MIT Technology Review – 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet If you want to simulate the Earth, you’ll need data on the climate, health, finance, economics, traffic and lots more. Here’s where to find it. Arxiv – From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis Socio-economic data mining has a great potential in terms …
ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have raised their target for oil production from Iraq’s West Qurna-1 oilfield by about 22 per cent to more than 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd), a volume equal to the total output capacity of Abu Dhabi. If all the oilfields for which Iraq has awarded contracts were developed according …
IEEE Spectrum – DARPA has funded a new memristor-based approach to AI consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information. This site has discussed how memristors look very promising for creating human scale synapse networks. It was highly speculative (and still is) to think that memristors would be the key to AGI, but …
The Conference Board said it is conceivable that with the current forecasts for rates of growth, China’s GDP (purchasing power parity) could surpass the U.S.’s by 2012. The most recent IMF forecast of GDP (Purchasing power parity) is that China would pass the USA in about 2016. However, the IMF forecast had the US economy …
Brazil said the government’s Libra field may hold “gigantic” reserves of as much as 15 billion barrels, almost twice initial estimates, which would make it the biggest discovery in the Americas in more than three decades. A deposit of 15 billion barrels would be almost twice the size of state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s nearby Tupi …
Below are links the science journal articles about the recent analysis of lunar spectra results. Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, cautions that the spectral lines are not definitive. “We really need a surface rover mission,” he says. “We can argue about emission spectra from now until doomsday, but I …
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Uranium_imports_boost_Indian_reactor_output-1210104.html Electricity generation from India’s nuclear power plants has exceeded targets, partly through imports making uranium more readily available, according to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). NPCIL executive director Sudhinder Thakur said in a statement that electricity output from the country’s nuclear power plants between April and September 2010 was 10.853 terawatt-hours (TWh), …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed. The work of …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Tomorrow, after four years of effort, Deal-Blackwell and Hyperion Power Generation co-founders will sit down with NRC officials in Washington to begin discussing how the Commission might begin regulatory review for the nation’s first small modular reactor. This month the Hyperion Power Generation signed a memorandum …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Aeryon scout is quadcopter UAV that has about a 3 kilometer range. The Aeryon scout costs $30,000 to 50,000. The AR Drone quadcopter costs $300-500 The AR Drone is half as fast (5 meters/ second instead of 10 meters/sec) and has 12 minute of flying …