Workforce size, Urban Workforce and Automation in China and the World

China has about 4.1% urban unemployment now and one of the big arguments about collapsing future GDP growth is that China’s working age population will shrink as the population ages. From Wikipedia on growth accounting, we have the economic formula for growth Y= (F,K,L) Y is total output, K is the stock of capital in …

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Fusion and expected power generation trends

Vincent Page, technology officer at GE, wrote a good paper in 2005 about the economics and timeline towards moving to fusion power He had three fusion concepts in a chart which I will extend Time to Small Cost to Achieve Large scale chanceConcept Description Scale net energy Net Energy after small success Funded?Bussard IEC Fusion …

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