May 13, 2017 |
brian wang |
Weekly US oil production is back to 9.3 million barrels per day and is nearing the 9.6 million barrel peak in mid-2015. OPEC raised its outlook for U.S. production growth by 285,000 barrels a day to 820,000 a day in …
April 6, 2017 |
brian wang |
CPUs vastly slowed in performance scaling around 1997-2004. You can see it with the lines showing flat clock speeds and performance per clock. However, you already knew it from the lack of real performance improvement in laptops and desktop computers. …
April 4, 2017 |
brian wang |
For decades, loops of genetic material known as circular RNA were considered a kind of genetic accident. But scientists have given them new attention in recent years, and a set of papers published this month suggests some of them actually …
April 4, 2017 |
brian wang |
Spacex has around 500 job openings on its careers site. Panasonic plans to hire 2,000 people this year to make batteries for the Tesla Model 3 at the Gigafactory located east of Sparks. They’re looking to fill positions as material …
April 3, 2017 |
brian wang |
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, is showcasing disruptive space technologies at the 33rd annual Space Symposium, April 3-6. Aerojet Rocketdyne technologies on display include: 3-D Printing: Aerojet Rocketdyne has been researching this innovative technology for more than …
April 3, 2017 |
brian wang |
China’s Bohai Shipyard has built a new large-scale plant to mass produce nuclear submarines. Western production lines for the most part can only build one submarine at a time, and only the US is capable of building two submarines simultaneously, …
April 3, 2017 |
brian wang |
In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called the “green revolution” that was largely credited with averting a global food crisis. Now, the challenge of feeding the world …
