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X is getting its final approvals for state money transfer licenses. Elon Musk indicated he would be surprised if X does not roll out payments by the middle of 2024. They have the majority of the states money transfer licenses. X needs to get California and New York licenses and some other states. Elon had ... Read more

The governor of Nuevo Leon says Tesla will double or triple the size of the GigaMexico factory and they will build the next-generation car, Cybertruck, and maybe Model Y, and its 4680 batteries there. Tesla is talking about capacity increases where there will be demand for more model Y that needs another factory and cybertruck ... Read more

SpaceX photos from Flight 3 Starship six-engine static fire. There will be a lot of Starship launches in 2024 as SpaceX will be increasing the testing to meet the schedule for the NASA Artemis return to the moon. There needs to be refueling and fuel storage tests. Eight to twenty Starship orbital launches will be ... Read more

he U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has voted to issue a construction permit to Kairos Power for the Hermes demonstration molten salt nuclaer reactor to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form ... Read more

Tesla plans to restart the third phase of its Shanghai plant project, possibly focusing on the production of the $25,000 model it will launch in the future, according to a report in local media outlet LatePost in December. Tesla began preparations for the construction of the Giga Shanghai phase three vehicle factory in 2021 and ... Read more

Lab Padre captured the successful SpaceX Starship static fire. SpaceX can now stack the Starship onto the Super Heavy booster to prepare for the third orbital Starship launch within 9-26 days. The stack Starship and Booster would then have booster engine tests. "SpaceX Ship 28 Soars in Suborbital Pad B Static Fire Test" The SpaceX ... Read more

Chinese universities and research labs have published experimental evidence in support of LK99 as a room temperature superconductor. The amount of superconducting material that is made in pile of LK99 powder is small. The LK99 needs to have precisely located copper and phosphorous. This leaves one dimensional molecular chains of superconducting material. All previous superconductors ... Read more

Lawrence Livermore National Lab has a new tool toA improves our understanding of the nuclear deflection's radiation interactions on the asteroid's surface while opening the door to new research on the shockwave dynamics affecting the inner asteroid. The paper introduces an efficient and accurate library of X-ray energy deposition functions, developed using the Kull radiation-hydrodynamics ... Read more

Rolls-Royce has identified three technology challenges to enable hydrogen for use in aviation: fuel combustion, fuel delivery and fuel systems integration with an engine. All elements must be confirmed to operate safely. Rolls-Royce's facility at Solihull, UK is started tests to prove aerospace cryogenic liquid hydrogen pump systems. These will address a key engineering challenge ... Read more

Youtuber BoostedBoiz modifies his Tesla Model S Plaid by removing panels, adding in aerodynamics and better wheels. He then drags races it for record times. They tied the 8.73 second record for the fastest Tesla to go down a drag strip and then got an 8.714 second record. Car Wow has quarter mile times for ... Read more

Elon Musk posted that Tesla will offer a mod package that enables Cybertruck to traverse at least 100 meters of water as a boat. This will mostly just need to upgrade cabin door seal. The Cybertruck will also have software controls to use air pressure to keep water away from the battery pack. We are ... Read more

The surface area of the USA is about 1.9% of the Earth's surface but there can be up to 3% of Starlinks are able to service the 1.3 Million US customers. There are about 100-150 Starlink satellites over the USA as SpaceX has chosen orbits that favor the Northern Hemisphere which has most of the ... Read more

On Sunday the Israel Defense Force detailed its discovery of the largest Hamas tunnel in Gaza yet revealed. It is so large a Hamas terror leader drove through it. The IDF released videos of the tunnel which is located in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing with Israel. It is a large ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 28 as skipped the cryotesting and went directly to the spin prime test of the engines. The static fire of the six engines would then enable stacking onto the Super Heavy Booster for booster testing. This rapid testing, pad and launch tower readiness could enable a third orbital launch in as little as ... Read more

The Institute for the Study of War reports that Israel appears to be nearing the final stages of its clearing operation in the northern Gaza Strip. The al Qassem Brigades still has two units that are not committed to combat in the Rafah and the Central governorates that it could draw on to defend Khan ... Read more

China researchers have given new experimental evidence that finds superconducting from LK99 powders. Copper-doped lead fluorophosphate (CSLA) was claimed by Lee et al. to exhibit superconducting properties at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This surprising discovery generated great interest in the superconducting mechanism of this material in the scientific community. However, since only powder samples ... Read more

LK99 is the material that South Korean researchers claimed was a room temperature superconductor. The patents and the original papers described superconducting low level electrical resistance for thin film versions of LK99. There were a lot of negative experiments from researchers who made bulk samples of LK99. The negative papers never made and never wrote ... Read more

Tesla had a record high weekly insured registrations in China. There were 18,300 registrations. This would be an annualized runrate of 950,000 cars just for sales in China. $TSLA NEWS: Tesla China insured units < Dec > (27)-3 : 17,400 4-10 : 15,40011-17 : 18,300 pic.twitter.com/dGfiO1G5d8 - Tsla Chan (@Tslachan) December 19, 2023

South China University of Technology and Central South University published a paper confirming the discovery of a near-room-temperature superconducting component in LK99-type materials through sample testing. This is significant experimental support for LK99 room temperature superconductivity. They have found significant hysteresis and memory effect of LFMA in samples of CSLA. The effect is sufficiently robust ... Read more

As of November 2022, China held a total of 2,510 GW of installed capacity, 44% of which is coal, 16.3% hydro, 14.7% solar, 13.9% wind, 4.5% natural gas, and 18.4% other fuels. Nuclear only accounted for 2.2% of the total domestic capacity, the least of all sources. Nuclear has a higher capacity factor and delived ... Read more

Kim, Harvard, and his fellow researchers have a promising candidate for the world's first high-temperature, superconducting diode-essentially, a switch that makes current flow in one direction-made out of thin cuprate crystals. This would be the first superconducting switch made using higher temperature cuprate superconductors instead of lower temperature and more expensive superconductors. The team's experiments ... Read more

India is an emerging economic superpower and there is increasing trade between India and Europe, the US and India and trade with China. The Biden administration in September announced the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. This would have moved a lot of trade between Europe to India through Israel and Saudi Arabia. One-third of world trade ... Read more

Ocean planets are a proposed class of low-density, terrestrial exoplanets with substantial liquid water layers. They may exist in a variety of climactic states including ice free, partially ice covered, or completely frozen over at their surfaces. Researchers call ocean-bearing planets with ice-covered surfaces as cold ocean planets. Cold ocean planets may be plentiful in ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship fleet is now over four Starship and three Super Heavy Boosters. The construction of over one Raptor engine per day in 2024 will enable ten Starships and Super Heavy Boosters to be built in 2024. The Raptor engine factory has the capacity to make over eleven Raptor Engines per day. This would ... Read more

The largest Gaza tunnel found so far can fit vehicles into it and was built with tunnel boring machines. The tunnel-boring machines used in the construction had been smuggled into the Strip. Israel has not found the tunneling machines yet. The massive underground network is 50 meters deep in some places and wide enough for ... Read more

Analysis of the Cassini probe data shows evidence for Enceladus habitability a step further. They've found strong confirmation of hydrogen cyanide, a molecule that is key to the origin of life. The ocean below the ice of Saturn's moon holds a powerful source of chemical energy. Unidentified until now, the energy source is in the ... Read more

There is a 10% credit for energy storage with domestic content. Tesla Megapacks will have 95% domestic content. This content level will not work with CATL (China batteries). Lenders will be able to project finance energy storage like Megapacks including the 10% credit if they qualify for the credit. WHEN Tesla gets 4680 supplies ramped ... Read more

Elon Musk says clear truths that without humans there is no bright future for humanity. Nextbigfuture has written about this and looked at the detailed numbers of declining birthrates. The world population in 2200 will be about 250 million if if all countries have a total fertility rate of 1.0 or less. This is the ... Read more

Professor Guilan says that IF the original South Korean LK99 team are not direct cheaters then the evidence is that they did create room temperature superconductors. Armen Gulian, professr of physics Chapman University, discusses his effort to make LK99 thin film with funding from the US Navy. At about 37 minutes into the talk, he ... Read more

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics' review committee on Wednesday said LK-99, an alleged room-temperature superconductor created by a South Korean research team, has not shown any key features of superconductivity. The Seoul-based startup Quantum Energy Research Centre, headed by Lee Suk-bae, the first author of the LK-99 research, did not send the superconductor ... Read more

India's Skyroot Aerospace raised $27.5 million from Singapore's Temasek in October. Indian startup Agnikul Cosmos raised a similar amount. Skyroot launched India's first private rocket in 2022 and will launch the Vikram-I rocket in 2024. The launch vehicle can take payloads of upto 300 kilograms into low earth orbit. They are developing rockets for small ... Read more

Youtuber Pilot Photog describes new mirror coatings on some new Navy F-35C stealth fighters. This is being used to achieve greater stealth against new infrared sensors used on Russian and Chinese planes.

Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Bezos about Blue Origin and Amazon. Jeff also admitted the obvious that Blue Origin's progress has been too slow and Elon Musk is a great business leader. 0:00 - Introduction 0:24 - Texas ranch and childhood 4:02 - Space exploration and rocket engineering 16:36 - Physics 26:10 - New Glenn rocket ... Read more

Ukrainians are using new drone and counter-drone strategies to blunt Russian offensive. Ukraine is targeting the radio-jammers the Russians use to ground Ukrainian drones while setting up their own jammers to ground Russian drones. Russia attacked Avdiivka with masses of tanks and infantry. This cost Russia a lot of losses in the range of 17000 ... Read more

Kathy Lueders , SpaceX Starbase General Manager, indicated the third SpaceX Starship orbital launch should be in Q1 2024. This will most likely be February or March. However, the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy could be on the pad for tests by the end of this year. Kathy Lueders confirmed a second tower at Starbase.

Fast neutron reactors of Russian design can increase the usable uranium and nuclear fuel by 100 times. Russia alone has already accumulated about 1 million tonnes of depleted uranium hexafluoride. U-238 of near-nuclear purity can be used to produce fuel for fast reactors. Russia's depleted uranium alone carries energy which is 100 times greater than ... Read more

The BN-800 sodium-cooled fast reactor at unit 4 of Russia's Beloyarsk NPP has registered a year of reliable and safe operation using an almost full load of uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. Russia says this proves the readiness of the closed nuclear fuel cycle technology for implementation on an industrial scale. The BN-800 is using ... Read more

GE Aerospace has shown a bew architecture with Rotating Detonation Combustion (RDC) could power super-efficient hypersonic vehicles with longer range that will go faster than MACH 5 (over 4,000 MPH). The team has moved very fast. It took just 12 months from start to finish for the DMRJ with RDC demonstration. The team is on ... Read more

Google's Gemini LLMs (Large Language Model) produced a new math discoveries and solves real-world problems. This is a significant step to AGI. The AI is speeding up progress in math and science. This is the first time a new discovery has been made for challenging open problems in science or mathematics using LLMs. FunSearch discovered ... Read more

Uber drivers will get up to $3000 to buy new Tesla inventory vehicles if they take delivery by December 31, 2023. Tesla is trying to increase sales of vehicles to get as close to 500,000 vehicles in Q4 globally. Uber requires that drivers give over 100 rides by February to qualify. BREAKING: Tesla has partnered ... Read more

What if the fictional Dr. Frankenstein was real? What if Dr. Frankenstein was a food science chemist? What would he make? Wonder no longer. Doritos has made Nacho cheese flavored alcohol. Doritos unveiled a collaboration with global flavor innovator Empirical: Empirical x Doritos(R) Nacho Cheese Spirit. This limited-release offers a multi-sensorial, savory nacho cheese-imbued beverage ... Read more

SpaceX and the US Space Force prepared a Falcon Heavy to launch a X-37B spaceplane this week, but instead the Falcon Heavy rocket will be rolled back to its hangar for servicing. The ground equipment problem that prevented liftoff Monday night could be fixed as soon as Wednesday. But it will take longer to resolve ... Read more

Warp-drives are solutions of general relativity widely considered unphysical due to high negative energy requirements. Most research has focused on macroscopic solutions towards the goal of interstellar travel but faster than light communications is far more practical. The warping effect would only need to be large enough to send through particles or laser communication. The ... Read more

Dr Know it all, John Gibb, explains the increased steering wheel nag on older versions of Tesla Autopilot software. Tesla provided an over the air software update to comply ensure drivers are always paying attention when Autopilot or FSD is engaged. There is also more software restrictions around when Autopilot is allowed to be engaged. ... Read more

The five-member FCC, led by Democrat-appointed chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, rejected SpaceX Starlink for a rural broadband program. The FCC claimed Starlink failed to demonstrate that it could deliver the promised service (100 megabits download and 20 megabit upload). Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr dissented with the decision and said that President Biden gave federal agencies ... Read more

There is a video of the 2002 situation where a moon conspiracy grifter harassed Buzz Aldrin when Buzz was 72. Buzz Aldrin is the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist who kept harassing him and his family and demanding that he swear on the Bible that he walked ... Read more

Dr. Scott Walker points out that the Logo usually goes on a product when prototyping is complete. There would be a huge impact for Tesla if one hundred thousands Teslabots can be made and used the Tesla factories. Usually, the logo goes on when prototyping is complete. pic.twitter.com/Y2pTyNtwPW - Scott Walter, PhD (@GoingBallistic5) December 13, ... Read more

Tesla will send out an over-the-air software update to 2 million cars that will incorporate additional controls and alerts to those already existing on affected vehicles to further encourage the driver to adhere to their continuous driving responsibility whenever Autosteer is engaged. The picture above does not show the actual new Tesla alerts In certain ... Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has halted interest rate increases. The markets expect several cuts in 2024. The pricing expectations are four or five quarter rate cuts in 2024. The expectations are for cuts to start around March to June. Rate cuts are good for technology and growth stocks. The concern is that rate cuts ... Read more