Nano-Prospecting

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• 	This is not fair jorfoas on 01/25/2008 at 4:08 PM
  Posts: 1 Avg Rating:	I think this is not fair. Nanotechnology is the only technological known paradigm that can provide efficient and green mechanisms. It would be the greatest stupidity of history to use it in a way that promotes CO2 emissions. We have to start saying good bye to oil, otherwise our atmosphere is never really going to recover. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • Re: This is not fair MakeSense on 01/27/2008 at 1:42 PM

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    From what I've read, global warming will reach a point of inevitability real soon unless the world takes drastic steps to reduce CO2 output. Based on that, we can pretty much accept that global warming will advance, and we should spend time and money confronting its consequences. As for oil and these nanosensors? It sounds nifty, but the article doesn't point out just how the sensors are supposed to disperse throughout a fluid-filled reservoir. I doubt it can be done, unless they plan to inject the sensors throughout waterflooding operations. In that case, they would give a partial picture of the reservoir volume contacted by water. Here's an idea if the oil companies want to fund something worthwhile: Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is looking for a mere $2 million to develop what could be a commercial version of their Focus Fusion device. How about it BP? Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	Technology Transfer with no licensing mkogrady on 01/29/2008 at 2:00 PM
  Posts: 120 Avg Rating:	Seem like the US Taxpayer is being generous again. Giant corporations making BILLIONS of dollars acquire technology paid for through grants by US taxpayers. In return the professors or developer gets a great job offer, the oil company gets free technology and taxpayers get no royalties. Who needs VC's when you have the government? Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • Re: Technology Transfer with no licensing ajamin on 01/30/2008 at 2:26 PM

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    Yeah, it is too bad this is not being addressed. When I saw this: ::: The financial investment--equivalent to $1 million per year from each company for three years--is "a very good sign," says Kris Pister, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, who has spent several years developing distributed sensors known as smart dust. ::: I instantly thought of this: BP Gives $500 million to UC Berkeley Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	supercritcal CO2 sbkadar on 06/02/2008 at 1:28 AM
  Posts: 5 Avg Rating:	I know that some sites are pumping CO2 back into wells to store the carbon dioxide. Supercritical CO2 is a great surface cleaning agent. Could the CO2 under pressure on these sites be used to clean and extract from the porous sand? Rate this comment: (Reply)