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China high speed rail roundup
This is a China high sped rail roundup. This has significant geopolitical and economic impacts.* Russia and China are moving ahead with the Moscow Kazan high speed rail line which will be followed by a...
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Greece on verge of default but considering BRICs Bank and Russian Bailouts
European finance chiefs have poured fresh emergency funds into Greek banks in a desperate attempt to keep them afloat after panicking savers withdrew more than £3billion this week.The amount being...
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Robots having a steam engine like effect on productivity but are NOT killing...
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. Researchers analyzed for the first time the economic impact of...
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China has a tank gun with mach 6 muzzle velocity vs mach 4.6 for the US Abrams
China has a new multipurpose cannon (sy_wsh at lt.cjdby.net via Popular Science). The 127th Ordinance Research Institute's news 125mm tank cannon is the world' largest, with a barrel length over 7.5...
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GEs look at increasing distributed power
A grand transformation is underway. A wave of decentralization is sweeping across the globe and changing the way we live, work and play. Distributed power technologies are more widely available,...
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Turbomachine roadmap to 2020
A Roadmap on Turbomachinery Research 2014 – 2020 by EUTurbines. Today more than 80% of the electricity generated worldwide is produced by gas and steam turbines. These machines are core components in...
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Pulse detonation engine and continuous detonation wave engines
A pulse detonation engine, or "PDE", is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed because the mixture must be renewed in the...
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5G network defined by ITU as 20 GBs per second
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed on the definition of fifth-generation (5G) networks, a key technological requirement and its schedule to commercialize the technology by...
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Greece might be close to a Debt Deal with the EU
The euro edged higher against the U.S. dollar, yen and Swiss franc on Monday as a new cash-for-reforms offer from Greece raised hopes a tangible deal is taking shape that will help Athens avoid a...
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Imec presents successors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond
At this week’s VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto (Japan), imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions. As the major portion of the...
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New Superconducting Magnet already at a record 27 Tesla and will reach 32...
The USA National MagLab made a magnet that broke the world record for an all-superconducting magnet.Built with both traditional and novel superconducting materials, the magnet reached a field of 27...
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Pluto And Charon: 99.5% of The Way There
A guest post by Joseph FriedlanderThe New Horizons Probe is rapidly approaching the Pluto/Charon system.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research...
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Russia is modernizing ten nuclear submarines with new weapons and electronics...
Russia’s Navy will carry out a profound modernization of about ten nuclear-powered submarines of projects 971 and 949."Everything will be new there. All the units, mechanisms, radio electronics,"...
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Russia expanding arctic bases and adding antiship and drone batteries
Russia will deploy new Bastion anti-ship missile complexes in the Arctic in 2015, a senior military official announced earlier this month. The coastal defense missile system is reportedly designed to...
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Dwave commercializes 1152 qubit chip but there are 2048 physical qubits so...
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...
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Lawrence Livermore able to scale antimatter production with more powerful lasers
Using ever more energetic lasers, Lawrence Livermore researchers have produced a record high number of electron-positron pairs, opening exciting opportunities to study extreme astrophysical processes,...
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EIU GDP forecasts to 2050
The Economist Intelligence Unit has long range economic forecasts to 2050 for the United States and other countries.US GDP annual average real growth 2015-2030 2.3%US GDP annual average real growth...
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Nuclear Energy and Uranium Bet Updates
Michael Dittmar wrote a series of posts about nuclear energy that was published on The Oil Drum in 2009. In the first post of the series, he said that uranium "civilian uranium stocks are expected to...
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Will China be ground zero for joblosses from Robots ?
In 2014, Chinese factories accounted for about a quarter of the global ranks of industrial robots — a 54 percent increase over 2013. According to the International Federation of Robotics, it will have...
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Lexus also has a magnetic hoverboard that works over metals like steel
Lexus announced Wednesday it has created a hoverboard."It works. It's not a hoax," says spokesman Moe Durand.Lexus says it won't be sold. It's for demonstration purposes. It operates using magnetic...
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