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1. Honda has the cool concept car shown above the Honda 3r-c. However, others have affordable electric bikes, scooters and electric hybrids that will be dominant vehicles for the world in 2010-2016. They are already huge in China (120 million electric bikes and scooters) and will be big in India and the rest of Asia …
1. The operator of the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, asked the prefectural government Tuesday to start talks on restarting possibly by the end of March the prototype reactor. The Monju prototype fast reactor (FBR) in Japan has completed a government-mandated procedure to ensure the reactor is safe to restart following a sodium …
(Via Greencarcongress- A new report from Pike Research anticipates that the global market for electric two-wheeled vehicles—e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorcycles—will grow at a compound annual rate of 9% through 2016. China is currently the largest marketplace for electric two-wheel vehicles, commanding 98% of the global market in 2009. China’s compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of …
Business Week reports that analysts like Broadpoint AmTech believe that Google’s 1 Gigabit per second network will cost about $3000-$8000 per home to implement Google wants to offer 1 gigabit-per-second speeds to some 50,000 to 500,000 people. At 2.6 people per household, that roughly translates to 20,000 to 200,000 homes. Our friend Ben Schachter, Internet …
The National Academies has a 136 page document that examines the better ways to forecast disruptive technological innovation This is one of the main objectives of Nextbigfuture. Nextbigfuture is trying to act as an Office of Technological Assessment and evaluate what is the best ways to use existing technologies and to forecast disruptive technological innovation …
New Energy And Fuel reports on a new study which says that previous studies that tarred ethanol as an environmental villain were flawed because they looked at outdated corn and ethanol production techniques. The more modern ethanol plants – which account for about 60% of U.S. production and will account for 75% by the end …
Geordie Rose, CTO of Dwave Systems answered some of my questions in the comments of his blog. 1. Is the 128 qubit system being sold as a service or product yet ? We are talking with some folks about hosting 128 qubit systems so the answer to #1 is “yes”. 2. Is that happening by …
air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is also developing munitions systems for the UAVs [Unmanned Air Vehicles]. One is a precision missilelike bomb for urban strikes that could be mounted on multiple platforms. Designed to cut down on collateral damage, Suburb Warrior could get a flight test as early as 2014. An integrated submunition guidance system …
Three direct cycle designs [steam indirect cycle, helium direct, supercritical CO2]were selected for further investigation: the basic design with turbine inlet temperature of 550P o PC, an advanced design with turbine inlet temperature of 650P o PC and a high-performance design with turbine inlet temperature of 700P o PC, all with the compressor outlet pressure …
Most of the money ($257 billion) is spent on – satellite TV ($70 billion) – maintaining ground stations ($74 billion) – $17 billion fixed satellite services – $26 billion Department of Defence (military satellites and the spending around it) – $17 billion NASA – $10 billion national reconnaissance office (spy satellites and spending around it) …