Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Very Big Accelerators as Energy Producers by R R Wilson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (3 pages) One consequence of the application of superconductivity to accelerator construction is that the power consumption of accelerators will become much smaller. This raises the old possibility …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software BP Plc and China National Petroleum Corp. will drill and upgrade wells to raise output from Iraq’s largest oil field of Rumaila and plan to increase oil production by 100,000 barrels per day by the end 2010. CNPC and partner BP Plc will take over full …
Kingdom Holding Company plans to build the Mile High Tower (Burj Al Meel) in Jeddah. The Mile High Tower could reach a height of 1,600 meters (one mile), the total built up area is 170,000 sq.m. The tower is part of the Kingdom City, a community development including residential units, commercial space, office area, education …
1. The Celebrity Cafe reports a new, and still untitled Star Wars live-action TV series is still trudging on, and will hopefully be ready for viewers in 2011. According to Wookieepedia.com, it will take place in between the last prequel and the first original, A New Hope, during the dark times Obi Wan mentioned to …
Time Magazine: Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. * 9/11* Y2K, dot.bomb, credit crisis * Enron, Madoff* Asian Tsunami, …
1. China looks to make the official nuclear target 70GW for 2020 and 160GW for 2030 China is poised to up its nuclear energy capacity targets to 70 GWe by 2020, according to reports in Chinese state media. The revision is awaiting approval by the State Council. The reports also say that NEA officials have …
Carnival of space 79 is up at One Astronomers’ Noise This site contributed an article about buying the future that we want. Centauri Dreams covers the concept of an inflatable beryllium sail to send a mission to the Oort comet cloud. The concept goes back to Joerg Strobl, who first published it in a 1989 …
