June 15, 2013
- Pakistans's government has decided to go ahead with work on a 1,100-megawatt nuclear power plant in Karachi with Chinese assistance from the next financial year in an effort to ease energy shortages in the country.
At present, Pakistan has two nuclear power plants – Chashma 1 and 2 – each with a capacity of 320MW and built with Chinese assistance. Work on Chashma 3...
June 14, 2013
- Steven Spielberg made a prediction that Hollywood was doomed because the big $300 million movies could not sustainably make over $1 billion and that people did not have time for the movies.
What are the specific movies that are guaranteed to make over $1 billion and likely over 1.5 to 2 billion ?
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June 13, 2013
- “China has basically said goodbye to 8% GDP growth in spirit if not in statistics and will have to embrace slower growth, with the average annual growth rate in the next seven years to 2020 perhaps falling to the vicinity of 6%,” wrote Goldman Sachs GS +2.45% China strategist Jiming Ha in a June 10 research report.
Goldman Sachs calculates that a fall in investment to...
June 12, 2013
- 1. Arxiv - Natural Light Cloaking for Aquatic and Terrestrial Creatures Hongsheng Chen at Zhejiang University in China and an international circle of friends have created large-scale invisibility cloaks that work over the entire optical spectrum but can cloak in several directions at once. Most animals cannot detect phase changes in light. Abandoning the requirement of phase preservation for natural light cloaking opens the door...
June 11, 2013
- World population forecasts tend to have an error range of +/- 5% in 2030 and +/- 14% in 2050. However, estimates of population for today can have errors in the +/- 2% range and even higher error levels for some countries. It is useful to determine if there is a likelyhood of an over or under count or over or under estimate.
China could have an undercount in its population because people in... - The Chinese have launched their fifth crewed space mission on Tuesday via the Shenzhou-10 mission. The launch of the Long March 2F/G rocket was on schedule at 09:38 UTC, taking place from Pad 921 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center’s LC43 Launch Complex.
This new space chapter for the Chinese represents the final occupation of the Tiangong-1 space module and the launch of the second... - Recently Columbia University worked out how to remove graphene from a copper substrate without damaging it. They have large sheets of graphene with a strength of 95 gigapascals. This is 90% of the strength of perfect molecular graphene and is stronger than molecular carbon nanotubes.
... - China's May exports rose 1 percent from a year earlier, down from 14.7 percent in April, while imports dropped 0.3 percent from a year earlier. The median estimates of analysts were for 7.4 percent export growth and 6.6 percent import gains. The $20.4 billion trade surplus compared with forecasts for $20 billion.
The slowdown in May’s trade...
June 10, 2013
- Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States estimates that shale resources taken in conjunction with EIA's own assessment of resources within the United States indicate technically recoverable resources of 345 billion barrels of world shale...
- The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 160 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee
SONGS [San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station] to retire, decommission, posted by Will Davis at ANS Nuclear Café.
The latest news on the recent decision to retire the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in...
