$30,000 will buy a high end life-sized video conferencing system on wheels, giving users a feeling of tele-presence. It sports two 5 Mpixels eyes, full voice telephony to speak and hear and a laser pointer as a finger. Users can control the sleek five-foot, 35 pound robot remotely from any web browser using nothing more …
A presentation by Penn West, a Senior Canadian Oil Company, on its oil drilling plans. [34 pages] They are making a significant allocation to enhanced oil recovery. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing can be 44% of the cost of conventional oil drilling approaches for certain oil formations. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing should draw billions of barrels of oil …
About a half a square mile is covered with sludge. Coal ash is recycled into products such as cement or placed in secure landfills, but much of it ends up in gravel pits, abandoned mines and unlined landfills — or in ponds like the one that burst in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 22. In the …
The Wall Street Journal 2008 Technology Innovation Awards Some of the winners have been covered on this site. Nanocomp Technologies, maker of large sheets of carbon nanotubes won in the materials category. India’s Tata which makes the Tata Nano car won in the transportation category
The large scale cost of getting a lot more oil is currently $200-400 billion to get each 100 billion bbl. 100 billion barrels is about a 14 year supply of oil for the United States. It is about a 3.5 year supply of oil for the world. The Oil industry’s 2008 -pre-crash global exploration and …
1. Kentucky is Considering Using Nuclear Power For Coal to Liquid Process The Kentucky plan proposes a goal of 50 million tons of coal used per year to produce 4 billion gallons of liquid fuel per year by 2025. [100 million barrels per year or about 300,000 barrels per day] The plan proposes that Kentucky …
BC Business has extensive Dwave System [Quantum Computer maker] coverage. 30 generations of quantum computing machines have been made by D-Wave Systems Inc., the makers of the world’s first commercial quantum computers. DFJ backed such projects as Skype and Hotmail, and started investing in D-Wave in 2003. Jurvetson, who now sits on D-Wave’s board, believes …
Eli Rabett claims that a pure standard chemical reaction can explain Blacklight Powers energy generation UPDATE: Dr Mills has responded to an analysis by Rabett“ It is not a question of more accurate heats of formation. They are accurate to at least three significant figures. It is a question of using the correct ones. That …
Between 11,000 and 23,000 miles of dedicated CO2 pipeline would need to be laid in the United States before 2050, according to PNNL’s estimates, in addition to the 3,900 miles already in place (which carry mostly naturally occurring CO2 used to stimulate production from aging oil wells). The MIT Future of Coal 2007 report estimated …
A repulsive quantum force, opposite of casimir force, has been verified and measured. This is the cover story, [Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces], of the Jan 8, 2009 Nature journal and is from Harvard researchers: J. N. Munday, Federico Capasso & V. Adrian Parsegian. Controlling the casimir forces is potentially a huge capability and DARPA …
BlackLight Power (BLP) Inc. today announced its second commercial license agreement with Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, Inc. of New Mexico, (Farmers’ Electric). In a non-exclusive agreement, BLP has licensed Farmers’ Electric to use the BlackLight Process and certain BLP energy technology for the production of thermal or electric power. Farmers’ Electric may produce gross thermal power …