North Dakota June 2008 daily production is now over 166,000 barrels of oil per day which is 10,000 barrels per day more than in May 2008 North Dakota is hitting transportation issues getting the oil out of the state. However, oil can still be moved out it just costs more to do it. North Dakota’s …
There was a 4000 meter tall pyramid city called X-Seed 4000 which was designed but was never meant to be built. [first picture on the left] Now there is a 1200 meter tall, 2.3 square kilometer environmentally friendly building being proposed in Dubai. – Transport throughout the complex would be connected by an integrated 360 …
Researchers have now discovered a method that produces the bucky ball configuration of carbon with nearly 100% conversion efficiency from precursor materials. Getting high efficiencies means that you don’t have to sift through the reaction product and separate what you wanted—not a small challenge when you’re sorting billions of particles with nanometer dimensions. The relatively …
What if the Soviet Union still existed ?GDP estimates from wikipedia This GDP table is in billions. Country GDP (2008 nominal) GDP (2009 nominal) PPP 2009 Population Russia 1,700 2,016 2462 141.9 Ukraine 183 221 366 46.1 Belarus 53 61 125 9.7 Kazakhstan 134 148 196 15.4 Azerbaijan 49 63 93 8.5 Georgia 13.5 16.6 …
Electron microscopes are great for magnification but they tend to destroy or damage what they are looking at. Similar magnification should be possible using a much lower-energy, gentler beam of helium atoms and recording how they are scattered by a sample. Up to this point only 1% of helium atoms can be reflected and focused …
The Transition “Personal Air Vehicle” is expected to be released in late 2009 and has just shown its operational prototype. The estimated purchase price is $148,000. Owners will drive the car from their garage to an airport where they will then be able to fly within a range of 100 to 500 miles (800 km). …
This technology news roundup has imminent testing of the Vasimr plasma rocket in space, twelve dollar personal computers, ten dollar dime sized microscopes and a plant that is 250% better than corn for biofuels and twice as productive as switchgrass. (the plant has not been modified yet and genetic modifications could vastly increase yields.) Nasa …
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 …
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 …
The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, RIKEN SPring-8 synchrotron and Hiroshima University in Japan and Stockholm University in Sweden. Nilsson and colleagues probed the …
– Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans. The first steps have been taken towards the goal of using modified T cells from an HIV-infected person for their own treatment. They …