Production from Iraq´s prized West Qurna Stage 1 oil field should more than triple to 750,000 barrels a day in three years time, an oil official said Sunday. The 8.6 billion barrel field, which is being developed by a consortium grouping Exxon Mobil and Shell, was among those awarded by Iraq during one its first …
When it comes to toppling web giants, one factor is frequently overlooked: The replacement is usually radically different from its predecessor This year, Digg entered a decline after a series of stumbles, and some users were said to defect to rival Reddit. And yet the site’s troubles really began much earlier, with the rise of …
Karwar (Karnataka): The fourth unit of the Kaiga Generating Station (KGS) — It is India’s 20th nuclear power reactor — achieved criticality on Saturday. The new unit would produce 250 MWe of nuclear power, which would be distributed among the southern States. The unit would be synchronised with the southern grid after certain mandatory tests …
What makes the Series Connected Hybrid magnet unique is that it will combine an amazingly powerful magnetic-field strength of 36 tesla with the field quality needed for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). When completed in 2013, the combined tools will allow scientists “to perform potentially transformative science in an unexplored magnetic-field range for a broad range …
Eoplex Technologies has unique 3D Printing manufacturing capabilities. IEEE Spectrum – A California startup, Eoplex has come up with a combination of secret sauces and manufacturing techniques that lets it print sub-micron size voxels of stuff to mass produce 3D objects. After some simple, but secret, processing this stuff turns into metal, ceramics, and empty …
The China Institute for Atomic Energy (CIAE), a research and development affiliate of China’s leading nuclear state-owned enterprise, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), began operating a small 20-megawatt (MW) test breeder this summer—a quarter-century after the project was first planned. This was built with cooperation from Russia. CIAE now aims to set up a …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 29 is up at Idaho Samizdat India has officially begun building home grown 700 MWe reactors, The second unit of the Changjiang nuclear power plant on China’s southern island province of Hainan has officially begun construction. The nuclear power reactors on Hainan (this one and others) will reduce the province’s …
Nanoletters – Graphene-Based Supercapacitor with an Ultrahigh Energy Density A supercapacitor with graphene-based electrodes was found to exhibit a specific energy density of 85.6 Wh/kg at room temperature and 136 Wh/kg at 80 °C (all based on the total electrode weight), measured at a current density of 1 A/g. These energy density values are comparable …
Taiwan has fabricated n-type conducting UNCD films by Li-doping at very low temperature of about 570°C by simply using a Li-based substrate material. There is no need to use any heater that usually used for diamond growth processes. Applied Physics Letters – Monolithic n-type conductivity on low temperature grown freestanding ultrananocrystalline diamond films We report …
Aubrey de Grey – Aubrey is the Chief Science Officer of the SENS foundation and editor of Rejuvenation Research. Aubrey thinks we have a 50% chance of achieving medicine capable of getting people to 200 in the decade 2030-2040. Presuming we do indeed do that, the actual achievement of 200 will probably be in the …
CDRInfo – Japanese researchers have developed a new HDD (hard disk drive) technology that could boost the capacity of hard disk drives to 24TB (Terabytes). The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan’s public management organization that promotes research and development on energy and environmental technologies, National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology, …