I got a mention in the national press, here in Ireland on Friday. My company worked with Intellisence, a medical sensor company in Belfast on an e-nose project. The basic idea is to sample gas and ionise it in order to measure the light output and characterise the contents. Like smelling the contents. My company, Impedans …
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Another story on fusion. This time a young kid who built a plasma reactor in his garage. I watched the video. Inspiring and over the top at the same time. But, he got to meet the president of the USA. I am sure he has a futue as a scientist and inventor of some note. We …
My apologies to the techies who thought this was about the web. No sorry, this is about real science. The paper talks about neutron fluxes from electrical discharges in clouds. I mentioned last week about warm matter. Well in the lightning it seems the plasma is hot enough to produce neutrons. Strong Flux of Low-Energy Neutrons …
In this interesting article for me the authors talk about creating warm matter. This is a plasma really. But most of the universe is in the form of plasma. The authors call it Warm Matter. I had not heard this term before. Warm matter is not some thing we see much on earth. A volcano spews …
One of the modern threats to our civalisation. A plasma burst from the sun can reach earth with devastatinbg consequences for our modern age. These plasma flares had little impact on our grand parents because the impact is through electrical phenomenon. The flares create very large electrical currents and induce magnetic fields that reach the earths …
Impedans is part of the Dublin City of Science 2012 Calendar of Events -- http://esof2012.org/partner-conference-calendar-esof/esof2012.org/partner-confer…
Pulsed Plasma Diagnostics Workshop http://www.impedans.com/index.php?option=com_eventbooking&task=view_event&event_id=1&Itemid=93 On in Dublin on the 6th and 7th September 2012 at the Crown Plaza Hotel.
Always a great question - what happens to somebody when exposed to a vacuum? World's toughest bugs survive vacuum -http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/04/worlds-toughest-bugs-survive-e.html
Interesting paper on HIPIMS plasma instabilities and transport - Arutiun Ehiasarian, Sheffield, http://link.aip.org/link/?APL/100/114101or open access http://shura.shu.ac.uk/
Mike B Hopkins 