Times Online UK: Continental Europe now has 3,600 miles of high-speed line in operation, with a further 2,000 under construction. China will have 6,000 miles open by 2012. NY Times: China is investing $292.9 billion (2 trillion RMB) in a nationwide high-speed, energy efficient rail network. China accelerated its high-speed-rail development plan last year in …
1. Nuclear power plans in Africa, Middle East * Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station by around 2020 and to build another every five years after that, energy minister Chakib Khelil* Egypt announced plans to build several nuclear reactors to meet rising power demand in 2007* Russia plans to start up …
A new method of moving tiny particles using magnetic polymer beads and magnetic fields could find uses in microchips and in medicine. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, the Merton C. Flemings Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, his doctoral student Charles Sing, and researchers at Boston University and in Germany, devised a system that uses so-called superparamagnetic …
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Airlines reported lengthy delays on international flights to the U.S. over the weekend amid heightened security after Friday’s alleged terrorism incident on a trans-Atlantic flight, but domestic passengers were largely unaffected by the new measures. AMR Corp.’s American Airlines said passengers and their luggage were being subjected to an extra round of screening at many …
There are people who look at the Energy Information Administration projection that is some nuclear favorable energy bill passes that the US cannot make 140 more nuclear reactors and sustain current nuclear power and achieve 240% of current nuclaer power by 2050. I think the build rate and increase of nuclear power can be far …
Some people are worried that if Climate Change occurs, that there will be increased desertification and an inability for humanity to feed itself and resulting mass starvation. This is often presented that climate change happens, more deserts occur and by 2100 there are only one billion people left on earth because we can only feed …
Almost 90 percent of the 110-120 million e-bikes (electric bikes) on China’s streets exceed the government limits. Electric bikes and scooters strategy would be the easiest and fastest path to electrifying transportation. Electric bikes and scooters use 10 to 100 times less material and less batteries. China can make 50 million each year now versus …
Smartphone pico projectors — small accessories that allow phones to project video and photos onto 40- to 60-inch screens — have finally begun to ship. In November, 2009, Sparkz Products released its expensive pico projector for the iPhone; the device balances on a tripod stand. Microvision has recently announced that its pico projector design will …
The IEA nations currently generate about 80% of the worlds nuclear power and for the first nine months of the year are down -1.2% from 2008. The OECD total for Jan-Sep,2009 is 1602.9 TWHe. For 2008 the OECD total was 2171 TWHe. The world total was 2601 TWhe in 2008. This is an update of …
China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revises its GDP growth for 2008 up from 9.0% to 9.6% China raised GDP for 2008 to 31.4045 trillion yuan from the previous figure of 30.067 trillion yuan. The new figure amounted to about 4.59 trillion U.S. dollars, at the exchange rate on Dec. 31 of 2008. China’s gross …