Chinese auto makers added the capacity by 30 percent to 20 million units in 2009 Fuel-efficient cars have already shown some signs of overheating, as the demand for auto with displacement less than 1.6 liters was about 3 million units before 2011, less than half of the capacity of 7 million units, said Jia Xinguang, …
The week 6 weekend domestic box office for Avatar was $36 million. This was a 16% drop from the previous weekends $42 million. The foreign markets do not report until tomorrow, but should have about $100-120 million. The rest of the week should probably have a little over $3 million per day domestically. Previous nextbigfuture …
The Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS) is one of the largest regional wind integration studies to date. It was initiated in 2008 to examine the operational impact of up to 20-30% energy penetration of wind on the power system in the Eastern Interconnect of the United States. the full report is a 242 …
The Wall Street Journal and other sources are reporting on a Supreme court Ruling with far reaching implications on the US political process. A divided Supreme Court struck down decades-old limits on corporate political expenditures, potentially reshaping the 2010 election landscape by permitting businesses and unions to spend freely on commercials for or against candidates. …
1. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean volume of 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil in the Orinoco Oil Belt Assessment Unit of the East Venezuela Basin Province; the range is 380 to 652 billion barrels. (4 page pdf) Estimates of Original Oil-in-Place A comprehensive study by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) …
Carnival of Space 137 is up at noisyastronomer This site provide the article on the risk of manmade sun explosions The Bad Astronomer provides the picture of Mars and its frozen CO2 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Ricardo has demonstrated their taxibot for moving planes at airports, which they hope to have commericial in 2011. The robotically driven vehicles could save billions each year in fuel. The demonstrator vehicle weighs 52 tonnes and is powered by twin, 500hp V8 diesel engines which operate a complex hydrostatic drive system as well as hydraulic …
Disqus Comments are not working in IE browser. Appear to work with Firefox. Hopefully the issue will be resolved on the Disqus end shortly. Apologies for any inconvenience. the problem lasted from Jan 21-23, 2010. It is fixed now Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million …
Rice University has developed dry printing of nanotube patterns to any surface which could revolutionize microelectronics and more. Rice graduate student Cary Pint has come up with a way to transfer patterns of strongly aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) from a substrate to another surface – any surface – in a matter of minutes. The …
There is an analysis of the model income of the world from 1970 and 2006. Model income is the level of income that is most common in the world. The graphs show on the left vertical the population with a particular income level and the bottom horizontal shows the income level. In 1970 about 50 …
Picture – This graphene (100 mm / 4 inch) wafer contains more than 22,000 devices and test structures. Researchers in the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) Materials Division at Penn State have produced 100 mm diameter graphene wafers, a key milestone in the development of graphene for next generation high-power, high-frequency electronic devices. Graphene is the two-dimensional …