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Nuclear Power accounts for 59% of Ontario power and enabled Ontario to become...
In April 2014, Ontario became the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario's last remaining...
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Low Oil price boost oil consuming countries by $1.3 trillion
For years, China alone propelled fully 50 per cent of the annual world growth in oil demand. Slower growth in China may prevent it from supporting global energy demand for a while. “The oil price will...
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Alberta shifting to only 10% power from coal by 2034
Coal was used to produce about 43-51 per cent of the electricity used in Alberta, 63 per cent in Saskatchewan, 60 per cent in Nova Scotia. Ontario stopped using coal for electricity this year. About 4...
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Cheap oil shock could see $30 per barrel before stabilizing around $70 -...
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Chairman Murray Edwards said crude oil may sink as low as $30 a barrel before rebounding to stabilize at $70 to $75 a barrel, the Financial Post reported.Oil has dropped...
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Russia could collapse before US shale producers
The Wall Street Journal talked about how Russia’s Debt and Currency Markets Could Spiral into Crisis in October. This was before Opec decided to keep oil production and drove down the price of oil....
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Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests in Europe
The New York Times reported that Russian money is supporting fracking protests in the USA.Lithuania and Romania had potential gas projects with Chevron.Chevron ran into a wave of unusually fervent...
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Chinese companies will have over $45 billion in infrastructure projects in...
The Chinese government and banks will finance Chinese companies to build $45.6 billion worth of energy and infrastructure projects in Pakistan over the next six years, according to new details of the...
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Human Glial Cells for half a mouse's brain makes mice a lot smarter and...
Replacing half a mouse’s brain with human glial cells, the cells that support neurons with a protective substance called myelin, doesn’t mean the mice are any more human, per se. Rather, researchers...
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Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria ,Saudi Arabia are sneaking up the world rankings...
The Economist World in 2015 has its forecast for economic growth. The work was done before the outlook for oil prices clearly became far lower.Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria are quite high...
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Fishing provides key jobs and nutrients for the world's poor and fish farming...
Fisheries and aquaculture support the livelihoods of 10 to 12 per cent of the world’s population. Since 1990 employment in the sector has grown at a faster rate than the world’s population and in 2012...
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The other reusable rocket company Blue Origin says new BE-4 engine should be...
Jeff Bezos says his vision is he wants to see millions of people living and working in space. Bezos' private spaceflight company Blue Origin is currently working with the United Launch Alliance (ULA)...
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Breakthrough in passive mirror cooling can save 15% of the energy used by...
Stanford engineers have invented a revolutionary coating material that can help cool buildings, even on sunny days, by radiating heat away from the buildings and sending it directly into space.Previous...
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Big step towards onchip photonic communication so computers would be a lot...
Using a new algorithm, Stanford engineers can design and build a prism-like silicon structure that can bend light at right angles. The goal is to transmit data faster and more efficiently via optical...
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Google Project Loon Internet balloons have gone the distance of 75 trips...
3 million kilometers is a long journey. Google project Loon ballons have travelled 3 million kilometers through the stratosphere since the project began last year. The Google Plus Project Loon page has...
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Google Deep Mind is taking Artificial Intelligence to a new level and hope to...
Demis Hassabis leads what is now called Google DeepMind. It is still headquartered in London and still has “solve intelligence” as its mission statement. Roughly 75 people strong at the time it joined...
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Movies where human video gamers save humanity won't happen as Artificial...
The main point of Google DeepMind's AI, says Hassabis, is to create computers that can "solve any problem"."AI has huge potential to be amazing for humanity", he mentions in the Technology Review...
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2-3 million barrel per day swing in oil supply and demand balance crushed the...
Global oil supply inched up by 35 kb/d in October to 94.2 mb/d. Compared with one year ago, total supply was 2.7 mb/d higher as higher OPEC production added to non-OPEC supply growth of 1.8 mb/d....
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Google aims for revolutionary change and not incremental change
Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for Google. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons ... and then it gets even more interesting, as...
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Demis Hassibis gives an overview of the field of Artificial Intelligence
Demis Hassibis gives an overview of the field of Artificial Intelligence and why he chose his Deepmind approach.His view is that whole brain emulation will take too long. Other AI approaches have been...
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Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning Tutorials
Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning "Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning (Part 1 Slides1-68; Part 2 Slides 69-109)" Read more »
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