Business Week has an interesting article about the applications and potential of ultra-short pulse lasers (USP) USP lasers switch on and off at impossibly high rates–as quickly as once every femtosecond, or a billionth of a millionth of a second. Those concentrated blasts can obliterate any material by literally knocking electrons out of an atom’s …
A wealthier China has more people who can ignore the fines and have more children Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, …
In 2004, it was estimated that China would be 58 to 60 percent urban 2020, and the urban population would hit 800 to 900 million. The urbanization rate was 37.7 percent in 2002. More recent figures suggest urbanization is at 42% in 2004, so urbanization is happening faster. A more recent university study indicates that …
Lithium Technology Corporation (OTC: LTHU.PK) claims that they have created the largest lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery cells. The 7 kWh battery comprised of 63 of LTC’s iron phosphate cells has achieved 125+ MPG. LTC’s large format technology allows for more reliable battery systems with a significantly lower number of cells. The battery management system …
Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch say the yuan will gain 9.6 per cent to about 7 per US dollar within 13 months. China’s economy in 2008 would then be US$3.7 trillion. This does not include Hong Kong and Macau which would increase the size of the economy to $3.9 trillion. Various economists say that the …
RESOLFT (reversible saturable optical fluorescent transitions) technology is breaking the century-old diffraction resolution barrier in conventional microscopy and allows for resolution of the size order of a dye molecule, i.e. a sharpness of one or two nanometers. RESOLFT (reversible saturable optical fluorescent transitions) technology, a method providing molecular scale resolution with visible light and regular …
Xirrus, maker of high capacity long range Wi-Fi access points, is showing a new, faster array that uses 802.11n to provide gigabit throughput. The new access point modules for 11n require an upgrade to Xirrus’ ArrayOS platform software. When upgraded, each radio in the array will be able to handle speeds up to 300M bps. …
The New Scientist reports that Nanocomp, a start-up based in New Hampshire, has made carbon nanotube into light weight body armor. Nanocomp graphic of target applications Nanoyarn Nanofelt “The trick is that our nanotubes are much longer than usual – millimetres in length rather than micrometres,” says Peter Antoinette, who heads the company. Antoinette says …
According to official chinese government figures, total national hydro generating capacity will reach 270GW by 2020 China’s total hydroelectric generating capacity stood at 115GW in 2006, before the first phase of the Three Gorges hydro power plant was completed. The 155GW of hydro power to be added between 2006-2020 is the equivalent of adding 1.2 …
China may allow the yuan to appreciate at 7.5% per year which would be faster than the 5.5% rate allowed since September, 2006 The yuan has moved from 8.27 to 7.6 since it was floated in July 2005. digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-economy-until-2015-and-beyond.html’; digg_skin =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-economy-until-2015-and-beyond.html’reddit_url=’advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-economy-until-2015-and-beyond.html’ China GDP stood at 20.94 trillion yuan (USD2.7 trillion) at the end of …
Here is pdf that reports on the status, activity and prices of the commercial space launch industry Long March 3A, 3B and 4B rocket launches had $50 million prices for the vehicle.The Long March 3B can get 11.2 tons to LEO A $2030/lb price to LEO.The Long March 5 will be able to launch 25 …