US Daily Crude Oil Production at 6.67 million bpd up 13% from 2011 and Texas daily oil over 2 million bpd

US daily oil production was 6.67 million barrels per day for the week of Oct 26 which was up 59,000 barrels per day. The US is averaging 500,000 barrels per day more in 2012 than in 2011. The four week average is up 12.9% from the same period in 2011. This is the highest daily …

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Japan Thorium and Accelerator Driven 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 month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial …

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Kirk Sorensen A Global Alternative to thorium energy via LFTR

Kirk thinks medical isotopes will be the initial product from thorium reactors to fund the development to scale up thorium reactors for energy. 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 …

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MIT Style

Noam Chomsky, the 83-year-old “father of modern linguistics,” is in the MIT Gangnam Style Parody video for about 7 seconds. A few other notable professors were featured, including Professor Eric Lander, one of the principle leaders of the Human Genome Project. In one scene, Lander dances around Ha, and the two then jump up onto …

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The Thousand Year Disney Star Wars Empire

1. MTV – George Lucas Says Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Could Last 100 Years. I think this is underestimating it and it will be the thousand year entertainment empire. Kathy Kennedy revealed that meetings have already begun with prospective writers for the new movies. “I’m doing this so that the films will have a longer life,” …

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Average Solar module prices at 64 cents per watt and will be at 55 cents per watt in 2013

Average market pricing for crystalline modules is expected to decline by another 9% in the fourth quarter, falling to $0.64/W at the end of 2012, down from $0.70 at the end of September. All told, the decline in PV module prices afflicting the market will slow down in 2013 and then eventually stop by the …

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