Tag Archives: China

11. The future of food: meatless? Every year we eat around 50 billion chickens, 300 million cows, 700 million sheep/goats, 1.5 billion pigs and 23 million metric tons of fish.  These figures are impressive and they keep growing as more people in developing Countries are turning to animal protein for …

The quest for better batteries, meaning higher energy density and faster charging, is relentless. These two aspects are important, and leading research in this field, but there are also other factors that are considered, like weight, use of easily  available materials, longer operational life, easier production (and cheaper cost). There …

Today’s electric vehicles have a battery pack storing between 40 and 100 kWh and the trend is towards more storage capacity as customers are looking for range upwards of 500km. If you take these numbers and do some math, you’ll discover that we are really short in battery production capacity. …

Could there be life in the Metaverse? This is a question that we hear discussing among sociologists and indeed it is an important one since if there can be life in the Metaverse (i.e. people will likely spend a significant part of their time in the Metaverse) then business can …

The Digital Transformation has killed distances in the value chain and has cut the middle man. This is happening in many market sectors and one that has been most affected is the retal value chain. The “local store” at the corner is fading away, replaced by the big e-commerce guys, …

Using the repulsive force of two opposing magnetic field to move an object is nothing new. There are a few gadgets you can buy for entertaining friends in your living room showing a ball hovering -magically- in space. Industrial applications, involving heavy objects are trickier and far more expensive. I …

My iPhone is made in China, so are the LEDs I use at Christmas time and a countless number of other objects setting the pace to my daily life. However my car has always been European made … (current one was made in Germany but I had many made in …

The big pyramids standing on the Giza plateau involved a huge mass of workers that dedicated many years of hard labour to their construction. Herodotus wrote of 100,000 workers building the big pyramid (Khufu) but he estimated the number 2,700 years after the pyramid was built. Modern historians give a …

At New Years Eve the Tianwen-1 Mars Orbiter mission team decided to celebrate the new year in a most unique way, releasing the selfies taken by the orbiter as it approached Mars, flying over its North Pole (watch the clip). These amazing images were taken with a digital camera (not …

How would you call a railway where the rails are replaced by paint? Probably not “paintways” but that’s the best I was able to come up to get your attention… 4 years ago CRRC, a Chinese company manufacturing trains and trams came up with the idea of replacing the rail …