Per Peterson information on steel and concrete needed for different energy

Per Peterson, Prof at Berkeley provides information on construction material for energy. 95% of construction inputs are steel and concrete. China is making 1250MW AP1000’s now, 1400MW in the next batch and 1700MW for the ones after that Information is mostly from this Per Peterson powerpoint presentation on nuclear energy Energy from coal, 7.3 million …

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Biomarkers for bloodtests and protein biomarkers for imaging for effective early stage cancer screening

Early detection saves lives as treatment is more effective. Also, it can be 100 times cheaper to treat early stage versus later stage cancer. The Canary Foundation goal is to deliver early detection tests for solid tumor cancers by 2015. Cancer treatment cost $89 billion in the U.S. in 2007. Over 1.4 million new cancer …

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Quantum dot based quantum logic gate proven possible

engineers and physicists from Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrate a potential progenitor of an essential component of quantum computers, “a logic gate” that enables interaction between just two particles of light. “We have demonstrated a system composed of a single quantum dot in a cavity that can be used to …

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Transhuman comic book series

There is a new comic book series entitled Transhuman Note: a comment on the pictured excerpt talking about average life expectancy. Some countries such as Japan already have life expectancy over 82 years. People who do not smoke, exercise, eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables and moderate alcohol consumption live 14 years longer In …

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New Lunar Truck and mining rover

Image at left: This robot shares some features with the lunar truck [below after the jump], but is equipped with a drill designed to find water and oxygen-rich soil on the moon. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University The moon has one-sixth the gravity of Earth, so a lightweight rover will have a difficult job resisting drilling …

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IBM using DNA to make carbon nanotube grid computer chips

Left is previous work where DNA was wrapped around carbon nanotubes. Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes–strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity–into arrays with DNA molecules. Once the nanotube array is meticulously constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly grid of nanotubes. The nanotube grid, …

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Magnetic Catapult a feasible advanced earth launcher

A 9000 meter long magnetic catapult was proposed in 2003 by Warren D Smith, mathematician at Temple University. It was designed to launch 5 meter long, 1 meter diameter projectiles at 2250 gees of constant acceleration with a launch velocity of 20km/s (twice earth escape velocity, Mach 58). It would cost about $2-20 billion to …

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Virgin Galactic revealed and compared to shifting NASA plans

The new designs for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane and WhiteKnightTwo mothership were unveiled in New York. The biggest twist is that the WhiteKnightTwo plane has spread out and sprouted another passenger cabin on its 140-foot-long wing. The two cabins and four Pratt & Whitney jet engines straddle a central mount for the rocket plane, …

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Resveratol proven to combat some symptoms of aging in humans

From Wired,Scientists have proof in human subjects that resveratrol, a derivative of an ingredient in red wine, combats some symptoms of aging. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals announced the results here on Monday at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. Resveratol, naturally found in red wine, stimulates a gene known as SIRT1, which has been linked with extended lifespans in …

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Four behaviors add 14 extra years of life

If you do not smoking; exercise; moderate alcohol intake; and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day then you will live on average an additional fourteen years compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …

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