Nextbigfuture Articles that made the front page of reddit US Manufacturing jobs are leaving China and Returning to robots in the US This had over 2500 points and 1600 comments. Top Reddit comments – *the robots are manufactured in China – For now. Just until we have more robots that can manufacture more robots. – …
FAO (Food and Agriculture Administration of the United Nations – The FAO Food Price Index averaged 209 in December 2012, down 2 points (1.1 percent) from November and the lowest since June 2012, when the Index stood at 200. The decline in December was led by drops in the international prices of major cereals and …
In Saudi Arabia’s own direct communication to OPEC, the kingdom said November production was lower, at 9.49 million. The November Saudi amount was 550,000 barrels per day less than in August. Therefore, Saudi Arabia appears to have cut back its oil production to 11.2 million barrels per day in the last week of November (in …
Iraq’s production surged 650,000 barrels a day this year to 3.35 million, the biggest annual gain in 14 years. Iraq plans to boost output to an average 3.7 million barrels a day in 2013 and at some point in the year match the 1979 record of 3.8 million, Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Al-Luaibi told reporters …
1. Cold Fusion Now – there was an announcement of a projected public 1 Megawatt plant viewing around May/June 2013, a month or so before the ICCF (international Cold Fusion Conference) 18 conference taking place this time around in the US, making for a lot of revision and last minute speech editing if everything goes …
A new study by researchers at MIT and Rice University has shown that even lighter materials may be more capable and effective than Kevlar. The key is to use composites made of two or more materials whose stiffness and flexibility are structured in very specific ways — such as in alternating layers just a few …
Aviation Week – A revolutionary aircraft prototype is now in the final stages of assembly and integration in a World War II airship hangar in Tustin, Calif. Developed by Aeros Corp., a California start-up, and funded by the Defense Department as a potential long-range transportation technology, the Pelican combines buoyant and aerodynamic lift in a …
Bloomberg – Bakken oil traded at the most expensive compared with West Texas Intermediate in four months as Burlington Northern Santa Fe boosted crude rail shipping capacity for the grade to 1 million barrels a day. This seems to suggest that railroad and oil companies are expecting the oil from North Dakota to increase 660,000 …
Harvard – Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. Lens are a major part of cameras that can make them heavier and bulkier. Flat lens could remove a roadblock to making cameras smaller, lighter …
New Scientist – Planetary Resources would like to put up at least 10 or 15 asteroid spotting space telescopes into orbit in the next five years, some of them on Virgin Galactic rockets. The Planetary Resources telescopes will be a lot less capable than Hubble, which is a billion dollar space vehicle the size of …
In a vacuum, light travels so fast that it would circle the Earth more than seven times within the blink of an eye. When light propagates through matter, however, it slows by a factor typically less than 5. This factor, called the refractive index, is positive in naturally occurring materials, and it causes light to …