California has approved legislation requiring 100% clean energy by 2045. On Tuesday, the Assembly voted 43-32 in favor of the bill, which had been introduced by Sen. Kevin de León. Senate Bill 100 will now return to the state Senate, where it is expected to pass. The bill will require that utilities providers generate 60% …
India is predicted to overtake China as the biggest source of growth for oil demand by 2024, according to research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie. India’s oil demand is set to increase by 3.5 billion barrels per day from 2017 to 2035, which will account for a third of global oil demand growth. In 2017, …
1. Universe Today – This Planet is so Metal. Iron and Titanium Vapour Found in the Atmosphere of an “Ultra-Hot Jupiter” An exoplanet is hot enough to turn metal into vapor. It is known as KELT-9b, a gas giant located 650 light-years from Earth that has atmospheric temperatures so hot – over 4,000 °C (7,232 …
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has just published a four-paper Series on Ageing and endocrinology, highlighting endocrine-related diseases and comorbidities as some of the most common age-related conditions and major impediments to maintaining good health in old age. Implementation of the extension code XT9T in ICD-11 is not formal recognition of ageing as a disease. …
Habitable exoplanets around low-mass stars could be the most common type of habitable planets. Chemical rockets could be inadequate for many of these exoplanets.
Giant 30 and 40 meter diameter ground telescopes will have 13 times more light collection than the best optical telescopes today and with 16 times the sharpness of hubble. This will enable a massive increase in the direct imaging of exoplanets. Extremely Large Telescope 39 meter scope first light 2024 The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) …
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) obtained a document showing how F-35 officials are recategorizing—rather than fixing—major design flaws to be able to claim they have completed the program’s development phase without having to pay overruns for badly needed fixes. Major flaws include * pilots cannot confirm a weapon’s target data before firing * damage …
China is building a 1 billion yuan (US$145.4 million) superconducting computer. It will be able to help develop new weapons, breaking codes and analyzing intelligence. It will use supercooled circuits made of superconducting materials. It will use 40 to 1000 times less energy. The plan is to make a prototype of the machine as early …
Ripple is currently the number three cryptocurrency based upon market capitalization as of August 29, 2018. Ripple has a market capitalization of $13.6 billion. Chris Larsen is co-founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency company Ripple. In Feb, 2018, Chris held 17% share in Ripple company. (15.56 billion XRP) At today’s exchange rate of $0.34 …
China is helping Afghanistan to set up a mountain brigade in Afghanistan to boost counterterrorism efforts. Afghanistan said there would be no Chinese military personnel of any kind on Afghan soil at any time. Sources close to the Chinese military earlier told the Post that China had funded and started building a training camp for …
A cubic mile of oil per year is about 5.084 Terawatts per year with continuous power generation. making current world energy use around 15 TW. The world is using about 3.9 cubic miles of oil per year in electricity. The world was using 3.19 cubic miles of oil per year in electricity in 2006. The …