Dear Astronomer has Carnival of Space 234 Vintage Space has a take on Newt Gingrich’s plan to have an American lunar base up and running by the end of his second term in 2020. Vintage Space thinks a Moon base is a horrible idea, and suggest we shouldn’t take his plans of lunar domination too …
BBC News- We tend to think of 3 concepts of the city – 1. a municipal definition – the legal city if you will 2. the urbanised area, or the physical city – the built-up portion 3. the metropolitan area, which some people refer to as the influence of the city – how far out …
1. World Nuclear news – Paladin Energy and Uranium One both had record years for uranium production in 2011. Denison and Rio Tinto had problems. Uranium One, the year’s attributable production totalled a record 10.7 million pounds U3O8 (4116 tU), up 45% on 2010 figures, with record full-year sales of 9.9 million pounds U3O8 (3808 …
Economist – Expectations for India’s economic growth rate have been sliding inexorably. In the early spring there was still heady talk about 9-10% being the new natural rate of expansion, a trajectory which if maintained would make the country an economic superpower in a couple of decades. Now things look very different. The latest GDP …
1. Enbridge Energy Partners LP will make an additional $145 million investment in North Dakota to expand crude oil capacity and add a rail car loading facility to accommodate the additional volume, the company said today. The Houston-based petroleum company, which operates oil pipelines, said that it will increase the holding capacity at the Berthold …
Lighter load: A conventional hinge for the cover of a jet engine (top) could be replaced by the more intricate one at bottom, which is just as strong but weighs half as much. The new design, created by EADS, is made practical by three-dimensional printing technology. Credit: EADS Innovation Works GE is starting a new …
Artist’s impression of the speckle pattern created by a multimode light beam (top, red), and the image measured in this experiment created by a multimode beam of atoms (top, blue). Source: Dr Tim Wetherell, ANU Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that atoms can be guided in a laser beam and possess the same …
James Cameron is preparing to dive to the deepest point of the oceans as part of his research for a sequel to Avatar, his 3D epic. He has commissioned Australian engineers to build a deep sea submersible which can reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench – 10.9km (36,000ft) down in the western Pacific – …
1. EETimes reports on six hot tablets at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) * Intel Corp. is showing off a Samsung tablet called Gloria, which features a 10-inch touch screen and a slide out keyboard. The Gloria, which runs Windows 7, is said to be set for release sometime this spring. * ViewSonic Corp.’s ViewPad line …
Proceedings of the IEEE – Near-Threshold Computing: Reclaiming Moore’s Law Through Energy Efficient Integrated Circuits Power has become the primary design constraint for chip designers today. While Moore’s law continues to provide additional transistors, power budgets have begun to prohibit those devices from actually being used. To reduce energy consumption, voltage scaling techniques have proved …
The Wall Street journal summarizes the yearend country economic data * The International Monetary Fund, in its latest World Economic Outlook from October, forecast Japan’s annual economic output for 2009, in U.S. dollars at market exchange rates, at $5.049 trillion. * The IMF had an outdated estimate for China of $4.758 trillion. But China’s National …