India’s PM Modi described targets and growth plans for India in the Economist. India has ambitious target of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022. W They have commenced replacement of 770m incandescent bulbs with LED lighting by 2019. Renewable and energy and LED bulbs will reduce their peak load by 20 gigawatts and greenhouse-gas …
China has 205 ships over 500 tons Japan has 78 ships over 500 tons Vietnam has 55 ships over 500 tons Indonesia has 8 ships Malaysia has 2 ships Philippines has 4 ships Not in the graphic are India, South Korea and North Korea. India has about 137 ships As of 2015, the Indian Navy …
Neurologist Philip De Jager took us through the challenge of identifying novel targets in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and age-related cognitive decline, understanding the structure of the AD population and understanding each individual’s location along the trajectory leading to AD. Using datasets from Catholic priests, nuns and older Chicago-area individuals who were free of dementia at enrollment, the …
Baker Institute – Structural Change Forecasts for India: How Big of a Bang Can a Big Bang Have? by Russell Green, Ph.D and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (31 pages) India’s political environment exhibits a new determination to “transform India into a global manufacturing hub,” and in the process raise manufacturing …
An update on China’s high speed rail and regular construction 2015 the total length of railways in service would reach 120,000 kilometers, 2015 total length of high speed rail in operation would be 18,000 kilometers. At the end of 2014, total length of railways in service reached 112,000 kilometers 70,000 kilometers of rail was in …
Suncor Energy, Canada’s largest oil company, confirmed this week it has entered into a five-year agreement with Komatsu Ltd., the Japanese manufacturer of earthmoving and construction machines, to purchase new heavy haulers for its mining operations north of Fort McMurray. All the new trucks will be “autonomous-ready,” meaning they are capable of operating without a …
It is now possible to record a human genome (differences relative to a reference is only 2 megabytes. This is instead of 9 terabytes for a human genome with image data. Genomes for the entire human population is 2 petabytes. Getting to one off target in one in 100 trillion (10^14) to one in 10 …
The SR-72 will travel at six times the speed of sound—the fastest military jet ever made—and fly as high as 80,000 feet. The SR-72,will evade assault, take spy photos, and attack targets at speeds of up to Mach 6. That’s twice as fast as its predecessor. Aeronautical engineers at Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne have …
Optalysys announced that the company has successfully developed a demonstrable prototype that can process mathematical functions optically in a scaleable, lensless design. Optalysys optical processing systems will “turbo-charge” existing computers by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption. The prototype is portable and has a footprint similar …
The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology represents the greater majority of in vitro fertilization clinics in the United States. Their report showed that doctors at these clinics performed 165,172 procedures, including IVF, with 61,740 babies born as a result of those efforts in 2012. In 2012 in the USA, more than 3.95 million babies were …
The US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office has a graphic from the Kremlin Tass translated with specifications of the third generation Russian Armata tank. Large-scale deliveries of the new tanks and infantry vehicles are possible in 2017-2018. The advanced T-14 tank, a heavy infantry vehicle and an armored evacuation vehicle are being designed on the …