1. Monetary contraction in Portugal has intensified at an alarming pace and is mimicking the pattern seen in Greece before its economy spiralled out of control, raising concerns that the EU summit deal may soon washed over by fast-moving events. Data released by the European Central Bank show that real M1 deposits in Portugal have …
Some discussion at the vortex forum about the October 28 Rossi Energy Catalyzer test 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 …
This site has covered deaths per terawatt hour per energy source. Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh) Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity) Coal – China 278 Coal – USA 15 Oil 36 (36% of world energy) Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy) Biofuel/Biomass 12 Peat 12 …
Microsoft offers a glimpse into what they see as the future of productivity in 2016-2021. (H/T KurzweilAI) All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology. Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration and data visualization already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but …
Technology Review – Japanese scientists have built a cellular automaton from individual molecules that carries out huge numbers of calculations in parallel They’ve laid down 300 DDQ molecules on a gold substrate, setting them up as a cellular automaton. More impressive still, they’ve then initialised the system so that it “calculates” the way heat diffuses …
Andrea Rossi reports on his blog that the 1 megawatt energy catalyzer test has started October 28th, 2011 [Rossi almost always posts everything in all caps, I will remove some of the caps] First information regarding the 1 MW Plant Test: We started regularly the test this morning. Everything is going well so far. The …
Telegraph UK – Clinical trials using blood created from adult stem cells are set to begin within the next two or three years, raising the prospect it could soon become routinely used where real blood is unavailable. Scientists are also developing alternative bloodlike substances which could be injected into the body as a “stopgap” until …
MIT Energy Initiative has a five-part series of articles that takes a broad view of the likely scalable energy candidates. The article on wind talked about the economics, the intermittent nature of wind power and prospects for scaling. The MIT article on nuclear power stated Nuclear power is often thought of as zero-emissions, Prinn points …
Oliver Paul at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany and a few friends reveal an eminently practical way of making invisibility cloaks of any size and shape. Their idea is simple. Creating a cloak that exactly follows the shape of the object it is intended to hide is hard because curve cloaks are hard to …
Purdue University – The merging of two technologies under development – plasmonics and nanophotonics – is promising the emergence of new “quantum information systems” far more powerful than today’s computers. It would be the grab bag of future keywords and phrases Hyperbolic metamaterials integrated with nitrogen vacancies in diamond plasmonics nanophotonics quantum information systems quantum …
The Telegraph UK lays out the bullish economic case for the United States Nextbigfuture already covered the two main items listed in the telegraph article. 1. US crude oil production could increase by 500,000 to 1 million barrels per day each year through 2015 driven by North Dakota oil, Eagle Ford in Texas and Utica …