Νew Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:Flying cars won't ever take off (pun intended).  Can't regulate the traffic, deadly if fuel runs out, lack of infrastructure to land the system, etc etc.  

They are sci-fi anti-gravity device transport.   Trying to make them as primitive imitations with regular engines in the real world is idiotic.

Engines and what not alone isn't even the whole issue.  Issue is as I mentioned, regulations, traffic control, landings and take off, etc.

What if you need to land? How will you know you won't crush someone? Or the engines requires (which would generate so much heat due to power required to even fly) wouldn't cook someone or whatever else? What if there is a traffic jam all around on the ground? What if there is an air collision?

This is just Hollywood nonsense mixed with companies looking to hype up stocks and generate more investment money to quickly pocket.

miketheterrible wrote:

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:Flying cars won't ever take off (pun intended).  Can't regulate the traffic, deadly if fuel runs out, lack of infrastructure to land the system, etc etc.  

They are sci-fi anti-gravity device transport.   Trying to make them as primitive imitations with regular engines in the real world is idiotic.

Engines and what not alone isn't even the whole issue.  Issue is as I mentioned, regulations, traffic control, landings and take off, etc.

What if you need to land? How will you know you won't crush someone? Or the engines requires (which would generate so much heat due to power required to even fly) wouldn't cook someone or whatever else? What if there is a traffic jam all around on the ground?  What if there is an air collision?

This is just Hollywood nonsense mixed with companies looking to hype up stocks and generate more investment money to quickly pocket.

I'm sure that all the same issues were around when the automobile was introduced as an alternative to the horse & carriage

And for a decade or two it was just a novelty for the rich and adventurous, and were very primitive at that. Pretty soon though omnibus operators started to use them, the steam-powered versions, then motor-powered. Then taxi operators got on board, the military too. And by the 20s it started to penetrate into the middle class as a means of personal transport.

I really wouldn't write the tech off. Already a company in Russia has sold flying motorbikes to the police in the UAE. And there are companies around the world working on such vehicles. It will take a while certainly for the tech to mature though and for investment into infrastructure to be worthwhile.

Specialists from the Yaroslavl Research Institute of Space and Aviation Materials (NIICAM) presented their innovative polymer material aristide. According to the creators, its weight is 10 times less than aviation aluminum, and it is also able to withstand temperatures up to 1300 degrees.

The innovative development is positioned not only as a potential replacement for aviation aluminum and epoxy polymers used in the space industry, but also can have a wide military application. So, according to the Yaroslavl authorities, the new material is able to withstand a hit from a small-caliber combat weapon and "gradually regenerate".

Source: https://runews24.ru/science/20/10/2020/c3716c2fe3ba1e27645845d4d3fd4de8

SuperOx's all electric engine is 99.7% efficient!

A flying laboratory with an electric power plant is being created in Russia


ZAO SuperOx has developed the world's first engine with an efficiency of 99,7 percent, the principle of which is based on superconductivity. Now in Russia they are creating a flying laboratory with an electric power plant, where such an engine will be used.

It is reported by the news agency. Interfax.

Andrei Dutov, Director General of the Zhukovsky Institute, told reporters today that, in his opinion, the serial production of aircraft with fully electric power plants will be launched by 2030.

Now the Siberian Research Institute, which is part of the Zhukovsky Research Center, has created the first flying laboratory on an electric drive, which will make its first flight this year. It is built on the basis of the Yak-40 aircraft, in the nose of which, where the propeller is located, an auxiliary 500 kW electric motor is installed. The standard engine in the tail section was replaced by a turboshaft gas turbine engine with an electric generator.

Today the laboratory in Novosibirsk has successfully passed ground tests. The aircraft was rolled out of the hangar, after checking the compatibility and stability of its systems.

In two years, a similar flying laboratory is planned to be created on the basis of the Il-114. An electric motor with a capacity of 1 MW will be installed there.

https://en.topwar.ru/179720-v-rossii-sozdajut-letajuschuju-laboratoriju-s-jelektricheskoj-silovoj-ustanovkoj.html

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/zavodfoto/proizvodstvo-pervoi-v-rossii-tihohodnoi-parovoi-turbiny-nabiraet-oboroty-601af0df571f7906b2beef31

Production of Russia's first low-speed steam turbine is gaining momentum

New electric rocket engines, new materials (including Aristide), a nuclear space tug. A program about the Keldysh Center.

There are some rumors that the demonstration of nuclear technologies was so successful that state programs in the field of space and new-generation nuclear technologies worth trillions of rubles are being prepared. We are waiting for new announcements.

Article about the development of a new electric rocket engine based on superconducting magnets:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1686/1/012023/pdf

Link to the news on the developer's website: https://www.superox.ru/news/fevral-2021/3569/

I'll post some news to give example:

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/139499/

ZiO-Podolsk develops high-speed hole drilling technology for VVER-1200 nuclear power plants

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/139510/

Rospatent named top 10 Russian inventions of 2020

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/139511/

Scientists from Russia have updated the world record in the field of quantum cryptography

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/139384/

Russian it solution helps universities switch to remote management

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/10716557/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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The developer of the Russian "Bulava" created an unmanned Maglev



The Moscow Institute of heat engineering Corporation (MIT), which created the Bulava-30 ballistic missile R-30, has developed a Maglev train that can, in particular, operate in unmanned mode. This was announced to TASS by the General designer of the enterprise Yuri Solomonov.

The academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) noted that the goal of the project is to create a full-size technology demonstrator that would allow us to confirm the correctness of the mit approach to Maglev. The hero of Russia added that the ongoing work is based on the project of a monorail transport system.

"Currently, the production of components and electrical equipment of the EPS layout is underway (electric rolling stock-approx. "Feeds.<url>"). The estimated start date for sea trials is the third quarter of this year, " the General designer said.

The Agency writes that "based on the test results, a decision will be made to deploy full-scale work on mass production of a new type of monorail transport system and their replication for the country's regions."

In December 2020, the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh strategic missile cruiser of project 955 Borey launched four R-30 Bulava-30 ballistic missiles at once for the first time. At the same time, the American magazine Popular Mechanics wrotethat the salvo launch of four Bulava-30 P-30s at once, produced by the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh of the Russian Navy, looks like a " preview of the end of civilization."


Ivan Potapov

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Bye, bye Bill! Russia’s nuclear officials abandon America's Microsoft Office software & switch to home-designed tech — reports
19 Feb, 2021

Moscow officials are set to pull the plug on a multimillion-dollar deal with US computing giant Microsoft, and instead buy the rights to a Russian-made suite of programs for employees of the country’s nuclear safety regulator.

On Wednesday, the Vedomosti newspaper reported that a source from the state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, confirmed it had completed a tender process to keep its computers ticking over. Management is said to have handed the contract to provide software for 87 of its separate subsidiaries to Russian developer MyOffice. The deal, commentators say, is worth 200 million rubles ($2.7 million), although the maximum value of the contract could be far higher.

The state agency had reportedly previously explored the prospect of acquiring Microsoft’s programs at a total cost of two billion rubles (nearly $30 million). However, the requirement to secure a license from the US Department of Commerce for the sale of technology to some specific foreign entities was said to have held up the deal.

Russia is one of a few nations in the world with widely-used domestic equivalents to rival Western tech giants. Social media sites like VKontakte are popular among young users, while Mail.ru remains one of the most widespread email hosting services. The Yandex group, which came to prominence with its search engine, operates everything from food deliveries to chauffeured cars.

In recent months, a wave of privacy concerns over the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messenger service led to an exodus of users to other chat platforms, including Telegram, founded in Russia in 2013 by St. Petersburg entrepreneur Pavel Durov.

Moscow has also moved to limit its reliance on internet networks and infrastructure based outside the country, having introduced a bill ordering the development of a ‘sovereign internet’ that could function autonomously in emergencies. While officials say it is a necessary step to protect essential services, some activists have said it paves the way to censorship of online content.

Russian authorities have repeatedly denied that the system would be anything other than a contingency. Speaking at his annual press conference in December, President Vladimir Putin said that “free internet and sovereign internet are not mutually exclusive concepts.”

“The law is aimed only to prevent negative consequences of being potentially cut off from the global web, which controls are located primarily abroad,” he added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/515976-nuclear-officials-home-designed-tech/

Development of a new type of reactors started in Russia
15 February

Just a few days ago, Rostekhnadzor issued a license permit for the construction in Russia of an experimental demonstration power unit, which will be implemented at a fast neutron reactor, such as BREST-OD-300. This step suggests that it is in the Russian Federation that the world's only civilian nuclear reactor with a heavy metal coolant will be created.

This was announced personally by the senior editor of the authoritative resource AtomInfo.ru A. Uvarov.

Thus, in Russia, the production of a "ground" version of reactors with a heavy metal coolant starts, which were previously used exclusively in submarines, which were successfully created by Soviet engineers.

I would like to emphasize that the Russian Federation is the only country in the world that has not only created but also used reactors of this type in real conditions.

Thus, the BREST-OD-300 unit under development will be the main unit of the ODEK (experimental demonstration energy complex), which is being built on the SKhK platform within the framework of the special project "Breakthrough".

So, in addition to the power block, the ODEC also includes capacities to create a combined uranium-plutonium nitride nuclear fuel and a special complex for reprocessing spent fuel. The launch of the reactor under construction is scheduled for mid-2026.

Why is such a reactor created?

The purpose of the BREST installation is to test in practice the main technological solutions that were laid down by the developers in the installation, where a lead coolant is used. As well as testing in practice the main postulates of passive safety of such reactors.

After all, a coolant in the form of lead has a number of obvious advantages. Thus, lead practically does not "slow down" neutrons, which is extremely important for the functioning of just such "fast" reactors.

In addition, lead has a fairly high melting point, which is approximately 1800 degrees Celsius. It is also chemically inactive both when interacting with the atmosphere and with water. In addition, for the operation of the reactor, it is not necessary to create excess pressure in the heat-transfer loop.

And it turns out that the unique combination of lead coolant and nitride fuel forms almost ideal conditions for the creation of nuclear fuel and almost completely excludes the most severe accidents, which, unfortunately, were in our history. Suffice it to recall Chernobyl and Fukushima.

So in this regard, the BREST reactor has a natural safety in many respects. Well, it remains to wait for the commissioning of an experimental reactor, and in the future, the construction of new reactors at nuclear power plants.

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/energofiksik/v-rossii-dan-start-na-osvoenie-novogo-tipa-reaktorov-60269d45b498705a8147676b

And it turns out that the unique combination of lead coolant and nitride fuel forms almost ideal conditions for the creation of nuclear fuel and almost completely excludes the most severe accidents, which, unfortunately, were in our history. Suffice it to recall Chernobyl and Fukushima.

In the sense that a pressurised water cooled reactor creates problems when pressure is lost... at normal air pressure the temperature the reactor normally operates at the water becomes steam and has zero coolant effect and risks becoming a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen which could create an explosion if the temperatures get high enough.

Lead cooled reactors do not require being kept at high pressures so the risk of a bang... or pressure release, or worse a superheated boom of hydrogen and oxygen is reduced to zero.

It sounds like it helps producing nuclear fuel... ie turning spent fuel rods into energy rich fuel rods ready for reuse in a normal reactor, which is a radical new feature that will transform nuclear energy production by removing waste fuel rods from the process making it much more efficient and profitable.

Imagine a standard battery that you could use to run your car that has space around it to pack old flat batteries of the same type. The new battery will run for years and when it needs replacing the flat batteries you placed around it are now recharged and can be used in this or other cars... and can be reused over and over again... no more nuclear waste that needs to be buried for thousands of years till it becomes safe...

Russian projects in the field of thermonuclear energy lead to new technologies in other areas.

LMFS wrote:I partially agree, renewables like wind and sun have a big advantage (essentially zero marginal costs of generation) and a big disadvantage, their variability. It would be premature though to dismiss them because of that, in fact as we speak new investments are already including directly coupled battery capacity to shift generation to the more profitable hours of the day, to provide reserve generation capacity and other functions. This is already becoming economically profitable. Another important tool is the improved transmission lines that can shift power from West to East with losses that are not so extreme as one may think, in fact generating H2 and compressing it is way worse. So there are already a set of solutions for those issues and they are being worked out. As it happens so often,  optimizing what already exists is worth more than many revolutionary approaches.

Russia is particularly suited to Solar as its vastness provides much longer exposure to sun during the day as the sun goes from east to west. Of course snow needs to be deal with but I think it can be quite easily. With energy storage becoming cheaper wind and solar are the way to go IMHO.

I don't think any one source of energy will suit any country, but further investment in solar and wind including solar cell technology and electric motor technology will be valuable in other areas... particularly being able to create a durable material that has solar generation material built in to it could be very useful... where you clothes or car might be made of materials that capture and store energy all the time.

I think nuclear power will remain a reliable and much cleaner energy solution for Russia too.

Tide generators could be used in certain locations and of course water flow generators would be a useful way of harnessing the energy of flowing water and sea tides without the expense of damming rivers and waterways and all the problems that creates.

I have always found it kinda amusing that the same people that worry about global warming hail nuclear fusion as a positive thing. Imagine if they do perfect it. What will super cheap, unlimited energy do to global warming lol. Even if it is carbon free, when everyone has a heated outdoor pool in the winter....