Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today told participants at the Tennessee Valley Corridor National Summit that “the United States should build 100 new nuclear power plants during the next 20 years” to put America on the path to clean energy independence. He said, “One year ago, I came to Oak Ridge to propose a new ‘Manhattan …
A Goldman Sachs study on “The Expanding Middle: The Exploding Middle Class and Falling Global Inequality” While America laments the loss of its middle class as there is divergence between a mass affluent and wealthy class and those at middle class, there is the rise of the global middle class. The global middle class is …
The Carnival of Space 57 is up at Out of the Cradle This site contributed an article about some problems with lorentz propulsion tests but success with the SpaceX Falcon 9 International Space Development day 1 International Space Development day 2 International Space Development day 3 Babe in the Universe also had International space development …
T Boone Pickens has made various predictions about oil on MCNBC “Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day is all the world can produce, and the demand is 87 million,” he said. “It’s just that simple. It doesn’t have anything to do with the value of the dollar.” target=blank>Pickens founded BP Capital and has a …
A simple-to-make “superlens” can focus 10 times more sharply than a conventional lens. It could shrink the size of features on computer chips, or help power gadgets without wires. No matter how powerful a conventional lens, it cannot focus light down to more than about half its wavelength, the “diffraction limit”. So far they have …
In an Esquire magazine interview Andre Dillin, Salk Institute, indicated that they have a compound which is very effective at treating Alzheimers effects and extending life. So far that work has been on C elegan worms But more than the apparent result, what excites and interests Dillin is the way the drug achieves its result. …
USGS Bakken recoverable oil study will be released thursday, April 10, 2008 Sen. Byron Dorgan says the U.S. Geological Survey is slated to release a study this week on the oil potential of the area known as the Bakken formation. The shale formation encompasses some 25,000 square miles in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. …
I had a previous article examining the next step or two in technological acceleration. Looking at the long term history of economic and technological progress, the next step should be consistent 16-25% annual growth. Each “step up in consistently higher technological growth rate” is according to Robin Hanson a series of about seven doublings at …