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The cryptosphere is suffering from a talent drought. Despite all the entrepreneurs, visionaries, gurus, whizkids, architects, and pioneers who have piled in over the past decade, there is still one...

BrainNet is the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem-solving. The interface combines electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain signals and...

Florida had over 2 million acres of prescribed (aka controlled) burns in 2017 and California had 87,000 acres of controlled burns in 2018. Georgia has 1.25 million acres of controlled burns and...

I am currently living in a zone with regular multi-day power outages in California. I have already experienced three multi-day power outages in the last month and will likely have another one later...

Greg Autry – Director, SoCal Commercial Spaceflight Center debated Robert Zubrin about the Lunar Gateway. Greg Autry says that the Lunar Gateway will be part of a larger space infrastructure...

How big a deal was the success of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy? In 2010, NASA and the Augustine commission determined that it would cost $36 billion and 12 years to develop a heavy-lift vehicle. This...

Robert Zubrin indicates there is a need to stage the SpaceX Starship from low earth orbit or injection orbits for the moon and Mars. Missions to the moon would be far more efficient with a ten-ton...

There’s a new kind of transportation. It’s not electric cars or electric trucks… It’s not public transportation like buses or trains… And it’s not Uber or Lyft… In fact,...

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) may not be ready to deploy until 2024. It once had a 2018 planned deployment date. There is more testing (shock testing) and there are still technical issues. The Gerald...

India is aiming to build a fleet of future nuclear power plant projects in order to reduce costs and construction times, according to Kamlesh Vyas, chairman of the country’s Department of...

Nextbigfuture predicts that the efforts to recall California Governor Newsom will succeed in getting over 1.5 million signatures certified before the February 2020 and/or March 2020 deadlines. This...

Elon Musk announced that Tesla is offering a $1000 Discount for Solar and Powerwall for those hit by the California Wildfire power outages. This would be $13000 for a 3500-watt system. If you’re...

About 2.8 million people will be without power for 2-3 days in the Bay Area. There is the full solar power and battery option for your house. This can cost $14000 for a 3.5 kilowatt system with...

Microsoft won the Department of Defense JEDI ten year cloud computing contract. Amazon Web Services was believed to be the favorite to win the contract. azon owns nearly half of the world’s...

Tesla bears still claim that competition is coming for Tesla, but the bulls note that no electric car can yet match the 2012 version of the Model S. Tesla has since improved the Model S by 40%. China...

IBM says they could use 250 petabytes of memory and the best supercomputer to match a 53-qubit Google quantum computer on a particular problem. Scott Aaronson notes that this clearly shows that...

California electrical utilities and government has failed on forest management and failed on managing the electrical grid. PG&E will regularly cut power from September to February each year for...

SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband internet system to meet the needs of consumers across the globe. They have a Starlink.com website. Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit...

At about 1 hour and 6 minutes (about 5 minutes into the Webcast) of this video of the Tesla Q3 Earnings call, Elon Musk said that Tesla should have early access for a feature-complete full...

Here is the Tesla 28-page investor quarterly report. $383M increase in Tesla cash and cash equivalents balance to $5.3B $371M operating cash flow less capex (free cash flow) Tesla Has Profit in Third...

Today website search platform AddSearch announced the wide release of personalized search results for website visitors performing onsite searches. The new personalization feature allows people to...

Elon Musk has successfully used Starlink satellites to send some twitter messages. SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Oct. 22. that SpaceX will start offering broadband...

Dr. Brad King, CEO of Orbion Space Technology, was interviewed by Nextbigfuture. Brad King has two decades in the space field and many professional awards recognize his research contributions in...

SpaceX will leave most Starships on Mars or the Moon, when they are flown for long-range missions. SpaceX Starships will probably cost about $20-40 million and they can be parked in orbit, the moon...

My home was just hit with an Earthquake. The US Geological Service says it was centered one highway stop away from where I live. USGS says it was a 4.5-4.7. However, it was strong enough to shake...

The latest (sept 2018) ITER Research Plan within the Staged Approach (Level III – Provisional Version) plans for plasma net gain goals to be achieved in 2039. What is Q? What then is the meaning of...

Tesla bought, Hibar Systems, a Richmond Hiller, Ontario-based battery maker. Hibar is a world leader in the development of battery manufacturing technology. Hibar Systems was 30 years old. They have...

Daniel L. Jassby is retired researcher from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and he wrote an article about Voodoo Fusion for the American Physical Society. It has 15 citations of Nextbigfuture...

The University of Reno Nevada National Terawatt Facility and commercial company, US Nuclear and MIFTEC, were able to generate the most powerful neutron flux from fusion power ever achieved by a...

In the new study, Yufan Li and colleagues found that a ring of β-Bi2Pd already naturally exists between two states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Current can inherently circulate both...

Helion Energy has been working to make a pulsed commercial nuclear fusion generator 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 times faster than other approaches. Helion Energy...

Ground-based hypertelecope project has first images from a suspended camera and light from mirrors. They acquired the star Vega in the camera of the nacelle, for about twenty minutes, from one of the...

Fraser Cain at Universe Today reviews the giant space telescopes that will become possible. Space capabilities from SpaceX Super Heavy Starship and being able to build in space will enable 1000 to 1...

Visions of future travel in science fiction usually do not depict ultra-fast movement on a planet. The exception is teleportation in Star Trek. The Minority Report does show Maglev cars that travel...

David Burns, Manager, Science and Technology Office Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA has proposed a Helical Engine. It is a propellantless engine design similar to the Mach Effect propulsion system...

The U.S. and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade deal which will be signed in November. China will make large increases in purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities, agreed to certain...

Reports indicate that the US and China could agree to a partial trade agreement. It is expected to cover currency and agriculture purchases and a delay in the tariff hike scheduled for next week....

PG&E is choosing to create what could be among the worst power outages in US history. This is not an outage where the weather directly caused the outage. It was not a hurricane that broke power...

A website Willyweather tracks wind levels from the NOAA data. Moderate wind levels combined with Red Flag warnings have been enough for PGE to shutoff power to about 2 million people. Red Flag...

The Global Differential GPS (GDGPS) System is a real-time GNSS monitoring and augmentation system that provides location information to about 3-inch position accuracy. They use a large ground network...

Marvin Steinberg is the founder of CPITech. CPITech is helping clients to raise funds at lower costs than IPO using Securitized Tokens and they are helping companies to grow traffic and grow the...

SpaceX Super Heavy Grid Fins Will Be Welded Steel Instead of Titanium

PG&E is shutting off power to 800,000 Californians today and tomorrow. More than 1 million California homes are already soaking up sunshine with solar panels to generate electricity. Next year,...

California Will Turn Off Power to 800,000 People for Third World Level Electrical Service

A latex surgical tube, connecting shoes of running people, can improve running efficiency by 6.4%. The tests were done exclusively with endurance running in mind. There were no tests of sprinters...

Fastest Self-Driving Cars at 175 MPH

PG&E is considering implementing Public Safety Power Shutoffs that may impact portions of 30 northern, central, coastal and Bay Area counties: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa,...

Soil depletion due to climate change and unsustainable agriculture has reached crisis proportions in many regions of the world, where depleted soil results in falling crop yields, increasing food...

The quality of the air in the United States has improved substantially. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford have found that, US-economy-wide, gross external damage (GED) due to...