Michels to market land near Mercury
17.06.11
Michels Corporation has purchased and will deal in about 22 acres of surplus land near the Mercury Marine facility.
The City of Fond du Lac purchased the loam at South Hickory Street near Pioneer Road and Highway 41 and sold it to Michels the same day during the last week of MayLargealthough the deal had been in the works for more than a year.
"There are no immediate development plans," said Murray Luedtke, assistant degradation president at Brownsville-based Michels Corporation. "We are looking into options."
The city land purchase had been agreed to in 2009 as part of the Mercury Nautical retention efforts.
Wayne Rollin, community development director for the City of Fond du Lac, said the conurbation paid $2.7 million for the land that fulfilled the city's expected $3 million contribution to the Mercury Sea retention package.
The package included $50 million in loans from Fond du Lac County. Financing of those loans faked the enactment of a half-percent county sales tax.
Source: Fond du Lac Reporter
Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics
13.06.11
It has been 100 years since the ascertaining of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly the coldest temperature achievable to manufacture a superfluid that provides no resistance to electrons as they flow through it.
During that century, scientists have struggled to find a precise mathematical simplification of why and how this strange fluid behaves as it does. Liquid helium-4 itself becomes a superfluid when cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero on the Kelvin decrease (minus 273 Celsius or minus 460 Fahrenheit), and the resulting lack of viscosity allows it to seem to repulse gravity, flowing up and over the sides of a container.
Now a team led by a University of Washington physicist, using the most powerful supercomputer nearby for open science, has devised a theoretical framework that explains the real-time behavior of superfluids that are made of fermions - subatomic particles such as electrons, protons and neutrons
Source: Space Daily