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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. failed to properly inspect and maintain the high-voltage power line that started the Camp Fire. Pacific Gas and Electric did not conduct a detailed climbing inspection of...

Telsa China Gigafactory is producing at least 12 cars per day and could have produced over 600 cars by November 21, 2019. This seems to indicate that 1000 to 2000 Tesla Model 3 cars will be made and...

US crude oil production hit an all-time record of 12.9 million barrels per day. This is about triple the lowest levels in 2005-2010.

The 2019 UN Emission Gap report indicates that global emissions must drop 7.6 percent per year from 2020 to 2030 for the 1.5°C goal and 2.7 percent per year for the 2°C goal. The UN report says a 30...

Before the tsunami in 2011, Japan was generating 30% of its electricity from over 50 nuclear reactors, but all were shutdown within 14 months of the accident. A total of nine units have restarted...

The World of today still seems to be similar to the world of 1940. The world of 2019 and the world of 1940 are both mainly based on oil and steel. We can see in movies and documentary reels that we...

Electric car makers like Tesla have all of the batteries, engines and electronics in a skateboard. They place the seats and cover on top. The Cybertruck will have up to 700-800 horsepower in its top...

Lithium Ion batteries can get three times cheaper than current average prices of about $180 per kwh to about $50-60 per kwh. This will be from improving processes going to the Tesla-Maxwell dry cell...

Researchers at Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Honda Research Institute, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and others are working together to develop rechargeable batteries based...

Deakin materials scientists have proven that liquid solvent-free solid state batteries can easily be made which will enable safer batteries with higher energy density. Joule – Poly(Ionic...

South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol retired from professional Go competition. Lee said that he realized that he would not be at the top even if he was the number one human player. AlphaGo beat Lee in...

China and India both roughly doubled their electricity generation over the last ten years. China will likely slow down electricity generation to a 50-70% increase by 2030. India will likely still...

In October, Cleantechnica reported that Tesla Model Y production would start in Q1 of 2020. The official Tesla earnings call has talked about a summer 2020 start of Model Y sales. Hyperchange makes...

Truck tug a war competition are won by the heavier truck. This was demonstrated when Wired used a weaker but heavier toy truck to out-tug another toy truck. A Cybertruck with three plaid engines...

aA href=”https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/mad-scientist/m/articles-of-interest/300458″>A DoD Biotechnologies for Health and Human Performance Council (BHPC; Alexandria, VA) study...

Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have placed humans in suspended animation and this could enable them to have hours instead of minutes to operate on critical patients. They...

The Carnival of Space 639 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons. Earth also has a population of what are...

Telsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages...

Andrea Rossi has made cold fusion (aka low energy nuclear reaction) claims for nearly ten years. Rossi’s claims have failed serious attempts at validation. The previous results related to...

Annual power generation from coal in emerging countries has jumped 54% since the start of the decade, from 4,467TWh in 2010 to 6,863TWh in 2018 as power sector CO2 emissions have surged. From 2017 to...

Carbonics has demonstrated a wafer-scalable approach for producing an array of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) FETs with performance exceeding 100 GHz and linearity of 10dB. This indicates we could...

Blockchain technology is underpinning how businesses operate. It is becoming one of the go-to methods of funding start-ups and making supply chains more efficient. As technology becomes more...

Elon Musk tweeted that the Sledgehammers cracked the base of the windows. This weakened the glass so that they broke after being hit by the softball sized metal balls. This shows that there is a...

Fires have destroyed 80% of the Koalas Habitats in Australia but there are still over 40,000 Koalas. Austrialian Koala Foundation Exaggerated Claim of Functional Extinction On May 10, 2019, the...

China’s first commercial nuclear heating project has begun operating at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province. Two AP1000 nuclear units will initially provide heating to 700,000...

Saskatchewan is a province in Canada where all of Canada’s uranium is produced but Saskatchewan has never had a nuclear power plant. Ontario has 18 of Canada’s 19 operating nuclear...

Elon tweeted that there have been 146,000 Cybertruck orders in the first 24 hours. There were with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri and 17% single motor. 146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing...

Hungarian researchers publish new evidence of X17 particle And if this is confirmed could be evidence of a fifth force of nature. This would be new physics beyond the Standard Mode. It could also...

Uranium di-telluride could be a wonder material for insanely powerful magnets and it could become the basis of next generation quantum computers. UTe2 might be the long-sought-after spin-triplet...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons, or particles of light....

The Cybertruck pickup bed is 2 feet longer than the Rivian and it is one foot longer overall. 230.9 inches long and sports a 149.9-inch wheelbase with a 6.5-foot-long, 57-inch-wide bed out back. The...

Tesla’s stock is down 6% because of the radical Cybertruck design and broken windows during the presentation yesterday. The market is ignoring the fact that Tesla can place a different more...

I think Tesla will sell very high volumes of Cybertruck. I have never previously wanted a pickup truck and never owned a pickup truck. However, this Tesla Cybertruck asThe innovative and breakthrough...

The Tesla Cybertruck will be unveiled at 8PM PDT today at http://livestream.tesla.com/ The Tesla Cybertruck is made out of stainless steel like the SpaceX Starship. They hit it with a sledgehammer...

Fujitsu PRIMEHPC technology could build exaflop Fugaku supercomputer in 2021. Japan’s new supercomputer Fugaku is set to begin operations around 2021 with the country aiming to regain the title of...

The University of Southern California ASTE527 Graduate Space Concepts Studio within the Department of Astronautical Engineering and in the Graduate Space Architecture Seminar in the School of...

SpaceX Starship Mk1 exploded on the test stand as they were loading it with liquid oxygen for a pressure test. SpaceX will move to Mk3 design. Starship MK-1 appears to have blown its top off during a...

Bill Gates backed a previously stealth startup called Heliogen which can make hydrogen in a scalable way. They use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it...

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a significant breakthrough with a new oxygen evolution reaction catalyst that, combined with a hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst, achieved...

A Si–Gr–Ge transistor has been demonstrated. The Schottky emitter provides an emitter charging time of ~118 ps with a current of 692 A cm−2 and a capacitance of 41 nF cm−2, which is expected to...

Researchers have calculated perfect optical tweezers for manipulating atoms, molecules or even living cells. A special calculation method was developed to determine the perfect waveform to manipulate...

The UN population projections assume that world lifespans increase from 72.6 today to 77 in 2050 and then about 82 in 2100. There are already populations that have life expectancy over 92 years....

There are many forecasts of the world out to 2100. There is the IPCC climate change report or UN population projections. The projections assume that all current trends continue for the next 80 years....

1. Universe Today – TESS Has Now Captured Almost the Entire Southern Sky. Here’s a Mosaic Made of 15,347 Photographs A panoramic view of the southern sky is based on 208 TESS images, which were...

Tesla is crushing BMW, Porsche and other carmakers in the luxury segment and against electric and combustion engine vehicles. Tesla outsold BMW cars in the luxury car segment even when the Tesla...

The Ford Mustang Mach-e was revealed yesterday and it promises features close to the announced features of Model Y. Ford Mach-e and Tesla Model Y will both be out mid to late 2020. They will have...

Hyperchange proposes Tesla transitioning to a licensing scenario for gigafactories, the electric skateboard and the full driving system. This would be like the Intel inside method of domination....

Bio-inspired Quorum Sensing in robots fabricated from DNA origami can communicate by transmitting and receiving diffusing chemical signals. The mechanism has features such as programmable response...

Ido Bachelet has previously created DNA nanorobots for nanomedicine surgery. His new research is thought operated digital random access memory Thought-Operated Digital Random-Access Memory by Lee...

Based on preliminary data and model estimates, EIA (US Energy Information Agency) estimates that the United States exported 140,000 b/d more total crude oil and petroleum products in September than...