North Dakota Bakken oil increasing 5000-7000 barrels per day each month, Saskatchewan’s Bakken oil increasing too

The state (North Dakota’s) Industrial Commission reports that North Dakota oil wells pumped an average of 150,578 barrels a day in April. The previous high of 147,774 barrels a day was set in August 1984. North Dakota reported 5700 more barrels of oil per day in March, 2008 March production was 143738 bopd versus February …

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Teraflop chips, AMD Firestream 500 cores versus Nvidia Tesla 10P with 30,000 threads

More teraflop chips are being introduced by AMD and Nvidia. AMD FireStream 9250 will be available at the end of Sept 2008 for $1999. The FireStream chips can perform “double precision” floating-point calculations at 1 teraflop of performance. A 4x Crossfire X configuration is good for almost 5 TFlops, which means 1.2 TFlops per RV770 …

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High Superconducting temperature predicted for boron-doped diamond and spinhole theory for all superconductors

There is superconducting in super hard boron doped diamond up to 45K according to a computational model. T A Study calculates that boron-doped diamond (BC5) should be superconducting on up to temperatures of 45 K, which, if borne out in experiments, would make this class of material with the highest with the highest transition temperature …

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NXP Semiconductor 150 mbps LTE modem and Clearwires 6Mbps Wimax network

NXP Launches The World’s Fastest Cellular Modem, the PNX6910, which is capable of achieving data transfer rates of 150 Mbits downlink and 50 Mbits uplink, and supports multi-mode LTE/HSPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM capability. The world’s fastest cellular modem from NXP – Nexperia Cellular System Solution PNX6910 will be available to early access customers in the second quarter of …

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Carnival of Space Week 58

Carnival of Space 58 is up at UniverseToday This site contributed an article on the top ten near term developments for vastly increased capabilities in space Centauri Dreams talks about a light tower for propelling solar sails Bad Astronomy talks about a quantum mechanics test at the space station Colony Worlds indicates that future colonists …

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United States might finally build a new oil refinery in 2013

The first new oil refinery in the United States in thirty years is one step closer. Union County residents voted 58 percent to 42 percent Tuesday to endorse the rezoning of almost 3,300 acres of pristine farm land north of Elk Point for the oil refinery. Texas-based Hyperion Resources requested the rezoning for the $10 …

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Stronger paper and rapid manufacturing

A new kind of paper is stronger than cast iron and could be used to reinforce conventional paper, produce extra-strong sticky tape or help create tough synthetic replacements for biological tissues, says Lars Berglund from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite its great strength, Berglund’s “nanopaper” is produced from a biological …

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