Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In a review paper published June 23 online in the journal Mineralium Deposita, Cathles, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, writes that while land-based deposits may be a dwindling source of valuable minerals, deposits on the ocean floor could power humanity for centuries. The minerals, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Future of Currency Discussion leaders: Hill Ferguson, ZONG Scott Guilfoyle, PayPal Christopher Kay, Citi Bill Sheedy, Visa Moderator: Mark Anderson, Strategic News Service Currency – instrument of trust in a transaction Currency at wikipedia. and Foreign exchange markets Zong is a mobile payments business.Zong’s largest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software David Christian had an interesting talk with a Big History view of the universe. He had the long view of the universe, life on earth, humanity and human civilization. His point was that the collective intelligence of humanity can be used to make a civilization with …
Nuclear Green has the fourth carnival of nuclear energy This site noted that Russia was adding hundreds of megawatts of nuclear power for only $200 per KW using uprates of existing reactors. $200 per kilowatt is the lowest cost of new energy generation from any energy source. Nuclear archer reviews some of the literature on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A typical white family is now five times richer than its African-American counterpart of the same class, according to a report released today by Brandeis University in Massachusetts. I am putting the World Wealth distribution figures along side to show that poor people at the midpoint …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chips under construction in Taiwan contain 20 ARM processor cores, each modelling 1000 neurons. (New Scientist) With 20,000 neurons per chip, 50,000 chips will be needed to reach the target of 1 billion neurons. Steve Furber hopes to have a 10,000-processor version working later this year. …
J Storrs Hall discusses roadmaps to nanotech and AGI. Conical example of worldchanging tech that was poo-pood prior to success is airplanes. But is necessary to understand why airplanes succeeded in detail. We observer heavier than air birds Study them and understand Similarly for nanotech we have the molecular mechanisms in the cell that make …
Kazakhstan mined 13,500 metric tons of uranium as of Dec. 21 and will mine at least another 400 tons before the end of the year, Almaty-based, Kazatomprom said in a statement e-mailed today. The press release also discussed Australia and Canada production from second hand source quotation. Actual quarterly and annual reports should be available …
Multistage horizontal drilling is opening previously ignored section of the Cardium Pembina oil reserve Pembina, with an estimated 7.8 billion barrels of original oil in place, is Canada’s largest conventional onshore oilfield. Despite extensive secondary recovery through waterfloods, less than 1.4 billion barrels has been produced. The scale of the remaining prize continues to draw …
Picture from 2006 tests of a DC-X like rocket Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, has a rocket company called Blue Origin The website for Blue Origin indicates plans for unmanned flights in 2011 and manned flights in 2012. Flight testing of prototype New Shepard vehicles began in 2006. Blue Origin expects the first opportunities for …
New Scientist reports that there is something big out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds. Last year, Sasha Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues identified an …