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On November 28, 2017, China National Nuclear Corporation officially launched a project to create a 400 Megawwatt Yanlong deep pool-type low-temperature heating reactor. A 400 megawatt Yanlong...

ThorCon is a liquid-fuel fission power plant, under development in the US, to be built in a far-east shipyard, then floated to Indonesia, with testing starting in 2021. It generates emission-free electric power, cheaper even than from a coal-fired plant. Its full-time electric power will improve developing nations’ economies and lifestyles, while also dissuading them from burning fossil fuels which emit CO2. New energy is being mainly built in Asia (China, India, South and South East Asia) and the developing world. There is very little net new power being built in the USA, Europe, and Japan. Thorcon logically will focus

Carnival of Space 537 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – Station Astronauts Unload Cygnus Science; Antares Launch Gallery Above- The Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-8 spacecraft is pictured after it...

Shenzhen had the largest economy in southern China’s Guangdong province last year after a new method of calculating gross domestic product saw it overtake local rival and provincial capital...

Recently , Terrestrial Energy Inc.’s (TEI) announced the completion of the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor design review. They...

Everyone’s heard the story about the government’s promise to spend $1 trillion on fixing America’s aging critical infrastructure. But there’s another big money story that few investors know of…...

There has been proposal in China to switch from fossil fuel burners to “swimming pool” nuclear reactors. Wang Naiyan, honorary chairman of the China Nuclear Society and a lead scientist at the China...

China will spend 22 billion yuan (US$3.3 billion) on two prototype molten salt nuclear reactors. Two molten salt nuclear reactors will be built in the Gobi Desert in northern China. * Molten salt reactors can produce one thousandth of the radioactive waste of existing nuclear reactors because of deep burn. More complete conversion of the nuclear fuel. * Molten salt reactors can have designs that are proof against nuclear meltdowns * The chinese reactors could use thorium. China has some of the world’s largest reserves of the thorium metal. The Chinese project has been funded by the central government and

Russia has been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics because of the state sponsored doping scandal. • Vitaly Mutko, former sports minister and 2018 World Cup chief, banned for life • Some athletes...

China ranked second after the United States in an internet development index released on Monday that gauges six dimensions from internet infrastructure to application among 38 countries. China has...

Chen Zhao, Chief Global Strategist at Alpine Macro, makes the case that China has a low risk of a debt crisis. Chen says that China’s debt to GDP level is safe. I will relate what Chen Zhao...

A fast-moving, wind-fueled wildfire swept into the city of Ventura early Tuesday, burning 31,000 45,500 acres, destroying homes and forcing 27,000 people to evacuate.At least 150 structures —...

Japan Airlines has made a $10 million investment and pre-order of 20 Boom supersonic passenger jets. JAL is helping Boom deliver something further: a mainstream supersonic airliner, which is...

The Economic Boom of the 1920s was driven by the Assembly line and the mass production of consumer goods such as the Ford Model T Automobile and luxury labor saving devices and access to easy credit...

Variety reports Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams are making plans for a new “Star Trek” movie at Paramount. Tarantino and Abrams are waiting until a solid script is in place before committing...

Together with EPFL scientists, our IBM Research team has developed a scheme for training big data sets quickly. It can process a 30 Gigabyte training dataset in less than one minute using a single...

In October, 2017, Delphi Automotive acquired self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450 million, speeding up its plans to supply carmakers with autonomous vehicle systems. NuTonomy will add more than 100...

Elon Musk’s vision of electric self driving cars has won as all major car companies are making multi-billion dollar investments on electric self driving cars. The robotic ride sharing vision of...

There are currently about 100 self-driving Volvos self-driving Volvos on Swedish roads. In November, 2017, Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, signed a framework agreement with Uber, the ride sharing...

General Motors plans to introduce an autonomous ride-sharing service to several big cities in 2019. GM outlined its vision to reinvent itself. GM wants a future with zero crashes, zero emissions, and...

NASA is pushing forward on testing a key energy source that could literally “empower” human crews on the Mars surface, energizing habitats and running on-the-spot processing equipment to transform...

Venezuela is creating its own “petrocurrency,” backed by reserves in oil, gas, gold and diamonds. It will enable Venezuela “to advance in monetary sovereignty, carry out its financial transactions to...

The Winklevoss twins, who were ousted from Facebook, are now Bitcoin Billionaires. The twins won a $65 million settlement with Facebook after claiming Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. They invested...

Amazon has a patent to self destruct rogue delivery drones into tiny pieces. Directed fragmentation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. In one embodiment, the UAV includes various...

The US Navy’s fleet of amphibious ships has declined by half in the last 25 years, from 62 in 1990 to 31 today, with current shipbuilding plans calling for four additional amphibious ships to be added by fiscal year 2024, increasing the total number of amphibious ships to 35. The shortage reduces the ability of joint naval forces to train, particularly in large-scale formations, which harms readiness. The US Navy and marines need as many as 38 amphibious ships to meet rising operational demands, but the service likely won’t be able to reach that number until 2030 due to budget

The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded the University of Dayton Research Institute a $9.8 million, three-year contract for research and development in materials and structures for reusable...

Dr. Joanne Chory, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and HHMI, believes she can modify plants to absorb 20 times more CO2. Chory just won a $3 million Breakthrough Science prize. She wants...

The sixth annual Breakthrough prize awards gave seven $3 million prizes 2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences Awarded to Joanne Chory, Don W. Cleveland, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, and Peter...

Dr. Joon Yun, Palo Alto Partners, discussed his efforts to increase human longevity at the Foresight Vision Weekend. Homeostatic capacity is the capability of systems to self-stabilize in response to...

The capability to “decode the brain” now makes thought-controlled machines a reality. Even more fundamentally theses brain computer interfaces empower the mind to now heal the physical...

Uranium can perform reactions that previously no one thought possible, which could transform the way industry makes bulk chemicals, polymers, and the precursors to new drugs and plastics, according...

Foresight Vision weekend panel – Joon Yun, Melanie Swan, Thomas Kalil, Matt Bell Dr. Joon Yun is managing partner and president of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, an investment management firm...

A Foresight Vision panel on brain, computers and intersections between them. David Eagleman, Robert McIntyre, Randal Koene, Nell Watson are on the panel. Robert McIntyre runs the company Nectome. In...

A China-led space science mission provide a tantalizing hint—but not firm evidence—for dark matter. Initial analysis of 1.5 million cosmic rays detections has shown a gap in the spectrum. Something...

Foresight Vision – Blockchains – Master Key to Unlock the Future – Panel Zooka Wilcox, Nathan Sharma (Singularity University), Mark Miller, Nick Kritikos on how to build better...

The Foresight vision weekend has its first panel Sonia Arrison, Aubrey De Grey, Max More, Kevin Perrott compare strategies to extend human healthspans – Snake oil vs the holy grail –...

Senate Republicans passed a $1.4 trillion tax bill. The Senate bill will have to be reconciled with house tax bill. This process is likely to be completed before christmas 2017. The Senate bill...

Space Heavy test launch next month will try to reach Mars with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars...

18 months of effort has been enabled Oilprice.com to fulfill its name with free oil pricing information which would normally cost $30,000 to $50,000 per year. The only place to obtain a fairly...

The Foresight Institute Vision Weekend is a gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future, and get to work on them....

IBM, other large companies and startups are working on a global shift to decentralized identity that is built on blockchain technology. This would mean a person would control their digital identity...

True immortality means living forever. Lasting forever is very hard even for a civilization or humanity. What are things that put a species or civilization at risk of ending ? We can look at the...

Experts estimate about 30,000 people per year are dying alone in Japan and many have bodies discovered weeks later. Yoshinori Ishimi, who runs the Anshin Net service that cleans up afterwards,...

Alibaba Group on Friday launched a 10 billion yuan (US$1.51 billion) fund to support China’s ambitious poverty alleviation campaign. The Alibaba Poverty Relief Fund will have the $1.51 billion...

Many believe that Bitcoin with a price over $10,000 and a market valuation of $176 billion are unstoppable and will remain the dominant cryptocurrency. In the past there were other products and...

Brian Cox is correct that we are likely 15-20 years from having thousands of people living in space on near Earth asteroids, space stations, the moon and on Mars. However, he is talking about...

If every window in the United states was converted to transparent solar cell windows with 10% solar efficiency then researchers claim it would produce 80% of the electrical needs of the USA. Above...

Since the 1990s, the Colorado School of Mines has been a leading institution for the study of space resources and in situ resource utilization (ISRU). It has also become a destination for space...

Cryptography and radar were technologies that won World War 2. Broken codes let the allies know where major forces were being moved. So the US fleet could choose where to intercept the Japanese Navy...