Someone on reddit asked if there was a cornucopian counterpart to the www.oildrum.com About 20% (2400 out of 11,300 articles) of this site are focused on energy with a more cornucopian view. I have also had articles published at theoildrum. Here is a sample of articles from this site that form what the Oildrum would …
NEI Nuclear notes applies the Mark Jacobson method of radiation death analysis to Japan Airlines. Stanford University released a study that projected 130 people, primarily in Japan, will die from cancer over the next 50 years as the result of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The group of companies that comprise …
Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help coax stem cells into developing into cartilage, the shock-absorbing lining of elbows and knees that often wears thin from injury or age. Investigators have produced an important component of cartilage in both laboratory and animal …
Microsoft took a $6.2 billion charge for the purchase of performance of aQuantive, an online advertising service that it bought in 2007 for $6.3 billion. Since it bought aQuantive, Microsoft’s online division has reported losses totaling nearly $9 billion. Google spent $3.2 billion to acquire DoubleClick, an online ad service that used to compete against …
One of the main difficulties with any manned Mars mission that aims to land humans on the surface of Mars and return them to Earth is getting humans off of the surface of Mars. Mars has 40% Earth gravity, and overcoming such a gravity well would be problematic. But a European entrepreneur named Bas Lansdorp …
IEEE Spectrum – A robot (from the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Toyko) is unbeatable at rock, paper scissors. It’s one of those high speed hands that works with a high speed vision system. And when we say ‘high speed,’ we mean fast enough that you can’t really tell that the robot is …
South Korea has approved a roadmap for graphene commercialization with $200 million budget for the next 6 years. They are also looking at a research institute that they would fund with $200-300 million per year. Korean government has approved a plan for commercializing graphene technologies, including; 1) graphene-based touch panels 2) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) …
Focus Taiwan – Foxconn Technology Group, the main manufacturer for Apple Inc., is determined to grasp opportunities in the China market by setting up a one-stop business service for customers. Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Group in Taiwan, broke ground Thursday on its China headquarters in Shanghai, as part of the group’s bid to …
One of the central tenets of oncology is that cancers are most susceptible to treatment when diagnosed early, and the earlier the better. For example, 90 percent of women diagnosed with stage I ovarian cancer will survive five years or more, while fewer than 30 percent of those diagnosed with stage III disease will be …
Reuters – China will manage its $3.2 trillion of foreign currency reserves more creatively to ensure “effective” results, its central bank said on Monday, as it vowed to work harder to free the country’s tightly controlled financial markets. In a wide-ranging statement highlighting its goals for 2012, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) promised to …
1. Deregulate the Atom – Uncovering the Truth about the Threat of Nuclear Proliferation by DV82XL Robert Gauthier more commonly known as DV82XL shares his thoughts on the misconceptions about proliferation. It is said with some truth that the military always prepares for the last war, and this was the case with nuclear weapons. The …