Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Russia: Reduction in Gas Exports to Europe Possible
October 16th, 2014Via: CNBC: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Russia will have to reduce gas supplies to Europe if Ukraine steals gas. Pipelines that supply Europe crosses Ukraine en route. In June, Moscow halted gas supplies to Ukraine due to mounting debts and pricing disagreements. Disturbance of Russian gas supplies to Europe has happened two times in […]
New Lithium Ion Batteries Charge 70 Percent in 2 Minutes
October 16th, 2014Via: cNet: The freedom to hold computers in our hands, pop wireless headphones in our ears and pilot drones through our backyards is all brought to us by batteries — especially rechargeable lithium ion batteries. The portable powerhouses are a critical component of our march toward tech mobility, yet most require hours of being plugged […]
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
October 16th, 2014Via: Aviation Week: Hidden away in the secret depths of the Skunk Works, a Lockheed Martin research team has been working quietly on a nuclear energy concept they believe has the potential to meet, if not eventually decrease, the world’s insatiable demand for power. Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, […]
Crude Settles Down 4.6%, Lowest Since June 2012
October 14th, 2014Via: Reuters: Crude oil futures settled down 4.6 percent at $81.84 a barrel, the biggest percentage drop since November 2012 and the lowest settlement since June 28, 2012. Brent crude for November slid earlier and lurched lower toward the end of the day, dropping by more than $4 a barrel to dip below $85 a […]
Facebook, Apple Pay for Female Workers to Freeze Eggs
October 14th, 2014Via: New Zealand Herald: Facebook and Apple are covering the costs for female employees to freeze their eggs to delay childbearing that could hamper their careers, NBC News reports. The companies are covering up to $US20,000 ($NZ25,526) for the procedure and annual storage costs, NBC said on Tuesday, citing sources at the Silicon Valley firms. […]
The Amish Farmers Reinventing Organic Agriculture
October 14th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: “In the Second World War,” Samuel Zook began, “my ancestors were conscientious objectors because we don’t believe in combat.” The Amish farmer paused a moment to inspect a mottled leaf on one of his tomato plants before continuing. “If you really stop and think about it, though, when we go out spraying […]
Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
October 11th, 2014Via: Huffington Post: Two years before the Iran-Contra scandal would begin to bubble up in the Reagan White House, pilot William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee revealed to then-Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) that planes would routinely transport cocaine back to the U.S. after dropping off arms for the Nicaraguan rebels. Plumlee has since spoken in detail about […]
Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics
October 10th, 2014Via: MIT Technology Review: In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize. Inside a tiny rod of semiconductor crystal chilled cooler than outer space, they had caught the first glimpse of a strange particle called the Majorana fermion, finally confirming a prediction made in […]
E-Cat Third Party Test: COP Between 3.2 and 3.6
October 10th, 2014Via: Network World: Yesterday a new paper was published on a Swedish blog titled Observation of abundant heat production from a reactor device and of isotopic changes in the fuel. The paper was authored by Giuseppe Levi (Bologna University, Bologna, Italy), Evelyn Foschi (Bologna, Italy), Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér (Uppsala University, Uppsala, […]
Most U.S. Food Labeled ‘Natural’ Contains GMOs
October 10th, 2014Via: Russia Today: Nearly all US packaged food with a “natural” label in fact contains high levels of genetically modified ingredients, tests by the product testing watchdog Consumer Reports reveal. Consumer Reports said its study included more than 80 different processed foods containing corn or soy – the two most prevalent genetically modified crops in […]
