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Nuclear Power Plant deal for Argentina

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China Signs $6 billion Nuclear Plant Deal with Argentina

By Zhu Xi (

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) 07:01, November 16, 2015

State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) has signed a $6 billion deal for the construction of Argentina’s fourth nuclear power plant, China National Radio reported on Sunday.

Argentina’s fourth nuclear power plant, specifically the Atucha nuclear power plant Unit 3 reactor, will be installed with the capacity of 750,000 kilowatts, costing nearly $6 billion.

China will provide loans covering 85 percent of the total investments. The Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NASA) will operate the facility after its completion.

The negotiation of a fifth nuclear power plant has also been initiated, which will implement Hualong One, China’s self-designed Integrated Pressurized Water Reactor (IPWR) technology.

 

[Dolcevita]

China becoming new leader in Battery Technology

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Huawei prototype battery charges to 50 percent in five minutes
It uses the same lithium-ion technology as your smartphone, but with a few modifications.

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IDG News Service

• Nov 13, 2015 2:03 PM

Huawei has developed a prototype smartphone battery that can be recharged to half its capacity in just five minutes.

The battery is based on the same lithium ion chemistry used in cellphone batteries today but gets its advantage from atoms of graphite bonded to the anode, Huawei said on Friday at an industry conference in Japan.

That change means faster charging but not at the expense of usage life or a sacrifice in the amount of energy that can be stored in each battery, it said.

It was developed by Huawei research and development subsidiary Watt Lab and the company showed off two prototypes in videos posted online.

One of the two batteries has a capacity of 3,000mAh (milliampere hours) -- about equivalent to the batteries in modern smartphones -- and

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in five minutes. The second has a much smaller capacity of 600mAh but

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in just two minutes.

The batteries have undergone repeated testing and the fast charging isn't a one-time deal, the company said.

In the video, a battery is taken from a Huawei smartphone and recharged in a prototype charging unit. The device is bulky and hasn't been shrunk to the size that it could fit inside a phone.

Huawei didn't say when the fast charging might make its way into commercial products.

The announcement is one of a number this year that all point toward faster charging or longer battery life. Advances in battery technology have lagged other areas of technology and battery life remains a limiting factor for gadgets such as phones and larger products like electric vehicles.

 

[Quickie]

China becoming new leader in Battery Technology

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Huawei prototype battery charges to 50 percent in five minutes
It uses the same lithium-ion technology as your smartphone, but with a few modifications.

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IDG News Service

• Nov 13, 2015 2:03 PM

Huawei has developed a prototype smartphone battery that can be recharged to half its capacity in just five minutes.

The battery is based on the same lithium ion chemistry used in cellphone batteries today but gets its advantage from atoms of graphite bonded to the anode, Huawei said on Friday at an industry conference in Japan.

That change means faster charging but not at the expense of usage life or a sacrifice in the amount of energy that can be stored in each battery, it said.

It was developed by Huawei research and development subsidiary Watt Lab and the company showed off two prototypes in videos posted online.

One of the two batteries has a capacity of 3,000mAh (milliampere hours) -- about equivalent to the batteries in modern smartphones -- and

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in five minutes. The second has a much smaller capacity of 600mAh but

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in just two minutes.

The batteries have undergone repeated testing and the fast charging isn't a one-time deal, the company said.

In the video, a battery is taken from a Huawei smartphone and recharged in a prototype charging unit. The device is bulky and hasn't been shrunk to the size that it could fit inside a phone.

Huawei didn't say when the fast charging might make its way into commercial products.

The announcement is one of a number this year that all point toward faster charging or longer battery life. Advances in battery technology have lagged other areas of technology and battery life remains a limiting factor for gadgets such as phones and larger products like electric vehicles.

In the video, a battery is taken from a Huawei smartphone and recharged in a prototype charging unit. The device is bulky and hasn't been shrunk to the size that it could fit inside a phone

By saying the above, the reporter got it all wrong on this part. The charging device certainly won't be incorporated into the smartphone as it is the case with your smartphone charger. The device would probably be a bit bulkier than a usual charger (even after shrinking it) because of the higher power requirement in the short charging time. What is really different is the battery itself, which probably looks like any other smartphone battery.

 

[plawolf]

$48million would buy you about 1400 hectarces of PRIME dairy land @$25000 a hectare.Where we farm the average size farm is about 270 hectares.and a few of us through hard work now farm 2 to 4 farms as one or several units , depending on the long term goal..

On the other hand Shanghai Pengin paid $200 million for 16 farms totalling 8000 hectares (10 of which made up "Crafar Farms Ltd "and was prepared to pay $77million? for Lochinver Station which is 13000 hectares and milked as one unit.

Umm, $200m for 8000 hectares is exactly $25k per hectare, whereas $77m for 13,000 hectares is only $5.9k per hectare.

Seems like Shanghai Pengin paid market price provided it bought prime dairy land, and Crafar Farms got a real bargain, although I assume the land isn't remotely as valuable to have gone so cheaply.

So I'm not sure why you are using those like they are examples of gross overpayment, or am I missing something?

 

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By saying the above, the reporter got it all wrong on this part. The charging device certainly won't be incorporated into the smartphone as it is the case with your smartphone charger. The device would probably be a bit bulkier than a usual charger (even after shrinking it) because of the higher power requirement in the short charging time. What is really different is the battery itself, which probably looks like any other smartphone battery.

The battery could always be used for on the field scientific research, construction building site, land surveying and navigation, rescue, and even military purposes as well.

 

[Blackstone]

The battery could always be used for on the field scientific research, construction building site, land surveying and navigation, rescue, and even military purposes as well.

I wonder if the faster charging Li batteries are more prone to fires or explosions. Good innovations and promising technology, but I hope they work on making them more safe to use and transport.

 

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I wonder if the faster charging Li batteries are more prone to fires or explosions. Good innovations and promising technology, but I hope they work on making them more safe to use and transport.

They can always use more fire retardant materials for the charger. As far as battery exploding are the one I know are the Tesla electric cars.

 

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I wonder if the faster charging Li batteries are more prone to fires or explosions. Good innovations and promising technology, but I hope they work on making them more safe to use and transport.

I'm sure either the standard or additional safety features would be implemented

Having said that, any kind of batteries can potentially explode if its output terminals are short circuited for whatever reason.

 

[Dolcevita]

What is really different is the battery itself, which probably looks like any other smartphone battery.

"The battery is based on the same lithium ion chemistry used in cellphone batteries today but gets its advantage from atoms of graphite bonded to the anode, Huawei said on Friday at an industry conference in Japan."

 

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Umm, $200m for 8000 hectares is exactly $25k per hectare, whereas $77m for 13,000 hectares is only $5.9k per hectare.

Seems like Shanghai Pengin paid market price provided it bought prime dairy land, and Crafar Farms got a real bargain, although I assume the land isn't remotely as valuable to have gone so cheaply.

So I'm not sure why you are using those like they are examples of gross overpayment, or am I missing something?

Me bad for directing my reply directly at “anti terror 13 as a fellow Nzderand forgetting about other readers who may not be familiar with Nz farming

I was trying to impress upon antiterror 13 that when it comes to dairy farm prices, that size does not necessarily equate upon price when he said“$48M is a lot of money in NZ, the farm must be a huge one”.Hence the mentioning of Lochinver Station

While the Shanghai Pengin farm purchases averaged out at $25k per hectare, some I suspect, for a variety of reasons would have been above or below that average. Also because the farms were in the Waikato , which is known to be the best farming area, it’s not unimaginable that some might have fetched $30k per hectare.

Finally of “antiterror 13” statement that” it would be a huge news in NZ world”. I was going to ask him, if he was aware that Shanghai Penxin had put them back on the market again, but thought better of it.