1. Nicaragua’s 6 million people are among the poorest, with as many as a quarter living on less than two dollars a day, which makes subsistence farming all the more important. President Ortega has described the canal, which would dwarf the old Panama Canal and the new one under construction as well, as “phase two” …
Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors (OECD, June 2011, 177 pages) Small and modular reactors should be competitive with non-nuclear technologies for generating electricity in cases where large nuclear power plants cannot compete for whatever reason. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. …
New multi-gigabit per second wifi is coming in 2012. EEE 802.11aa: Robust streaming of Audio Video Transport Streams (about Mar 2012) IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput less than 6 GHz; potential improvements over 802.11n: better modulation scheme (expected ~10% throughput increase); wider channels (80 or even 160 MHz), multi user MIMO; (about Dec 2012) IEEE …
T-Mobile has lit up 42 Mbps Speed in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando using HSPA+ Ericsson has shown off a demo of multi-carrier HSPA with 168Mbps downlink and 24Mbps uplink The first demonstration showcased multi-carrier HSPA with 168Mbps on the downlink and 24Mbps on the uplink using a prototype consumer device and commercial network …