Many people who discuss energy and environmental issues often complain that if only project X or funding for Technology AB was cut or reduced and the billions not wasted on it then that money could go to the energy technology that I like or the energy project that I think would work. This is massively …
The microbial energy solution for biofuels and solar power The Biodesign team, in their Nature Review Microbiology perspective article, outlines the prospects for bioenergy. They believe the future of microbial bioenergy is brightened by recent advancements in genome technologies and other molecular-biology techniques. One species of bacteria, the human gut bacterium E. coli, has become …
Continental Resources first well flowed at an average rate of 693 barrels of crude oil equivalent per day in its initial week of production in May. The second well, Mathistad 1-35H, began production on July 4 and flowed at an average rate of 1,095 barrels of crude oil equivalent per day, with 90 percent of …
Shaw Group is a partner in the AP1000 nuclear reactors (Westinghouse/Toshiba). Shaw Group gets part of the revenue per AP1000 reactor is between $2 billion and $2.5 billion per reactor on an EPC basis. They get 20% of the profits on the sale of the reactor units. The reactors are currently somewhere around $3,500 of …
Superconductors.org reports the critical transition temperature (Tc) of the industrial superconductor YBCO (YBa2Cu3O7) has been successfuly increased from 92K to near 105K by reformulating to Y3Ba5Cu8Ox. No new elements were added. Y-358 – dubbed “Ultra YBCO” – is a novel intergrowth incorporating two different types of planar weight disparity (PWD) and a larger unit cell …
A $1.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to Dr. Hamrick,bone biologist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Graduate Studies and Medicine, is enabling laboratory studies of two experimental myostatin inhibitors: a decoy receptor and a binding protein, both developed by MetaMorphix, Inc. of Beltsville, Md. Both inhibitors have been shown …
DNA sewing machine created by Kyohei Terao from Kyoto University and colleagues. They designed laser-directed microdevices to pick up and manoeuvre giant individual molecules of DNA. The technology will also be useful for a number of other applications including DNA sequencing and molecular electronic. This should help enable the goals of $10-1000 whole genome sequencing …
The big news out of Iraq is that Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq. H/T instapundit The one thing that I would note is that the comment thread is …
Dave Mosher at discovery.com has an excellent Carnival of Space week 62 The slideshow presentation and article layout are top notch and the content of twenty articles is excellent as well. Space Disco is one of the seven new blogs you’ll find at Discovery Space. Bad Astronomy is one of the blogs thathas moved to …
Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by sixty to 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become …
University of Cambridge researchers have discovered where the charge ‘hole’ carriers that play a significant role in the superconductivity originate within the electronic structure of copper-oxide superconductors. A correct and detailed understanding what is going on in high temperature superconductors will help to get to a correct theory for superconductors and can lead to the …