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China could apply a 370 billion yuan (US$54 billion) stimulus package to its domestic economy. China appears to want to keep GDP growth at 9-10% per year. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
Biofuel projection from now until 2017 from the (Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute) Fapri 2008 Agricultural outlook The USA and Brazil produce about 70% of the worlds biofuel. This projection is based on conventional non-cellulose, biofuel from waste and non-algae biofuel production. Therefore, it seems likely to be a vast underestimate of the actual …
Electric planes do not have to be private (although things will start out that way.)Electric planes (with jumpjet type takeoff and landing) could form a virtual callable personal pod transportation (which have been proposed for cities) but without building the rails. One of the Personal pod transportation proposals is shown here. Current electric planes hold …
A Stanford study of the aging of the C elegans worm does not support he accumulated chemical damage model of aging If aging is not a cost of unavoidable chemistry but is instead driven by changes in regulatory genes, the aging process may not be inevitable. It is at least theoretically possible to slow down …
Carnival of Space 64 is up at Music of the Spheres This site contributed the article reporting the DARPA/MIT report that 30 centimeter long carbon nanotubes are being made and 1 meter long carbon nanotubes should be here soon. Centauri dreams talks about communicating many thousands of generations into the future and reinforcing messages with …
On a blogger roundtable conference call with Dr John Parmentola, he mentioned that the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is able to grow single strands of carbon nanotubes to a length of one foot (30 centimeters) and that they believe that 1 meter lengths will be possible shortly This is longer than the length reported …
The working models in his lab generate 50 kilowatts of electricity – enough to power six or seven houses. But these, Mills says, can be scaled to drive a large, electric power plant. The inventor claims this electricity will cost less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, which compares to a national average of 8.9 cents. …
Here is 16 page briefing from the Carnegie Endowment by Albert Kiedel on the economic rise of China UPDATE: The British Telegraph has an interesting series of articles on life in China now The very conservative projection described in the table above already underestimates China’s economy. It has China at $4 trillion on an exchange …
On July 4th, regular direct weekend flights began between Taiwan and five Chinese cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou and Nanjing. For six decades, the political standoff between Taiwan, a self-governed democracy, and Beijing, which maintains the island is one of its provinces, has meant no regular flights between Taiwan and mainland China. Travel-weary tech …
“We are capable now of making a diagnosis of MDR-TB within hours,” Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO’s Stop TB department said. He used the acronym for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, an infection that cannot be cured with a standard course of antibiotics. The The DNA tests cost an avearge of $5 per test, and training …