The Bakken Formation is being hailed as the most significant find since the Pembina Cardium play discovered in Alberta in 1957. For those in need of a history lesson, Pembina’s reserves were estimated to contain 7.8 billion barrels of oil, of which 1.6 billion were recoverable. To date, more than 1.2 billion barrels have been …
China’s currency the Yuan broke through 7.2 against the US dollar the yuan broke through 7.3 Jan 1, 2008 and past 7.4 Nov 25, 2007. Chinese yuan at 7.196 to the USD on Jan 28, 2008 The yuan finished at a new high of 7.1963 to the US dollar on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, following …
MORE NEWS There is a separate North Dakota study of the Bakken and a link to where the state publishes online reports of completed wells and wells with reported production. A bunch of wells were reported on April 28, 2008. BREAKING NEWS Well my guess was far to optimistic. The USGS 2008 figure was 3.65 …
Nanochip will use an array of MEMS probes (similar to the IBM millipede project) to stores 100 gigabytes (GB) of memory on one chip. The latest flash memory chips have 64 gigabits or 8 gigabytes of storage in the lab. Samsung expects production of 64-Gb flash devices to begin in 2009. Samsung aims to have …
A fundamentally new design has created a smaller endoscope (currently 9mm wide and new one is 6mm wide with a thinner tether) that is more comfortable for the patient and cheaper to use than current technology. Its first use on a human, scanning for early signs of esophageal cancer. The UW’s scanning fiber endoscope fits …
Chemical engineers at Princeton developed a method for shooting stable jets of electrically charged liquids from a wide nozzle. The technique, which produced lines just 100 nanometers wide (about one ten-thousandth of a millimeter), offers at least 10 times better resolution than ink-jet printing and far more speed and ease than conventional nanotechnology. The new …
A 582,970 base pair sequence of DNA has been synthesized. It’s the first time a genome the size of a bacterium has chemically been synthesized that’s about 20 times longer than [any DNA molecule] synthesized before. This is a huge increase in capability. It has broad implications for DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology. This means …
Tom Craver posits in a comment that the current financial troubles of the United States are from spending too much money on the military and for War in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror and not because of the subprime mortgage situation. The USA is overspending on the wrong kinds of defense and buying …
According to a worldwide technology competiveness study by the Georgia Institute of Technology China may soon rival the United States as the principal driver of the world’s economy and become the technology development leader. 1993-2007 world technology competitiveness The study’s indicators predict that China will soon pass the United States in the critical ability to …
Researchers from Seoul National University and Sungkyunkwan in South Korea have developed a technique for aligning nanotubes over large areas based on the flow of a nanotube-containing solution through nanochannels. Not being able to align carbon nanotubes in a cheap and simple way has been a roadblock to making the superior commercial electronic devices that …
Carnival of space week 38 is up at sortingout science My contribution was my discussion of Virgin Galactic and how NASA should learn some lessons as it makes new plans Hobby space also talked about spaceshiptwo and white knight two An interesting aspect is that White Knight Two could be the first stage able to …