Encana is the largest natural gas company in Canada and is active in the Horn River and Montney natural gas fields in British Columbia. Encana has proven reserves of 13.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Horn River wells are currently producing in the order of 3 to 5 million cubic feet a day per …
Carnival of Space week 55 is up at Catholic Sensibility My contribution was my multipart article on the imminent halving of Titanium costs, the Worldwide Telescope and property rights in space Centauri Dreams talks about Omega Centauri Astroengine talks about geodesic domes, the Eden Project and the possible use of domes on Mars Colony worlds …
Early detection saves lives as treatment is more effective. Also, it can be 100 times cheaper to treat early stage versus later stage cancer. The Canary Foundation goal is to deliver early detection tests for solid tumor cancers by 2015. Cancer treatment cost $89 billion in the U.S. in 2007. Over 1.4 million new cancer …
Titanium could become a lot cheaper and more commongly used. A non-melt consolidation process being developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industry partners could reduce the amount of energy required and the cost to make titanium parts from powders by up to 50 percent, making it feasible to use titanium alloys for brake rotors, …
Carbon nanotubes appear to have a similar cancer causing effect as asbestos in mice Within days of being injected into mice, the nanotubes — which are increasingly used in electronic components, sporting goods and dozens of other products — triggered a kind of cellular reaction that over a period of years typically leads to mesothelioma, …
Replacing one amino acid on the surface of a virus that shepherds corrective genes into cells could be the breakthrough scientists have needed to make gene therapy 30 times more efficient. Gene therapy will be a more viable option for treating genetic diseases such as hemophilia. The discovery could be the solution to a problem …
The US state department reports Iraq oil production for second week of May, 2008 at 2.52 million bpd. (slide 22 of the 35 slide report) Iraq exporting 1.88-2.04 million bpd, since Sept 2007. The May, 2008 projection is for 2.04 million bpd. Vitol, Anadarko, and Dome oil companies have formed a consortium currently negotiating with …
T Boone Pickens has made various predictions about oil on MCNBC “Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day is all the world can produce, and the demand is 87 million,” he said. “It’s just that simple. It doesn’t have anything to do with the value of the dollar.” target=blank>Pickens founded BP Capital and has a …
A follow up to a group working on nanorobots for nanomedicine The researchers have new papers: Nanorobot hardware architecture for Medical Defense This work presents a new approach with details on the integrated platform and hardware architecture for nanorobots application in epidemic control, which should enable real time in vivo prognosis of biohazard infection. The …
The Methuselah Foundation is having a major Aging conference at UCLA in Los Angeles June 27 through June 29, 2008 It is at Royce Hall in UCLA. The press release on the free June 27 event What: Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications, hosted by Methuselah FoundationWhen: Friday, June 27, 2008, Drinks 4pm, Presentations …
Some people scoff at mind uploading, human level or greater artificial intelligence or nanorobots that are able repair all damage to the human body Here is a review of the current state of brain computer interfaces, brain simulation, and nanomedicine related medicine (cellular repair and rejuvenation) and science. I do not see anything stopping zettaflop …