The World Bank had yesterday released its latest issue of Global Economic Prospects 2013, in which the economies of developing countries like India, China and Brazil are projected to be recovering and higher growth rate. The World Bank estimates global GDP grew 2.3 percent in 2012. Growth is expected to remain broadly unchanged at 2.4 …
1. Atomic Insights summarizes Dieter Helm who is a Coal Critic, Atomic Agnostic, Natural Gas Enthusiast As indicated by the subtitle of his book, Helm believes that the world, especially Europe, has achieved very little in the twenty years since the Kyoto treaty was signed. He believes that there is little hope that the process …
Leap Motion’s sensors and software will be packaged with some “high-end” laptops and PCs. The bundled products will appear in the first quarter of 2013, says Leap, around the same time the standalone Leap Motion device, priced at $70, is due to begin shipping. Nextbigfuture believes that the Leap Motion gesture control device will be …
Nextbigfuture had written about the big common components of “visions of the future” as noted by Jamais Cascio. The list Jamais had was : Synthetic biology Molecular nanotechnology Life extension Artificial intelligence and robots galore 3D printers Augmented reality Ultra-high speed mobile networks Space colonies I have grouped together Synthetic Biology, Molecular nanotechnology and Life …
Cosmic Log – On December 6, 2012 the Golden Spike Company announced plans for private funded commercial exploration of the moon. A group of space veterans and big-name backers today took the wraps off the Golden Spike Company, a commercial space venture that aims to send paying passengers to the moon and back at an …
Google’s spanner handles trillions of rows of data and Google is shifting away from NoSQL and to NewSQL. Google believes it is better to have application programmers deal with performance problems due to overuse of transactions as bottlenecks arise, rather than always coding around the lack of transactions. A complicating factor for an Open Source …
California Lithium Battery, a finalist in DOE’s 2012 Start Up America’s Next Top Energy Innovator challenge, has announced the record-setting performance of its new “GEN3” silicon graphene composite anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Independent test results in full cell LIBs indicate the new GEN3 anode material, used with advanced cathode and electrolyte materials, increases …
Here is the updated list of new Nuclear reactor that are expected to start operation from 2013 through 2017 2013 India, NPCIL Kudankulam 2 PWR 950 2013 Korea, KHNP Shin Wolsong 2 PWR 1000 2013 Korea, KHNP Shin-Kori 3 PWR 1350 2013 Russia Leningrad II-1 PWR 1070 2013 Argentina, CNEA Atucha 2 PHWR 692 2013 …
Apple has officially introduced the iPhone 5 and has a comparison to other iPhones. iPhone 5 on the left and compared to the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. In the US, all three iPhones will be available on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. The iPhone 5 has a 4-inch (diagonal) Retina display with 1136-by-640 resolution. The …
Bi-2212 is the only cuprate superconductor that can be made in round wire with high critical current density Jc; however, to date, its use in superconducting magnets is restricted because gas bubbles form during heat treatment, causing wire expansion, leakage and superconducting filament dedensification that greatly reduces Jc in coil length wires. This year we …
New Scientist – Standard pen ink is the surprise component in a flexible carbon fibre supercapacitor which can be bent in a full circle with barely any loss of performance. Just a few millimetres in diameter, the new ink-based supercapacitor outdoes the performance of other carbon fibre-based devices, and can hold up to 10 times …