The 5.27 megabits of data are more than 600 times bigger than the largest data set previously encoded in DNA. It is the equivalent of the storage capacity of a 3.5-inch floppy computer disk.
Over the past three years, China has added 200 gigiwatts of coal-fired electric power capacity--equivalent to 20% of the entire installed capacity of the United States.
"If nanotechnology maintains its current pace of development, it will give birth to a computer that has the information processing capacity equivalent to every human brain combined by 2060, " he was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.
Developer RWE Npower expects the project to have the capacity to generate up to 84 megawatts, enough to power the equivalent of 39, 700 homes.
By the year 2000, over-capacity will have risen from 18m to 22m units equivalent to 80 of the world's 630 car assembly factories standing idle.
This would have a capacity of some 25 terabytes the equivalent of all the information in America's Library of Congress.
Sky customers will be able to use the massive capacity to store up to 350 hours of HD content, equivalent to more than two weeks' worth of HD TV viewing.
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Studies funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency indicate that the brain performs 38, 000 trillion operations per second and has memory capacity equivalent to 3, 584 terabytes.
Soon that capacity will hit 15 trillion bits, meaning that the switch could spew out the equivalent of 400 feature-length movies every second.
It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.
Every year China is building power-generating capacity almost equivalent to Britain's entire stock, almost all of it burning coal the dirtiest fuel.
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