Do you remember in 1989 when two chemists announced they’d created a setup that created nuclear fusion at room temperature? Everyone was excited, but it eventually turned out to be very suspect. It wasn’t clear how they detected that fusion occurred and only a few of the many people who tried to replicate the experiment claimed success and they later retracted their reports. Since then, mentioning cold fusion is right up there with perpetual motion. Work does continue though, and NASA recently published several papers on lattice confinement fusion which is definitely not called cold fusion, although it sounds like it to us. The idea of trapping atoms inside a metallic crystal lattice isn’t new, dating back to the 1920s. It sounds as though the NASA method uses… Source link

Manchester United have made contact with Watford over the signing of their forward Ismaila Sarr. The club are losing hope of being able to sign Jadon Sancho, reports the Independent. The 20-year-old England international and his agents have reportedly agreed terms with United but there could be too many other problems that prevent an agreement with Borussia Dortmund. The German club are supposed to want around £110 million for Sancho, with much of the fee paid up front, and Ed Woodward believes that such demands are unreasonable for a relatively inexperienced player, especially due to the financial impact of coronavirus on football finances in general. Nevertheless, a move had not yet been completely given up on, but United are now looking at alternatives, though whether the… Source link

WHO/WHAT: Hawai’i islanders can enjoy the Japanese ceramic and culinary arts at the Donkey Mill Art Center’s “Cold Fusion: Festival of 1,000 Bowls”! Pre-purchase any of three ticket options (“solo bowl”, “two-person party” or “party of four”). ONE person PER TICKET gets to go inside of the Mill for 45 minutes. to select bowl/s from the 2,000 artisanal pieces crafted for this occasion, and pick up other items in that ticket. WHEN/WHERE: Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Donkey Mill Art Center. 78-6670 Mamalahoa Hwy., Honalo, Hawai’i island. Buy advance tickets at donkey-mill-art-center.myshopify.com/collections/cool-fusion/products/cool-fusion-ticket, scheduling your visit date. $20—Solo bowl ($25 value) and original noodle… Source link

For the 200th episode of Political Economy, I spoke with economist R. Glenn Hubbard about how the Great Pandemic has affected and will continue to affect the US economy, lessons to be learned from the Great Recession and 15 years of disappointing productivity growth, and a variety of looming issues such as the deficit that future policymakers will need to consider. Glenn is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for the Bush White House. He is also both dean emeritus and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation, including brief portions that were cut from the original podcast. You can… Source link

Earlier this year, a team of scientists based at NASA’s Glenn Research Center reported on a novel, promising method for generating nuclear fusion reactions in solid-state materials they termed “lattice confinement fusion.”  The experimental results and theoretical analysis were published in separate articles in the April issue of the authoritative nuclear physics journal Physical Review C. Apart from their great scientific interest, the results demonstrate a novel approach to realizing nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, one that exploits the so-called “electron screening” effect to drastically increase the rates of fusion and other nuclear reactions. As I shall explain below, “electron screening” is a well-known phenomenon in the fusion field… Source link

When visiting sites hosting Flash content, Internet Explorer 11 will warn that Adobe Flash is no longer supported after December 2020. In July 2017, Adobe made a joint announcement with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla that Adobe Flash was being discontinued and support for it was being removed from all browsers. With today’s release of the optional Windows 10 preview cumulative update for Windows 10 versions 1909, 1903, and 1809, Microsoft is warning users that the end of Adobe Flash is coming soon. For those who do not install today’s optional updates, this change will be included in the October Patch Tuesday updates. With this update installed, Internet Explorer will now display a warning on sites utilizing Adobe Flash content that Flash is no longer supported… Source link

Remote testing and automation dramatically reduce test time SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – September 14, 2020 – (Newswire.com) Tempest Telecom Solutions and Lepton Systems are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide a complete solution for lab environments that include Layer-1 switch technology for lab automation and remote testing to network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and large enterprises. “Data Center’s to Service Provider’s test and validation labs are constantly challenged to deliver the highest quality products and services with shorter testing cycles, all while reducing their cost of test,” said Brian Tolly, Tempest’s Director of Network Test and Security Sales. “Lab Automation empowers… Source link

Data is everywhere around us and we interact with it regularly. Whether you’re checking out the latest model of a smartphone or buying groceries online, you are interacting with data in one way or the other. We have been dealing with data for ages, what has changed now is the scale of data produced and the speed at which it is accessed. Thanks to digital technologies like cloud, IoT (Internet of things), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning, and more, companies are producing data at an exponential rate. This amount of data collected around the globe is too hefty to process. According to a report, “People are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.” Here, traditional relational databases like SQL might not offer the required scalability and performance to… Source link

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On my news aggregator yesterday was a story on newatlas.com titled, “Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it.” What the hell? That pegged out my weird-s**t-o-meter, so I had to read it. First, here’s the backstory. It turns out that in 2016, back when [political rant deleted for space], a group of scientists at the University of Bristol took some radioactive waste graphite, squeezed it into teensy-weensy diamonds…and those diamonds generated a small amount of energy all by themselves, though not enough to power a cell phone. You see, in many reactors, graphite is used as a moderator to control the heat flow, and when the reactor is refueled or decommissioned, all the graphite removed is rich in carbon-14 and is highly radioactive, and at that time… Source link