Here is 16 page briefing from the Carnegie Endowment by Albert Kiedel on the economic rise of China UPDATE: The British Telegraph has an interesting series of articles on life in China now The very conservative projection described in the table above already underestimates China’s economy. It has China at $4 trillion on an exchange …
[From a reader who is a close follower of Focus Fusion]Re: CMEF [Just reported funding of $600,000 part of $10 million], Eric [Founder and CEO of LPP] responded, “This is based on years-out-of-date info. The $600,000 never actually materialized, but LPP is again at the point where we think we will have money in hand …
Recently the Secretary of the Department of transportation put a proposal to mildly accelerate fuel standards from 3% per year to 4.5% per year up to 2015. However this was a ploy to put circumvent the Clean Air act and block California and several other states from adopting more aggressive car and truck fuel standards. …
A novel technique for vaccinating against a variety of infectious diseases – using an oil-based emulsion placed in the nose, rather than needles – has proved able to produce a strong immune response against smallpox and HIV in two new studies. The results build on previous success in animal studies with a nasal nanoemulsion vaccine …
Vincent Page, technology officer at GE, wrote a good paper in 2005 about the economics and timeline towards moving to fusion power He had three fusion concepts in a chart which I will extend Time to Small Cost to Achieve Large scale chanceConcept Description Scale net energy Net Energy after small success Funded?Bussard IEC Fusion …
The Worlds highest power wind turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts. (20 million kilowatt hours per year). Chart of largest wind turbines FURTHER READINGA 10 MW superconducting wind turbine is under development There are larger systems like kitegen being studied. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
Nanoscale polymer films, about four nanometers per layer, were used to build a sort of matrix or platform to hold and slowly release an anti-inflammatory drug. The films are orders of magnitude thinner than conventional drug deliver coatings, said Genhong Cheng, a researcher at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of the study’s authors. …
Many places online have been discussing the 168 trillion to 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered within the north Appalachian Plateau of the USA. alfin : Peak Oil: Meet Marcellus Black Shale Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends : Giant gas field found in the Appalachia The yearly consumption of natural gas worldwide is slightly …
At the supercomputer 2007 conference (Nov 13-15, 2007) Dwave Systems will be demo-ing an image matching application co-developed with Dr. Hartmut Neven of Google, a world-leading authority on image matching algorithms. The hardware they are using to run the application is a 28-qubit superconducting adiabatic quantum computer. In February, 2007, Dwave had indicated that they …
CNN reports on a claimed breakthrough for speech-to-speech applications with Virtual Dictation. “Virtual Dictation” can process voice dictation in real-time from over 7 languages including: Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. In addition, you can have the text generated from your voice, automatically converted into over 25 different languages. …
A robot, smaller than one millimeter, has been built by Korean scientists to travel through blood vessels Once inside a blocked artery, it is able to release drugs to dissolve blood clots, which are often the cause of heart attacks. The robot has three short front legs and three longer back legs which are attached …