Category Archives: Cool

Really cool stuff that doesn’t fit into the other categories

Plasma light bulb could have bright future

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Luxim Plasma Light Bulb Kicks Some Serious LED Butt : TreeHugger

Luxim has created a light bulb the size of a pill that can outshine and outlast conventional bulbs and with a fraction of the power usage. However, this bulb doesn’t work like any light source you’ve ever seen. the bulb itself has no wires and no filament. An RF amplifier surrounding the bulb generates an electric field so intense it turns gas and salts in the bulb into a high energy plasma that gives off light. A lot of light. Imagine something the size of a miniature Christmas tree bulb producing enough light to drive a video projector.

Could Thorium be the answer to clean nuclear power?

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New age nuclear | COSMOS magazine

This is a really long article, so you may want to skip to the end if you want to get right to the point.   What’s so cool about Thorium is how it breaks down as opposed to Uranium.  It’s waste products also remain dangerously radioactive for only 5% of the time of Uranium byproducts. (500 years vs. 10,000)  As if that wasn’t enough, there is also the possibility that Thorium-based reactor technology could be used to “incinerate” the waste products of traditional nuclear reactors, cleaning up much of their mess.  Oh yea, and the design is incapable of a meltdown. (at least the ADS type…)