Sweet Crude Reports – Libya began exporting crude oil from the eastern port of Tobruk in late September and could be producing a million barrels per day within six months. Benghazi-based oil firm Agoco confirmed on Monday that it had started pumping oil from its eastern Sarir field slightly ahead of a planned start date …
Arxiv has about 120 papers on the CERN Opera Superluminal Neutrino Anomoly If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …
Boston College researchers have discovered two early-stage phases of carbon nanotube growth during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, finding a disorderly tangle of tube growth that ultimately yields to orderly rows of the nanoscopic tubes. By using a thin layer of catalyst, Professor of Physics Zhifeng Ren and researcher Dr. Hengzhi Wang discovered two previously …
The AP1000 nuclear reactor, is expected to start functioning in November 2013 at the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station in China, says Gary T. Urquhart, vice president and MD of Westinghouse for India, South East Asia and the Taiwan region. The remaining three will start functioning at intervals of six months with the fourth one attaining …
According to preliminary estimates, uranium production will reach 19,900 tons in 2011. 12,284 tons of uranium was produced over 8 months in 2011 in Kazakhstan. This is an increase of 1.5% from a prior estimate of 19600 tons of uranium for 2011 for Kazakhstan. This relates to a bet that I made on kazakhstan uranium …
A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by “ripple power”; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath. The prototype moves at speeds of about a centimeter per second, but improvements …
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C- Fe2O3-Graphene Rice-on-Sheet Nanocomposite for High and Fast Lithium Ion Storage Graphene nanosheet (GNS)-supported Fe2O3 nanorice and nanoparticles were synthesized by a microwave-assisted hydrothermal technique. The Fe2O3-GNS rice-on-sheet composite showed a better suitability as an anode material for Li-ion batteries. It exhibited a very large reversible capacity of 1184 mAh/g …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 72 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee Nuclear green covers the adnvantages of underground nuclear reactors. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
1. Harold Hamm, multi-billionaire CEO of Continental Resources, estimates that entire Bakken oil field, fully developed, has 24 billion barrels. Continental Resources has seen its “proved reserves” of oil and natural gas (mostly in North Dakota) skyrocket to 421 million barrels this summer from 118 million barrels in 2006. Continental expects their reserves and production …
New Scientist – SpaceX’s original concept for first-stage recovery and reuse didn’t work and apparently is being abandoned. The original concept seemed simple: the spent first stage would parachute down to a splashdown offshore, where it would be recovered by boat and hauled back to shore for refurbishment and reuse. There were some obvious questions …