WASHINGTON — The United States is running out of a rare gas that is crucial for detecting smuggled nuclear weapons materials because one arm of the Energy Department was selling the gas six times as fast as another arm could accumulate it, and the two sides failed to communicate for years, according to a new Congressional audit.
The gas, helium-3, is a byproduct of the nuclear weapons program, but as the number of nuclear weapons has declined, so has the supply of the gas. Yet, as the supply was shrinking, the government was investing more than $200 million to develop detection technology that required helium-3.
New York Times
How important this news can be?
The fact that they talk about NOT BEING ABLE to detect nuclear weapons will justify some leak of it?
Some wanted leak?
Some false flag nuclear attack?
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Home, sweet home
If the economy was not manipulated by speculators we would have peace and there would be a balance among nations.
The value of a currency should not be a certain amount of gold, but the value of the job or the commodities for that amount.
If a computer was worth 1000 $ in US and the same equivalent in Yuan or Euros or Rubles, if a carpenter in US was paid the same amount as in Russia or in China, everybody would live and WORK in his country.
There would still be a lot of exchanges, but based on the need and not on the value of the currency.
This morning I read that in Poland they are building a new freeway Berlin- Warsaw and who is building it?
Chineses...
The Polish go to work to England and Germany, Germans go to Norway, English are unemployed and so on...
Isn´t that ridicolous?
Wouldn´t it be better if the Americans produced in US, Polish in Poland and so on?
The value of a currency should not be a certain amount of gold, but the value of the job or the commodities for that amount.
If a computer was worth 1000 $ in US and the same equivalent in Yuan or Euros or Rubles, if a carpenter in US was paid the same amount as in Russia or in China, everybody would live and WORK in his country.
There would still be a lot of exchanges, but based on the need and not on the value of the currency.
This morning I read that in Poland they are building a new freeway Berlin- Warsaw and who is building it?
Chineses...
The Polish go to work to England and Germany, Germans go to Norway, English are unemployed and so on...
Isn´t that ridicolous?
Wouldn´t it be better if the Americans produced in US, Polish in Poland and so on?
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Where technology meets relevant content
Since the Autumn of 200 I have an e-books Website.
It is one of my hobbies.
As books lover I always had this dream of being kind of a publisher and the electronic format gave me a good chance.
Electronic books and magazines have a big advantage compared to the traditional ones, they have a very low cost, especially when it comes to colour pictures and they can display video and sound.
The electronic media in my opinion was the best for magazines.
But at that time it had a big problem: to read any book or magazine you needed to be in front of your computer.
I am very happy to say that finally we have come to what I have always dreamed for : a tablet to store and display your ebooks and e magazines.
And I am also very happy to see that
Ringier , a Swiss company, has launched an application for for tablets with internationally relevant content and a highly intuitive User-Navigation system.
This is great news if you happen to own a tablet, since it can be used as iPad application.
This appazine will do all what I could dream an electronic book or magazine would do: highly inter-active design , first-class articles, audio, photos and videos, inter-active elements will include panoramic photography, 3D digital animation, creative morphing, rubbing, X-Ray lens and much much more.
The content will include globally relevant topics (see pictures below) which will excite and challenge top-tier audiences. It will be the first to be published simultaneously in English, German and Chinese.
Sharing propelled by ebuzzing
Where does cancer come from?
Certainly one of the most "wanted" answer is "where does cancer come from?"
How to fulfill it?
In the end of 2006 in the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis they introduced a new machines capable of reading DNA a thousand times as quickly as the previous machines, and (not unimportant) at far less cost. It could be used to sequence cancer tissues, scouring their DNA for mutations.
Whit it it was possible to identify tens of thousands of mutations.
These new findings have led to new approaches to treating cancer.
Cancer develops when cells accumulate genetic mistakes that allow them to grow and divide faster than healthy cells.
Identifying the mutations that underlie this transformation can help predict a patient’s prognosis and identify which drugs are most likely to work for that patient.
New drugs for cancer treatment could be found.
Since in the patient you have both the tumor genome and the normal genome, you can get many answers by comparing the two.
How to fulfill it?
In the end of 2006 in the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis they introduced a new machines capable of reading DNA a thousand times as quickly as the previous machines, and (not unimportant) at far less cost. It could be used to sequence cancer tissues, scouring their DNA for mutations.
Whit it it was possible to identify tens of thousands of mutations.
These new findings have led to new approaches to treating cancer.
Cancer develops when cells accumulate genetic mistakes that allow them to grow and divide faster than healthy cells.
Identifying the mutations that underlie this transformation can help predict a patient’s prognosis and identify which drugs are most likely to work for that patient.
New drugs for cancer treatment could be found.
Since in the patient you have both the tumor genome and the normal genome, you can get many answers by comparing the two.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
The new electric smart grid: end to end like the Internet
The future for stabilizing the electricity grid is in Smart transformers.
It will revamp aging power grids into something more like the Internet—a network that might direct energy not just from centralized power stations to consumers but from any source to any destination, by whatever route makes the most sense.
The new transformer will make it easier for the grid to cope with things it was never designed for, like charging large numbers of electric vehicles and tapping surplus electricity from residential solar panels.
Smart meters in homes and offices can help by providing fine-grained information about the flow of electricity, but precise control over that flow is needed too.
Not only would this stabilize the grid, but it would better balance supply and demand, reducing spikes so that fewer power plants would be needed to guarantee the electricity supply.
It will revamp aging power grids into something more like the Internet—a network that might direct energy not just from centralized power stations to consumers but from any source to any destination, by whatever route makes the most sense.
The new transformer will make it easier for the grid to cope with things it was never designed for, like charging large numbers of electric vehicles and tapping surplus electricity from residential solar panels.
Smart meters in homes and offices can help by providing fine-grained information about the flow of electricity, but precise control over that flow is needed too.
Not only would this stabilize the grid, but it would better balance supply and demand, reducing spikes so that fewer power plants would be needed to guarantee the electricity supply.
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