect on American shores -- so why is the internet so upset about it?
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Massive underground carbon bunkers are a dangerous waste of tax dollars
A new carbon sequestration project can reached its "goal" of a million tons of CO2 stored. Perversely, that still isn't anywhere near enough carbon to matter.
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