Societe Generale’s Glenn Maguire and Wei Yao are predicting that China will make a fairly prompt move of the yuan to about 6.0 to 1 US dollar from today’s 6.49 A 5% move would take the yuan to 6.17 to 6.2 and then another 2-3% would go to 5.98 to 6.0. China’s quantitative approach to …
A startup called TenKsolar, based in Minneapolis, says it can increase the amount of solar power generated on rooftops by 25 to 50 percent, and also reduce the overall cost of solar power by changing the way solar cells are wired together and adding inexpensive reflectors to gather more light. TenKsolar says its systems can …
Although the budget for China’s Innovation 2020 is yet to be announced, insiders say it will be part of a continuing surge in the nation’s science spending. Indeed, the China Academy of Science (CAS’s) expenditure on research and development (R and D) in 2009 was about 20 billion renminbi (US$3 billion), seven times the level …
DNAsomes begin with short chains of synthetic DNA designed to be complementary over part of their length so they will join into microscopic Y-shapes. A lipid molecule is attached, and fluorescent dyes can be attached for tracking. Drugs or RNA are chemically bonded to the Y-shaped unit, then many units assembled into a sphere, about …
IEA world oil March 15, 2011 report World oil supply rose to an all‐time high of 89 mb/d in February, up 0.2 mb/d from January. Non‐OPEC oil supply rose 0.3 mb/d to 53.2 mb/d on re‐instated Alaskan output. 2010 non‐OPEC estimates are left unchanged at 52.8 mb/d, while the 2011 forecast is raised by 0.1 …
According to a new report from Pike Research, the number of e-motorcycles and e-scooters on the road will increase from 17 million in 2011 to 138 million by 2017. China has been adopting electric bicycles and now has converted some of the over 500 million bicycle commuters in China to 140 million on electric bicycles. …
An atomic-scale depiction of the SketchSET shows three wires (green bars) converging on the central island (center green area), which can house up to two electrons. Electrons tunnel from one wire to another through the island. Conditions on the third wire can result in distinct conductive properties. A team from Pitt, UW-Madison, and HP Labs …
Transmission electron micrographs and (inset) showing the electron diffraction patterns of three quantum dot samples with average size of (a) 2.4 nanometers (b) 3.6 nm, and (c) 5.8 nm. (Image courtesy of Alivisatos group) With its promise of superfast computers and ultrapowerful optical microscopes among the many possibilities, plasmonics has become one of the hottest …
Universe Today – According to the currently accepted model, this accelerated expansion is due to dark energy, a mysterious repulsive force that makes up about 73% of the energy density of the universe. Now, a new study reveals an alternative theory: that the expansion of the universe is actually due to the relationship between matter …
Greenpeace discussed deaths and energy technologies and cited Nextbigfuture. Nextbigfutures articles on deaths per twh are shaping the debate of those who are pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear. The wind power fatalities per unit of energy was reported to be twice as that of nuclear in Germany in 2000 (IEA 2002). In this chart above, we use …
The 27th Army Science conference looked at transformational Biomedical technology in one of its conference tracks Bioengineered Skeletal Muscle for Functional Defect Replacement in Rodent Muscle Injury Model While further studies are underway, these initial observations indicate the applicability of this technology, specifically illustrating that following surgical removal of ≈50% of the LD (Latissimus Dorsi) …