Beneath the waves is a powerful force: ocean currents that have “limitless” energy potential. Japan is a country that wants to stop using fossil fuels but has no space for wind turbines and solar panel farms and no willingness to go back to nuclear power. But what it does have is miles of ocean. So, they developed Kairyu (Japanese for “ocean current”), a turbine-flanked structure that will produce energy from currents that make its blades spin. If successful, this technology could solve Japan’s (and other nations’) fossil fuel dilemma. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
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March 25, 2023
