Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The concept is credited to Italian scientist Carlo Rubbia, [1] a Nobel Prize particle physicist and former director of Europe's CERN international nuclear physics lab. He published a proposal for a power reactor (nicknamed "Rubbiatron") based on a proton cyclotron accelerator with a beam energy of 800 MeV to 1 GeV, and a target with thorium as fuel and lead as a coolant.
The advanced Stirling radioisotope generator (ASRG) is a radioisotope power system first developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center. It uses a Stirling power conversion technology to convert radioactive-decay heat into electricity for use on spacecraft. The energy conversion process used by an ASRG is significantly more efficient than previous ...
Due to the high energy density of radioisotopes (radioisotopes have orders of magnitude higher energy density than chemical energy sources, but much lower power density; the power density of a radioisotope is inversely proportional to its half-life i.e. shorter half-life translates into higher power density), and the need for reliability above ...
While geothermal energy remains an underexplored resource in the Canary Islands, the region's volcanic origins provide significant potential for geothermal power generation. Research and development efforts have been initiated to explore the viability of geothermal energy in the region, with a focus on both electricity generation and direct use ...
Wind power in Texas grew very rapidly, 2400% from 1999 to 2007. In another large state, California, wind generation increased by 48% in the same period. [7] The cost of wind power generation has decreased by about 80% over the last 20 years because of technological advances and is now cost-competitive with other energy sources.
Pacer fusion energy concept showing salt cavern where thermonuclear explosives are dropped to boil water and run a turbine. Project PACER, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the mid-1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small hydrogen bombs (fusion bombs)—or, as stated in a later proposal, fission bombs—inside an ...
Cooling tower Nuclear power plant. Power plant engineering, abbreviated as TPTL, is a branch of the field of energy engineering, and is defined as the engineering and technology required for the production of an electric power station. [1] Technique is focused on power generation for industry and community, not just for household electricity ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 2.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) would need to be invested in the energy system each year between 2016 and 2035 to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F). Governments can fund the research, development, and demonstration of new clean energy technologies.