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I doubt whether a sea going vessel should have a cruising range of only 800 sea miles. I know this means that she will have to refuel once a week, which should be enough for dealing with an oil spill near her base, but you would also want to be able to send her to help at a large spill further away.
I suppose that the tanks meant to receive the recovered oil can be used to give the ship a world wide range but that that part of the story was not translated.

any pis of this ship?

delft said:

I doubt whether a sea going vessel should have a cruising range of only 800 sea miles. I know this means that she will have to refuel once a week, which should be enough for dealing with an oil spill near her base, but you would also want to be able to send her to help at a large spill further away.
I suppose that the tanks meant to receive the recovered oil can be used to give the ship a world wide range but that that part of the story was not translated.

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A fuel tanker would just tag along with the OSRVs for longer distances to the oil spill.

Quickie said:

A fuel tanker would just tag along with the OSRVs for longer distances to the oil spill.

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I wouldn't like that. Better have dual purpose tanks, that will have to be cleaned before you fill them with fuel for a long journey.
And perhaps you are recovering oil of a sufficiently good quality to burn it in the engine. How well fitted is the engine to burn lower quality oil?

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Chinese paleontologists announced Sunday that they have discovered the largest Jurassic dinosaur fossil in the country so far, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The fossil remains show that the herbivorous sauropod dinosaur was 35 meters in length, and weighed about 30 tonnes, said professor Sun Ge, head of the expedition team that made the discovery, and deputy executive director of China Research Society of Paleontology.

He told a press conference in Shanshan County, where the fossil was found, that the fossil was discovered in a stratum of the Middle Jurassic Period, about 165 million years ago.

Prior to this, the largest Jurassic dinosaur fossil discovered in China was less than 30 meters in length.

Sun said that paleontologists are continuing the excavation of the fossil, hoping to unearth a complete skeleton.

He said that team members have also unearthed a tooth fossil which apparently belonged to a carnosaur not far from the herbivorous dinosaur fossil.

"We hope the future excavation will help unveil more evidence to suggest what caused the death of this mammoth creature," he said.

The expedition team is composed of experts from Jilin University, Shenyang Normal University and Xinjiang Geological Survey Institute. They started the expedition in Shanshan in October last year.

This region is where Chinese and German experts unearthed the largest cluster of fossilized dinosaur tracks in China in 2008. The footprints were left by smaller-sized Jurassic carnosaurs. Most of the footprints are in three-toe shape and each footprint has three big and protruding toes with sharp claws.

Prof. Dong Zhiming, one of the discoverers of Shanshanosaur, a lizard-like carnivore, said the new discovery showed that the Turpan Basin had more favorable living conditions than previously known regions of southwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces for herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs in the late Jurassic period.

The expedition team has discovered more than 20 fossil sites in Shanshan, and unearthed more than 100 fossils of the terrapin species.

Dong said the findings suggested the dry Turpan Basin was once dotted with lakes and covered by lush green plants during the Jurassic Period, which was enough to feed the huge appetite of giant herbivorous dinosaurs.

Li Tingdong, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the dinosaur fossil research in Shanshan would provide important evidence for the research of Jurassic stratum and climate, and give clues for exploring oil and coal deposits in the region.

More than 40 officials and experts from China's top paleontologist research societies and Berlin Humboldt University attended the press conference.

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CSR Corp. China’s biggest trainmaker, said it’s in talks on possible acquisitions in Europe, North America and Australia as it seeks to add new technology and pare a reliance on domestic sales.

“We are actively pursuing deals that can bring us complementary technologies,” Chairman Zhao Xiaogang said in an April 13 interview in Hong Kong, without naming specific targets. “Companies in developed countries are facing some difficulties and they may have a desire to sell.”

CSR, based in Beijing, is seeking deals as Zhao strives to boost overseas sales to 20 percent of revenue by 2015 from 7.7 percent last year. China has also pledged to improve safety standards on domestic railways after a fatal high-speed crash last year.

The state-controlled trainmaker is in talks on possible acquisitions in Spain, Italy, Germany, the U.K. and France, Zhao said. The company and its units also make carriages, wagons and wind turbines.

Zhao declined to comment on whether the group had bid for stakes in Finmeccanica SpA’s train-making unit AnsaldoBreda and signaling-maker Ansaldo STS SpA. (STS) Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore said on April 7 that the company had made an offer. Hitachi Ltd. (6501) is a more probable buyer, the report said. Hitachi spokesman Atsushi Konno declined to comment on April 13. Finmeccanica has said it wants to sell AnsaldoBreda this year...

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Seems we will see more overseas acquisitions yhis year

"GO OUT" policy continues...

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China's non-financial overseas direct investment (ODI) surged 94.5 percent year-on-year to 16.55 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of this year, the Ministry of Commerce announced (MOC) Tuesday.

Of the total, 6.2 billion U.S. dollars of investment took the form of mergers and acquisitions, said MOC spokesman Shen Danyang.

The ODI marked a substantial increase in March, as investment in the first two months of this year stood at just 7.435 billion U.S. dollars.

First quarter investments were made in 1,096 overseas companies in 109 countries and regions around the world, according to Shen.

As of the end of March, China's non-financial ODI expanded to 338.5 billion U.S. dollars, Shen said.

Active Chinese investments abroad came amid falling foreign investments to China. MOC data showed that the country received 29.48 billion U.S. dollars of foreign direct investment in the first three months, down 2.8 percent from a year earlier.

Shen said that China's non-financial ODI is highly likely to see a rapid growth rate this year, but he expects the full-year growth rate to rest below the 94.5-percent rate seen in the first quarter.

He said that many countries are willing to see investment from Chinese companies, and a lack of liquidity and rising financing costs in European markets may give rise to a new round of global mergers and acquisitions.

Meanwhile, Chinese firms are increasingly motivated to internationalize their businesses due to pressures stemming from the rising costs of raw materials and labor at home, said Shen.

MOC data on Tuesday also showed that in the first quarter, business volume in overseas-contracted projects rose 23 percent year-on-year to 20.88 billion U.S. dollars, according to Shen.

The value of new contracts signed over the January-March period fell 3.8 percent to 29.76 billion U.S. dollars. However, new contracts signed in March rose 6.7 percent to reach 14.43 billion U.S. dollars, Shen said.

During the first quarter, 91,000 more Chinese were sent to work abroad under labor cooperation contracts, Shen said. As of the end of March, 809,000 Chinese were working overseas under such contracts, up by 40,000 from the corresponding period last year.

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The ultimate objective of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research is to achieve the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, a kind of subatomic reactions, in which the union of lighter atomic nuclei forms heavier ones in company with release of an enormous amount of energy, in hope of solving the increasingly urgent issue of energy shortage in human society. Acting as an important experimental platform for the short-term and mid-term ICF studies in China, the Shenguang (Divine Light)-Ⅱ laser facility (SG-Ⅱ) is the largest facility ever developed in this country and listed among the few high-performance and huge-power solid-state laser drivers in the world today.

In an area as large as a football ground, the newly developed “Shenguang (magic rays) II” super laser, which consists of over a hundred optical apparatuses, is able to emit gigantic energy equal to that of a global electricity network in a spark of one billionth of a second, creating a physical phenomenon which is likely to be found only at the centre of a nuclear explosion, the rim of black hole or inside a star.

Situated at theShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the super laser, by sending out tremendous energy in a very short time, could give out extreme pressure and high temperature to trigger off fusion reaction.

By providing extreme physical conditions the laser is to be used in scientific experiments, and is of great significance to basic researches, hi-tech applications and the development of new technology for national defence.

“Shenguang” has a promising prospect, expert says, because nuclear fusion holds out the hope of clean energy in future years. By the middle of this century scientists, as expected, would be able to use laser-produced fusion to turn rich deuterium and tritium in seawater into great and endless energy. Completion of “Shenguang II” marks a step forward made by China towards obtaining energy from seawater.

By the successful development of “Shenguang II”, China has planted itself in the world forefront of laser studies. For the moment, such huge and precise optical apparatus can only be made in a few countries such as the USA and Japan, and the general technological performance of “Shenguang II” has entered the rank of world top 5.

In the research, development, test and physical experimental operation of the larger Shenguang-II devices, with the total output capacity of eight-route base-frequency laser (wavelength at 1.053?m) reaching 6kj/100ps. The remarkable progress made in the first laser fusion experiment conducted on Shenguang-II indicates that China has reached a new level in high-power laser physics and technology and in the theoretical research and experimental technology of laser-induced fusion.

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Is it more important than "Steppers" CottegeLV ?, or just nothing compare to your baby "stepper"

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China has finished installing and testing the AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope in Antarctica, researchers from China's 28th Antarctic scientific expedition team said Wednesday.

The AST3-1 is China's first domestically produced automatic unmanned telescope, capable of conducting surveys of supernovae and other extrasolar bodies.

"It's 4.5 meters tall, making it the largest optical telescope in Antarctica," said Li Zhengyang, a member of the scientific expedition team.

In January 2008, China installed the CSTAR optical telescope group at "Dome A" on the Antarctic Plateau, one of the coldest places on Earth. The telescope group has collected large amounts of astronomic data over the last four years, according to the expedition team.

Another two optical telescopes will be installed in 2013 and 2014, respectively, according to the team's deputy head Yuan Xiangyan.

"China started late in Antarctic astronomic exploration, but it has made great progress. Since we took advantage of the observation point at Dome A, more countries have expressed willingness to cooperate with us," Yuan said.