Nvidia launches Tesla K20X and K20

Nvidia has launched its Tesla K20X GPGPUaccelerator card aimed at double-precision floating point scientific workloads. Nvidia had already announced that its Tesla K20 series would be used in what was forecast to be the most powerful high performance computing (HPC) cluster, Titan, a few weeks ago. Now the firm has revealed the launch its Tesla K20X …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 123

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 123 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome ANS Nuclear Cafe reviews the details of what Japan’s nuclear policy currently is. The energy policy announced by Maehar’s boss, Prime Minister Noda, calls for reactors to operate to the end of their 40 year life, but it offers a loophole to operate them …

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Lunar Space elevator kickstarter at $107,500 with 2 hours to go

With 2 hours to go the Liftport Lunar space elevator kickstarter is at $107,500 Different Fund Raising Levels in Brief $20,000 – better sensors $30,000 – at least 3 to 5 kilometer $50,000 – new robot and at least 3 to 5 kilometer $75,000 – transition from altitude to endurance $100,000 – back in business …

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CARMA Online database of 60 thousand power plants with 8 years of emissions data

Scientific American – The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) tool produced by the Center for Global Development has a database of 60,000 power plants worldwide with emissions data going back to 2004. Seven of the world’s 10 dirtiest power plants are in Asia — though none in China. On the other hand, China’s state-owned power …

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Elon Musk, Tesla Electric Cars, Predicts Half of New Cars will be Electric around 2024-2032

EETimes – In the midst of the Tesla Model S rollout at the company’s California manufacturing plant recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a startling prediction: “In 20 years more than half of new cars manufactured will be fully electric,” he said, according to a Reuters article. “I actually feel quite safe in that bet. …

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Per Capita GDP prediction method with 97% accuracy using economic freedom, average IQ, trading block membership and oil usage

Economic Freedom and average citizenry IQ — plus slight tweaks from trading block membership and oil predicted GDP per capita for every country with a high .97 correlation (r) with actual GDP per capita. This is not scientific but uses a few factors that can be adjusted to correlate to per capita GDP both historically …

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New weight loss discovery moves us closer to ‘the Pill’ for obesity by reducing Klotho protein

An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people’s waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho, in obese mice with high blood sugar levels produced lean mice with reduced blood sugar levels. This protein also exists in humans, suggesting …

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Full-colour quantum dot displays fabricated by transfer printing

Electroluminescence image of a four-inch full-color quantum dot display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Image credit: Tae-Ho Kim, et al. ©2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Nature Photonics – Full-colour quantum dot displays fabricated by transfer printing Light-emitting diodes with quantum dot luminophores show promise in the development of next-generation displays, because quantum dot …

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Saudi Arabia and OPEC should lower oil prices to reduce political unrest in the middle east

Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations should lower oil prices to reduce political unrest. The reason is that high oil prices are increasing the price for food and inflation and high costs of basic items is one of the driving forces behind the political unrest that threatens Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and the OPEC nations …

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