North Dakota is now looking at the possibility of 700,000 barrels of oil a day within the next four to seven years. Federal and state estimates had pegged North Dakota’s portion of the Bakken shale and underlying Three Forks-Sanish oil formations in western North Dakota at about 5 billion barrels of oil, using current horizontal …
Jeopardy! will take two of its most popular former contestants — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter to compete against Watson, a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team. UPDATE: Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram and others discuss the importance and the context of what Watson on Jeopardy means for AI and society 0. The Atlantic …
Projections for the most populous countries in 2020 through 2050 The 2010 census for Indonesia is showing a substantially higher population, so projections for Indonesia are low. Also, Indonesia may not slow its population growth until much later. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Congo and other high growth countries could also surprise on the high side. Country …
In 2003 and 2004, the United Nations had a population forecast to 2300. Population projections lose a lot of their accuracy when they start dealing with people who have not been born and guessing at the rate at which they will choose to reproduce. Population projections are far better with calculations based on counting who …
The United States has a total estimated resident population of 310,565,000. There are over 76 million baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964). As the charts show the number of people becoming senior citizens will increase this year by about 50% over last year and will get close to double last years level of …
1. AREVA and Cameco, the project operator, are the two main investors in Cigar Lake. Once it is in production by mid-2013, it will be the second largest high-grade uranium producing mine in the world, second only to Saskatchewan’s own McArthur River mine. “We’re in a big investment and development phase now,” said Richards, noting …
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Matthew Simmons expected the price of oil, about $65 a barrel in 2005, to more than triple in the next five years, even after adjusting for inflation. He offered to bet $5,000 that the average price of oil over the course of 2010 would be at least $200 a barrel in 2005 dollars. Matthew Simmons, …