Overview of the Russian floating nuclear power plant "Akademik Lomonosov". Russia is again beginning to actively explore its northern borders. Military efforts are being stepped up in the Polar Zone, new mineral deposits are being developed, and the industrial capacities of the North are increasing. Against the background of all this, the issue of delivering electricity and heat to industrial enterprises, military bases and cities in the northern part of the country becomes relevant. One of the solutions to this problem was the use of the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear thermal power plant. The nuclear floating power unit of project 20870 was launched in 2019, the FNPP consists of a floating power unit, coastal infrastructure for the distribution of electrical and thermal energy to consumers, as well as hydraulic structures that are responsible for safe parking in the water area. The station has two nuclear reactors of the KLT-40S type. The electrical power of each is 35 MW, the total power of the entire station is 70 MW. This is enough to cover the energy needs of a settlement with up to 100,000 people. In addition to generating electricity, the station can generate heat and desalinate water with a capacity of up to 240,000 cubic meters of sea water per day. The station is designed with a large margin of safety to counter external threats. The station serves 70 people and has a canteen, a lounge, a library, a sports complex, a swimming pool, a shop, a laundry, an outpatient clinic and other auxiliary facilities. The project was criticized a lot for the cost and, in general, the ability to implement all this normally, nevertheless, the station has successfully earned and provides energy to the city of Pevek in Chukotka. According to Rosatom, 15 countries have shown interest in this project. The service life of the power unit of the station is 40 years with annual maintenance and current repair of individual equipment every 12 years. Displacement of the vessel of the station is 21560 tons. The cost of the project for 2015, taking into account the coastal infrastructure, is 37 billion rubles, or about 740 million dollars.
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Spherical building-screen "Sphere" opened in Las Vegas. The world's largest futuristic building in the form of a sphere covered with LED panels is open in Las Vegas. The screen of the unusual building "MSG Sphere" is made of 1.2 million LED panels, the display area is 54,000 sq.m. it is now the largest LED display in the world. There is also a spherical screen inside the building of the sphere, its resolution is 19,000 by 13,500 pixels, 164,000 speakers are installed inside the hemisphere. Thanks to such a large number of LEDs, at night the building is very brightly lit from the outside, and it can be seen even during the day for several kilometers. The MSG Sphere building has a capacity of 17,600 seats or 20,000 standing places and will host major concerts and sporting events. MSG Sphere will officially open on September 29th. The project of an unusual building cost 2.3 billion dollars, and is now considered the most expensive entertainment venue in Las Vegas.
Strong cold fusion vibes here.
I don't understand enough about superconductivity to interpret these results, so I'll wait and see if others can replicate these results
I want them to actually publish in a peer reviewed journal. This is a great first step and one astronomers use all the time - do the preprint long before the final publication - but until it peer reviewed it is really hard to tell if this is 'real' or something like cold fusion.
New video of original LK-99 sample dropped. Doesn't look like Meissner effect to me, looks even more like diamagnetism than the first video.
Sending Russia's Luna-25 station to the Moon and mission objectives. The Russian Soyuz-2.1B rocket with the Luna-25 automatic station launched today at 02:10 am Moscow time from pad 1C of the Vostochny cosmodrome. We can say that this is a historic moment, since this is the first launch of a Soyuz rocket with a Russian lunar lander in 47 years. The carrier rocket has worked in the normal mode, the upper stage has separated from the third stage of the rocket and is currently putting the automatic station on a flight trajectory to the Moon. The flight to the Moon will take about 5 days, during which time there will be two trajectory corrections: the first - 1.5 days after launch, the second - a day before entering orbit around the Moon. After performing the calculations, a soft landing should occur for the first time in the world in the region of the South Pole of the Moon. Tentatively this will happen on August 21st. The station will conduct a whole range of studies - first of all, the search for water. If successful, the prospect of building a lunar base and industrial use of the satellite opens up. The station will take lunar soil for one year, study it and transmit data to the ground. In 2027, Russia should launch the Luna-26 station, in 2028 - Luna-27, and sometime after 2030 - Luna-28. These four missions will be the first phase. After that, Russia, together with China, will move on to the next phase - the possibility of a manned visit to the moon and the construction of a lunar base. At the same time, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayan-3 is heading towards the Moon. Both missions are aimed at the little-studied South Pole of the Moon.
Pilot robot PIBOT can replace pilots. As you know, automation and robotization are gradually reducing the number of workers, it would seem that this will not affect the pilots so quickly, but progress has also affected them. South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) engineers and researchers have created the first robotic aircraft pilot. The PIBOT pilot robot controls the aircraft with its own hands, while it is not known whether it can replace the pilots, but the robot is quite well done. The humanoid robot uses data from the sensors of the aircraft, and what he sees himself with the help of the camera. The creators claim that in some areas it even surpasses a person - for example, it holds the plane more evenly during takeoff and landing. The robot is able to read and memorize flight charts and emergency protocols, while quickly responding to emergencies. Unlike other systems, the robot does not require modification of the aircraft - it can control any aircraft. The robot can already control all the operations of the simulator aircraft, such as taxiing, takeoff, landing and flight. The project is expected to be fully developed in 2026.
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