March 4, 2014 |
Brian Wang |
South China Morning Post reports that Beijing-based State Nuclear plans to start construction of the first CAP1400 demonstration reactor in Shidaowan, Shandong province, this year and commission it in late 2018, according to Xinhua. The schedule is about a year …
January 9, 2014 |
Brian Wang |
CBS has the script from “The Cleantech Crash” which aired on Jan. 5, 2014. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer. Silicon Valley got Washington excited about it. President Bush was an early supporter, but the federal purse strings …
January 7, 2014 |
Brian Wang |
In the past 30 years, China has suffered from air pollution and heavy haze created by fast industrial growth and economic expansion. An Environmental Chemistry Letter research journal article reviews the techniques for remediation of air pollution. A geoengineering method …
January 6, 2014 |
Brian Wang |
1. Universe Today – This was very likely the last trip around the Sun for the Earth-crossing asteroid 2014 AA, according to calculations by several teams of astronomers and published online earlier today on the IAU’s Minor Planet Center. Discovered …
November 16, 2013 |
Brian Wang |
The latest monthly update of estimated crude oil production in the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana shows total wellhead output topping 1 million barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) in December, 2013. The update appears in the most …
November 8, 2013 |
Brian Wang |
Young animals are known to repair their tissues effortlessly, but can this capacity be recaptured in adults? A new study from researchers at the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children’s Hospital suggests that it can. By reactivating a dormant gene …
November 8, 2013 |
Brian Wang |
I have promoted this article with Asteroid size danger from regular contributor Goat Guy. There certainly have been a lot of detection events in the military surveillance satellite record, both public and secret. I’m not terribly surprised at the 1 …
October 29, 2013 |
Brian Wang |
On October 18th it announced an agreement in principle between Canada and the European Union on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). More than a blessing for insomniacs, CETA is a prototype for bigger things to come, especially the …
October 4, 2013 |
Brian Wang |
Some coal is high in fluorine and also has iron pyrite. The combination is deadly – when burned it make hydrofluoric acid. (H/T Chris Phoenix Excess fluorine consumption can often cause dental fluorinosis, a condition in which excess fluorine is …
