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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Alfin has been doing an excellent job of tracking the work that is being done to stop the Gulf Oil Leak. Here is the coverage from most recent to earlier coverage. 1. Crunch time on the gulf floor. Environmental damage from the ongoing oil spill continues …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission’s Oil and Gas Division, said a new study pegs the recoverable oil in the Three Forks formation, under the famed Bakken Formation, at up to 2 billion barrels of oil within North Dakota alone. In 2008, Helms …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. There is a lengthy article in Inc Magazine feature John Grizz, CEO of Hyperion Power Generation The first model is a uranium nitride reactor that will sell for $45-70 million “all in” and provide 25 MW of electrical power. The company was told teh NRC …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is running dense plasma focus fusion experiments and are getting good levels of current and voltage. The April 2010 technical report gives the March experimental results. Analysis of shots we did in March gives more convincing evidence of high ion energies, certainly more …
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Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Robert Freitas has been issued long-awaited diamond mechanosynthesis (DMS) patent (# 7,687,146), on 30 March 2010. This is the first diamond mechanosynthesis (DMS) patent but also, more broadly, it is unquestionably the first mechanosynthesis patent (in the DMS or MNT sense of the …
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The predicted second wave of biotech growth and development begins as developing countries recognize biotechnology as a key to food self-sufficiency [preventing starvation] and prosperity [fixing poverty]. from International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) Countries that have plenty of food and less poverty will also have more money for clean water projects …