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McKinsey's Gordon Orr analyzes his past and future predictions for China 27 Aug 2013 | 04:47 am
What McKinsey's Gordon Orr has learned from five years of making annual predictions about China. New Year forecasting is a widely practiced business art in most areas of the world, but in China it ca...
McKinsey view of China's future 27 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
McKinsey is forecasting a worsening shortage of university educated and vocationally trained people in China by 2020. According to new McKinsey research, at the lower end of the labor market, in 2020...
Superstrong graphene metal composite created that hundreds of times stronger than pure metal 27 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
New metamaterial has been developed exhibiting hundreds of times greater strength than pure metals. Professor Seung Min, Han and Yoo Sung, Jeong,Professor Seok Woo, Jeon have developed a composite nan...
Chinese shipbuilders develop integrated electric propulsion technology 27 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
China Shipbuilding Industry Corp said its Wuhan Institute of Marine Electric Propulsion finalized its integrated electric propulsion technology in mid-July. It said the in-house development will help ...
Hypersolar nears voltage level for direct solar hydrogen production without expensive electrolyzer 27 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
HyperSolar, the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, announced that its artificial photosynthesis technology is now capable of p...
3D Graphene replaces platinum in dye sensitized solar power 26 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
Dye-sensitized solar cells are thin, flexible, easy to make and very good at turning sunshine into electricity. However, a key ingredient is one of the most expensive metals on the planet: platinum. W...
Lunar XPrize technology video and Jack Andrade part of the team competing for the Tricorder Xprize 26 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
A video compilation of the newest hardware, tech, and just plain cool stuff that comes out of the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams! If you like robots and rockets then you have come to the right place. Read...
Former US Congressman and Navy Admiral Joe Sestak discusses his views on Thorium nuclear energy 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Former U.S. congressman, Navy admiral and senatorial candidate Joe Sestak addresses Thorium Energy Alliance in Chicago. "This issue of thorium with rare earth minerals has to be looked at as a nation...
Mark Halper reviews what happened in 2012-2013 with Thorium Reactors 26 Aug 2013 | 11:14 am
Mark Halper delivered a thorium year-in-review at the Thorium Energy Alliance's 5th conference, in Chicago on May 30th 2013. Mark Halper writes for The Guardian and CBS SmartPlanet. Mark reviewed Ch...
Pacific Rim Sequel likely with strong box office in China 26 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
Pacific Rim made more box office in China than in the USA. Pacific Rim may edge over $100 million in the USA but will likely make $135-160 million in China. Pacific Rim last week reported over $100 mi...
