Energy

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Transportation Related

• Engine Friction can be overcome– 18% (current) to 61% (20 y) fuel efficiency gains

• Lead Battery Capacitor Hybrid– 4 to 10% energy boost

• New vehicles sells up 6.7%– To 77.7 million

• High speed train made of plastic

• More efficient ships blow bubbles

Overcoming Engine Friction

Lead Acid for Grid Storage

Train can hit 500 km/h

Nuclear News

• China cleared to buy 4th largest uranium deposit• Small Modular Reactor (SMR) overview and

status• Westinghouse MSR can power a suburb• Japan to miss 2020 emission targets due to

reduced nuclear power• Toshiba can remove 97% of cesium from

radioactive soil• Cigar Lake uranium mine is ontrack

Flying Windmills

Solar

• China increases 2015 solar power target to 15 gigawatts

• Foxconn plans to build solar panel factories

– Low cost and undreamed of scale

• Paint on solar cells

• Solar power with external quantum efficiency > 100%

Is this a good idea?

Cyborg Insects

– Insect internal chemistry can generate power for onboard devices

– Recording and bug control electronics

Carbon costs of various fuels

Renewable Fuel, Chemicals from Seaweed

Antimatter hybrid gamma laser