High Speed Rail in China are an enabler of Super City Clusters
China’s High Speed Rail Morgan Stanley has a 64 page analysis of high speed rail in China. China’s complete national coverage for its HSR network makes the economic case different than one off HSR...
View Article1 million qubit quantum computers by 2025
Dwave Systems is doubling qubits every year. They are releasing every two years with four times the qubits. 2013 512 qubits 2015 2048 qubits 2017 8192 qubits 2019 64000 qubits 2021 256000 qubits 2023 1...
View Article60 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...
View ArticleNuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225
The Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225 is up ANS Nuclear Cafe. Neutronbytes – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plans to kick off a much talked about $80 billion program to shift 15% (17 GWe) of its electric...
View ArticleRussia’s unmanned next generation fighter is being based off the MIG Skat...
Russian designers are proceeding with development of an unmanned “sixth-generation” fighter jet, according to former Air Force chief Pyotr Deinekin. “The sixth generation of aircraft will most likely...
View ArticleLonemind has a list of the top 25 futurists
Lonemind has a list of the top 25 futurists. I, Brian Wang / Nextbigfuture is listed about 7th. Although the list may not be in any particular order. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader...
View ArticleChina will upgrade supercomputer to 100 petaflops in 2016 instead of 2015...
System designer for the multiple iterations of the Tianhe machines, Dr. Yutong Lu, revealed that the Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be receiving its upgrade in 2016. However, due to the trade...
View ArticleBreakthrough for customizing heat resistant ceramics into complex shapes for...
Researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have achieved a new milestone in 3D printing technology by demonstrating an approach to additively manufacture ceramics that overcomes the limits of traditional...
View ArticleTiny MEMS gravity sensor could detect drug tunnels, mineral deposits and...
A new device the size of a postage stamp can detect 1-part-per-billion changes in Earth’s gravitational field—equivalent to what the gizmo would experience if it were lifted a mere 3 millimeters. The...
View ArticleUS engineering big upgrades for M1A2 SEP v4 Abrams tanks starting in 2021 to...
The Army is now engineering a far-superior M1A2 SEP v4 Abrams tank variant for the 2020s and beyond –designed to be more lethal, faster, lighter weight, better protected, equipped with new sensors and...
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