Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing Sustenance: Feeding a world of 9.4 billion people Speakers: Raoul Adamchak, UC Davis Student Farm/Agricultural Sustainability Institute Fred Pearce, New Scientist Prabhu Pingali, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist First Green revolution – we doubled food production and tripled water usage …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Kazatomprom has a page which describes the uranium mines that they plant to open. The World Nuclear Association page on Kazakhstan describes the development status and production of the mines. The first quarter of 2010 has already had production figures released. Those figures are 4060 tons …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software North Dakota’s oil production for May was at another new record of 296423 barrels per day. The May production was 9,189,101 barrels which is the first time that monthly North Dakota production topped 9 million barrels. Continental Resources will increase its capital expenditure budget from $850 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The emergence of several new players in Alberta’s oilsands will lift overall crude production between 2020 and 2025, a period that wasn’t expected to see any production gains in last year’s forecast, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Oilsands production is expected to nearly triple by …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The University of Leeds biologists have identified a previously-unknown ion channel in human blood vessels that can limit the production of inflammatory cytokines – proteins that drive the early stages of heart disease. They found that this protective effect can be triggered by pregnenolone sulphate – …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials We summarize progress in the development and application of metamaterial structures utilizing superconducting elements. After a brief review of the salient features of superconductivity, the advantages of superconducting metamaterials over their normal metal counterparts are discussed. We …
Another type of Dyson Sphere is the “Dyson bubble”. It would be similar to a Dyson swarm, composed of many independent constructs. Previously, nextbigfuture had written about Dyson Swarms and dyson Spheres Unlike the Dyson swarm, the constructs making it up are not in orbit around the star, but would be statites—satellites suspended by use …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Here is the Noah Goodman interview. Dr. Goodman is a research scientist at the Computational Cognitive Science Group at MIT. The Computational Cognitive Science Group examines the computational abilities of the human brain. Dr. Goodman believes that artificial general intelligence may be only twenty years away. …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Robert Freitas has been issued long-awaited diamond mechanosynthesis (DMS) patent (# 7,687,146), on 30 March 2010. This is the first diamond mechanosynthesis (DMS) patent but also, more broadly, it is unquestionably the first mechanosynthesis patent (in the DMS or MNT sense of the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software PNAS – Generation and control of sound bullets with a nonlinear acoustic lens Acoustic lenses are employed in a variety of applications, from biomedical imaging and surgery to defense systems and damage detection in materials. Focused acoustic signals, for example, enable ultrasonic transducers to image the …
Researchers at the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC)) have verified findings by Planar Energy that could lead to dramatic cost and performance improvements in large format batteries required for practical electric vehicles. AMPAC scientists independently confirmed that Planar Energy’s new generation of solid state electrolytes have ionic conductivity …