June 7, 2017 |
brian wang |
Unit 3 of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan’s Fukui prefecture was restarted on June 6, 2017, plant owner Kansai Electric Power Company has announced. Takahama 4 – which had also been kept offline since March 2016 by a …
June 7, 2017 |
brian wang |
China has several multi-billion dollar city development projects. Nanhui New City plans to attract 800,000 residents and reportedly cost $4.5 billion. Nanhui city illustration Established in April 2017, Xiongan New Area is a redevelopment project planned for Hebei, China. Initially, …
June 7, 2017 |
brian wang |
Lockheed Martin says hypersonic technologies are now sufficiently mature to enable progress towards a flight demonstrator. In March 2016, Lockheed CEO Hewson stated that the company was on the verge of a technological breakthrough that would allow its conceptual SR-72 …
May 13, 2017 |
brian wang |
Weekly US oil production is back to 9.3 million barrels per day and is nearing the 9.6 million barrel peak in mid-2015. OPEC raised its outlook for U.S. production growth by 285,000 barrels a day to 820,000 a day in …
April 6, 2017 |
brian wang |
CPUs vastly slowed in performance scaling around 1997-2004. You can see it with the lines showing flat clock speeds and performance per clock. However, you already knew it from the lack of real performance improvement in laptops and desktop computers. …
April 4, 2017 |
brian wang |
For decades, loops of genetic material known as circular RNA were considered a kind of genetic accident. But scientists have given them new attention in recent years, and a set of papers published this month suggests some of them actually …
April 4, 2017 |
brian wang |
Spacex has around 500 job openings on its careers site. Panasonic plans to hire 2,000 people this year to make batteries for the Tesla Model 3 at the Gigafactory located east of Sparks. They’re looking to fill positions as material …
