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Energy Information Administration has Texas at 3 million barrels per day of...
Texas crude oil production is at about 92 million barrels per month or over 3 million barrels per day. This is triple some of the months between 2001 and 2007. Texas is over the level of the 1980s and...
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EIA forecasts US total oil production will be over 15 million barrels per day...
The US Energy Information Administration has a short term outlook published Sept, 2014.* project total all liquids US oil production will be over 15 million barrels per day by the end of 2015* total US...
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Illumina Says 228,000 Human Genomes Will Be Sequenced This Year and 1.6...
A record 228,000 human genomes will be completely sequenced this year by researchers around the globe, said Francis de Souza, president of Illumina, the maker of machines for DNA sequencing, during MIT...
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UNC professor says black holes can't exist according to mathematical proof
By merging two seemingly conflicting theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven black holes can never come into being in the first place. Black holes are thought to be the densist...
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Bill O'Reilly Mercenary Army Proposal is Crappier in All Respects to the US...
Bill O'Reilly proposed a mercenary army. Re-create a Special Forces unit without the personnel of a Special Forces unit.Instead:*The fighters in the O’Reilly Mercenary Army would be recruited by the...
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India ISRO has Mars Orbiter Mission at Mars and sending back pictures
The Indian Space Research Organization has successfully reached Mars with its Mars Orbiter Mission.* Spacecraft Successfully entered Martian Orbit* Burn Start of Main Liquid Engine Confirmed* The radio...
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Better Cement mixture would make it twice as strong and allow less to be used...
“Cement is the most-used material on the planet,” Pellenq says, noting that its present usage is estimated to be three times that of steel. “There’s no other solution to sheltering mankind in a durable...
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New Cas9 mouse model will be easier to CRISPR gene-edit and enable faster...
Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have created a new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome-editing experiments in living animals.The researchers...
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Nextbigfuture Open Discussion Thread
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China's nine page position on climate change - fund at least to antipoverty...
China provided a nine page position paper on climate change.Here are the highlights* If the developed countries are serious about this then fund it at least to the level of anti-poverty to 1% of GDP in...
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DWave Systems implies that conclusive quantum speedup will be shown with...
DWave Systems CEO Vern Brownell says we are at the dawn of the quantum computing age, so things will change over time, and we’ll see a broader and broader set of applications. But today DWave focuses...
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Goldman see China sustaining about 7% GDP Growth until 2019
Goldman Sachs today cut its 2015 GDP growth forecast from 7.6% to 7.1% but left its 2014 forecast of 7.3% unchanged, saying Beijing recognizes the 7.5% growth target is not sustainable in the...
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Hope that India will get back to 7% or better GDP growth and sustain it
The Blackrock and the Confederation of Indian Industry are optimistic that India can get to 7% GDP growth in 2015 and sustain it at that level.BlackRock expects India’s GDP growth to accelerate to 7%...
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Update on the construction of islands and airfields in the South China Sea
The Sydney Morning Herald has photos of the transformation of a couple of islands in the South China Sea.This is an update on the construction of islands and airfieldsin the South China Sea.Before in...
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Facebook pushing ahead towards thousands of internet delivering drones
Facebook solar powered internet delivering drones will have the wingspan of a jumbo jet and fly at 17 mile height. Facebook will create thousands of semi-autonomous drones the size of jumbo jets which...
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Broad Group CEO explains why technological innovation in construction is...
The construction and infrastructure industry is antiquated and out of date. Most work is still performed manually and on site, which is costly and time consuming. For example, today a skyscraper can...
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Molten Salt Reactor Projects in the UK
A feasibility study for a next-gen Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) has won funding from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK government’s strategic innovation agency. The bid was led by the indefatigable...
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Integrated Molten Salt Reactor should demonstrate the lowest lifetime cost of...
Canada's Terrestrial Energy Corporation is a leader in molten salt reactors. Nextbigfuture believes they have a good chance at creating an energy revolution because of their low cost and low...
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Dwave says papers coming showing speedup over classical in narrow cases by...
Some important third-party results [will soon be published] that can demonstrate speedups over classical algorithms in certain narrow cases by DWave Quantum computers. Those are results that you won’t...
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Prediction market success
Brian Wang is participating in another season of the Good Judgement Project. The Good Judgment Project is a four-year research study organized as part of a government-sponsored forecasting tournament....
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