The Economist World in 2013 is forecasting that China will have 8.6% GDP growth and 5.0% inflation in 2013. They project nominal GDP to be US$9.23 trillion. Hong Kong is forecast to have a GDP of 404 billion. Macau is projected elsewhere to have a GDP at the end of 2013 of $50 billion. China …
The EIA publishes total monthly crude oil production statistics are published by state and has statistics going back to 1920 for the USA and 1981 by state. This information has been reported up to Sept, 2012 The weekly crude oil production information for the USA and Alaska has been published up to Nov 23, 2012. …
TechCrunch – Elon Musk has had a significant role Musk in creating at least four so far that are worth over $50 billion. Not about Risk Taking but getting things done to Solve Big Problems for a Bright Future One audience member asked, how could we get more Elon Musks? Is the entrepreneurial mindset and …
Elon Musk and some of his Spacex and Tesla engineers are working on something he calls the “Hyperloop” which will be a “cross between a rail-gun and a Concorde.” He said this was be a new kind of mass transport system. “I want something that is faster than a plane, costs less, can’t crash, and …
Nextbigfuture has made predictions that China would have a GDP of $107 trillion yuan by 2020. China’s gross domestic product will hit 100 trillion yuan ($16 trillion) by 2020, close to the size of the United States economy in 2012, said Yang Weimin, vice head of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Finance …
What attributes does pollen have that make DoD consider it anything more than a seasonal menace to humans’ sinuses? To start with, the exterior of a pollen grain is a shell made of a naturally durable, non-allergenic polymer. The contents of the shell that actually contain the allergy-inducing plant proteins and fats can be cleaned …
NY Times – The scientists described how the species (the immortal jellyfish – Turritopsis) — at any stage of its development — could transform itself back to a polyp, the organism’s earliest stage of life, “thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality.” This finding appeared to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world …
Russia’s Rosatom nuclear agency signed a deal to build a fast-neutron nuclear reactor on Russian territory in co-operation with 13 Czech companies. It is called the SVBR-100 project. Research and design work on the SVBR-100 reactor will continue until the end of 2014, while operations proper are set to begin in 2017. Potentially, it could …
Astronomers have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory to measure the mass of what may be the most massive black hole yet — 17 billion Suns — in galaxy NGC 1277. The unusual black hole makes up 14 percent of its galaxy’s mass, rather than the usual 0.1 …
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created more than 100 three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego® bricks — a major advance from the two-dimensional (2D) structures the same team built a few months ago. In effect, the advance means researchers just went from …
Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on Mercury can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to liquefy lead. Now researchers from NASA, MIT, the University of California …