Advanced Cell Technology is the company behind the new stem cell blood breakthrough which could supply unlimited disease free blood. The company is only up 50% to a valuation of 6.7 million. Biotime is a related company Robert Lanza is the chief scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology and was featured in Discover Magazine. He is …
Industrial waste heat is 7 quads in the USA. There is more waste heat from power plants and from cars. Capturing 20% of that waste heat is 1.4 quads every year. 1.4 quads is double all of the wind energy generated in the USA from 2003 to 2006. Further down this article is diagrams and …
There will be about thirty speakers at the Understanding aging conference in UCLA this weekend Here are links to the abstracts of the presentations and some of the highlighted presentations. Zheng Cui will discuss his Natural Cancer Resistance in Mice and in Humans: basis for a novel cancer therapy (GIFT therapy was covered here) and …
Went to a Demo networking event last week In 1991, Stewart Alsop changed the technology conference circuit by instituting a new event with new rules: DEMO would be about the products; would require timed, live demonstrations; and would not allow PowerPoint presentations. These rules still stand. Startups communicate the power and value of emerging technologies …
When Crescent Point first acquired Bakken lands and production in the Viewfield area near Stoughton in 2006, the initial estimate was 500 million to one billion barrels of oil in place. Saskatchwen Bakken production is at least 56,000 barrels of oil per day (Just adding recent Crescent Point, Petrobank and Tristar numbers at the end …
Another family of superconducting materials has been found by researchers in Japan and China. The iron-and-arsenic compounds are being hailed as a great advance. Some researchers hope the new materials will help solve the mystery of cuprate high temperature superconductors (discovered in 1986) “It’s possible that these materials will provide a cleaner system to work …
Carnival of space week 14 is at Universe Today I contributed my updated article on the liberty gaseous core nuclear thermal rocket which has contains all radiation from the atmosphere but delivers 40 times more cargo than the Space shuttle. There is article about extracting oxygen from lunar soil Colony worlds talks about landing humans …
A hot ice Neptune sized world with water has been found The star GJ 436, a diminutive star (red dwarf) 30 light-years from the Sun, was known since 2004 to harbour a 22-Earth mass planet, orbiting 4 million kilometers from the star (0.03 Astronomical Units). Measurements show that the planet has a diameter of about …
Magnetic memory 100 times faster than current hard drives proven in the lab and needs better nanostructured material control for commercialization Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and …
A pdf by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg that surveys the state of cognitive enhancement in 2006 Nick Bostrom’s website The paper reviews ways to train ourselves to be more intelligent/expert, drugs for enhancement /nootropic drugs, genetic modification, enhancing devices like computers, and brain /computer interfaces. I think collaboration and collective productivity as in corporations …