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50th Anniversary of Nuclear Powered Spacecraft

Submitted by ITSadmin on Mon, 2011-06-06 08:44

The first nuclear powered spacecraft, Tansit 4A used ships and aircraft for navigation, was lauched 29 June 1961.  In preparation for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the launching of the first nuclear powered spacecraft attached as a PDF scan of "Space isotopic power systems" by Capt. R. T.

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Finland supports Norway's project to replace Russia's radioactive RTG lighthouses in the Gulf of Finland

Submitted by ITSadmin on Fri, 2009-11-13 18:25

Finish Government Press Release

 

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Thermoelectric power for automobiles arrives in Europe

Submitted by ITSadmin on Mon, 2009-02-02 06:37

by Prof. Rowe of the University of Wales

Exhaust waste heat recovery system attached to the underside of a Volkswagen. The Thermoelectric generating system is reproduced in artwork on the side of the vehicle. 

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+- New Start-Up GMZ Brings 'Fine Grain' TE To Market

Submitted by ITSadmin on Mon, 2008-03-24 07:05

As early as 1978 Bhandari and Rowe [Bhandari, 1978] suggested improving thermoelectrics by reducing the grain size.  Back then 'fine grain' meant maybe micron sized or slightly smaller.  But today people are learning to make nano-scale grain structures. 

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+- Sen. Levin Visits, Praises MSU

Submitted by ITSadmin on Thu, 2008-01-10 06:37

"MSU is at the cutting edge of the potential of thermoelectricity" says US Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan while visiting the  MSU Energy and Automotive Research Laboratories in East Lansing, Michigan USA. The State News story on Levin's visit to MSU includes an aerogel demonstation by Jeff Sakamoto.  The full quote from Levin:

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+- Google Alerts on Thermoelectrics 20080110

Submitted by ITSadmin on Wed, 2008-01-09 22:25

Recent Google searches on thermoelectrics turned up (in no particular order):

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+- Voyager 2 Just Keeps On Going

Submitted by ITSadmin on Wed, 2008-01-09 21:53

The Voyager 2 spacecraft passed through the heliosheath boundary, also called the solar wind termination shock, on August 30, 2007.  A classic example of overdesign, the Plasma Science instrument, radio and power supply (a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator using silicon-germanium thermocouples) are among the systems on Voyager 2 still working 30 years after lauch.

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+- Google Alerts on Thermoelectrics 20071125

Submitted by ITSadmin on Sat, 2007-11-24 15:59

This week in Google

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Recent "Google Alerts" on Thermoelectrics

Submitted by ITSadmin on Thu, 2007-11-01 11:13

Google.com is amazing.  I have a "Google Alert" set to email me when new webpages come appear which mention thermoelectrics.  Many of these hits concern "thermoelectric power plants", which includes anything that produces electricity by burning something (as opposed to hydroelectric, solar or nuclear, for example).

But here are some recent hits related to thermoelectric energy conversion:

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Tritt: TE Technology Can Save 1.5 billion Gallons of Diesel per Year

Submitted by ITSadmin on Tue, 2007-10-23 06:43

Prof. Tritt of Clemson University is well known in the thermoelectric community.   Whether by design or chance, his recent comments at the NanoTX ’07 conference (Oct. 2-4, 2007) in Dallas, Texas USA caught the attention of some of the energy websites:

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