Posted on 03/24/2008 12:27:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
What they needed it for was a collection of calutrons, to be built at Oak Ridge.
The calutron was the idea of Ernest Lawrence (Lawrence Livermore and Berkeley laboratories are named after him.)
Around 1930, Lawrence had invented the cyclotron; the calutron, and an adaptation of his machine, was capable of separating U235 from U238, one atom at a time! Essentially, it was a mass spectrometer.
The machines needed magnets, really BIG magnets, and the magnets had to be as powerful and efficient as possible. Thus, the silver from Fort Knox.
Ridiculously expensive to build and to operate, the calutron
was one of several approaches to uranium separation, which were tried all at once.
After the war, they sent the silver back to Fort Knox.
Bump.
Next on the agenda: Terahurtz processors..
We’re computin’ now, baby!
There’s an article in the new “Scientific American” about graphene.
IBM Scientists “Quiet” Unruly Electrons in Atomic Layers of Graphite
Marketwatch | March 6, 2008 | Michael Loughran IBM
Posted on 03/06/2008 9:02:41 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1981391/posts
Getting more from Moore’s Law
BBC News | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Jonathan Fildes
Posted on 12/06/2007 10:57:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1935727/posts
The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors (Sexy capacitor pics!)
Spectrum / IEEE | Nov 2007 | Joel Schindall
Posted on 11/05/2007 12:14:01 PM PST by Uncledave
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921279/posts
It’s Super Paper!
ScienceNOW Daily News | 25 July 2007 | Phil Berardelli
Posted on 07/28/2007 3:47:54 AM EDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872836/posts
thanks, bfl
Scientists slice graphite into atom-thick sheets
The Register (U.K.) | October 21, 2004 | Lucy Sherriff
Posted on 10/22/2004 3:09:03 AM EDT by Stoat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1253131/posts
Ah, then, perhaps, we’ll have a processor that can run Vista...
Will need a Terabyte of RAM in ADDITION to the Treahurtz processor to run Vista. BLOATED code
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