Here is the 2013 Report to the US Congress on China’s Military. China continues to modernize its nuclear forces by enhancing its silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and adding more survivable mobile delivery systems. In recent years, the road-mobile, solid-propellant CSS-10 Mod 1 and CSS-10 Mod 2 (DF-31 and DF-31A) intercontinentalrange ballistic missiles have entered …
Alan Boyle at MSNBC looks at the budgetary realities have raised new questions about just how much of a future fusion power has. Nextbigfuture position on nuclear fusion. * mastering commercial nuclear fusion is worthwhile and worthy of private and public investment. * ITER (large tokomaks) project is costing the most money for fusion and …
The cost of whole genome sequencing that was around $10 million in 2007 will be around $1000 by the end of 2013 and is projected to be under $100 in a three years’ time. The genetic testing market is estimated to reach $25 billion annually by 2021. With the Ion Proton System — a $100,000 …
The USGS says that the oil resources in shale formations of North Dakota, Montana and nearby states are 7.4 billion barrels which is double an estimate for the region made five years ago. The agency for the first time studied the Three Forks formation, which is estimated to include 3.73 billion barrels, exceeding the recoverable …
North Dakota oil production at another record of 728,494 barrels of oil per day If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …
Technology Review – A biotech company called Alnylam announced today that a small clinical trial for a genetic therapy based on RNA interference, or RNAi, suggests that the technique can have a powerful effect on its target gene. The therapeutic effect lasted for over a month with just one dose. The company is also working …
Idaho Samizdat reviews the current nuclear energy situation in China. The Chinese government reinvigorated its civilian nuclear energy program last week with three major actions. First, it announced the release of a long awaited safety plan that will result in the lifting of a moratorium on new nuclear reactor projects. Second, it announced approval of …
US crude oil production was up to 6.353 million barrels per day for the week ended June 15, 2012 This was an increase of 117,000 barrels per day from the prior week and an increase of 700,000 barrels per day from the same time last year. The 6.353 million bpd level is the most since …
1. Petroleum News – The number of new wells drilled in Texas’ Eagle Ford shale more than doubled during the first three months of 2012, compared with the same period a year ago, according to Bentek Energy analysis. Daily increase in activity ratcheted up production of oil and other liquids, from 182,000 barrels per day …
The US Economic Research Service has historical data for countries/regions from 1969 to 2011. They track GDP, GDP per capita, population and they have projections of GDP, population and exchange rates. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader …
NIST – A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits using light and something very like a nanosized loudspeaker.* If demonstrated through experiment, the work could have …