Nextbigfuture will be bundling news that relates to China or India to make articles on these topic less frequent and easier to skip for those not interested in this topic. We will still have standalone articles on China and India where appropriate. Here we hae four topic related to China. 1. The dominant angle on …
John Laumer (at Treehugger) contacted Russ George, our local iron man, about Zubrin’s story and asked for his [Russ’] comments about the his latest iron seeding project off British Columbia, which, it turns out, had truly amazing, positive impact – from a mere 120 tones of iron sulfide, very thinly applied over an area of …
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US crude oil production is at a level last reached in 1988. The US had end of year crude oil production of 2011 5.851 million barrels per day 2012 6.985 million barrels per day 2013 8.111 million barrels per day The latest weekly oil report is Crude oil and natural gas liquids is 10.8 million …
There is a congressional report on China’s economy. China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the U.S. (43 pages). China’s economic rise has significant implications for the United States and hence is of major interest to Congress. On the one hand, China is a large (and potentially huge) export market for the United …
The Carnival of Space 308 is up at Pam Hoffma’s Spacer blog Andrew Fracknoi – Exploring the Universe – On the discovery of 6 or 7 planets around the nearby faint star Gliese 667c, at least three of which are in the star’s habitable zone. Discusses the implications of the discovery for the search for …
Researchers analyzing the three-year WMAP data using the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect, found evidence of a “surprisingly coherent” 600–1000 km/s flow of clusters toward a 20-degree patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. Evidence of the existence of ‘multiverse’ was revealed for the first time by a cosmic map of background radiation data …
NASA’s highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important milestones in satellite-servicing technology and the use of the space station robotic capabilities. The RRM Gas Fittings Removal task represents the first use of RRM tools in orbit. …
World Poverty has been cut in half since 1990 according to the World Bank * At the current rate of progress there will still be around 1 billion people living below $1.25 per day in 2015. * Most of the 649 million fewer poor by the $1.25 per day standard over 1981-2008 are still poor …
The graph distributed at the JET Energy MIT open cold fusion/LANR demonstration of the NANOR CF/LANR technology (see 2nd graph below) actually quite clearly showed, and still shows, a thermal output power of the NANOR closer to 78 milliwatts than 18 milliwatts. Steve Krivit’s attacked the MIT demo. “Swartz Makes Misleading Claim of LENR Excess …