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Monthly Archives: September 2015
The Helium-3 Incantation
Helium-3 mining has long been a staple of science fiction, including the movie Moon, but some space advocates still see it as a viable reason for lunar development despite all the evidence to the contrary. In recent years the subject … Continue reading
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NASA’s LADEE Spacecraft Finds Neon in Lunar Atmosphere
The moon’s thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow. While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust … Continue reading
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Helium Overshoot, Revisited
while back one of our technicians brought a helium dilution FRC graph to my attention and wanted to know if it showed a system leak. At that time my response was that it definitely wasn’t a leak (leaks don’t show … Continue reading
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Meetings Held Between Linde And Gazprom Regarding World’s Largest Helium Plant
Discussions were held recently between Linde and Gazprom regarding the cooperation agreement involving the development of what will become one of the world’s largest helium plants – Amur’s GPP Project. The Amur GPP has a capacity of up to 49 … Continue reading
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Physicists Discover Spiral Vortex Patterns From Electron Waves
In their new study (“Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses”), physicists Anthony Starace and Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap report an unusual pattern of wave interference produced when an electron is ejected, or ionized, from its orbit around … Continue reading
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