Carnival of space #10 is up My article with the key elements for starting a business plan for profitable solar power in space at the multi-megawatt level Centauri space has a discussion of the Mach-Lorentz Thruster and the performance it could make possible Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …
Chinese migrate to the cities for higher-paying work, they are steadily climbing the income ladder. By 2011, McKinsey research suggests, China should have a lower middle class of 290 million people; by 2025, the upper middle class will be 520 million strong By 2015 the exchange rate is likely to be in the range of …
Gene Therapy appears to reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease by 70%. The improvement occurs 3 months after treatment starts. Parkison’s disease is the disease that the famous actor Michael J Fox and boxing sports legend Muhammad Ali have. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million …
The Teraflop power of the Nvidia tesla supercomputer board, desktop and workstations will be available August 2007. go to this link to sign up to get more information on buying one Tesla C870 GPU specifications ($1500 add in card):– One GPU (128 thread processors)– 518 gigaflops (peak)– 1.5 GB dedicated memory– Fits in one full-length, …
Scientific American reviews the Travellers Dilemma Basically it shows that in real world people are willing to work together so that they can both win or tie in order to get more return on average. This is relevant for economics and for choices in technology and between nations. Win-win, Tie-tie with an overall-win situations can …
A recent paper by Barry Bosworth and Susan Collins of the Washington-based Brookings Institution compares performance over the 1978-2004 period. After 1993 it compares India’s post-1991 reforms with China. Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India, Working Paper 12943, February 2007, National Bureau of Economic Research, www.nber.org Breakdown shows close to equal service growth. With …
Quote from Deathrace 2000. Machine Gun Joe VeTurbo: Frankenstein! You want Frankenstein? I’ll give you Frankenstein! [Joe opens fire into the stands] From the times Online, the creation of insects (moths) whose flesh grows around computer parts – known from science fiction as ‘cyborgs’ – has been described as one of the most ambitious robotics …
Later this month the state’s (california) energy commission plans to tread carefully when for the first time it will review new ways to handle the radioactive waste produced by nuclear energy — the biggest legal obstacle to building new plants in California. One possible option could be to reprocess, or recycle, the waste. I support …
The Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems has examined what can be developed in labs today and then mapped out a step-by-step plan for the pathways of development that must take place to achieve productive nanosystems. This has been a long anticipated event by those (like myself) who follow molecular nanotechnology. Here is the Technology Roadmap …
EU’s energy and climate plan has a 20% carbon reduction target by 2020. The plan has three main areas a truly free internal energy market, where users have their choice of suppliers among all European suppliers; an accelerated shift to low-carbon energy, by increasing the share of renewable sources in the energy mix to 20% …