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"Next Big Future" - 4 new articles Depleted Uranium can be used to provide chemical industry feedstocks from carbon monoxide Brillouin funded for $2 million and Acoustic Cavitation Fusion Texas oil production at 1.755 million barrels per day and North Dakota Bakken Experiments with Enhanced Recovery India's Nuclear Energy plans through 2017 More Recent Articles Search Next Big Future Prior Mailing Archive Depleted Uranium can be used to provide chemical industry feedstocks from carbon monoxide A simple three-step chemical reaction which could herald the introduction of new sustainable feedstocks for the chemical industry has been developed by scientists at The University of Nottingham. Scientists in the School of Chemistry have developed a recyclable system for converting carbon monoxide (CO) directly into more complicated organic molecules using depleted uranium. The research, funded by the Royal Society and European Research Council, was led by Dr Stephen Liddle, an expert in inorganic chemistry. Details of the new procedure — which can return the molecule that performs the transformation back to its start point — have been published in the prestigious academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). PNAS - Homologation and functionalization of carbon monoxide by a recyclable uranium complex Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Brillouin funded for $2 million and Acoustic Cavitation Fusion 1. PESN reports that low energy nuclear reaction company Brillouin was funded for $2 million. Brillouin is starting an SRI contract middle of June. 2. Impulse Devices' Extreme Acoustic Cavitation™ from Impulse shows the potential to produce plasma at the super-concentrated cores of the collapsed bubbles, making this technology well-suited for producing acoustic inertial confinement fusion (Acoustic ICF). Acoustic ICF is a variety of "hot" fusion that, if successful, will require far less energy, cost, and resource use than other approaches—such as laser inertial confinement fusion—and solve a major challenge common to these other approaches: heat absorption. Using Acoustic ICF, heat is readily absorbed and transferred due to the fusion reaction occurring within a contained liquid medium. Impulse's current experimental data and computations support continued investigation into the possibility of achieving plasma temperatures capable of producing significant fusion yields. Based on current projections and experimental data, Impulse technology may ultimately be capable of creating usable energy at cost levels far lower than all known competing technologies currently available. Under the $35-million Advanced Cavitation Power Technology (ACPT) contract, Impulse researched transformational new energy sources with military and civilian benefits. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) required a potential power source that would require less energy, cost and resource use than other sources as well as reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. In 2007, the DOD initiated the Advanced Cavitation Power Technology (ACPT) program, a multi-year effort to investigate the use of Acoustic ICF as a potential power source and selected Impulse as the prime contractor. Acoustic ICF is the subject of an area of energy research and is most similar to laser inertial confinement fusion. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Texas oil production at 1.755 million barrels per day and North Dakota Bakken Experiments with Enhanced Recovery 1. Texas oil production increased in March to 1.755 million barrels per day, which was an increase of 35,000 barrels per day from February. 2. The Bakken petroleum system is noted for low primary recovery rates of 3- to 5 percent of the original oil in place; and, while the jury's out on exactly how much additional oil can be extracted using secondary and tertiary techniques, the recovery rate in the Bakken likely will be substantially lower than in conventional reservoirs. "I don't think you will ever see the kind of rates that you do in the very early production history of these wells," John Harju, associate director for EERC, said in an interview. "But we are very optimistic that you will be able to increase rates from the very long, slow declines that we see on these wells." The EOR technique that is attracting the most new market interest is CO2 injection. In the United States, there are about 114 active commercial CO2 projects that together inject over 2 billion cubic feet of CO2 and produce over 280,000 barrels of oil daily. Whiting Petroleum operates two large conventional enhanced oil recovery projects in Texas and Oklahoma, where both water and CO2 are injected into the formation. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • India's Nuclear Energy plans through 2017 Economic Times India - The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) will launch 16 reactors at an outlay of Rs 2.3 trillion ($40 billion) during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), a top official of the atomic power operator said. The NPCIL currently generates 4,780 MW of power. India's installed nuclear power capacity to 10,080 MW by the end of the 2017. "We have to launch eight 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) and eight light water reactors (LWRs) involving a total outlay of Rs 230,000 crore (Rs 2.3 trillion). The LWRs will be from foreign companies," S K Jain, who retired Thursday as NPCIL chairman and managing director, said in an interview. According to him, the eight 700 MW PHWRs would come up at Kaiga in Karnataka, Gorakhpur in Haryana's Fatehabad district, Banswada in Rajasthan and Chutka in Madhya Pradesh. The 16 reactors are in addition to NPCIL's four 700 MW PHWRs under construction - two at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (units 7 and 8) and two at Kakrapara in Gujarat - at an outlay of Rs 22,000 crore. This will be three percent of the 300,000 MW generation capacity planned by 2017. India currently generates a little less than 200,000 MW of power. China should have 1610 GW (1610,000 MW) of installed power by the end of 2016. China's total installed capacity at the end of 2011 was 1056 GW with 760GW coal, 230 GW hydro, 11.9 GW nuclear, 47 GW wind and about 3.4 GW solar. Among the 3.4 GW installed solar, 2.1 GW is connected to the utility grid. The US has about 1000 GW of installed capacity. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles DARPA developing inexpensive launch capability for small satellites Rand Simberg on what the Spacex Success Means Mars One Plans to Start Mars Settlement in 2023 Large supercomputers to speed up: 100 PFLOPs in 2014, 1 Exaflop by 2017? Tighter crystals means better graphene

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