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Lightbridge Corporation and Enfission, LLC have demonstrated the manufacturing process and fabrication of Lightbridge Fuel surrogate rods in a length that could be usable in NuScale Power’s...

The Carnival of Space 631 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Hayabusa 2 has one Last Lander it’s Going to Throw at Ryugu. JAXA (Japan Space Agency) posted time-lapse photos of target...

China Electric Car Maker Nio is Near Bankruptcy

Elon Musk had an interview with the Everyday Astronaut. Elon reiterated that he changed to steel construction for the rocket when carbon fiber was taking too long. Carbon fiber was a standard in the...

Guest Post by Neil Farbstein Neil Farbstein contact info; vnbcibnc@gmail.com Methane in the atmosphere is a very potent greenhouse gas. Over a 20-year period, methane traps 84 times more heat per...

Age of Steel Spaceliners

Elon Musk told CNN that he believes SpaceX Super Heavy Starship could have manned flights in 12-15 months. Elon said he was quite confident about manned Starship flights by the end of 2020 and...

Jim Bridenstine congratulated SpaceX on Starship and then poked them about the Commercial Crew program being year late. My statement on @SpaceX's announcement tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/C67MhSeNsa...

The main constraint on the Super-Heavy booster is ramping up the production of the Raptor engines. They will need 100 Raptor engines to get to the orbital test. They build one Raptor engine currently...

SpaceX Shows Vision of Starship at a Mars City and at Saturn

Mission Accomplished- Elon Musk inspired people about space and the future.

SpaceX and Elon Musk Presenting Orbital Starship at 5pm PST

Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Seba of RethinkX on their latest analysis of emerging global technology disruption. The new emerging technology is combining synthetic biology was fermentation to...

SpaceX Starship Will Be Fully Operational Tomorrow

Joseph Agnew, undergrad and research assistant from the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Propulsion Research Center (PRC), presented the results of his study “An Examination of Warp Theory and...

Nearly Complete SpaceX Starship Orbital Prototype

Fast Production Ramps at Fifth Tesla Fremont Line and Shanghai Possible in 2020

Windshield Supplier Says Start of Tesla's Shanghai Production Will Be October 14, 2019

Boston Dynamics Will Sell First Generation Universal Robot

The Hottest Investment Sector Of The year Is Flying Under Wall Street’s Radar

SpaceX Will Use Tesla Car Batteries to Power Movable Wings for Starship Re-Entry

Currently superconductors are used for Terahertz telescope detects but new graphene terahertz detectors will use less than 0.1% of the power. Instead of microwatts, the graphene detectors could use...

Economic Case for Nuclear Fusion Also Applies to Advanced Fission Reactors

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