A guest post by Joseph Friedlander This is the first of two articles. This gives some history of the possible need for near term D-D fusion to maximize fission fuel supplies. It ends with coverage of the 1975 report. The second part covers more modern redesigns of the concept, notably by Ralph Moir in …
Japan’s Ministry of Defense Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) announced that a prototype of Tokyo’s first indigenously-designed fifth-generation air superiority fighter, the Mitsubishi ATD-X Shinshin, will make its maiden flight in February 2016 according to Sankei.com The principal objective of the ATD-X Shinshin program is to develop a research prototype aircraft an–“advanced technology demonstration …
Knoema has put together the IMF, EIU, UN, OECD and other GDP projections for the top 20 world economies. Wikipedia has the IMF projections for nominal GDP and PPP GDP. From now to 2020, slower growth developed countries those countries like France and Germany with 1.3 to 1.9% annual real GDP growth will lose ground …
The Indian government is looking to build a 10,000km [6000 mile] -long high-speed rail network, called the diamond quadrilateral, which connects four major cities, but the project has been slow going due to the high costs involved. A top government panel looking after “innovative collaborations” is currently assessing a feasibility study conducted by the Japanese …
Unison has installed and commissioned the world’s largest and most powerful all-electric pipe bending machine, at the Norwegian offshore and maritime services company, Westcon Yard AS. Capable of generating a colossal 660,000 Nm of continuous, servo-controlled torque, the custom-designed machine will be used for precision bending of thick-walled carbon steel pipes up to 10 inches …
An aviator flew by jetpack in a controlled and sustained flight around Statue of Liberty. The JB-9 is small enough to sit in the back seat of a car but powerful enough to fly thousands of feet high. The JB-9 jetpack, approved for the flight by the FAA and US Coast Guard was developed by …
On Sept 30, 2015, the first new Russian Borei-class (sometimes spelled Borey) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) arrived at the Rybachiy submarine base near Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Several Borei SSBNs are expected to follow over the next few years to replace the remaining outdated Delta-III SSBNs currently operating in the Pacific. The arrival …
The US administration rejected the Keystone Pipeline which hinders the closest ally of the USA, Canada, from getting its oil to markets While the US administration previously made a deal to get Iranian oil to market “It’s ironic that the administration would strike a deal to allow Iranian crude on the global market while refusing …
A new treatment that uses ‘molecular scissors’ to edit genes and create designer immune cells programmed to hunt out and kill drug resistant leukaemia has been used at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The treatment, previously only tested in the laboratory, was used in one-year-old, Layla, who had relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). She is …
The Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country’s 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The government will take all necessary steps to achieve the poverty reduction goal, including lifting 10 …
For decades, scientists and doctors have dreamed of creating a steady supply of human organs for transplantation by growing them in pigs. But concerns about rejection by the human immune system and infection by viruses embedded in the pig genome have stymied research. Now, by modifying more than 60 genes in pig embryos — ten …