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Verringerung von Emissionszielen durch den Atomausstieg Japans

Verringerung von Emissionszielen durch den Atomausstieg Japans

Mit dem Atomausstieg wird Japan wohl nicht den Emissionsabbau von 25% bis 2020 schaffen im Vergleich zu den Werten von 1990, da nicht schnell genug Kraftwerke für erneuerbare Energien gebaut werden können.

“There is no doubt the government will scrap the 25 percent target,” Keigo Akimoto at the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth wrote in an e-mail response to questions. Without nuclear, Japan would have to buy 320 million tons of overseas emission credits a year to meet the target…

Wie Google seine Karte baut

Wie Google seine Karte baut.

The Atlantic hat einen Artikel veröffentlicht, der beschreibt wie Google seine Karten baut, da das erhaltene Material nur suboptimal ist und eine Menge Nacharbeit erfolgen muss.

On first inspection, this data looks great. The roads look like they are all there and you've got the freeways differentiated. This is a good map to the untrained eye. But let's look closer. There are issues where the digital data does not match the physical world. I've circled a few obvious ones below.

Und wenn ich mir das so ansehe, bezweifel ich, dass die Kartenanwendung in iOS6 da viel reißen wird.

I came away convinced that the geographic data Google has assembled is not likely to be matched by any other company. The secret to this success isn't, as you might expect, Google's facility with data, but rather its willingness to commit humans to combining and cleaning data about the physical world.

4Chan hat ne API?

4Chan hat ne API?

A little more than a month after revealing that it had reached one billion posts, 4Chan has announced that it has released an API that should allow developers to build better third-party extensions for the imageboard.

Mit China wird man sich wohl arrangieren müssen

Mit China wird man sich wohl arrangieren müssen

In Japan gibt es keine großen Sympathien für China. 71% der Japaner in einer Regierungsumfrage haben Antipathien gegenüber China:

According to the October 2011 government opinion poll on diplomacy (available in Japanese only), 71% of the Japanese do not have any “feelings of sympathy” (親近感, shinkinkan) toward China

Was sie wohl nicht wissen, dass Japan ohne China noch schlechte da stände

While more than 70% of the Japanese express dislike for China, many of those 70% may, knowingly or not, work for a company benefiting massively from the economic growth in China. Without that growth, Japan’s economic performance over the last 10–15 years would have been even worse.

Japanische Regierung will von Privatbesitzer drei umstrittene Inseln kaufen

Japanische Regierung will von Privatbesitzer drei umstrittene Inseln kaufen

Und ist damit schneller als die Tokyoter Lokalregierung.

The national government plans to build nothing on the islands and do nothing that might anger China. If reports of an agreement with the owner are true, it would be a major disappointment for Tokyo Gov. Ishihara and his nationalist supporters. Ishihara wanted to tighten Japanese control over the islands by building a small port that could provide shelter to fishing boats during stormy weather.