Alternative Energy / Nuclear Power

• Third Party Tests Prove Rossi’s E-Cat HT2 Works

  An independent test report of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat HT2 is available at the Cornell University Library archive.  The team, seemingly led by Hanno Essén of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden included four collaborators from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden with Mr. Rossi’s old friend Giuseppe Levi of Bologna University and Evelyn Foschi of Bologna Italy.The team collected data over two experimental runs lasting 96 and 116 hours, respectively.  Anomalous heat production was indicated in both experiments.  It would appear fairly conclusively the E-Cat HT2 works.Using the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is…

• Not Just Oil: The US is also Dependent on Foreign Uranium

  What most Americans don't realize is that dependence on foreign oil isn't the main obstacle to US energy autonomy. If you think America's energy supply issues begin and end with the Middle East, think again. One of the most critical sources of foreign energy is due to dry up this year, and the results could mean spiking electricity prices across the country.In 2011, the US used 4,128 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity. Nuclear power provided 790.2 billion kWh, or 19% of the total electrical output in the US. Few people know that one in five US households is powered…

• Two Years After Being Destroyed, Fukushima Hold Anti-Terrorism Drill

  A little more than two years ago, only nuclear energy specialists had ever heard of Tokyo Electric Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex.Then, on 11 March 2001, a subsea earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale was followed by a tsunami, effectively destroyed TEPCO’s Daiichi Fukushima NPP. The catastrophe left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, as the government Before the disaster, about 30 percent of Japan’s electricity was generated by nuclear power, and Tokyo had ambitious plans to raise its market share to 50 percent over the next two decades, according…

• Ireland Protests New British Nuclear Plant

  To say that British-Irish relations over the past few centuries have been strained would be an understatement.Now Ireland’s An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, is pursuing a High Court challenge in London over a planned nuclear power plant, to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset, 150 miles from the Irish coast. An Taisce instituted the lawsuit after British authorities did not consult Ireland about the proposed nuclear plant before it granted consent for its construction.An Taisce spokesman James Nix noted that the Hinkley Point NPP is as close to the Irish coast as it is to London and…

• What’s Happened to Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat?

  Yesterday Sterling D. Allan of PESN and Frank Acland of E-CatWorld conducted a one and a half hour interview with Andrea Rossi hosted by Gary Hendershot on his Smart Scarecrow service regarding developments in the E-Cat technology based on the cold fusion technology called “LENR” for Low Energy Nuclear Reaction.SmartScarecrow has chat room where people could post questions, several of which were presented to Rossi during the show. At its peak, there were just over 1000 people listening to the live broadcast, which began at 4:30 pm Eastern time (GMT-5), with nearly 200 people in the live chat.The conversation while…

• Scientists must Study the Nuclear Weak Force to Better Understand LENR

  In the early part of the 20th Century physicists theorized that a mysterious force held the nucleus of an atom together.  When it was demonstrated that this force could be tapped, releasing tremendous amounts of energy, a wave of excitement swept the scientific world.  It took only a few short years before atomic energy theories were experimentally validated in the first nuclear weapon detonations.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki followed.  Most of us alive today were born under the mushroom cloud that has loomed over humanity ever since.  Accessing the power of the strong nuclear force has been a mixed blessing:  it…

• Nuclear Fusion – Possible at Last?

  On 26 April, the world largely yawned as a nuclear anniversary came and went.Twenty-seven years ago, the Ukrainian SSR nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded, providing a severe test of the USSR’s General Secretary of the Communist Party Mihail Gorbachev’s policy of “glasnost” (“openness,”), which the sclerotic Soviet leadership signally failed, providing a less than candid drip feed of news about the magnitude of the disaster.Nothing to see here, move along.Twenty-five years later, Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi NPP was decimated by a tsunami generated by the offshore Tohoku earthquake in the western Pacific, estimated at 9.0…

• Ghana to build black Africa’s first Nuclear Power Plant?

  Say what you will about the 11 March earthquake and subsequent tsunami that destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex, the subsequent management of news by both the Japanese government and TEPCO has been masterful.In the last two years news bland news has been slowly dribbled out.Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported under the headline “Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant,”  “Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear…

• NASA Funds Research into Fusion Powered Rocket for Deep Space Travel

  Scientists are building components of a fusion-powered rocket aimed to clear many of the hurdles that block deep space travel, including long times in transit, exorbitant costs, and health risks.  “Using existing rocket fuels, it’s nearly impossible for humans to explore much beyond Earth,” says lead researcher John Slough, a research associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the University of Washington.“We are hoping to give us a much more powerful source of energy in space that could eventually lead to making interplanetary travel commonplace.” Related article: The Coming Nuclear Waste DisasterAt the NASA Innovative Advance Concepts symposium last month,…

• The Coming Nuclear Waste Disaster

  Engineers around the world have done a great job developing nuclear technologies to serve mankind’s many endeavors: medical devices, power generators, naval propulsion systems, or the most formidable weapons ever built, so formidable that they could largely wipe out mankind and its many endeavors.However, engineers haven’t figured out yet what to do with the highly radioactive and toxic materials nuclear technologies leave behind. They leak through corroded containers, contaminate soil, water, and air, and after decades, we try to deal with them somehow, but mainly we’re shuffling that problem to the next generation. The enormous sums coming due over time…