The U.S. defense department’s Idaho National Laboratory will build and test a mobile nuclear power plant, capable of turning out as much as five megawatts of power for up to three years, the department has announced. The “Project Pele” microreactor will be the first next-generation nuke plant build in the U.S. Defense installations are power-hungry,...
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NEW SOLID-STATE HEAT ENGINE MORE POWERFUL THAN STEAM TURBINE
Humanity makes most of its electricity from heat that boils water to make steam to drive turbines. However, the typical turbine uses only about 35 percent of that heat energy; the rest is wasted. Also, turbines’ moving parts degrade at temperatures above about 3,600°F, or about 2,000°C. MIT has overcome both limitations by making an...
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WILL THIS NEW FUSION TECHNOLOGY FINALLY WORK?
For half a century, scientists—and tens of billions of research dollars—have been chasing the dream of “hot fusion,” the idea of mashing hydrogen atoms together to release vast amounts of clean energy. For almost all of that time, research has focused on heating a gaseous mix of charged atomic particles to temperatures higher than the...
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YOUR REACTION TO INJURY—LEARN FROM WILD ANIMALS!
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato One fact about real world self-defense is that it cannot be undertaken risk-free, and frankly it is certain that in a truly dangerous encounter with one or more determined aggressors you will surely be hurt. Many schools of martial art fill students’ heads with notions of invincibility and fail...
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VIRTUAL GATED COMMUNITIES BEGIN TO EMERGE TO COMBAT CRIME
Chicago’s wealthiest residents are hiring private armed security to patrol their neighborhoods in an effort to protect themselves and their property while the city sees an uptick in violent crimes. Paul Ohm, the executive vice president of P4 Security Solutions LLC, told The Wall Street Journal that his business is booming and entire neighborhoods are hiring his...
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COLLEGE-EDUCATED ADULTS SEEN AS MAJOR DRIVER IN UNIONIZATION TREND IN U.S.
College-educated adults in the U.S.—many of whom have advanced degrees—are playing a major role in the growing trend to unionize across the U.S. The New York Times spoke with several of these employees in the service sector who see the growth of unions a positive development in their careers. These are relatively low-paid workers who work...
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PAXLOVID FAILS TO PREVENT COVID SPREAD AMONG MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLD, PFIZER SAYS
Pfizer announced last week that its oral antiviral Paxlovid was ineffective at preventing infections inside households where someone had been diagnosed with the virus. “While we are disappointed in the outcome of this particular study, these results do not impact the strong efficacy and safety data we’ve observed in our earlier trial for the treatment...
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SEVERE HEPATITIS CASES IN CHILDREN EYED, AND LOCKDOWNS COULD BE CULPRIT
Health officials around the world are tracking an outbreak of severe hepatitis in young children that so far have an unknown origin but could be tied to COVID-19 lockdowns. There have been at least 190 confirmed cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin,” and the majority of patients were under the age of 10, the Financial...
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SYRIA SENDS LETTER TO UN ABOUT ALLEGED WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY COALITION FORCES IN 2017
The Syrian Foreign Ministry last week sent a letter to the UN Security Council and Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general, about alleged war crimes committed by the U.S.-led coalition in the Raqqa back in 2017. The U.S.-led coalition killed hundreds of civilians and left the city in rubble. The U.S. fought to free the city from...
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ISRAEL BOMBS DAMASCUS, KILLING 9 AS CLANDESTINE WAR CONTINUES
Pick up The New York Times, watch CNN, listen to the mainstream radio, day after day, night after night it’s the Ukraine War and the “atrocities” committed by Russia for attacking another nation. But from the Presstitutes, barely a peep about Israel’s ongoing bombardments of Syria for which, according to NEW/LINES magazine, there have been...