An encouraging development was recently announced by Baraka Petroleum Limited (“BKP”) concerning shale oil potential in two permits in the Southern Georgina Basin in which they have an interest (EP127 and EP 128 covering approximately 30,000 km2). The estimates prepared independently by US based Ryder Scott for these permits ranged from 5 to 11 billion …
From the web to wildlife, the economy to nanotechnology, politics to sport, the Observer’s team of experts prophesy how the world will change – for good or bad – in the next quarter of a century 1. Geopolitics: ‘Rivals will take greater risks against the US’ 2. The UK economy: ‘The popular revolt against bankers …
The population of the U.S. grew 9.7 percent to 308,745,538 (2010 census) since 2000. Texas will gaining four seats in the house of representatives. Florida will gain two seats. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington will each gain one seat. Ohio will lose two seats. New York will lose two seats. Illinois, Iowa, …
24.7 Wall Street has an updated estimate of the 25 most valuable blogs in America Blogs that were on previous lists that were sold include Ars Technica and PaidContent.org. Last year we ranked TechCrunch as the fifth most valuable blog with a value of $32 million. Based on recent media reports, AOL acquired the blog …
China plans to increase nuclear power capacity to 112 gigawatts (gW) by 2020, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Rod Adams, atomic insights notes – If you look back into history, you will find an example of a country with a population (203 million) that was about 15% of China’s current population …
Paul Crowell of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis has brought spintronic devices a step nearer by grounding them in a reassuringly familiar landscape: they are the first to develop a simple, all-electric method to both generate and detect spin currents within a standard semiconductor. In their recent experiment, Crowell and colleagues sent a current …
Nanoletters – Graphene Films with Large Domain Size by a Two-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Process The fundamental properties of graphene are making it an attractive material for a wide variety of applications. Various techniques have been developed to produce graphene and recently we discovered the synthesis of large area graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) …
Angewandte Chemie International Edition – Chitin–Silica Nanocomposites by Self-Assembly A new family of chitin–silica nanocomposites has been synthesized by using a versatile colloid-based combination of self-assembly and sol–gel chemistry. Various textures and morphologies can be obtained by adjusting the evaporation-based processes or by applying external fields. After calcination, textures and birefringence are preserved in the …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software MIT Technology Review reports that scientists led by Eduardo Iáñez of Miguel Hernandez University have for the first time combined a number of desirable features into a single brain-computer interface that is noninvasive, spontaneous and asynchronous. They use four different models, each with assumptions that are …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BioScience journal invited several scientists with relevant expertise to contribute to this issue’s Special Section on biological carbon sequestration. Our authors have a range of perspectives on the topic. They include some (Christer Jansson and colleagues, and Steven H. Strauss and his coauthors) who are pursuing …