Continued Future Energy Debate with Weird Science

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software I am discussing uranium and nuclear power with Weird Science. Weird Science has his second article. Part 2 summary Weird Science Future energy source like to haves: * Future energy source should be abundant and must last at least for 700 years. * It should have …

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Historical SuperVolcanoes and Archeology Indicate Nuclear Winter Climate Models Exaggerate Effects

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Proper civil defense planning needs to have an accurate and precise picture of the threat and effects. If we overestimate the effect we would misallocate resources or not take proper steps to mitigate impacts. If we properly determine that fire and climate risks of nuclear bombs …

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Oocyte Cryopreservation – The Other Cryonics

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Oocyte Cryopreservation is the freezing of a woman’s eggs for later artificial insemination inpregnation. A 2009 study showed 936 babies had been born from frozen eggs worldwide, with no increase in birth defects. It costs about $9,500 to freeze eggs. A private company may have an …

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Carnival of Space 149

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Carnival of Space 149 is at starry critters. This site provided: A spacecraft on a computer chip prototype should be launched this year. If this works it would open the door to cheap computer chip spacecraft that would act as sensors and monitors all over the …

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Lack of Chronic Worm Infections Leads to More Allergies and Asthma and other Inflammation diseases

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Technology Review reports mounting evidence in both humans and animals suggests that infection with these parasitic worms seems to protect against a number of inflammatory diseases, including asthma and allergy, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, and type 1 diabetes We became dependent on helminths [parasitic worms] and …

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Biotime Reverses the Aging of Human Cells

Ad Support : Business Success   How to Make Money    Executive Jobs    Paid Surveys BioTime and its collaborators reported on March 16, 2010 in a scientific paper titled “Spontaneous Reversal of the Developmental Aging of Normal Human Cells Following Transcriptional Reprogramming” the reversal of human cellular aging (Journal of Regenerative Medicine) * The Company reported that by …

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MIT Make Mechanical Muscles with up to Six Times as Much Torque as Electric Motors But Twenty Times Less Weight

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software MIT researchers have found a new way to use shape-memory alloys — metals that change shape when heated — to create small mechanical “muscles” for electronic devices. The mechanical muscles — or actuators — can produce three to six times as much torque as electric motors …

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Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene on Dielectric Surfaces

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Nanoletters – Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene on Dielectric Surfaces Direct deposition of graphene on various dielectric substrates is demonstrated using a single-step chemical vapor deposition process. Single-layer graphene is formed through surface catalytic decomposition of hydrocarbon precursors on thin copper films predeposited on dielectric …

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IHS CERA Predicts 6.5 million barrels per day for Iraq Oil Production in 2020

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software IHS CERA predicts Iraq oil production is 4.3 mbd in 2015 and 6.5 mbd in 2020. Iraq’s current “highly ambitious plans” to expand oil production are unlikely to be fully realized given political, security, operational and infrastructure challenges, according to a new report, Fields of Dreams: …

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Russia Increases Oil Production

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Russia, supplier of about 12 percent of the world’s oil, increased crude production in March to a post-Soviet record as TNK-BP tapped deposits and OAO Bashneft’s new owners squeezed more crude from older fields. Crude output reached 10.12 million barrels a day, a gain of 3.3 …

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Molten-salt based accelerator-driven subcritical reactor

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software User clumma on the EnergyfromThorium discussion forum provides highlights of the Second Thorium Energy Alliance Conference Andrew Hutton – Jefferson Lab (Nat’l Accel. Facility) ADNA (Accelerator-Driven Neutron Applications) Corporation – GEM*STAR These two were in the ADS (Accelerator-driven Systems) breakout session. I think it’s safe to …

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