Bigelow Aerospace has designed a larger, heavier, and more capable expandable space station module, or interplanetary human transport module The BA 2100 would have a 2100 cubic meter volume and the BA 330 has a 330 cubic meter volume. The International space station has an internal volume of 1,000 cubic meters. The weight of the …
According to a Lancet Study in 2007, compared with nuclear power, coal is responsible for five times as many worker deaths from accidents, 470 times as many deaths due to air pollution among members of the public, and more than 1,000 times as many cases of serious illness, according to a study of the health …
Merthyr Vale Colliery was a coal mining facility above the town of Aberfan (Wales, England). For approximately 50 years, millions of cubic metres of debris from the mine had been deposited on the side of Merthyr Mountain. On October 21st, 1966, heavy rains brought a torrential flood of liquefied debris rushing down the mountain and …
I previously wrote an article about deaths per TWH by energy source, which looked at annual deaths by energy source. This had some cumulative effects worked in as air pollution accumulates and then people have increasing health problems and then die. Air pollution from fossil fuels that were used decades ago can be part of …
The three major economic mega-urban zones are the pearl river delta in the south (merging into one 42 million person city) and Yangtze River delta around Shanghai and the Bohai economic rim Geoffrey West and the Sante Fe Institute performed a study of cities and found that if the size of a city doubles, then, …
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Here is a Center for Disease Control description of the oil and gas extraction industry deaths Oil and gas extraction (i.e., removing oil and natural gas from the ground) is a growing industry in the United States, employing approximately 380,000 workers in 2006. In recent years, activity in this industry has increased substantially, from an …
The Fujinuma Dam, also known as the Fujinu Dam, was an embankment dam on a tributary of the Abukuma River 16 km (10 mi) west of the city office of Sukagawa City in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The dam failed on 12 March 2011 after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. The flood washed away five houses while …
Compiled fatal work injury statistics Above is the fatalities for mining with a lot from oil and gas extraction. The US only produces about 6-7% of the world’s oil and safety in some other countries is a lot worse than it is in the USA. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
University of Pennsylvania purchasing power parity tables are available (Penn World Tables 7.0) China’s PPP was adjusted upwards by 20% and India’s by 15%. PPP estimates for 2009 for the largest countries China is estimated at 11.3 to 11.68 trillion. India is estimated at 4.15 trillion. China has grown by about 20% from 2009 and …
University of Pennsylvania purchasing power parity tables are available (Penn World Tables 7.0) Because of China’s population and a degree of uncertainty about the rate of growth of China’s GDP as well as its actual economic size, PWT 7.0 provides two versions, an official and non-official. The former uses the ICP 2005 base estimate of …