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Zap Energy, the University of Washington, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are advancing the shear-flow stabilized Z-pinch concept and assessing its potential for scaling to fusion...

P3Tek presented the results of a 10-month study of the ThorCon thorium/uranium-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR) power plant. The study reviewed regulation, safety, economics, and the grid load and...

Google will likely announce quantum speedup and quantum supremacy has been proven using the random circuit selection problem. It is pretty clear that physics allows quantum speedup. Will there be...

Quantum Computing Community Has Been Buzzing About Quantum Supremacy

Victory Gardens Were Not the Solution to Feeding the World

Energy for an LED Light from Light of the Cold Night Sky

1. Universe Today – Nothing Says Springtime on Mars Like Explosions of Sand. CaSSIS is a high-resolution camera and in May 2019 it captured an image of the melting CO2 at Mars northern polar...

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

Indian Government Report 5% GDP Growth But Slowdown is Probably Worse

The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Oil Refineries could take months to repair according to foreign contractors working with the Saudi state giant. Saudi Arabia state oil company Aramco had...

Is the World Energy Discussion Biased Because of Racism or Stupidity?

Tesla's Dalhousie Million Mile Battery Lifetimes for Robotaxies and Long-Haul Trucks

Elon Musk views any human user intervention is an error situation for the Tesla Autopilot. Elon means that whenever a human has to take control from the Tesla Autopilot system this is indicating an...

The SpaceX Starship Mk1 in Boca Chica will be fully stacked when Elon Musk presents on Saturday. The STarship Mk1 has two rear moving fins. This is a new design. Elon Musk has also tweeted a picture...

An explosive new industry is taking over the world… It has shot past film, television and even music to become the world’s most widely consumed source of entertainment. Yet most investors are...

Tesla appears to have 100,000 sales in the third quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter should see up to 20,000 cars from the Shanghai Gigafactory. The Shanghai Gigafactory could add 150,000 to...

In August, 2019, SLS (Space Launch System) managers for Boeing and Northrop Grumman gave that timeline at an aerospace industry forum. Boeing is in charge of assembling the rocket’s core stage, and...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct and near-instant communication between the brain and electronic devices. One of the biggest remaining challenges is to develop an effective noninvasive...

An important milestone for quantum computers seems to have been reached with Google using a quantum computer to solve a problem 1 billion times faster than the fastest supercomputer in the world....

Google Quantum Computer Solves in Three Minutes a Problem That Would Take 10,000 Years on Best Supercomputer

Blue Origin Upgrades to Kennedy Space Center Site 36 for Reusable New Glenn Launches

Dr. Robert Zubrin presented his latest ideas on the Mars Direct plan -a plan to get human beings to the red planet within a decade. From the annual International Space Development Conference...

Rivian is a startup making electric SUVs and electric trucks. Amazon has ordered100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian. Rivian said it will design, build and service a new electric van...

Seaweed to Offset Emissions Will Mainly Be Reducing Methane from Farm Animals

Terrestrial plants (land based plants) are removing about 29 percent of our emissions that would otherwise contribute to growth of the atmospheric CO2 concentration. What Lucas Cernusak,...

Scaling Up the Tree Carbon Offset Solution

Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory Car Making Ramping Up and Shanghai Factory Expansion is Starting

Climate Change Silver Bullet From Massively Improved Tree Planting

Problems With Radio SETI so Zubrin Proposes Engineered Bacteria for Interstellar DNA Messaging

GMO Eggplant Reduced Pesticides Used and Boosted Revenue by US$450 Per Hectare

Independent Confirmation of Mizuno Cold Fusion Result Could Conclusively Show Reality of Excess Heat

IBM opened the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. The new center expands the world’s largest fleet of commercial quantum systems existing beyond the confines of experimental lab...

The US Air Force is looking to shift to just making multiple next-generation technology fighters. They will not endlessly hone requirements for some super fighter that would be built in 25 years. The...

The new lunar space elevator study differs from previous proposal would be anchored on the moon and stretch 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles...

KFC has introduced a glazed donut fried chicken sandwich. It has an extra crispy chicken breast and two glazed donuts. This is about 910 calories. This has been offered at smaller restaurants but KFC...

The Carnival of Space 629 is up at Universe Today. Universe Today – Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid The three-day International AIDA Workshop, which ran from Sept. 11th...

There might be a lot of reasons why your child might insist on a paternity test. Some of them just want to know the family history while others want to reassure a few doubts. There are also some...

Many manufacturing industries currently use material separation due to the need to recycle and reuse materials, both from a commercial and environmental need. The material separation process has...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa plans to sell a 30% stake in his online fashion-retail company, Zozo, and he will get $2.3 billion. Yusaku Maezawa #Space_News: Billionaire @yousuck2020 is...

Oil prices hit their highest in four months after Houthi drone attacks damaged Saudia Arabia oil refineries. At the start of trading, Brent crude jumped 19% to $71.95 a barrel, while the other major...

Saudi Arabia oil exports will dip for a few days because of the damage to oil handling infrastructure. Saudi Arabia oil exports were 7,371.537 Barrel/Day in Dec 2018 and 6,968.319 Barrel/Day in Dec...

A Houthi Drone Strike has damaged half of Saudi Arabia’s oil capacity. Saudi Arabia says the fire a will be put out and repairs made within days. Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday took...

Swedish insurance company Folksam releases the results of its annual study on the country’s safest cars. Folksam bases their safety analysis on actual accidents. However, Tesla cars only had seven...

Elon Musk says a Plaid Powertrain upgrade for the Model S, X and Roadster will be available in 2020. The new Model S will have a three-motor configuration which is also available for the...

Several nuclear reactor concepts dedicated to low-temperature applications without any turbine cycle have also been developed, and the construction of two Chinese heating reactor prototypes...

DHR400 is finalizing the preliminary design (some parameters might change with the optimization of DHR400 design) and seeking for construction license in early 2019. DHR400 has a target commercial...

Software Container Technology is one of the most popular technologies used currently in app development. In fact, the top two websites in the world, Google Search and YouTube, run on containers....

SpaceX has a new FCC filing to adjust the orbital deployment of Starlink satellites to accelerate deployment of commercial service. SpaceX plans to provide continual coverage over northern states...

In 2014 there was a weekend retreat to explore the possibility of a moon base at a price 10-100x lower than commonly believed. The $5 billion or less resulting price was so low that it begs the...