John Tierney officially has won his peak oil bet with Matthew Simmons. Matthew Simmons expected the price of oil, about $65 a barrel in 2005, to more than triple in the next five years, even after adjusting for inflation. He offered to bet $5,000 that the average price of oil over the course of 2010 …
Rising coal prices are set to spike at least 20 per cent higher because of supply shortages due to severe flooding in Australia, adding cost pressures to the steel industry that could ripple widely through the economy. Some industry watchers believe the effects of the supply squeeze will be felt through this year and into …
MIT Technology Review – Self-assembly technique could make optical metamaterials cheaply and easily for the first time Materials scientists have been puzzling over how to make metamaterials cheaply and easily. Metamaterials consist of repeating patterns of elements that interact with an electromagnetic wave so as to control and distort its path At millimetre and microwave …
A presentation included pictures of the Bangkok airport and how they use a fabric cover to reflect sunlight and control the temperature beneath it. This structure was made of PTFE and glass but the principles would still apply for ETFE and other materials. The shape of the structure traps more of the heat near the …
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1. The Celebrity Cafe reports a new, and still untitled Star Wars live-action TV series is still trudging on, and will hopefully be ready for viewers in 2011. According to Wookieepedia.com, it will take place in between the last prequel and the first original, A New Hope, during the dark times Obi Wan mentioned to …
Between them, Brazil, China and India account for half the world’s poorest people and an even bigger share of those who have escaped poverty. In 1981, 84% of China’s population was below the poverty line of $1.25 a day (in 2005 prices); in 2005 the share was just 16%. Brazil’s share of those in poverty …
Fujitsu 10 Petaflops by early 2011 Fujitsu is building the supercomputer for Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, said Takumi Maruyama, head of Fujitsu’s processor development department, on the sidelines of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday. The system will be based on Fujitsu’s upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, …