Roger Longstaff, engineer at Reaction Engines Ltd (REL), said that the company intends to test its amazing “pre-cooler” technology in June, 2011. An REL spokesperson announced that they had secured $350 million of further funding, contingent on successful completion of the full-sized precooled jet engine test in June 2011. In paper studies, the costs per …
Incremental improvements to agriculture have been which have included adoption of two-year crop rotations, precision agriculture technologies, classically bred and genetically engineered crops, and reduced- or no-tillage management systems. US David researchers are recommending innovative agricultural systems such as organic farming, grass-fed and other alternative livestock production systems, mixed crop and livestock systems, and perennial …
US Center for disease control – Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing .The number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009. From 2001 through 2009 asthma rates rose the most among black children, almost a 50% increase. Asthma was linked to 3,447 …
Surface plasmon hologram and its color reconstruction with white-light illumination. (A) The SPP hologram is illuminated by white light at a given angle θ in high-index medium. Surface plasmons of a selected color are excited and diffracted by the SPP hologram to reconstruct the wavefront of the object. (B) Dispersion curve of the SPP hologram …
AOL has bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. In Dec, 2010, 24-7 Wall Street valued the Huffington Post at $150 million and as the second most valuable blog after Gawker. This is not an impact on the future, but is a minor data point that seems to confirm the relative accuracy of the valuation …
The IMF projections for the countries with the largest nominal GDP in 2015 are: Rank Country 2010 2011 2012 2015 Annual % Status * World 61,963 65,417 69,125 81,963 5.8% 1 United States 14,624 15,157 15,824 18,029 4.3% 2 China 5,745 6,422 7,170 9,982 11.7% Emerging 3 Japan 5,391 5,683 5,878 6,517 3.9% 4 Germany …
The previous reported months for oil production in 2010 have been new production records except for January, 2010 which was a little less than the last four months of 2009 The latest North Dakota oil production figures show another record month that breaks the ten million barrels in one month level. August had daily production …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Gregory Stock – Evolution and the Post-Human Future We are in the midst of a major evolutionary breakthrough. Life is beginning not only to reshape itself and its workings, but to animate the inanimate world around it. I will examine the nature of this present transition …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Capitalism and Science is what enabled us to go beyond merely rational methods to go beyond sailing ships and pyramids and enabled to take off and go beyond a backwater to dominance from the 17th through the 19th century. People have always thought and achieved useful …
Elon Musk and Spacex had mentioned plans for BFR (Big F**ing Rocket) and the Merlin 2 rocket engine back in 2005. Now there are details of the designs for the Merlin 2 and the Falcon X, Falcon X heavy and Falcon XX rockets. * Falcon 9 with one successful trial launches 10 tons into orbit. …