Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Kazakh national nuclear company KazAtomProm reported a 42% increase in uranium production during the first half of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. Total uranium output for the whole of 2010 is set to reach 18,222 tonnes, a 30% increase from 2009. The …
Rigzone lists offshore drilling projects to watch in 2010 * One of West Africa’s biggest oil finds, the Jubilee field, is expected to start production sometime this year. (1.2 billion barrels of oil) – Jubilee will be developed in several phases due to the large amounts of oil discovered. Phase 1 will tie back 17 …
Project on Social Attitudes to Road Traffic Risk in Europe (SARTRE) New technologies to enhance road safety Surveyed atttitudes to three different types of road safety systems. These were those that:• Helped the driver (aid systems),• Imposed certain behaviour (alert and intervention systems),• Could be used by the police to enforce the law (regulatory systems …
Magnifye, a Cambridge University spin-out, would increase the power density of magnets used to produce energy in electric motors. The magnets, which are 10 times stronger than conventional magnets, are so powerful that a 1 inch sample could potentially support the weight of a seven-ton truck. (H/T Talkpolywell) * Stronger magnets that are 7-17 tesla …
Built by twin brothers, Geoff and Mike Howe of Barwick, Maine, the Ripsaw, unmanned ground vehicle, can careen at high speed [over 60 mph] over obstacles that would leave a vehicle’s crew dazed and bruised. It is operated by a driver in another vehicle using a modular crew station that can be unbolted and placed …
A self published book analyzes the question are the Montreal Canadiens a hockey team or a religion? The author is Olivier Baurer who is a professor of religious studies at the University of Montreal H/T to Physorg In English, the Montreal Canadiens are referred to as the Habs, but in French the legendary hockey team …
Crowlspace hosts the carnival of space week 68. This site supplies an analysis of the technology that an interstellar capable civilization should have and an alternative to big antimatter rockets with mirror laser array propulsion Centauri Dreams considers the difficulties of interstellar travel. Crowlspace looks at antimatter propulsion. Check out the carnival of space week …
Human blood have been grown from embryonic stem cells for the first time during research that promises to provide an almost limitless supply suitable for transfusion into any patient. This could lead to trials of the blood within two years, and ultimately to an alternative to donations that would transform medicine. If such blood was …
Byogy has licensed the University of Texas A&M process and hopes to have a plant using the technology up and running within 18 months to two years. The intent is to have raw garbage going in one end of the plant and 95-octane gasoline coming out the other. “Our goal with this technology is to …
According to Kitegen’s preliminary evaluations, it is expected that wind generators of this type may have much lower electric energy production costs than actual wind farms (by a factor up to 10-20) and could generate up to 250 MW/km2, vs. 3 MW/km2 of wind farms. Reddit With a kite area of 50 m2 , simulations …
New intrepretation of Viking science data could mean 0.1% of Mars soil is made up of “extremophiles” – in this case, microbes whose cells are filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water. That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen. …