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citiesFour Types of Smart City Projects

October 7, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Analysis of 60 municipal smart city plans drawn from around the world has identified four different models: * an essential services model, * smart transportation model, * broad-spectrum model, and * a business ecosystem model. The combinations of smart city …
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businessTen Times Cheaper But Better Food is Going to Radically Change Your World

September 28, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Seba of RethinkX on their latest analysis of emerging global technology disruption. The new emerging technology is combining synthetic biology was fermentation to transform agriculture and many aspects of industry. In 2017, RethinkX and Tony Seba put …
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chinaNuclear District Heating Review

September 12, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Several nuclear reactor concepts dedicated to low-temperature applications without any turbine cycle have also been developed, and the construction of two Chinese heating reactor prototypes (NHR200-II and DHR-400) is happening now or will start soon. If realized according to schedule, …
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chinaChina Mass Production of Nuclear Thermal Power Could Reach 1 Cent per KWH

September 11, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
The analyzed costs for the DHR-400 (deep pool reactors) are in the range of 1.65 cents per kilowatt-hour. The costs are 30-40 yuan ($4.58-6.1) for a gigajoule of heat (277.8 kwh). This is close to the one-cent target of the …
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boring companyBoring Company, Elon and China Could Rebuild the World at 100X the Speed

August 3, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Nextbigfuture expects Elon Musk’s Boring Company will make massive amounts of underground tunnels in China to bust traffic. China loves building massive amounts of infrastructure. When China embraces an engineering solution they go all in. China often averages $30 billion …
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citiesSingapore Has the Best Growth Record Over 50 Years

April 9, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
There are huge fears that in the future most people in the world will not get richer and many people will become unemployed and slide backwards into poverty. Many think that Denmark and Sweden are models for strengthening social safety …
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chinaHong Kong-Greater Bay Area Plan to Nearly Triple its GDP by 2032

March 29, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
The 2022 Foundation is a think tank which has released a report about the plan for Hong Kong integrate with Shenzhen and the other cities in the Great Bay Area. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (Jing-Jin-Ji), the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), and …
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agingChina Will Still Do Whatever It Takes to Catch Up

March 29, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yi Fuxian makes the case that China’s nominal GDP will peak at 84% of the US GDP in 2033. He is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest and claims that …
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