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United States producing 8.182 million barrels of crude oil per day
The United States is producing the most crude oil at 8.182 million barrels per day than they have produced since mid-1988Read more »
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The First two AP1000 nuclear reactors are on track to generate electricity...
The final module - the containment water tank - has been installed at the first of two AP1000 units under construction at Haiyang in China's Shandong province.The construction of the Haiyang AP1000s is...
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Japan might restart up to 10 reactors each year and have up to 35 nuclear...
Japan has stricter nuclear safety regulations since Fukushima. Restarting each reactor could cost around $1 billion in fees and will require a six-month review by the new Nuclear Regulation Authority....
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Lower cost space fuel depots from stockpiling contingent fuel
An MIT team has come up with two cost-efficient orbital fuel depot designs that do not require long-term commitment. Both designs take advantage of the fact that each lunar mission carries a supply of...
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DARPA Excalibur High-Energy Lasers headed to multi-100 kilowatts, 10 times...
High-energy lasers (HEL) have the potential to benefit a variety of military missions, particularly as weapons or as high-bandwidth communications devices. However, the massive size, weight and power...
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UN and other population forecasts for Nigeria and the World have been revised...
The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by almost one billion people within the next twelve years, reaching 8.1 billion in 2025 and 9.6 billion in 2050, according to a new...
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Spacex developing Raptor engine and use nine to power the first Mars...
NASA Space Flight website indicates that Spacex is advancing towards a larger Raptor engine to enable more Mars related capability.Tom Mueller, head of Spacex rocket engine development, has his main...
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Older Tiger Moms and the lifting of the One Child Ban in China will drive...
I gave a talk at Transhuman Visions a couple of weeks ago.In my look at near term transhumanism, I see older Tiger Moms as being the driver of early adoption of genetic intelligence enhancement and the...
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In three weeks, Spacex could demonstrate the first reusable rocket booster...
This Sunday, After sending cargo towards the International Space Station, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket used for the flight will return nearly immediately after liftoff and return and fire its...
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Biggest intelligence boost for the most people is for poor people in India...
The biggest boost to the intelligence for the most people would be in India and Africa. If all the poor there would be properly fed, then none of those people would not be stunted. Provide improved...
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Mars One partners with Liongate TV for reality TV program
Lionsgate TV has teamed with Lansdorp’s Mars One for an unscripted TV series that will chronicle the mission. The untitled project, in the red-hot social experiment genre, will be shopped to networks...
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US Wages and salaries share of the economy has been shrinking for 40 years...
For four decades, even in stronger economic times, USA wage gains have not kept pace with economic growth. Wages and salaries peaked at more than 51 percent of the economy in the late 1960s; they fell...
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3D Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound
Using little more than a few perforated sheets of plastic and a staggering amount of number crunching, Duke engineers have demonstrated the world’s first three-dimensional acoustic cloak. The new...
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Large thermoelectric power from a combination of magnets and superconductors...
Thermoelectric devices can cool materials by passing currents, or convert temperature differences into electric power. However, metallic structures have a very poor thermoelectric performance, and...
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Malaysian Official Says Jet was hijacked
Malaysian authorities have concluded that a passenger jet missing since last week was hijacked and deliberately steered off course, a government official involved in the investigation told The...
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Weak early response for restricted second child option in China means an...
Under the new loosening of China's One Child policy married couples in which just one parent is an only child can also have a second baby. The previous rules allowed two children for couples in which...
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Quantum Computing technologies
There are 15 to 18 technologies being investigated for quantum computing. Each have advantages and limitations. Blatt's group is working on a qubit based on an optical transition of trapped ions of...
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Dwave Doubling quantum qubits each year and planning to double installed base...
D-Wave wants its quantum computer to surpass the performance of traditional computers in the coming years, and has a processor roadmap that could make that happen.“We’re at a point where we see that...
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Terrestrial Energy Integral Molten Salt Reactor Developers is Working with an...
Dr. David LeBlanc and Chris Popoff of Terrestrial Energy conducted an in-car interview regarding the use of nuclear power to make oilsands production more environmentally friendly. LeBlanc sees little...
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Carnival of Space 344
The Carnival of Space 344 is up at the Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog.Universe Today - Hubble Telescope Watches Asteroid Disintegrate in SpaceAsteroid P/2013 R3 appears to be crumbling apart in...
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