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 …
Costaka‘s process combines both biological (i.e., microbes) and thermochemical (heat and chemicals) processing. This could potential convert existing biomass sources in the United States to provide 35% of current fuel usage. Coskata can use a wide variety of feedstocks for making fuel: wood chips, weeds and non-food crops like miscanthus, human waste, and carbon-heavy garbage …
USGS Bakken recoverable oil study will be released thursday, April 10, 2008 Sen. Byron Dorgan says the U.S. Geological Survey is slated to release a study this week on the oil potential of the area known as the Bakken formation. The shale formation encompasses some 25,000 square miles in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. …
Some who are against nuclear power are trying to make a big deal about guards sleeping at nuclear plants where no one died and nothing actually happened. Plus in one of the main incidents the guards were sleeping “in the ready room”. They were not at the time supposed to be guarding anything. Similarly if …
I am presenting disruption events for humans and also for biospheres and planets and correlating them with historical frequency and scale. There has been previous work on categorizing and classifying extinction events. There is Bostroms paper and there is also the work by Jamais Cascio and Michael Anissimov on classification and identifying risks (presented below). …
As Mr Miyagi said in Karate Kid.. If do right, no can defence The U.S. Navy can’t stop China’s most sophisticated anti-ship missile (purchased from Russia) — and won’t even start testing a defense until 2014. I don’t think it is an issue between China and the USA because I do not believe they will …
Barbara Walters had a show: Live to 150..Can you do it? It was light on details and touched a lot of the topics in the longevity area. Alcor, the cryogenics company has their article ABC has other related articles. I saw the show. It was a very quick run through of many topics on aging. …
I am stepping in as late last minute host for the Carnival of Space week 48. Thanks to Fraser Cain of Universe Today for letting me host. Send your Carnival of space entries for week 49 to carnivalofspace at gmail dot com. We have Mars, Red Dwarfs, Astronomy meetings, 2001, Forbidden Planet, Dr Who, aliens …
From the Economist magazine, the genetic makeup of individuals effects results of performance enhancing doping tests. It shows that some dopers would not be caught with current tests and that some innocent people would be accused. I think we just need to make better safe forms of enhancement and then not worry about it. The …
Here is a picture of the geological layers and formations in the Williston basin (where a potential very large oil resource called the Bakken formation is located). I have previously discussed the great potential of the Bakken oil resource. This information is from the 1995 US Geological Survey (USGS) of the area. A new USGS …
Updating and synthesizing my articles on energy into an energy plan. I will update this article with more updates and synthesize past and new information that I have gathered. Short termEfficiency and drilling for regular and enhanced recovery, policy that discourages coal and fossil fuel and encourages nuclear and renewables. Try to reduce fuel usage …