Many environmentalists love to point to public transportation as the blessed technology and policy which would reduce oil consumption and dependence. I agree that increasing public transportation can be helpful, but how helpful and how long would it take to have what level of impact ? In the big energy picture, the USA uses 40% …
IBM has shifted cell processors to 65 nanometers and improved double precision performance by up to five times (PowerXCell 8i processors). Double precision performance is very important for scientific and supercomputing applications. New PowerXCell 8i processors in QS22 blades have :● 460 single precision (SP) GFLOPS/217 double precision (DP) GFLOPS per blade ● 6.4/3.0 TFLOPS …
Simple artificial cell created from scratch A team of Penn State researchers has developed a simple artificial cell with which to investigate the organization and function of two of the most basic cell components: the cell membrane and the cytoplasm–the gelatinous fluid that surrounds the structures in living cells. The work could lead to the …
South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius [bladerunner] has won a landmark appeal over a ban on his artificial legs. There will be a technology battle between the Biorubber Swim-SCS Fabric against the Speedo LZR Racer. Japanese swimmers have been alarmed by the LZR Racer since its debut in February, with the suit accounting for 18 of …
From a 15 slide pdf presentation by Tom Richmond on Montana’s Bakken oil. Nextbigfuture has already provided detailed coverage of Bakken oil in North Dakota and Saskatchewan Oil companies in MontanaA breakdown by share of production in 2005. The major companies are Continental Resources, Headington Oil, Burlington Resources, Enerplus Resources USA and Encore Operating LP. …
World Oil production figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) International Petroleum monthly for February 2008 reached a new high of 85.921 million barrels of oil per day. 36.881 million barrels of oil per day from OPEC in February. 74.657 million barrels of oil per day world oil production including lease condensate which is up …
The lead Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR) experimenter is considering making turnkey fusion test reactors for 500,000 to 1 million dollars. One of the things we have been considering is selling a “turnkey” version of the WB-7. In this case we would design, build, license and deliver an operating Polywell, probably on the scale of the …
Biochips contain grids of small wells or “dots,” each of which contains a protein, antibody or nucleic acid that can bind to a target antigen or DNA sequence. New biochips can detect cancers and other diseases accurately before symptoms develop. Why does this matter ? Early detection can have a large impact on survival rates. …
Many in the media have been claiming that the race for the Democratic nomination is over. It likely may be, but it could be far closer than is currently believed. It could still turn the in favor of Hillary Clinton. Realclearpolitics makes the scenario where Hillary makes the race far closer with wins in West …
I had previously covered the PETA $1 million prize for invitro (test tube / factory meat from stem cells) meat. PETA prize for chicken meat that can pass a fried chicken taste test and be sold in ten states commercially Many people have an initial reaction that invitro meat would be yucky and they do …
About two years ago, I was speculating about the never ending but rapidly progressing process of humanity gaining control (mastery) of information, light, energy, magnetism, and matter. (ILEMM control) I would also add another L for life referring to synthetic life, genomic, protenomics, epigenomics and control of stem cells and other cells. So ILLEMM control. …