Assessment of Undiscovered Oil Resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin Province, Montana and North Dakota, 2008 Click on the pictures for larger view. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil, 1.85 trillion cubic feet of associated/dissolved natural gas, and 148 million …
Carnival of Space 49 is up at willgater My contribution was my article on carbon nanotubes with gold surrounded by lithium hydride being able to convert radiation to electricity 20 times better than old RTGs This will provide better space power in about ten years. Centauri dreams article on Dyson spheres and aliens is part …
China’s yuan is now stronger 7 to 1 versus the US dollar [6.99 as of April 10, 2008] The Asia Times discusses the advantages of a strong currency for China. Beijing may have so far the strongest incentive not to wage any currency wars but to accelerate the pace of yuan’s appreciation. In January, the …
In an Esquire magazine interview Andre Dillin, Salk Institute, indicated that they have a compound which is very effective at treating Alzheimers effects and extending life. So far that work has been on C elegan worms But more than the apparent result, what excites and interests Dillin is the way the drug achieves its result. …
20% of the surveyed readers of Nature use cognitive enhancers to improve their focus, concentration, or memory This is related to my article that the transhumanist debate needs to be properly framed. My general view is that if the negative health aspects of any form of enhancement can be made less than the benefits then …
Research published this week in Regenerative Medicine, reports on a new technology that yields over 140 previously uncharacterized cell types, many on an industrial scale. This advance holds great promise for future research and may one day lead to many new cell-based therapies in the emerging field of regenerative medicine. Previously there have been occasional …
My guess at what the USGS will report as the recoverable oil in the Bakken formation tomorrow. Well my guess was far to optimistic. The USGS 2008 figure was 3.65 billion barrels of oil for the US part of the Bakken formation. Stackfrac horizontal drilling that is available today could recover up to 15% of …
Many people who discess the enlightenment and social discuss the power of the masses versus the power of the lite. The supporters of the Enlightenment do not want “the elite” to roll back society to a more fuedal looking power structure. Who are the elite and where does real power reside ? Newsweek has a …
Problems that need a lot of computing power and new architecture that will be needed to enable that speed. Click on the pictures for a larger image. Communication challenge in ultradense computing devices. Chips are not full speed because communication is not fast enough. DARPA MoleApps–Aim: 10**15devices/ cm**3 Currently: 17 nm half-pitch,3.5*10**11 /cm**2 demonstrated Communication …
The largest road safety research project ever launched in Europe will usher in a series of powerful road-safety systems for European cars. But, in the long term, its basic, experimental research could lead to a car that is virtually uncrashable. The technology would be pushed to make crashes increasingly unlikely and mitigate crashes when they …
Pat Gelsinger, head of the Digital Enterprise Division at Intel, says that Moore’s Law will continue until 2029 with zettaflop supercomputers at that time. [link is to his Intel Developers Forum keynote address, 80 pages, From Petaflops to Milliwatts] Pat expects by 2017 it will be possible to create a complete genetic simulation of a …