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NuScale Power and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) announced that they are canceling the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP). The subscription rates by customers for the Carbon Free Power Project did not meet the threshold needed to continue. Prices for utilities per kWh had those customers drop out. The Carbon Free Power Project's was ... Read more

Jeff Greason proposes extending power beaming using the magnetic pinch phenomenon. The quasar 3C273 produces a plasma jet that is 100,000 light years long. This distance would span the Milky Way. It may be possible for humans to produce pinched relativistic electron jets over the much smaller distances needed to propel a spacecraft out of ... Read more

Polestar and Lucid Motors are Tesla EV competitors that are getting short of cash. Lucid Motors had about $4.9 billion in cash and investments at the end of the third quarter of 2023. At the end of the second quarter, Lucid had about $5.5 billion. Lucid raised $3 billion in a June 2023 stock offering ... Read more

Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday that Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south. We saw 50,000 Gazans move from the northern Gaza Strip to the south. They are moving because they understand that Hamas has lost control in the ... Read more

Cruise has determined that an accident where a pedestrian was dragged by a Cruise Robotaxi could have recurred every 10 million - 100 million miles of driving on average prior to the software update. As Cruise software improves, it is likely they will file additional recalls to inform both NHTSA and the public of updates ... Read more

The D'Onghia magnetic shielding crew hat, or CREW HaT, is a system that uses electromagnetic coils to deflect cosmic radiation from astronauts. The system consists of: A ring of electrical coils positioned on arms roughly 5 meters from the spacecraft's main body A Halbach Torus, a circular array of magnets that creates a stronger field ... Read more

After about ten days of urban combat against an enemy that had more than 15 years to prepare its defenses, Israel has lost fewer soldiers than it did in the final act of the 2006 Second Lebanon War. This is as reported by the Times of Israel and other sources. Even more importantly, the IDF ... Read more

Elon says SpaceX launches every 3 days from the Cape in Florida now and will launch every 2 days in 2024. SpaceX launches every 3 days from the Cape in Florida, next year every 2 days https://t.co/EBlEz5G1h6 - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2023 There is no big increase in launch rate expected from China ... Read more

Falcon 9 launches 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida. SpaceX has now launched 80 times in 2023 and has delivered more than 1,000 metric tons to orbit Falcon 9 launches 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida. We've now launched 80 times in 2023, delivering more than 1,000 metric tons to orbit pic.twitter.com/fsrVKW8K9x - ... Read more

There were claims during the pandemic that natural immunity was not as strong as vaccinated COVID immunity. Those claims have been proven to be completely wrong by scientific studies. Natural immunity that comes from actual COVID infection is many times stronger then vaccinated immune response. Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School ... Read more

The Pinkfong Company, best known for the maddeningly catchy Baby Shark" song, has announced a partnership with TinyTap. Animoca Brands subsidiary TinyTap specializes in edtech, using web3 technology to support fair revenue distribution for course creators and students. The partnership drawn up between the two early learning champions will draw upon each company's inherent expertise ... Read more

Youtuber Covert Cabal has updated his count of Russian Soviet era tanks in storage. He uses satellite images. Russia is now making about 200-250 new tanks each. They are losing about 1400 tanks each year in the Ukraine war. They have about 3500 tanks that are in suitable condition to be repaired and used in ... Read more

In December, 2022, Leidos ($13.7B annual revenue fortune 500 company) was awarded a $334 million contract to assist the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in developing an air-breathing hypersonic system. The Expendable Hypersonic Multi-mission ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and Strike program, better known as Mayhem, will span a 51-month period of performance. The ... Read more

We do not know what the US military has been using after the U2 Spy plane or the RQ4 Global Hawk drone. We know the Grumman RQ180 drone exists and think it looks like an unmanned drone version of the B2 bomber. Above is an artist view of what the Grumman RQ180 Stealth Drone might ... Read more

Bloomberg reportsSpaceX is on track to book revenues of about $9 billion in 2023 across its rocket launch and Starlink businesses, according to people familiar with the matter, with sales projected to rise to around $15 billion in 2024. SpaceX has completed a new factory to mass produce Starlink satellite dishes. Currently, SpaceX has been ... Read more

Researchers report that a material (hexagonal HP-BaCoO3) made under high-pressure (6 GPa, 1200 C) and was tested at ambient-pressure. The material (with a 2H crystal structure) has a short intrachain Co-Co distance of about 2.07 A. The magnetization investigation revealed robust diamagnetic behavior below approximately 130 K when the material was exposed to weak applied ... Read more

Aubrey de Grey reports on the large mouse study of combination antiaging treatments. The survival curves are definitely approaching the stage where we can draw tentative conclusions concerning average lifespan. What we won't be able to do for a good six months yet, probably more like nine months, is speculate even tentatively about maximum lifespan, ... Read more

Kraken Technology Group and L3Harris Technologies have created advanced integration of control systems within the K40 MANTA submarine drone prototype. The K40 will be able to hold 1000 kilogram payload and operate autonomously for ten days. This is a pivotal step in the technical evolution of Kraken's K40 MANTA platform, setting the foundation for the ... Read more

China's government is calling for the Rapid Development of Humanoid Robots. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a nine page guideline yesterday: Establish a humanoid robot innovation system, make breakthroughs in key technologies and ensure supply of core components, by 2025 Humanoid robots should become an important new engine of economic ... Read more

Tesla China VP Tao Lin's revealed the following: 1) Many of the improvements to the upgraded Model 3 come from the R&D Center in China. 2) For example, ventilation sheets, new interior materials, quietness and ambient light were developed by the Shanghai R&D Innovation Center. 3) Tesla established the Gigafactory Data Center to achieve localization ... Read more

The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship could launch as soon as mid-November, pending regulatory approval. This would be in about one week from today. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. As is the case with ... Read more

Recent car industry, battery industry and AI industry developments are setting up well for Tesla. UAW just added about $900 or more to the cost of competitors cars (ICE and EV). Battery prices are dropping globally. Ford has delayed $12 billion in EV and battery investment plans. Honda, GM and other traditional carmakers are all ... Read more

Tesla builds FSD hardware into all Tesla cars even for those who do not pay to use FSD. This means people can change their mind and sign up for FSD and get it activated. It also means the 144 Trillion operations per second AI will be available to run xAI Grok. There are 5 million ... Read more

Over the last eight years, IBM researcher Modha has been working on a new type of digital AI chip for neural inference, which he calls NorthPole. It's an extension of TrueNorth, the last brain-inspired chip that Modha worked on prior to 2014. In tests on the popular ResNet-50 image recognition and YOLOv4 object detection models, ... Read more

The Space Systems Command on Oct. 31 announced 21 launch missions have been assigned to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020. The U.S. Space Force awarded $2.5 billion in rocket contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for 21 ... Read more

xAI's Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses. It will be released to X Premium plus users once it is out of early beta. xAI's Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses pic.twitter.com/WqXxlwI6ef - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023

xAI will release its first AI to a select group. In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists. This will likely be some large language model system like ChatGPT. In the Walter Isaacson book, Elon was quoted as saying one of the first goals of an xAI large language model would be ... Read more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will produce their next gen platform ($25K EV) at Giga Berlin in addition to Texas and Mexico. #GigaBerlinBrandenburg@elonmusk announced today during his visit to GigaBerlin that a 25k Tesla will be built here. pic.twitter.com/EmdYXQAUOS - Gigafactory Berlin News (@Gf4Tesla) November 3, 2023

There are many articles and reports from Newsweek or other media sources that complain that the US military is behind China and Russia on hypersonic weapons. This is because Russia and China have rushed to deploy some hypersonic warheads boosted on regular rockets. China and Russia each have some hypersonic glide missiles. The warheads are ... Read more

David Willis claims that SpaceX is iterating on the design of the Lunar Human Landing system Starship with large solar panels. The solar panels would fold out and deploy from within the Starship. The moon has 1400 watts per square meter of solar power. Solar energy collection on the moon would be about 25% efficient. ... Read more

Nuclear fusion startup, Fuse, is trying to make a mass production version nuclear fusion system based upon the Sandia Z Machine. The Sandia Z-Machine is a pulsed-power facility and X-ray generator at Sandia National Laboratories. It's the world's most powerful electrical device and can create short pulses of electrical energy. The Z-Machine uses electricity to ... Read more

Elon Musk says there is a non-zero critical risk for advanced AI. A software package crashing on your laptop is not a critical risk. Elon deals with regulators for Space rockets and cars. There is a need for a referee for advanced AI. There are referees for sports games and there is a need for ... Read more

Apple had decent Q3 results relative to expectations. Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon had the best big tech results. APPLE EARNINGS JUST OUT $AAPL *APPLE 4Q REV. $89.50B, EST. $89.35B ( BEAT ) *APPLE 4Q EPS $1.46, EST. $1.39 ( BEAT ) pic.twitter.com/ppM6HTjqLH - GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) November 2, 2023 Q3 Revenue Growth, YoY % ... Read more

Reuters and Wall Street Journal are reporting that WeWork will file for bankruptcy next week. WeWork's shares were down 49.7% in early morning trading on Wednesday, bringing its market capitalization to just $61 million. That's a ludicrous drop considering this company raised more than $7.09 billion in equity capital while private. Three months ago, I ... Read more

The US companies with mainly French and British Partners dominate the market share of the global aircraft engine market: CFM International: 39% Pratt & Whitney: 35% GE Aviation: 14% Rolls-Royce: 12% This commercial aircraft engine domination supports the US domination of military jets. The high tech alloys and advanced enables the military jet engines to ... Read more

Japan's JT-60SA tokamak nuclear fusion reactor has achieved first plasma which makes it the world's largest operating nuclear fusion reactor. The JT-60SA uses magnetic fields from superconducting coils to contain a blazingly hot cloud of ionized gas, or plasma, within a doughnut-shaped vacuum vessel, in hope of coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. ... Read more

SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is only waiting for the EPA environmental review to be licensed for its second orbital test flight. NEWS: The FAA has completed its safety review portion of the SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy license evaluation. Now the environmental review needs to be completed. https://t.co/yQ3Zi15D0f - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 31, 2023

Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture has worked with Spaced Ventures to create the SpaceX: The Independent Investment Guide. It is designed to be a fairly exhaustive look into SpaceX's technology, products, services, and finances, based on deep research and publicly available information. This is primarily a factual snapshot of the business as it stands today. We don't ... Read more

Today, Elon Musk talked with Joe Rogan about a Beast Mode version of the Cybertruck. He said it would have a 0 to 60 mph time of less than 3 seconds. Eight months ago I predicted that there would be

The comma 3X is custom hardware designed to live in your car, and purpose built to run openpilot. The comma 3X has three beautiful HDR cameras, two cameras to watch the road and one night-vision camera to see inside the car. Besides cameras, the comma 3X has a suite of connectivity and sensors including cellular ... Read more

Elon Musk talked with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan shot an arrow at the door of the Cybertruck and made a small dent. The Tesla Cybertruck will have different weight but will be around 7000 lbs. Elon talks about the extinctionists who want all humans to die. Elon Musk is against the extreme environmentalists.

The F-35As have critical failures every 11 flight hours and airframe-only (excluding engines and systems) maintenance is 4.4 man-hours per flight hour. The US air force is trying to fly its F35s from 250-316 hours each year. This would mean 1100-1400 hours each year on airframe maintenance and more hours on engines and systems. Each ... Read more

The F117 stealth figher has a near perfect combat record. It was used extensively in the first gulf war, Kosovo and all of the US wars from 1990 to 2008. The sixty or so F117 were supposed to be retired after 2008. However, it appears they were not decommissioned and destroyed. The only F117 Nighthawk ... Read more

Tesla's profits has been squeezed as they have had to lower prices. BYD's third-quarter financial report revealed a significant downturn in free cash flow, plummeting by -$7.3 billion from a robust +$4.8 billion to a concerning -$2.6 billion. This drastic drop, disclosed by the company today, was primarily propelled by a staggering contraction in operating ... Read more

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan's nominal GDP - that is, unadjusted for inflation - is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany's is forecast to expand 8.4% to $4.42 trillion. The U.S., the world's largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China's economy, ... Read more

Space Startup Vast plans to launch the world's first commercial space station, called Haven-1. It is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit no earlier than August 2025, Haven-1 will initially act as an independent crewed space station prior to being connected as a module to a larger Vast space ... Read more

CATL is the world's largest battery maker and CATL battery factories are operating at 70% of capacity to produce about 200 GWH/year of batteries. Tesla needs 100 GWh/year of batteries to bring its second Megapack line in its Lathrop factory and two new Megapack factories in China up to full production. This would be 120 ... Read more

The F-35 first flew in 2006. It entered service with the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2015, the U.S. Air Force in August 2016, and the U.S. Navy in February 2019. The F-35 fleet is the second largest in the Air Force inventory, after the F-16. As of April 2022, the American military had purchased ... Read more

Endiatx PillBotTM and future Endiatx products will be true telemedicine. They will dramatically increase access to care while simultaneously lowering costs and increasing doctors' effectiveness. Problem Many of the 11,000 in the US and 800,000 globally who die from stomach cancer each year are diagnosed too late for doctors to save their lives. They don't ... Read more

Kevin Parkin, an accomplished physicist and visionary engineer, is the driving force behind Parkin Research, a cutting-edge space technology company that is relentlessly pioneering tomorrow's technologies to unlock the boundless potential of space exploration. Parkin has AI-based design tools that can provide detailed point optimized point designs based upon cost and other constraints. Directed energy ... Read more