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Jeffrey Dahn is an energy expert who is working with Tesla. He has been testing lithium ion batteries for three years and has reached 10,000 and even 15,000 discharge and charging cycles. The lithium...

In 2022, the US Army will field test two high-energy lasers. A 50-kilowatt weapon to destroy enemy drones and incoming artillery rockets and a 300-kW weapon that could potentially shoot down cruise...

The US army is planning to test-fire a cannon in 2023 with a range of 1000 miles. Current US artillery has 15-45 mile ranges. The benefit of having 1000 mile ranges is that the combat radius of...

NASA provided $370 million in funding for space technologies that are at a tipping point. SpaceX received $53 million for orbital refueling. NASA believes space technology is at a tipping point if: •...

Kirk Sorensen has been a leader in promoting thorium energy, molten salt nuclear reactors and the liquid fluoride thorium reactor. Kirk formed the company Flibe Energy back in 2011. Nextbigfuture...

A little over a year ago, I was at an event where there was a panel of people from various space startups and space investment funds. They asked the panel if they believed more in SpaceX or Blue...

SpaceX successfully launched its fourteenth Starlink mission, which puts another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission...

Elon Musk spoke for nearly an hour at the 2020 Mars Society Event. Elon said that he was 80-90% confident that the SpaceX Starship would reach orbit in 2021. Elon was interviewed by Robert Zubrin....

Researchers at the University of Iowa built a remote control to manage diabetes. Exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) for relatively short periods reduces blood sugar and normalizes the body’s...

The Firenze Lanciare is 1000 horsepower supercar on the ground and will have jet engines to become a 500 mph flying car. Getting the first prototype will require US$20-40 million in funding. Each...

Roger Penrose has shared in the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution with models of Black Holes. Penrose has used the renewed attention to push his 30-year old concept of Hawking Points and...

Sound traveling through metallic hydrogen in the core of Jupiter could reach its theoretical highest speed of 36 kilometers per second. This would be about 105 times faster than the 0.343 kilometers...

Dr. David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy on COVID, is arguing for the middle way to have robust defenses against the virus without using lockdowns as the primary control method....

U.S. Transportation Command has signed an agreement with SpaceX and Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) to study the use of SpaceX Starships to transport supplies in an emergency. Army Gen....

H-Reality is a team creating touchable holograms. This will be the next generation of haptic controllers for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. They are commercial leaders in ultrasonic...

OpenAI’s GPT-3 natural language processing system is their first commercial product. It was officially released in June, 2020 but has had limited availability. The OPENAI website is still...

Washington State University researchers have identified 24 top contenders for super habitable exoplanets that would be better at supporting life than the Earth. The exoplanets are all over 100...

Tesla Battery Day had the goal of the world producing 20 TWh per year of low cost, high energy density batteries. Reaching this goal would enable all new cars, buses, and trucks to be electric and it...

Elon Musk says Tesla Berlin will produce and use the new 4680 battery cell and the structural battery pack. Tesla Berlin should be producing cars in Q1 or Q2 of 2021. Berlin will use 4680 cell with...

A huge global problem is that the world is on track to have 100 million people will have Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia in 2050. Early, accurate, and biomarker-based diagnosis of AD would be...

ICON has received funding from NASA and launched “PROJECT OLYMPUS” to reach for the stars with an off-world construction system for the Moon. World-renowned architecture firms BIG-Bjarke...

NASA researchers have detected nuclear fusion in metal loaded with deuterium. A metal such as erbium is loaded with deuterium atoms (aka deuterons) packing the fuel a billion times denser than in...

Most of the internet is unavailable to around 1 billion people in the world. These people have an internet connection but most of the websites are not built for them to use. accessiBe is a new...

At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion, even in the presence of an applied bias voltage. University of Arkansas researchers collecting the...

Quantum time crystals are systems characterized by spontaneously emerging periodic order in the time domain. Lancaster University researchers experimentally studied two adjacent quantum time crystals...

China’s President Xi has committed to make China Carbon neutral by 2060. China’s top university, Tsinghua, has published an energy plan to reach that goal. The plan would be increase...

Oman, Sudan, Comoros, Djibouti and Mauritania are in talks with Israel to normalize relations. Israel already had peace deals with Egypt and Jordan. They just recently reached normalization...

President Trump’s doctor reported that he has been given Regeneron’s antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19. This was a precautionary measure. REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal...

Tesla’s third quarter 2020 vehicle deliveries were 139,300 and third quarter production estimate is 145,036. The Q3 2020 deliveries of the Model S and Model X are a little over 15,000 and the...

Trump and Melania tested positive for COVID. Many people at the Tuesday debate were exposed. Biden was at the debate. About 20 people were traveling in the presidential helicopter when Hope Hicks...

There are four vaccines that are in phase 3 clinical trials in the USA. They are * BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines * Moderna * Johnson & Johnson viral vector vaccine. * Oxford/AstraZeneca viral vector...

China’s State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) has officially launched the CAP1400 reactor design. the 1500 MWe design is a larger version of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor. The plan is for many...

D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions....

Normal US artillery has a range of 20-30 kilometers (12-18 miles) but new ramjet artillery will be able to reach 150 kilometers. The weapons will be able to farther, faster and higher. 150 kilometers...

Nammo has made simple modifications for tripling the explosive power of grenade launchers. The modular grenades screw together in a few seconds. Two grenade modules will kill everyone in a room and...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of a lake discovered two years ago and found three more lakes. Radar data from the European Space Agency Mars Express was analyzed to reveal the lakes. The...

Tesmanian reports that the Tesla Berlin factory will have eight giant casting machines for the manufacturing of Model Y. Giga Presses are the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world,...

There is an arxiv paper “Fused Low-Earth-Orbit GNSS”, by Peter A. Iannucci and Todd E. Humphreys of the Radionavigation Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, that details how...

The Universe expanded at a far faster rate than the speed of light for a tiny part of the first second of the life of the universe. Geoffrey Landis, NASA Engineer, who has had a great track record...

The double whammy for the European Union GDP is Brexit and COVID. In 2019, the EU had a combined GDP of $18.3 trillion. The UK leaving removes $2.5 trillion. COVID removed another 10-12% in 2020. The...

Elon Musk has tweeted out the SpaceX Starship prototype SN8 with body flaps. The body flaps are moved using electric motors instead of hydraulics. SpaceX will add the nosecone and front flaps next...

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence monitors and advises the global battery industry. They gave their reaction to Tesla anode and cathode and lithium announcements. The World produced 180 GWh of batteries...

Engineering guru Sandy Munro has his own engineering firm that has been telling car makers for decades how to improve their car designs and carmaking processes. Sandy was very impressed with what...

Eleven years on from the creation of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency security is still a genuine struggle. Crypto security firm Slowmist keeps an ongoing log of blockchain, exchange, and wallet hacks. So...

Quantumscape is a solid-state battery company that has funding from Volkswagen and Bill Gates. Quantumscape plans to go public with a SPAC deal before the end of the year. The deal should result in a...

NASA NIAC has an update on the Lunar Polar Mining Outpost (LPMO). It is a breakthrough mission architecture that promises to greatly reduce the cost of human exploration and industrialization of the...

Micrometeoroid bombardment has already broken most solid material in the upper part of the regolith into fine grains. This includes solid material of all compositions, including the ice, which is as...

Unlike a reflective solar sail, a sun-facing diffractive solar sail uses a component of force perpendicular to the sun line. This allows navigation without sacrificing the amount of solar power on...

Sandy Munro explains how Tesla’s Big Cell glued onto the cooling plate will be manufacturing and serviceability wins. Sandy Munro has a company that for decades has been engineering and reverse...

Tom Cruise and Director Doug Liman will fly to space on October 2021 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight. They will film Tom Cruise’s new movie. So its confirmed that @CommanderMLA is flying the...