Sentences with phrase «[space plasma»

NASA uses a technique called data sonification to take signals from radio waves, plasma waves, and magnetic fields and convert them into audio tracks to «hear» what's happening in space.

It's true that space is a vacuum, but it's an imperfect vacuum because it contains a low density of particles like clouds of interstellar dust, space plasma, and cosmic rays.

In 2011 General Fusion had what at first looked like a successful test of its plasma injector, a funnel - shaped machine where plasma is created from super-heated hydrogen gas.

Sure enough, the plasma was cooling down too quickly as it travelled the length of the injector.

What continues to bedevil General Fusion's efforts is the damned plasma.

For example, General Fusion turned to a local dry - ice company to help clean microscopic carbon soot from its plasma injector.

A bigger venue will be needed when the time comes to build the full - size prototype, featuring a three - metre - diameter sphere, between 200 and 300 pistons and plasma injector all connected together.

Different states have different minimum requirements that must be paid when people donate plasma.

You can also donate plasma.

«The plasma looked beautiful,» Richardson recalls.

Unfortunately, plasma would prove more stubborn than designing a new thermal printing head.

They knew that they would need to get a better handle on plasma before building a full - size prototype.

«That's where we've had our ups and downs, getting the plasma where it's hot enough and dense enough and lasts long enough... before we compress it,» concedes Michael Delage, General Fusion's vice-president, strategy and corporate development.

If being the first to net gain was all that mattered, General Fusion might as well pack up its plasma injector and go home.

An array of spectrometers used to measure what's happening with the plasma came from Photon Control, a nearby company managers had spotted while driving past.

More precisely, it's composed of plasma, super-heated gas made up of hydrogen's constituent isotopes, deuterium and tritium — the smallest and most basic atoms.

The inertial confinement experts, such as those at NIF, are attempting to ignite a fusion reaction by firing powerful lasers at plasma contained in a pellet the size of a pea.

One building houses the plasma injector, resembling a lunar capsule, swathed in tubes and wires and shielded from the offices nearby by steel dividers decked in blast - proof tiles.

The magnetic camp, which includes ITER, aims to suspend the plasma in a magnetic field within a doughnut - shaped chamber known as a tokamak.

Now, thanks to advanced algorithms, modern electronics, and control systems, the hammers can hit the side of General Fusion's sphere - shaped metal reactor precisely at the same time, creating a pressure wave that compresses the plasma into a fusion reaction at 100 million degrees centigrade.

General Fusion CEO Nathan Gilliland, who previously worked at Bain Capital, says his company has achieved the right speed and precision of hammers and has created stable, long - lived plasma.

Compensation is set according to the volume of plasma you're able to donate.

Plasma is injected into the vortex, and an array of pistons drives a pressure wave into the centre of the sphere to compress the plasma into fusion conditions.

You could sell unwanted or unused items on eBay or Craigslist; donate blood or plasma; rent out a bedroom or parking space; or just go out and land a part - time gig.

Wood byproducts already go into everything from solvents to ice cream, plasma screens to toothpaste, tires to pharmaceuticals.

Was plasma's «screen burn» tendency really a problem?

While TV purists take solace in the emergence of organic light - emitting diode (OLED) TV displays, plasma takes its place among Betamax, HD - DVD, Sega and other arguably superior formats that eventually lost out to consumer demands for convenience and a low price.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

Videophiles will still pick plasma every time, but the proliferation of cheaper LCDs, particularly in popular 26 - to 36 - inch sizes plasma's technology didn't allow, caused plasma sales to plummet.

LCD TVs, with cheaper manufacturing costs and sticker prices, had been eroding plasma's market share since the mid-2000s, and showed no sign of slowing.

Traditional broadcasters, meanwhile, are fighting back by aiming their content — and ad dollars — not just at your HD plasma or LCD, but your mobile phone and tablet.

Both were overblown issues that ultimately damaged the reputation of plasma in the broader consumer consciousness.

For much of the past decade the plasma vs. LCD debate clogged web forums and left consumers scratching their heads.

On weekends, I would occasionally wander into the local branch, attracted like a moth to the bright wall of plasma TVs.

Turchi developed the piston - driven system to compress the plasma target.

If the desensitization treatments aren't working, a doctor can wash the semen to remove the plasma you react to, then do intrauterine insemination, says Dr. Rizk.

The plasma is simultaneously pushed inside the sphere at opposite ends where it is molded by magnetic fields into a donut shape and forced to meet in the middle.

At opposite ends of the sphere, capacitors power larger injectors which heat a plasma fuel mix of deuterium and tritium to 1 million degrees Celsius.

«Will Mother Nature agree in all manifestations to allow them to get the right kind of plasma?

Seminal plasma hypersensitivity only affects an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 women, so the doctor will need to rule out other allergies, such as reactions to condoms, spermicide, or scented tampons, plus STIs before considering a semen allergy, says Dr. Ross.

Still, there is a high risk that the plasma will not react as predicted.

While rare, human seminal plasma hypersensitivity — an allergy to semen — does exist.

But the naval labs lacked the capacity to model the magnetized plasma and funding eventually was moved to other projects.

Discovering that the plasma reaction must require a reactor on an unprecedented larger scale means the work has led to a dead - end.

And in the U.S., the National Ignition Facility is using lasers to ignite hydrogen plasma as it experiments with inertia confinement, also known as laser fusion.

He spent nearly a decade in the corporate world building high - end printers, not, it should be pointed out, manipulating plasma fuel for fusion experiments.

The hotel's Queen Anne decor may harken back to an earlier time, but modern amenities like heated marble floors, plasma TVs, therapeutic tubs and high - speed wireless Internet keep it firmly in the 21st century.

That is the force and timing needed, it is thought, to compress the plasma, fuse the hydrogen atoms and heat the surrounding liquid lead to even higher temperatures.

This impact creates a spherically converging shockwave in the liquid lead that focuses in on the plasma at the centre of the sphere, which could reach a temperature of 150 million degrees Celsius.

The rescued capacitors are now powering General Fusion's plasma injectors.