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City Scale Water spraying from skyscrapers would be artificial rain to clean...
In the past 30 years, China has suffered from air pollution and heavy haze created by fast industrial growth and economic expansion. An Environmental Chemistry Letter research journal article reviews...
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China will go to 4.8 billion tons of coal per year and will turn on the taps...
China is predicted to reach 4.8 billion metric tons per year by 2020, up from 3.65 billion tons in 2013. The prediction was made by China National Coal Association vice president Liang Jiakun. China...
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China's plan is to acquire the best commercial energy technology and scales...
Chris Phoenix asked in the comments - Why is China not making a small investment of about $10 million into Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) which has an interesting dense plasma focus nuclear fusion...
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Likely Economic Power of Tomorrow is seen in Power Infrastructure Today
The US is again generating about 4100 Terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2013 as it did in 2012. The entire OECD (US, Europe, Japan, Australia and South Korea) is generating about 10300 TWh in...
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The Second Transhuman Visions conference will be on March 1st , 2014
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will be speaking at the Second Transhuman Visions conference will be on March 1st , 2014.The first Transhuman Visions conference is coming up on February 1st and has Aubrey...
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China will have about 6 times as much electricity production as India in 2014
For 12 months spanning 2012-2013 (middle of year), India generated 907 billion KWh. This was about 3.7% growth from the prior year. With 4% growth India would have 940 billion KWh of power for...
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Classical computing and superalgorithms might do what we thought would need...
MIT researchers have a new framework for approximately solving ow problems in capacitated, undirected graphs and apply it to provide asymptotically faster algorithms for the maximum s-t flow and...
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Many Air pollution fighting companies in China had doubled sales in 2013 as...
The New York Times reports China’s government is struggling to meet pollution reduction targets and has pledged to spend more than 3 trillion renminbi, or almost $500 billion, to tackle the problem,...
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Orbital Sciences successfully launched resupply mission to the space station
Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft successfully launched its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station today. Coverage began via NASA TV at 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET with the...
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60 minutes ran a segment claiming that Clean Technology has crashed and this...
CBS has the script from "The Cleantech Crash" which aired on Jan. 5, 2014. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer.Silicon Valley got Washington excited about it. President Bush was...
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Where in the world are the 2.1 million deaths per year from 2.5 micron...
Occasionally, short-term meteorological conditions merge with ongoing human emissions to produce extreme outbreaks of air pollution. In January 2013, a blanket of industrial pollution enveloped...
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Former Canadian Defence Minister Claims there are 80 different alien species...
There has not been enough comedic material coming from the Crack Smoking mayor of Toronto Rob Ford in the last few days. So former Canadian politician Paul Hellyer is picking up the slack. It is also...
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China's horrible air pollution
In 2008, a detailed analysis of powerplants in China by MIT researchers debunked the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that...
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IBM is making a multi-billion bet on Watson Artificial Intelligence for a...
This is IBM attempting to use enterprise artificial intelligence to accelerate technology in science, medicine and business. If they succeed this could be the first real artificial intelligence...
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Artificial Intelligence for banking - but not programmed trading for big...
DBS Bank and IBM today announced an agreement in which DBS will deploy IBM’s Watson cognitive computing innovation to deliver a next- generation client experience. This collaboration is part of an...
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Are we at a tipping point for jobs and society ?
Let us look again at the UK report on automation of jobs. It indicates that 47% of jobs are in danger of being automated within 1 to 2 decades. The report that looked at 702 different occupations and...
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East Coast US cold drove natural gas prices up 20 times to $100 per thousand...
In a normal early-January week the draw on natural gas inventories is about 170 billion cubic feet. This week, according to market watcher Bentek, the drawdown is expected to be on the order of 310 bcf...
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US crude oil production projected to be 9.3 million barrels per day in 2015
In its first forecast of the nation’s energy position in 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected Tuesday that oil producers will increase production by about 750,000 barrels of oil...
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China is researching diamond quantum chips with qubits tempered by over 45...
The South China Morning Post reports that China, the US and other major powers are racing to develop another game-changer in intelligence encryption - the first quantum supercomputer, which would...
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Japan claims 280 uninhabited islands but does not say exactly where
The South China Morning Post reports that Japan three days ago said it will accelerate the nationalisation of 280 uninhabited islands in a bid to strengthen control of the country's maritime...
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