After a rather long and nasty battle, a site has finally been chosen to host the ITER Fusion reactor. (Audio Podcast Available) ITER is an international consortium consisting of the EU, US, China, Russia, France, the UK, and Japan. France and Japan had been the last two countries battling for the prestige, and jobs, that …
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Underground Urban Farming in Tokyo
The first time I saw an Urban farm was in Tokyo. I was visiting my friend there and across the street, in what would have been just an empty lot in Canada, was little farm plot. (Audio Podcast Available) There are thousands of them throughout Tokyo… they are immaculately tended and, according to my friend, …
Storing Hydrogen using Nanotubes
One of the toughest problems facing the “Hydrogen Economy” is storing the Hydrogen. Hydrogen is of course quite volatile. We saw with Challenger what happens when you mix Hydrogen and Oxygen. We’ve come a long way since then, and we’re dealing with slightly different materials and quantities, but the difficulty remains. How do you store …