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No reservation is needed to order a Tesla Model 3. The lowest price configuration is a $49,000 rear wheel drive version. Reservation holders get priority. It still will take 3-5 months to receive the...

The scanning tunneling microscope has been able to move atoms over surfaces since the late 1980s. Now, the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is able to reliably focus an electron beam...

The South China Morning Post in conjunction with a US venture capital firm have published the 2018 China Internet Report. * Whether it’s building, investing, or acquiring, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent...

BYD is increasing the size of new battery plant in Qinghai province. In 2019, it will produce 24 GWh. Globally BYD aims to churn out 28 GWh in 2018 and will double their output to 60 GWh in 2020....

Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for...

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have captured the one cell that is capable of regenerating an entire organism (flatworm). These used a technique that combines genomics,...

Formal presentation of latest Turbo Rocket developments at 2018 AIAA Energy and Propulsion Conference. The Turbo rocket is the only rocket with the delta-V to get back to earth from the moon. A...

Divers in northern Thailand have rescued all 12 boys and their football coach from flooded caves, 17 days after they got trapped underground.

“Heavy Oil” is basically a dirty word in the energy world. But that’s all about to change. Technology company Petroteq Inc. is using a new proprietary Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) system that could...

NASA had funded a study that would examine SpaceX’s next-gen BFR rocket as an option for launching LUVOIR. The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is a concept for a highly capable,...

Cryptocurrencies can still become the future of money. There is a 25-page paper that makes the case for crypto. * Cryptocurrencies can become units of account only if there is a friendly and...

Elon Musk flew to Thailand with the mini rescue submarine. He tweeted out a picture after returning from Cave 3. There are still four boys and the coach to be rescued from the cave in Thailand....

Nextbigfuture comment system switching to the Vuukle system today. This comment system is used by 3 million users. I am told it will be faster in terms of site page loading. Comments are being ported...

Keith Henson has some concerns that high volume flight rates for the SpaceX BFR could be a problem for the atmosphere if it was used for many thousands of flights to place massive amounts of...

Bucknell described using a 72-ton machine for harvesting water from ice on the moon in a presentation from the 2017 Icarus Interstellar conference. The best estimates indicate there is 18 billion...

Bucknell has led advanced engineering teams at Chrysler and General Motors for three production high performance engine families. Was Senior Propulsion Engineer for the Raptor full-flow staged...

John Bucknell created the pre-conceptual design for the SpaceX Raptor engine. It will be the advanced full-flow staged combustion rocket engine for the SpaceX BFR. He designed and built the subscale...

The mini-sub rescue pod built for the Thai cave rescue could be modified as escape pods for space. Elon Musk tweeted out how the escape pods built for the Thai cave rescue could be made to work in...

The Thai Navy Seal facebook page has provided live updates on the rescue of the boys from the cave in Thailand. Four more boys were rescued on Monday and have been admitted to the hospital according...

Elon Musk has tweeted out short video of underwater tests of the rescue mini-subs. These mini-subs could be used to save 8 boys and their coach who are still trapped in caves in Thailand. Four of the...

Andrew Branagh, CEO of Arcata-based Wing Inflatables, was asked by Elon Musk’s engineering team from SpaceX to help construct an inflatable escape pod. Branagh and his team refined the idea. The...

A team of 90 expert divers – 40 from Thailand and 50 from overseas – has been working in the cave system. Divers have been guiding the boys through darkness and submerged passageways...

Researchers have increased the efficiency of producing hydrogen from direct solar water-splitting to a record 19 percent. They combined a tandem solar cell of III-V semiconductors with a catalyst of...

TrustLogics will reduce the gap between recruiters and jobseekers by using the full potential of blockchain technology. The recruiting industry will be able to simplify its processes and reach new...

Thomas Sterling has retracted his prediction that we will never reach ZettaFLOP computers. He now predicts zettaFLOPS can be achieved in less than 10 years if innovations in non-von Neumann...

Blue Frontiers is decentralizing governance by launching a seasteading industry that will provide humanity with new opportunities for organizing more innovative societies and dynamic governments. The...

The Breakthrough Energy Coalition created Breakthrough Energy Ventures, is investing in breakthrough energy storage technologies as its first investments. The Board has Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, HRH...

Princeton University researchers are using synthetic diamonds to help create a quantum communication network. Quantum information networks could be extremely secure and could also allow new quantum...

Steve Ditko, the comicbook co-creator of Spiderman and Dr. Strange has died. Steve Ditko was found dead in his apartment on June 29 and it is believed he died about two days earlier. Ditko helped...

Robert Zubrin has provided more details and analysis of his new dipole drive to Centauri Dreams. The main new information is Zubrin describes the relative simplicity of building simple double sail...

Seismic is combining clothing and robotics into what they call Powered Clothing™. They aim to get exosuits into stores by the end of 2018 in the US, Japan and the UK. The suit’s ‘electric...

Kenya will use the Alphabet X (Google) Loon high-speed internet balloons to provide internet to its rural population. Google Loon already provided internet to 250,000 people in Puerto Rico after the...

Taking into account founders, investors, blockchain developers, females comprise but a tiny minority of the rapidly-growing global crypto community. However, the trend is slowly moving in the right...

The US has been trying to develop railguns’s since 2005. The US did complete a prototype landbased 32-megajoule railgun, but failed to put a railgun onto a Navy ship. China has succeeded in...

Massive delays and cost overruns for the European EPR and American AP1000 nuclear projects show that U.S. and European firms have lost the people and knowledge to complete new nuclear construction...

The biggest month for ICO fundraising was March 2018 with $7.1 billion raised. The second largest month was February 2018 with $2.7 billion raised. The best month in 2017 was December 2017 with $1.61...

Crypto PR lab is a boutique public relations (PR) and advisory firm for blockchain and crypto projects was launched this month. Crypto PR Lab was founded by a lawyer who was also an Olympic...

Pratt and Whitney is proposing improved power, electricity and efficiency for the F35 engine. Increased electrical power and better heat management would allow for combat laser pods to be added to...

By 2030, China wants to build the Long March-9 rocket to carry 140 tonnes into low-Earth orbit. This will be almost as powerful as a SpaceX Falcon BFR. China’s Long March-9 would have a core...

There are currently 34 uncontained large wildfires in the USA. Over 763,079 acres (over 1100 square miles) have burned. On July 4th, wildland fire activity has picked up throughout the western...

Lockheed Martin ONYX powered lower-body exoskeleton can increase mobility and reduce fatigue of its users. ONYX detects what the body is doing and provides support at the exact time it is needed....

There were time and motion studies in the early 20th century which found that if a city could have double the population then productivity would increase and per person income would increase by 7%....

ThorCon is a graphite-moderated thermal spectrum molten salt reactor that will produce 250 MWe power. It will be cheaper than coal energy. Coal is 5 cents per kilowatt hour and Thorcon will be 3...

A new technique has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded. A team of researchers from Peking University and the Universities of Surrey, Oxford and Cambridge...

In 2014, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said that two significant forces would shape global prosperity in the 21st century: 1. U.S. technological innovation 2. urbanization in China....

Arxiv – 18-qubit entanglement with photon’s three degrees of freedom They used * 30 single-photon interferometers in total. * The outputs are detected by 48 single-photon detectors Scheme and...

Han Sloane achieved great wealth about 300 years ago and it was from what we would term biotech today. I recently went on an excellent tour of the British Museum. Retired lawyer Allan Lawson provided...

U.S. intelligence believes China’s naval railguns will be operational and fully deployed by 2025. China has been testing a railgun on a naval ship since 2017. China has claimed to have made a...

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will use modern versions of Inconel superalloys for Raptor rocket engines. They will use the SX 300 and soon SX 500 superalloys. They will have high strength at high...

Impossible Foods has $400 million in funding. Pat Brown founded it in 2011. They now are selling factory produced meat to 2000 restaurants. They have sold 4 million burger patties. Their goal is to...