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Status of the U. S. program in magneto-inertial fusion

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The fifth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2007) IOP Publishing ________________ Journal of Physics: Conference Series 112 (2008) 042084 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/112/4/042084 Y. C. Francis Thio U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, Germantown, MD, USA E-mail: Francis.thio@science.doe.gov Abstract. A status report of the current U.S. program in magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) … Read more

Donald Trump

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Donald Trump

2015 Letter to Donald Trump 2012 Letter to Donald Trump 2012 Letter to Mitt Romney 2015 Letter to Israeli PM Netanyahu Presentation Why Fusion is the only realistic solution Plasma-Jet-Driven Magneto-Inertial-Fusion (PJMIF) was originally conceived in the late 1990s by Dr. Y. C. Francis Thio at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), where he initiated … Read more

Silicon Labs and RFaxis team up on Internet of Things solutions

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Metering and Smart Energy : Amy Ryan | July 29, 2015 In the US, fabless semiconductor companies RFaxis and Silicon Labs have partnered to develop chipset reference designs to address the Internet of Things and smart home markets. The management of big data directly related to the Internet of Things in Connected Homes is forecast … Read more

The other nuclear country

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By Marita Noon July 13, 2015 The fuel is now loaded into the reactor, following inspections, the switch will be flipped and, around August 10, the reactor will be fired up. Three days later, transmission of electricity is expected to start, ramping up to full power and commercial operation in September. The same process is … Read more

38% of the Top Crowd Funding Projects for June, 2015 are Games

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38% of the Top Crowd Funding Projects for June, 2015 are Games

Nineteen of the top 50 crowd funded projects as of June 2015 are video games, board games, card games, or video game hardware. See a detailed summary of the top ninety crowd-funded projects exceeding one million dollars. Rank Name Dollar Goal Amount Raised Platform Used 1. Star Citizen $500,000 $84,007,443 Kickstarter 8. Exploding Kittens $10,000 … Read more

Ethanol and biodiesel: Guilty as charged

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By Paul Driessen July. 12, 2015 Bogus biofuel trading costs us millions – while the absurd biofuel program costs us billions Two notorious crooks are helping us wrap up another sordid episode in the saga of the United States biofuel mandates, while further highlighting how bungled and long past its expiration date the program is. … Read more

‘Exploding Kittens’ Card Game Literally Explodes On Kickstarter With $8.8M Campaign

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NoCamels By Maya Yarowsky, February 24, 2015 Exploding kittens, bear-o-dactyls and pig-a-corns; no, these aren’t the names of rare species you’ve never heard of and animal rights activists aren’t freaking out. These are some of the characters in the “Exploding Kittens” card game that raised a whopping $8.8 million in its recent Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, … Read more

An Alternative Approach to Nuclear Fusion: Think Smaller

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Motherboard By EMIKO JOZUKA, July 2, 2015 Nuclear fusion is the energy of the Sun and the stars, and there’s a worldwide scientific quest to produce it as a clean, sustainable energy source. In Europe, the international scientific community has supported large fusion reactors like the Joint European Torus (JET) experiment in the UK and … Read more