A free-trade agreement between China and Taiwan could boost China’s gross domestic product growth by 0.36-0.4 percentage point and by 0.63-0.67 percentage point after the members of the Asean +3 trade bloc begin removing import tariffs as soon as 2010. Taiwan’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by an estimated 1.72 percent if Taiwan and …
UPDATE: The Center right coalation of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) have won (Yellow and Black being the colors of those parties) and the nuclear reactors are saved. The FDP garnered around 14.6% of Sunday’s vote, its best showing yet, paving the way for a coalition with the CDU, which led …
This site has covered the EMdrive before. EMDrive presentation at Space 08 conference, Barbican, London View more presentations from A. Rocketeer. The EmDrive is highly controversial research in propulsion which would be reactionless and uses superconducting cavities. Rocketeer comments: Here’s my take on it. It “works” after a fashion (actually generates thrust), but not in …
EEtimes reports that China’s Hauwei launching new HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus / 3G HSPA Evolution [HSPA+]) cellular system in 2010 that has 56 mbit/s download speeds. Huawei has already deployed over 10 commercial HSPA+ network contracts. In Asia Pacific, it has worked on a commercial 28Mbit/s HSPA+ network and, with operators including Japan …
Africa Has Had About 6% Annual GDP Growth and 3% per Capita GDP Growth Since 2001 In 2009, the economic crisis has hurt growth but much of Africa is heading back to 4-5% growth in 2010 and probably back to 6% growth in 2011 onwards. Economic Growth Has Had a Positive Impact on Poverty Reduction …
Nuclear fuel burnup is measured in gigawatt-days per tonne and its potential is proportional to the level of enrichment. Hitherto a limiting factor has been the physical robustness of fuel assemblies, and hence burn-up levels of about 40 GWd/t have required only around 4% enrichment. But with better equipment and fuel assemblies, 55 GWd/t is …
Carnival of Space 116 is up at Habitation Intention there were two itemsThis site had two contributions: How much Uranium (and other elements) are there in the solar system and where in the solar system are they and the Mr. Fusion scenario where nuclear fusion energy becomes cheap andabundant What are the several candidate technology …
An 83 page presentation on the Westinghouse AP1000 and the recent Korean experience with nuclear plant construction. Schedule Validation With 4D ToolsAllows the details of construction, erection and test activities as well as their interactions to be worked out well in advance of actual construction.Primavera linked to Intergraph Smart Plan was used for the AP1000. …
The Space Elevator Games for 2009 were delayed but there are competitors no site and final preparations are occuring. UPDATE: The space elevator games are delayed at least 4 weeks. See the Space Elevator blog to track events. Power beaming CompetitionAugust 5, 2009 Sept or October 2009NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, …
There is a discussion of the cost advantages of large versus small reactors at thoriumenergy and Left-atomics. Mainly they are focusing on the traditional discussion of whether the economies of scale of large reactors can be matched by the economies of scale of many duplicate smaller modules. The smaller modules can one control center to …
The hardness of the composite aluminum and carbon nanotubes is several times greater than that of unalloyed aluminum, tensile strengths comparable to those of steel can be achieved, and the impact strength and thermal conductivity of the lightweight metal can be improved significantly. High hardness levels and tensile strengths could only be achieved in aluminum …