submarines

Japan offering Australia bigger and better version of Soryu class submarine and 100% technology transfer in US$38.8 billion deal

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A Japanese consortium has placed a $35 billion bid to construct submarines for the Royal Australian Navy. While France’s DCNS Group and Germany’s Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems (TKMS) have offered proposals, several analysts believe Japan is the only bidder with submarines large enough to meet Australia’s demands. Japan has offered to construct a state-of-the-art submarine …

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India’s Modi looks to Elon Musk Tesla batteries to boost solar electricity

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Tesla Motors this weekend, he will most seeking Tesla batteries to help boost solar electricity in India India receives 5-7 kilowatt hours per square meter for 300 to 330 days of the year. India has a target of 100 GW of solar power by 2022. Currently India has 276 …

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Detailed analysis of China’s GDP indicates economy is actually 15% larger than official figures

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There is a new 244 page analysis of China’s economy. A study of China’s economy by Daniel Rosen and Beibei Bao for the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates in 2014 instead of a $10 trillion economy it was closer to $11.5 trillion. Most of the work indicates that China still needs to match …

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NextGen Materials Design with Atom probe

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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art Cameca 4000X Si Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP), a high performance microscope that provides precise atom-by-atom dissection of a material volume, enabling true three-dimensional (3D) atomic-scale reconstructions of material microstructures. “Exact knowledge of where individual atoms are in …

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Wozniak says the upcoming Steve Jobs movie got it right

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If you want to see a movie that shows you what Steve Jobs was really like then the upcoing Steve Jobs movie is the one to see. Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, has given his endorsement of the upcoming Steve Jobs movie. Wozniak said that, unlike the Jobs biopic with Ashton Kutcher, this one is totally …

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India and Russia BrahMos Missile pushing Mach 5 hypersonic ramjet technology as scramjet stopgap

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India-Russia joint venture BrahMos Aerospace wants to double the speed of its ramjet-powered supersonic cruise missile to beyond Mach 5 as an interim step towards the development of a clean-sheet “BrahMos-II” hypersonic weapon. BrahMos general manager of marketing and export Praveen Pathak says the company’s pursuit of a hypersonic missile remains in the decision phase …

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Crowdfunding Movies– Why Isn’t It Done More Often?

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A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Discussing crowdfunding heats up at times, and then takes a break, but the question recurs whenever the buzz does– why don’t we hear of more crowdfunding success stories? Brian Wang has written of crowdfunding LPP fusion https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/lpp-fusion-crowdfunding-at-125k-of-200k.html and a general crowdfunding roundup including the game Star Citizen https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/star-citizen-crowdfunding-has-raised.html The …

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Nuclear Agreement with Iran Reached

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The deal struck between Iran and the P5+1 (the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Vienna in the early hours of July 14th was broadly in line with the parameters of the Lausanne accord of April 2nd referred to by Mr Obama. The framework understanding contained limitations on enrichment levels, centrifuge …

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IBM CTO eventually wants Watson AI to run on Quantum Computers

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IBM Watson’s chief technology officer Rob High said there was a “very natural synergy” between cognitive computing and quantum computing, revealing he hoped to one day see Watson run on a quantum system. “I’d love to see a quantum Watson,” he said. “IBM Research is actually working on next generation computing. I can’t say exact …

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DARPA targets a new era of rapid, verifiable and repeatable small molecule discovery and scalable synthesis

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Synthetic molecules are the foundation for many products critical to the Department of Defense’s mission—from active pharmaceutical ingredients found in a medic’s kit to materials in modern batteries and fuel cells. Current processes for designing and producing new synthetic molecules, however, are very slow and can take years between the initial design of a molecular …

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Dwave commercializes 1152 qubit chip but there are 2048 physical qubits so some chips will have more than 1152 qubits active

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D-Wave Systems, the world’s first quantum computing company, announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation and far exceeding the number of qubits ever developed by D-Wave or any other quantum effort. This is a major technological and scientific achievement that will allow …

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