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A series of canals and pipelines stretching over 1,400 kilometers began diverting water on Friday from China's longest river, the Yangtze, directly to the country's arid northern regions, including capital city Beijing. The completion of the water scheme marked major progress in the nation's enormous south-to-north water diversion project, the largest of its kind in the world at an estimated cost of 500 billion yuan (about 80 billion U.S. dollars).
The project, which aims to alleviate water shortages in the north, is another engineering achievement by the Chinese. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the world's longest man-made river, was launched in the 13th century as a main waterway for grain transport between the south and north in ancient China.
China's grand new "canal" diverts water northward
China is looking at the feasibility of a nuclear seawater desalination plant in the Yantai area of Shandong Peninsula, producing 80-160,000 m3/day by MED process, using a 200 MWt NHR-200 reactor. A 100,000 m3/d seawater RO plant supplied by Abengoa of Spain started operating early in 2013 at Qingdao in Shandong province. Another project is for a 330,000 m3/day plant near Daya Bay.
A 50,000 m3/day Aqualyng plant was completed in October 2011 at Caofeidian on Bohai Bay in Hebei province, and a second stage doubled this in 2012. The Hong Kong based Beijing Enterprises Water Group (BEWG) with Aqualyng is building a 1 million m3/d RO plant at Caofeidian for CNY 7 billion to supply Beijing through a 270 km pipeline by 2019, and a 3 million m3/d plant is planned to expand this to supply some 1 billion m3/yr to the capital, about one-third of its needs. The pipeline will cost about CNY 10 billion, and supply desalinated water at CNY 8/m3 ($1.28/m3).
In March 2013 the National Development and Reform Commission announced new plans for seawater desalination, including for the cities of Shenzhen and Zhoushan, Luxixiang Island in Zhejiang Province, Binhai New Area in Tianjin, Bohai New Area in Hebei, and several industrial parks and companies. The cost is likely to be some CNY 21 billion ($3.35 billion). China aims to produce 2.2 million m3/day of desal water by 2015, more than three times the 2011 level. More than half of the freshwater channelled to islands and more than 15% of water delivered to coastal factories will come from the sea by 2015, according to the plan.
A 300,000 m3/d seawater desal plant at Tianjin is under construction and will be the first zero-liquid discharge (ZLD) plant in the world. It is due to supply petrochemical plants from 2017.
Nuclear Desalination
Denmark will claim on Monday ownership of around 900,000 square kilometers of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean by filing documents to United Nations.
"The submission of our claim to the continental shelf north of Greenland is a historic and important milestone for the Kingdom of Denmark," minister of foreign affairs Martin Lidegaard said in a statement.
Denmark to claim slice of continental shelf in Arctic Ocean
Why does Denmark think it can lay claim to the north pole?
Prelude on massiivisin rakenteilla olevista, mutta siitä ei tule maailman ensimmäistä toiminnassa olevaa FLNG -laitosta.
The Caribbean FLNG project, which is expected to be the world’s first operational FLNG facility, is being delivered by Wison Offshore & Marine (Wison) at its yard in Nantong under an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract with EXMAR. The unit comprises a non-propelled barge that will be operated off the Caribbean coast of Colombia for Pacific Rubiales Energy and equipped to convert 72.0 million scf/d of natural gas into LNG (+/- 500,000 tons of LNG per annum) for temporary storage and export.
World’s First FLNG Undocked in Nantong
A theory that the mythical yeti is a rare polar bear-brown bear hybrid animal has been challenged.
Last year, Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes revealed the results of DNA tests on hairs said to be from the Abominable Snowman. The scientists found that he had a 100% match with a sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and 120,000 years ago - a time when the polar bear and closely-related brown bear were separating as different species. The species are closely related and are known to interbreed where their territories overlap.
But two other scientists have said re-analysis of the same data shows the hairs belong to the Himalayan bear, a sub-species of the brown bear.
Scientists challenge 'Abominable Snowman DNA' results
Today, Lockheed Martin has announced that it is working with Reignwood Group to develop an Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) pilot power plant off the coast of southern China. The 10-megawatt offshore plant, to be designed by Lockheed Martin, will be the largest OTEC project developed to date.
Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group to Develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant - OTEC news
Kyllähän tälläkin puolella potentiaalia on olemassa, mutta massiivisten putkien rakentaminen kilometrien syvyyteen ei ole aivan halpaa.
A new study predicts that large-scale power plants based on thermoelectric effects, such as small temperature differences in ocean water, could generate electricity at a lower cost than photovoltaic power plants.
As Liu explains, thermoelectric power plants would work by harvesting the energy of ocean waves to pump cold water from a few hundred meters deep up through a long channel. As the cold water nears the surface, it enters a heat exchanger where it is heated by surface water on the outside. The heat exchanger acts as an electric generator, as its tubes are made of thermoelectric materials that can transfer heat through their walls and directly convert temperature differences into electricity.
Thermoelectric power plants could offer economically competitive renewable energy
Nevşehir:in Provinssissa Turkista löytyy lukemattomia maan allle kaivettuja muinaisia suojapaikkoja. Kaksi niistä on niin syviä ja laajoja, että niitä voi sanoa maanalaisiksi kaupungeiksi. Derinkuyun maanalainen kaupunki on ilmeisesti aikanaan ollut jopa 11 kerrosta (jotkut lähteet kertoo että 8 kerrosta) syvä. Kokonaisyvyyttä on ollut vähintäänkin 85 metriä. Lisäksi kaupunki oli yhdistetty alueen muihin maanalaisiin suojapaikkoihin kilometrejä pitkillä tunneleilla. Pysyväksi asuinsijaksi kaupunkeja ei kuitenkaan ole ilmeisesti tarkoitettu, mutta ihmiset olisivat hyökkäyksen kohteeksi joutuessaan selvinneet maan alla tarvittaessa pitkiäkin aikoja.
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A 5,000 year-old underground city thought to be the largest in the world has been discovered in central Turkey. The subterranean settlement was discovered in the Nevşehir province of Turkey’s Central Anatolia region, in the historical area of Cappadocia. Cappadocia is famous in archaeological circles for its large number of underground settlement.
But the site, located around the Nevşehir hill fort near the city of Kayseri, appears to dwarf all other finds to date. Hasan Ünver, the mayor of the city on those outskirts the discovery was found, said other underground cities were nothing more than a “kitchen” compared to the newly uncovered settlement.
Vast 5,000 year-old underground city discovered in Turkey's Cappadocia region
Tiistaina julkistettiin kahdeksan uuden elämänvyöhykkeen planeetan löytyminen. Niiden joukossa on kaksi planeettaa, jotka ovat havaintojen perusteella maapalloa eniten muistuttavat eksoplaneetat.
Maata eniten muistuttavat Kepler-438b ja Kepler-442b kiertävät molemmat punaisia kääpiötähtiä. Tutkijat arvioivat niiden olevan kiviplaneettoja 60-70 prosentin todennäköisyydellä.
Kaksi eniten maapalloa muistuttavaa eksoplaneettaa löytyi
Historian ensimmäinen kilpailu eksoplaneettojen nimeämiseksi on avattu. Kilpailun järjestää Kansainvälinen tähtitieteen unioni IAU, joka on tähtitieteen ylin taho.
Ehdotuksia ei hyväksytä yksittäisiltä ihmisiltä, vaan tähtitieteeseen liittyviltä yhdistyksiltä tai voittoa tavoittelemattomilta toimijoilta sekä kouluilta. Äänestykseen ehdotusten kannatuksesta voivat osallistua yksityishenkilöt, jotka kannattavat yksittäistä nimiehdotusta. Lopulliset viralliset valinnat julkistetaan IAU:n kokouksessa Havaijilla elokuun alkupuoliskolla.
Kilpailu eksoplaneettojen nimeämiseksi avattiin
On January 10, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) was held in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China. More than 300 scientists and officials from China and other countries attended the ceremony and witnessed this historical moment.
JUNO is the second China-based neutrino project, following the Daya Bay Reactor experiment, and is designed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy via precision measurements of the reactor neutrino energy spectrum. The experiment is scheduled to start data-taking in 2020, and is expected to operate for at least 20 years. The neutrino detector, which is the experiment’s core component, will be the world’s largest and highest precision liquid scintillator detector.
Groundbreaking at JUNO
India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a proposed particle physics research project to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a 1,300 meters (4,300 ft) deep cave under Ino Peak near Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. The project is a multi-institute collaboration and one of the biggest experimental particle physics projects undertaken in India.
When completed, the INO will house the world's most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
India-based Neutrino Observatory
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The multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal with France has run into rough weather over a guarantee clause and a steep rise in price with India making it clear that the ball is in France’s court as it looks at the option of buying more Russian Sukhoi-30 MKI warplanes as a back-up plan.
The deal was initially for about Rs 42,000 crore, French are seeking a higher price now. This, the sources said, has put the price at a “little more than double the cost”. Another point of contention is the guarantee clause under which Rafale has to stand guarantee for the planes that would be manufactured by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
On Rafale jet deal, India says ball in France’s court
Tiistaina julkistettiin kahdeksan uuden elämänvyöhykkeen planeetan löytyminen. Niiden joukossa on kaksi planeettaa, jotka ovat havaintojen perusteella maapalloa eniten muistuttavat eksoplaneetat. Maata eniten muistuttavat Kepler-438b ja Kepler-442b kiertävät molemmat punaisia kääpiötähtiä. Tutkijat arvioivat niiden olevan kiviplaneettoja 60-70 prosentin todennäköisyydellä.
Kaksi eniten maapalloa muistuttavaa eksoplaneettaa löytyi
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, despite being hobbled by the loss of critical guidance systems, has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth. The outermost planet orbits in the "Goldilocks" zone, a region where surface temperatures could be moderate enough for liquid water and perhaps life, to exist.
The star, EPIC 201367065, is a cool red M-dwarf about half the size and mass of our own sun. At a distance of 150 light years, the star ranks among the top 10 nearest stars known to have transiting planets. The star's proximity means it's bright enough for astronomers to study the planets' atmospheres to determine whether they are like Earth's atmosphere and possibly conducive to life. "There is a very real possibility that the outermost planet is rocky like Earth, which means this planet could have the right temperature to support liquid water oceans."
Three nearly Earth-size planets found orbiting nearby star
Xu Zengping reveals for the first time the negotiations behind buying the Liaoning for the PLA Navy - and the secret behind its engines.
Mission impossible: How one man bought China its first aircraft carrier
The inside story of the Liaoning: how Xu Zengping sealed deal for China's first aircraft carrier
Tuoreiden kuvien perusteella Kiinan uusi massiivinen rannikkovartioston laiva lasketaan vesille ihan lähiaikoina. Alus on uppoumaltaan luokassa 10k-12k tonnia, eli käytännössä alus on risteilijän kokoluokkaa. On luonnollisesti maailman suurin omassa kategoriassaan. Toinen samanlainen alus on rakenteilla.
Tänään on taas "Groundhog Day" ja esim. Suomen ISTV seuraa livenä tapahtumaa. Kuinka kauan talvi jatkuu...
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MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in a historic move. In a free vote in the Commons, 382 MPs were in favour and 128 against the technique that stops genetic diseases being passed from mother to child. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people.
MPs say yes to three-person babies
Vast ranges of volcanoes hidden under the oceans are presumed by scientists to be the gentle giants of the planet, oozing lava at slow, steady rates along mid-ocean ridges. But a new study shows that they flare up on strikingly regular cycles, ranging from two weeks to 100,000 years—and, that they erupt almost exclusively during the first six months of each year. The pulses—apparently tied to short- and long-term changes in earth's orbit, and to sea levels—may help trigger natural climate swings.
Seafloor volcano pulses may alter climate
Thirteen countries which are home to the world's dwindling population of wild tigers Friday agreed to establish an intelligence-sharing network to fight traffickers, concluding an anti-poaching conference in Kathmandu.
Tiger nations to set up anti-poaching network