Here is a 13 page report of Robert Gordon’s work from 2012 which is similar to his 2014 work about lower GDP growth in the USA. The US economy still faces six daunting headwinds that will limit future potential growth and hold it below the pace which innovation would otherwise make possible. The slowdown in …
The quarterly GDP growth for the USA compared to one year ago is a lot smoother than the quarterly changes in GDP according to research data from the St. Louis federal reserve. The US economy has been growing at 2.1 percent per year between mid-2009 and mid-2014. Robert Gordon of Northwester University has developed a …
Kirk Sorensen (of Flibe Energy) offers “the industrial perspective” on how the upcoming “nuclear retirement retirement cliff” of today’s plants, combined with large numbers of coal plants facing retirement, create opportunity for the Liquid-Fueled Thorium Reactor. Department of Energy’s “Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap” states “it is ultimately industry’s decision which commercial technologies will …
Terrestrial Energy is rethinking energy. In this video, members of the Terrestrial Energy team explain the benefits of IMSR technology, and explore the business itself. Atomic Insights took a recent look at Terrestrial Energy The main technical description from Atomic Insights is below. Terrestrial Energy believe there are fundamental choices that can alter the competitive …
Burger King (BKW) could lower its tax bill through a merger with Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons (THI) and moving its headquarters to Ontario, Canada. KPMG ranked Canada first among 10 countries for general tax competitiveness this year, saying tax costs in Canada are 46.4% lower than the U.S. The U.S. has federal …
NASA has awarded a $500,000 phase 2 grant for hybrid spacecraft – rovers. The goal of this effort is to develop a mission architecture that allows the systematic and affordable in-situ exploration of small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, and Martian moons. Our architecture relies on the novel concept of spacecraft/rover hybrids, which …
In 2013 and 2014 we are seeing record Salmon runs, it seems possible that iron fertilization has played a part in this success. In 2011, Scientific American ran an article asking what is killing off the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon ? A sockeye salmon run with a historical average of eight million fish worth over …
The largest run of Pink salmon happened between 12 and 20 months after the Haida Indians iron seeding event in 2012. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the 2013 pink salmon harvest was the second most valuable on record. In the northeast Pacific, the Speaker reports that salmon catches have surged from …
About 20 months ago, an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, fertilizing around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada’s coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it. Satellite images confirmed the claim by Californian Russ George that the iron has spawned an …
Memory loss could soon be a thing of the past. US military researchers say they’re developing a new brain implant that could restore mental faculties. This could bring a new lease of life to millions around the world, but raises ethical concerns. The project is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), and …
The billionaire co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, said he invested €250,000 in synthetic beef technology for animal welfare reasons. Sergey Brin bankrolled the production of the world’s first lab-grown hamburger. The internet entrepreneur has backed the project to the tune of €250,000 (£215,000), allowing scientists to grow enough meat in the lab to create a …