Around 25,000 new passenger planes will be needed over the next 20 years, aircraft company Airbus has forecast. These planes will have a value of around £1,880 billion, with 10,000 of the new planes replacing older and “less-green” aircraft. The other 15,000 will be to accommodate passenger growth, said Airbus whose planes’ wings are built …
Ray Kurzweil responds to the IEEE Spectum article about his predictions. While I appreciate some of the things John Rennie has to say, his review of my predictions is filled with inaccuracies, including misquotes of mine, and misunderstandings of the meaning of my words and the reality of today’s technology. For starters, he takes note …
A nanotrampoline built out of graphene can directly detect radio frequency signals, paving the way for a new generation of radios. For some time now, physicists have been hoping to find ways of using nanoelectromechanical resonators to filter and generate radio signals directly. At present, this has to be done with various kinds of mixing …
George Soros provided $50 million to set up the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). It was the crash of 2008, which brought home the fact that there is something broken in economic theory. Two ideas – rational expectations theory and the efficient market hypothesis – have a monopoly of thought. One of the people …
2011 should be the decisive market and production breakthrough for OLED technology in displays and lighting. By mid-2011 Erich Strasser expects global OLED production to have multiplied tenfold and promises numerous new, exciting products in the future. Strasser is very biased as he runs the site OLED-display.net. What to expect : * windows with transparent …
Billionaire investor George Soros’ hedge funds are targeting the Taiwan dollar for speculative trading, a Taiwan local newspaper reported. Executives from HSBC Taiwan noted that recently they noticed the hot money from Hong Kong has been flowed in Taiwan, which is unusual, because the hot money was normally flow from Europe and the U.S. Last …
Cameco provided an update on Cigar Lake Uranium Mine for the third quarter of 2010 Cameco continues to target initial production in mid-2013 and ramping the production up to 5000 tons per year. Cameco plans include: * continuing to restore the underground mine systems, infrastructure and underground development areas so we can resume construction * …
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have now developed a new transparent electrode based on silver nanowires (AgNW) that could replace ITO (indium-doped tin oxide). The new electrode uses low-cost, non-toxic and stable materials and is easy to fabricate. It is produced on a cross-linked, transparent polyacylate substrate, which …
Hi, this is Joseph Friedlander with a guest post for Next Big Future. This article will discuss setting up an industrial village on the Moon. And on import substitution and Jane Jacobs economics (transactions of decline and transactions of ascent). Note- This is a lengthy discussion of a plan for bootstrapping civilization into space. In …
The Icarus project blog covers Plasma-Jet driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF) PJMIF can be called a hybrid approach, trying to take the best of both MCF (Magnetic Confinement Fusion/ Tokamaks / ITER) and ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion / National Ignition Facility, high-energy laser pulses to compress a solid-state target). In PJMIF, a magnetized plasma target is …
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a report “Asia-Pacific Macro Year Ahead 2011: Certain growth in an uncertain world” Nine pct gdp growth expected to be new normal for Chinese economy. China GDP Growth Forecasts 2011 9.1 percent 2012 9 2013 8.5 2014 8.5 2015 8 2016 7 2017 7 2018 7 2019 7 2020 …