Net investments of $83 billion a year must be made in agriculture in developing countries if there is to be enough food to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050 according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN By 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion, 34 percent higher than today. Nearly all …
Nanoletters – Stretchable Graphene Transistors with Printed Dielectrics and Gate Electrodes With the emergence of human interface technology, the development of new applications based on stretchable electronics such as conformal biosensors and rollable displays are required. However, the difficulty in developing semiconducting materials with high stretchability required for such applications has restricted the range of …
A promising approach to inertial fusion energy, called heavy-ion fusion (HIF), has long been advocated by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In inertial fusion, the fuel is a solid target made of frozen isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium, or deuterium and tritium), which is instantly heated to fusion temperature …
This site has looked at a revised list of technologies for a Mundane Singularity This article will focus on what should be the developments in those areas that will have the biggest impact by Dec, 2016. The Mundane Singularity still has a normal adoption and deployment cycle. So the impact will increase over time. ie. …
US crude oil production could increase by 500,000 to 1 million barrels per day each year through 2015 driven by North Dakota oil, Eagle Ford in Texas and Utica Shale. North Dakota Bakken County Oil Update Lynn Helms (18 MB, power point -pptx) The presentation where Lynn Helms talks about the boom in North Dakota …
The AP1000 nuclear reactor, is expected to start functioning in November 2013 at the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station in China, says Gary T. Urquhart, vice president and MD of Westinghouse for India, South East Asia and the Taiwan region. The remaining three will start functioning at intervals of six months with the fourth one attaining …
This site has looked at a Mundane Singularity before and often about getting to higher rates of economic growth and wealth. Previously I talked about a Mundane Singularity with how much : 1. Economic abundance 2. Radical life extension 3. Physical and Cognitive enhancement 4. Blood Stream Robots 5. Supermaterials 6. Open Access to space …
Biomicrofluidics – Embryonic stem cell bioprinting for uniform and controlled size embryoid body formation Two main goals of bio-inkjet printers is to grow new body parts for organ transplants or tissues for making regenerative medicine repairs. Making body parts, organs or tissues begin with a printed mass of embryonic stem cells. Getting the embroid body …
The world’s most advanced submarine company, Triton Subs,and high pressure glass fabricator Rayotek Scientific, have joined forces to design a full ocean depth submersible that will revolutionize man’s relationship with the deep ocean. James Cameron is working on a submarine powered with an electric motor and made of composite materials. Richard Branson is working on …
Business Industry – 10 years ago the average American spent almost 3 times as much on recorded music products as they do today. 26 years ago they spent almost twice as much as they do today. Two of the big new areas, mobile and subscriptions, appear to both already be in decline. That only leaves …
This image shows a map of neural activity in the awake mouse brain, top, and pattern of brain communication when the sensory projection neurons are optically driven, bottom. The hotter colors indicate higher correlation. There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, and each one belongs to elaborate networks that control our behavior, …