China seeing a controlled softening rather than a hard landing for is economy and US Treasury Secretary says US GDP growth could stay at 2% per year for slower growth new normal

April 7, 2017June 14, 2014 by Brian Wang

The mainland economy may bottom out over next few months, thanks to Beijing’s fine-tuning policy, as industrial production and consumption gathered steam last month and accelerated investment in infrastructure offset a deeper slide in the property market. Economists expect Beijing to roll out more mini-stimulus measures, on the top of the recent moderate easing of …

China’s population should be 70% urbanized by 2030 and all with mobile internet, ecommerce and social media by 2020

April 7, 2017June 12, 2014 by Brian Wang

China is going digital very quickly. By 2016, the country will have more than 730 million Internet users and more than 380 million online shoppers, up from 460 million and 145 million, respectively, in 2010. Even China’s lower-tier cities are migrating swiftly to digital technologies. More than 16 million netizens from the country’s tier 3 …

NASA NIAC – two orders of magnitude mass and power saving for Life Support and Reduced Complexity

April 7, 2017June 12, 2014 by Brian Wang

The abundant high-energy light in space (with wavelengths as low as 190 nm, compared to 300 nm on Earth) makes the TiO2 co-catalyst an ideal approach for sustainable air processor to generate O2, without consuming any thermal or electrical energy. The combination of novel photoelectrochemistry and 3-dimensional design allows tremendous mass saving, hardware complexity reduction, …

Getting one thousand times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope and an Tether based Asteroid wrangler are new NASA NIAC 2014 projects

April 7, 2017June 11, 2014 by Brian Wang

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program announced its 2014 awards. NIAC has selected twelve new NIAC Phase I awards. These proposals have been selected based on the potential of their concepts to transform future aerospace missions, enable new capabilities, or significantly alter and improve current approaches. Each Phase I study will receive approximately $100,000 …

Israel Air Force Has Quadrupled Air Strike Capability in Two Years

June 14, 2020June 9, 2014 by Brian Wang

Israeli Air Force has doubled their air strike abilities twice in the past two years. By the end of 2014 they will see an improvement of 400% to our offensive capabilities relative to the recent past as a result of a long improvement process. They can accurately strike thousands of targets in one day. Israeli …

In 2006 CalTrain hired a Chinese company for the Bay Bridge who had never built a bridge while China uses China Railway who have built over 1600 bridges

April 7, 2017June 9, 2014 by Brian Wang

The Chinese company hired to build key parts of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had never built a bridge. Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd., after all, was a manufacturer of giant cranes for container ports. The California Department of Transportation agreed to contract the company known as ZPMC in 2006 because it had established …

LPP Fusion Indiegogo Update

April 7, 2017June 6, 2014 by Brian Wang

Scientists at LPP Fusion, led by Chief Scientist Eric Lerner, are just one step away from technically proving out dense plasma focus fusion and you a few thousand other people can help for the final push. They are already 49% of the way to the $200,000 they needed for a few key experiments with 24 …

Liver cancer vaccine effective in mice

April 7, 2017June 5, 2014 by Brian Wang

Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has enabled scientists to make a vaccine that is exceedingly (90%) effective at preventing the disease in mice. Alpha-Fetoprotein, or AFP – normally expressed during development and by liver cancer cells as well – has escaped attack in previous vaccine iterations because the body recognizes it …

Elon Musk and Tesla may do something fairly controversial with their electric car patents like release some of them

April 7, 2017June 4, 2014 by Brian Wang

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in expressing surprise other automakers haven’t made big commitments to electric cars, said Tuesday he’s thinking of doing something “fairly controversial” regarding the company’s patents. The surprising statement made at Tesla’s shareholder meeting raised questions about whether he may be thinking of a particularly bold act, such as releasing some of …

Cornell Researchers estimate 100 million planets able to support complex life in the Milky Way

December 29, 2022June 4, 2014 by Brian Wang

There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support complex life, report a group of university astronomers in the journal Challenges. They have developed a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other stars in the universe. Their study provides the first quantitative estimate of the number …

China makes graphene reinforced aluminum that is up to 58% stronger than regular aluminum alloys and uses just 0.3% graphene

April 7, 2017June 3, 2014 by Brian Wang

Graphene-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites were successfully synthesized through ball milling and powder metallurgy. The tensile strength and yield strength of graphene-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites are remarkably enhanced by adding graphene nanoflakes(GNFs). Importantly, the ductility properties are remained excellently, which is firstly found in the second phase reinforced metal matrix nanocomposites. The microstructures were observed by …