By Reuters Staff
BEIJING (Reuters) -China described
its military exercises near Taiwan as “combat drills” on Wednesday, hours
before the arrival of senior former U.S. officials in Taipei on a trip to
signal President Joe Biden’s commitment to Taiwan and its democracy.
Taiwan has complained over the
proximity of repeated Chinese military activity, including fighter jets and
bombers entering its air defence zone and a Chinese aircraft carrier exercising
off the island, claimed by Beijing.
Twenty-five Chinese air force
aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers entered Taiwan’s air
defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, the largest reported incursion by
Taipei to date.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said
Taiwan’s government and separatists were colluding with “external forces”,
seeking provocation and to damage peace and stability.
“The People’s Liberation Army’s
organising of actual combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait is a necessary
action to address the current security situation in the Taiwan Strait and to
safeguard national sovereignty,” spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said.
----
Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd and
former Deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg arrive
in Taiwan later on Wednesday, in what a White House official called a “personal
signal” of the president’s commitment to Taiwan and its democracy.
They are due to meet Taiwan
President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday, on a trip that could further strain
Sino-U.S. relations. Tsai has repeatedly said Taiwan is an independent country
called the Republic of China, its formal name.
Ma said a meeting with the president
“will only exacerbate the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait”.
“We resolutely oppose the U.S.’
exaggeration of the so-called ‘Chinese military threat’ argument, and
resolutely oppose the U.S. playing the ‘Taiwan card’ and continuing to send
wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces,” he added.
More
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-china/ahead-of-u-s-visit-to-taiwan-china-terms-exercises-combat-drills-idUSKBN2C109Y?il=0
Don't play with fire on Taiwan,
China warns U.S. April
13, 2021 9:19 AM By Gabriel Crossley
BEIJING (Reuters) - China told the
United States on Tuesday to stop playing with fire over Taiwan and lodged a
complaint after Washington issued guidelines that will enable U.S. officials to
meet more freely with officials from the island that China claims as its own.
The U.S. State Department’s Friday
decision to deepen relations with self-ruled Taiwan came amid stepped-up
Chinese military activity around the island, including almost daily air force
incursions into Taiwan’s air defence zone.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Zhao Lijian told reporters they had lodged “stern representations” with the
United States.
China urges the United States “not
to play with fire on the Taiwan issue, immediately stop any form of U.S.-Taiwan
official contacts, cautiously and appropriately handle the matter, and not send
wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces so as not to subversively influence
and damage Sino-U.S. relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan
Strait”, he said.
Washington has watched with alarm
the uptick in tensions, and on Sunday U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
said the United States was concerned about China’s aggressive actions against
Taiwan.
In a written response to Reuters on
Blinken’s remarks, China’s Foreign Ministry said the government had the
absolute determination to protect the country’s sovereignty.
“Don’t stand on the opposite side of
1.4 billion Chinese people,” it added.
---- While Washington officially recognises
Beijing rather than
Taipei, like most countries, the
United States is Taiwan’s most important international supporter and arms
seller.
The United States is required by law
to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
China believes the United States is
colluding with Taiwan to challenge Beijing and giving support to those who want
the island to declare formal independence.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen says
the island is an independent country called the Republic of China, its formal
name, and that she will defend its freedom and security.
More
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-diplomacy/dont-play-with-fire-on-taiwan-china-warns-u-s-idUSKBN2C00U5
Russia calls U.S. an adversary,
warns its warships to avoid Crimea April
13, 2021 9:37 AM By Andrew Osborn , Alexander
Marrow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on
Tuesday called the United States an adversary and told U.S. warships to stay
well away from Crimea “for their own good”, calling their deployment in the
Black Sea a provocation designed to test Russian nerves.
Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine
in 2014 and two U.S. warships are due to arrive in the Black Sea this week amid
an escalation in fighting in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have
battled Russian-backed separatists in a conflict Kyiv says has killed 14,000
people.
“The United States is our adversary
and does everything it can to undermine Russia’s position on the world stage,”
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was cited as saying by Russian news
agencies.
“We do not see any other elements in
their approach. Those are our conclusions,” the agencies quoted him as saying.
The comment suggests that the veneer
of diplomatic niceties that the former Cold War enemies have generally sought
to observe in recent decades is wearing thin.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in
March that he thought his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was a killer who
would “pay a price” for alleged meddling in U.S. elections - an accusation that
Moscow denies.
Ryabkov’s remarks suggest Russia will in
turn robustly push back against what it sees as unacceptable U.S. interference
in its own backyard.
“We warn the United States that it will be
better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will
be for their own good,” said Ryabkov.
The West is sounding the alarm over what it
says is a large unexplained build-up of Russian forces close to Ukraine’s
eastern border and in Crimea, which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on
Tuesday called on Moscow to unwind.
Russia has said it moves its forces around
as it sees fit, including for defensive purposes, and has regularly accused
NATO of destabilising Europe by moving its military infrastructure closer to
Russia’s borders.
Ryabkov was cited as shrugging off U.S. talk
of consequences for any “aggressive” Russian actions and as saying that Moscow
had studied U.S. tactics towards Russia and adapted accordingly.
U.S. military support to Kyiv was a serious
challenge for Russia, he added, accusing Washington and NATO of turning Ukraine
into a “powder keg” with increasing arms supplies.
Washington says Ukraine needs a strong army
to defend itself from potential Russian aggression.
“Any threat to us merely confirms our belief
that our course is the right one,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying, warning U.S.
warships in the Black Sea to keep their distance, given what he said was the
high risk of unspecified incidents.
“There is absolutely nothing for American
ships to be doing near our shores, this is purely a provocative action.
Provocative in the direct sense of the word: they are testing our strength,
playing on our nerves. They will not succeed,” Ryabkov said.
The Pentagon has declined to discuss the
ships’ deployment, saying only that the U.S. military routinely sends vessels
to the region.
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is based in Crimea
and it has powerful missile and radar facilities on the peninsula.
Russia confirmed on Tuesday it was
continuing to move 15 navy vessels to the Black Sea from the Caspian Sea to
take part in drills.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia/russia-calls-u-s-an-adversary-warns-its-warships-to-avoid-crimea-idUSKBN2C00WD
Inflation Watch. Finally, inflation watch.
Given our Magic Money Tree central banksters and our spendthrift politicians,
inflation now needs an entire section of its own.
Nervous North American farmers
set to 'seed in faith' into parched soils April
12, 2021 12:08 PM By Rod Nickel , Julie
Ingwersen
WINNIPEG,
Manitoba/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fields across the Canadian Prairies and the U.S.
Northern Plains are among the driest on record, raising production risks in one
of the world’s key growing regions for canola and spring wheat.
As planting season begins, the dusty
soils generate fears that seeds will fail to germinate or yield smaller crops
in a year when demand for canola already far outstrips supply. Unusually strong
wheat exports to China for animal feed have also lowered global supplies of the
main ingredient in bread and pasta.
Prices of canola, which is processed
into vegetable oil and animal feed, hit all-time highs in February and Canadian
supplies look to dwindle by midsummer to an eight-year low.
Spring wheat futures are trading
near their highest levels since 2017, the last time significant drought gripped
the northern U.S. Plains.
“I guess we seed in faith, hoping
it’s going to rain,” said Steven Donald, 41, a fourth-generation member of a
family-owned grain and cattle farm near Moosomin, Saskatchewan. “It’s the
driest that we can remember.”
Donald’s fields are powder-dry. His
pastures crunch under his boots and contain gaping cracks.
In eastern Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, a dry winter followed scant rainfall during the last growing season,
said Bruce Burnett, director of markets and weather at Glacier FarmMedia.
Much of western Manitoba had the
driest or close to the driest winter in more than a century of records,
according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada data. Most of arable Manitoba and
southern Saskatchewan faces severe to extreme drought, the federal department
said on Friday.
Many farmers are adjusting by
scaling back canola plantings, said Neil Townsend, FarmLink Marketing
Solutions’ chief market analyst, citing surveys. Canola is especially
vulnerable to drought that can prevent seeds from germinating.
Across the border in North Dakota,
the top U.S. spring wheat producer, the last six months have been the driest in
records dating to 1895, said Adnan Akyuz, the state’s official climatologist.
The latest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor showed 70% of North Dakota in “extreme
drought,” up from 47% the previous week.
The Drought Monitor shows a better outlook
for corn and soybeans, the main U.S. cash crops, mostly grown farther south.
More
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-agriculture-weather/nervous-north-american-farmers-set-to-seed-in-faith-into-parched-soils-idUSKBN2BZ16F
Tire prices
rising: Is it a sign of more to come? Kathy McCarron April 13, 2021
AKRON — Tire prices are on the rise,
due in large part to a combination of increased raw materials costs, higher
shipping expenses and "changing market conditions."
Over the past few months, Tire Business has tracked as many as 20 tire-price
increases from 10 major tire manufacturers, including multiple increases from
all but three of them.
Goodyear, which issued tire price
increases in December 2020 and April, noted in its fourth-quarter 2020
conference call in February that it expects raw materials costs to increase
$125 million to $175 million during 2021, based on spot rates.
The tire maker said about two-thirds
of raw materials costs are influenced by oil prices, and raw materials make up
about 36% of the cost of goods sold (COGS). Goodyear said natural rubber and
butadiene prices are above pre-COVID-19 levels, and carbon black prices have
been rising steadily.
The U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA) recently raised 2021 forecasts for U.S. and global
benchmark oil prices, pointing to the recent decision by major oil producers to
extend existing supply cuts through April.
---- Meanwhile, according to S&P Global, synthetic rubber prices
increased in the fourth quarter of 2020, in line with stronger feedstock and
natural rubber prices.
Asia's natural rubber market firmed
up in late 2020 due to a labor shortage created by the coronavirus pandemic. In
addition, heavy flooding in southeast Asia impacted production. Southeast Asia
accounts for more than two-thirds of global NR supply.
The Association of Natural Rubber
Producing Countries (ANRPC) had forecast a 4.9% drop in global natural rubber
supply in 2020, compared with 2019.
Here is a run-down (listed
alphabetically) of the North American tire price hikes announced over the last
six months:
More
https://www.tirebusiness.com/news/tire-prices-rising-it-sign-more-come
Covid-19 Corner This
section will continue until it becomes unneeded.
BRIEF-U.S. FDA Official Says One
Death Reported Due To Blood Clot Event After J&J Vaccine by Reuters Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:52 GMT
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS ONE DEATH
REPORTED DUE TO RARE BLOOD CLOT AFTER J&J VACCINE, ONE PATIENT IS IN
CRITICAL CONDITION
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS HEALTH CARE
PROVIDERS WHO SEE WITH EITHER A LOW BLOOD PLATELET COUNT OR BLOOD CLOTS SHOULD
ESTABLISH WHETHER INDIVIDUAL HAS RECENTLY BEEN VACCINATED
* FOR PEOPLE WHO GOT J&J
COVID-19 VACCINE MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, RISK OF BLOOD CLOT EVENTS IS VERY LOW
AT THIS TIME- FDA OFFICIAL
* WE ARE NOT SEEING CLOTTING EVENTS
WITH LOW PLATELET COUNT WITH COVID-19 VACCINES FROM PFIZER/BIONTECH AND MODERNA
- CDC OFFICIAL
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL EXPECTS PAUSE IN
USE OF J&J VACCINE TO BE A "MATTER OF DAYS"
* U.S. HEALTH OFFICIAL SAYS LEADING
HYPOTHESIS IS THE J&J COVID-19 VACCINE IN VERY RARE CASES IS CAUSING AN
IMMUNE RESPONSE THAT LEADS TO THESE "EXTREMELY RARE" BLOOD CLOTS
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS
RECOMMENDATION TO PAUSE J&J COVID-19 VACCINE IS NOT A MANDATE
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS UNCLEAR AT
THIS TIME IF THERE IS ANY ASSOCIATION WITH ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE PILL IN
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD BLOOD CLOTS AFTER J&J VACCINE
* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL PETER MARKS
DESCRIBES J&J VACCINE PAUSE AS "TEMPORARY" AND SAYS IT SHOULD NOT
IMPACT OVERALL U.S. VACCINATION EFFORTS
* FDA OFFICIAL SAYS "IT'S
PLAINLY OBVIOUS" THAT THE EVENTS WITH J&J COVID-19 VACCINE LOOK
"VERY SIMILAR" TO CASES REPORTED IN RELATION TO ASTRAZENECA VACCINE.
https://news.trust.org/item/20210413134718-jugko
Australia reports second
Astrazeneca blood clot case, vaccine rollout steady April 13, 2021 2:14 AM
By Renju Jose
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Tuesday a second person
had been diagnosed with a blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca Plc
vaccine but there had been no rise in inoculation cancellations as authorities
try to steady a bungled immunisation campaign.
This week Australia abandoned a goal
of vaccinating all of its nearly 26 million population by year-end, after
Europe’s drug regulator reported rare cases of blood clots among some adult
recipients of AstraZeneca doses, suggesting a link.
This prompted Australian officials
to recommend that those younger than 50 receive the Pfizer Inc’s vaccine in
preference to AstraZeneca’s shot, throwing the vaccination programme into
disarray.
“We had anticipated potentially a
significant drop (in vaccination numbers, but that is) not what we have seen at
this stage,” Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters in Canberra.
Authorities meanwhile said they have
no plans to add Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine to its immunisation
drive, as Australia wanted to move away from procuring vaccines that were under
review of potential links to blood clots.
The COVID-19 vaccines of Johnson
& Johnson and AstraZeneca use an adenovirus, a harmless class of
common-cold viruses, to introduce coronavirus proteins into cells in the body
and trigger an immune response.
Both products are under review by
Europe’s drug regulator after it found possible links with blood clots,
although it has said the advantages still outweighed the risks.
“The government does not intend to
purchase any further adenovirus vaccines at this time,” a health ministry
spokeswoman told Reuters.
Australia’s immunisation drive was heavily reliant on the
AstraZeneca vaccine, with plans to manufacture 50 million doses in the country.
The policy change prompted authorities last week to double an earlier Pfizer
order to 40 million shots.
More
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-reports-second-astrazeneca-blood-clot-case-vaccine-rollout-steady-idUSKBN2C002Y
U.K. COVID-19 strain doesn’t lead
to more deaths, study finds Published: April 13, 2021 at 1:11 a.m. ET
The coronavirus variant first identified in the United
Kingdom spreads more easily than older strains but doesn’t lead to more severe
disease among hospitalized patients, a new study found.
People infected late last year with the variant, known as
B.1.1.7, had more virus in their bodies than patients infected with older
strains, a sign the newer variant is more infectious, according to the study published online Monday by the medical
journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. But the patients hospitalized with
B.1.1.7 didn’t die at higher rates or have worse outcomes overall.
The findings add to scientists’ understanding of B.1.1.7’s
impact, which has become especially important now that the strain has come to
dominate cases in the U.K., U.S. and some other countries .
“If you need hospitalization, you’re not worse with this
variant compared to the previous virus strain,” said Eleni Nastouli, a clinical
virologist and pediatrician at University College London and senior author on
the paper.
“Of course, if you’re requiring hospital admission for
Covid, that is a worry,” she added. “But it’s not more than the previous
strain.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-k-covid-19-strain-doesnt-lead-to-more-deaths-study-finds-11618290677?mod=mw_latestnews
India reels amid virus surge,
affecting world vaccine supply By
SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL 13 April, 2021
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian city of Pune is
running out of ventilators as gasping coronavirus patients crowd its hospitals.
Social media is full of people searching for beds, while relatives throng
pharmacies looking for antiviral medicines that hospitals ran out of long ago.
The surge, which can be seen across India, is
particularly alarming because the country is a major vaccine producer and a
critical supplier to the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative. That program aims to
bring shots to some of the world’s poorest countries. Already the rise in cases
has forced India to focus on satisfying its domestic demand — and
delay deliveries to COVAX and elsewhere, including the United Kingdom and
Canada.
India’s decision “means there is very little,
if anything, left for COVAX and everybody else,” said Brook Baker, a vaccines
expert at Northeastern University.
Pune is India’s hardest-hit city, but other
major metropolises are also in crisis, as daily new infections hit record
levels, and experts say that missteps stemming from the belief that the
pandemic was “over” are coming back to haunt the country.
When
infections began plummeting in India in September , many concluded the worst
had passed. Masks and social distancing were abandoned, while the government
gave mixed signals about the level of risk. When cases began rising again in
February, authorities were left scrambling.
----
India is not alone. Many countries in Europe that saw declines in cases are experiencing
new surges , and infection rates
have been climbing in every global region , partially driven
by new virus variants.
Over the past week, India had averaged more than
130,000 cases per day. It has now reported 13.5 million virus cases since the
pandemic began — pushing its toll past Brazil’s and making it second only to
the United States’, though both countries have much smaller populations. Deaths
are also rising and have crossed the 170,000 mark. Even those figures, experts
say, are likely
an undercount .
Nearly all states are showing an uptick in
infections, and Pune — home to 4 million people — is now left with just 28
unused ventilators Monday night for its more than 110,000 COVID-19 patients.
The country now faces the mammoth challenge of
vaccinating millions of people, while also contact-tracing the tens of
thousands getting infected every day and keeping the health system from
collapsing.
More
https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-pune-united-kingdom-india-coronavirus-pandemic-55b7313c688b9a4c05a68a9c13e499da
Regeneron says antibody drug
effective at preventing, treating COVID-19 April 12, 2021 / 7:30 AM
April 12 (UPI) -- Regeneron said Monday it will ask the Food and Drug Administration to expand
emergency use authorization for its antibody drug to be used as a preventative
treatment against COVID-19 .
The drugmaker said late-stage clinical trials showed that
its REG-COV antibody treatment was 72% effective in protecting household
contacts from exposure to symptomatic COVID-19 in the first week and 93%
effective in the following weeks.
"These data suggest that REGEN-COV can complement
widespread vaccination strategies, particularly for those at high-risk of
infection," Dr. Myron Cohen, director of the Institute for Global Health
and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina, said in a statement.
Cohen said the treatment has been shown to retain its
potency against emerging COVID-19 variants.
"If authorized, convenient subcutaneous administration
of REGEN-COV could help control outbreaks in high-risk settings where
individuals have not yet been vaccinated, including individual households and
group living settings," Cohen added.
Dr. Dan H. Barouch co-principal investigator of the trial
and Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, said Regeneron's trials showed that the antibody has
also shown to be an effective treatment after exposure.
"The rapid and robust protection, together with the
subcutaneous route of administration, support the practical utility of these
antibodies in protecting against COVID-19 in multiple settings, including after
high-risk exposures," Barouch said.
Former President Donald
Trump took the antibody treatment after he tested positive for COVID-19
last fall. The FDA gave emergency approval in November.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/04/12/Regeneron-says-antibody-drug-effective-at-preventing-treating-COVID-19/9561618224915/
Next, some vaccine links
kindly sent along from a LIR reader in Canada. The links come from a most
informative update from Stanford Hospital in California.
World
Health Organization - Landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines . https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines
NY
Times Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker . https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html
Stanford
Website . https://racetoacure.stanford.edu/clinical-trials/132
Regulatory
Focus COVID-19 vaccine tracker . https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker
Some other useful Covid links.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus
resource centre
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Rt Covid-19
https://rt.live/
Centers for Disease Control
Coronavirus
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
The Spectator
https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/national
Technology Update.
With events happening
fast in the development of solar power and graphene, I’ve added this section.
Updates as they get reported.
A breakthrough that enables
practical semiconductor spintronics Date:
April 8, 2021
Source:
Linköping University
Summary:
It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron
spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers.
It has long been the goal of scientists to be able to use spin-based quantum
information technology at room temperature. Researchers have now constructed a
semiconductor component in which information can be efficiently exchanged
between electron spin and light at room temperature and above.
It may be possible in the future to
use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and
transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of
scientists to be able to use spin-based quantum information technology at room
temperature. A team of researchers from Sweden, Finland and Japan have now
constructed a semiconductor component in which information can be efficiently
exchanged between electron spin and light at room temperature and above. The
new method is described in an article published in Nature Photonics .
It is well known that electrons have
a negative charge, and they also have another property, namely spin. The latter
may prove instrumental in the advance of information technology. To put it
simply, we can imagine the electron rotating around its own axis, similar to
the way in which the Earth rotates around its own axis. Spintronics -- a
promising candidate for future information technology -- uses this quantum
property of electrons to store, process and transfer information. This brings
important benefits, such as higher speed and lower energy consumption than
traditional electronics.
Developments in spintronics in
recent decades have been based on the use of metals, and these have been highly
significant for the possibility of storing large amounts of data. There would,
however, be several advantages in using spintronics based on semiconductors, in
the same way that semiconductors form the backbone of today's electronics and
photonics.
---- Researchers at Linköping University, Tampere
University and Hokkaido University have now achieved an electron spin
polarisation at room temperature greater than 90%. The spin polarisation
remains at a high level even up to 110 °C. This technological advance, which is
described in Nature Photonics , is based on an opto-spintronic
nanostructure that the researchers have constructed from layers of different
semiconductor materials. It contains nanoscale regions called quantum dots.
Each quantum dot is around 10,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human
hair. When a spin polarised electron impinges on a quantum dot, it emits light
-- to be more precise, it emits a single photon with a state (angular momentum)
determined by the electron spin. Thus, quantum dots are considered to have a
great potential as an interface to transfer information between electron spin
and light, as will be necessary in spintronics, photonics and quantum
computing. In the newly published study, the scientists show that it is
possible to use an adjacent spin filter to control the electron spin of the
quantum dots remotely, and at room temperature.
The quantum dots are made from
indium arsenide (InAs), and a layer of gallium nitrogen arsenide (GaNAs)
functions as a filter of spin. A layer of gallium arsenide (GaAs) is sandwiched
between them. Similar structures are already being used in optoelectronic
technology based on gallium arsenide, and the researchers believe that this can
make it easier to integrate spintronics with existing electronic and photonic
components.
"We are very happy that our
long-term efforts to increase the expertise required to fabricate
highly-controlled N-containing semiconductors is defining a new frontier in
spintronics. So far, we have had a good level of success when using such
materials for optoelectronics devices, most recently in high-efficiency
solar-cells and laser diodes. Now we are looking forward to continuing this
work and to unite photonics and spintronics, using a common platform for
light-based and spin-based quantum technology," says Professor Mircea Guina,
head of the research team at Tampere University in Finland.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210408112352.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy%2Fgraphene+%28Graphene+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier
dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
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