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They say that engineers love to solve problems. And if there were ever a phrase that summed up the entrepreneurial journey of engineer Hari Ravichandran, that would be it. He's been solving problems for people since the mid-1990s when he traded a chance at a graduate-level electrical engineering degree from Stamford for the challenges offered ... Read more

Tesla has officially announced the Cybertruck delivery day as November 30, 2023. Official Tesla Cybertruck delivery event poster! Deliveries begin on November 30th at Giga Texas. pic.twitter.com/nish17kc2k - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 18, 2023

In August 2022, more than one-fifth of the 1,000 rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group toward Israel failed and landed in Gaza. These rockets caused one-third of the 44 deaths recorded. Here is a map of the rockets fired from Palestinian groups that have landed in Gaza so far in the current ... Read more

There was an argument last night about a hospital in Gaza that the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other sources claimed was destroyed. They also instantly reported at least 500 dead. This is surprising because usually it takes time to dig through wreckage and count the dead. There was a blast at al-Ahli ... Read more

China has made thousands of high density high rise living areas. It is the main form of housing in modern China, Hong Kong and Singapore and many other asian countries. There is no talk of inhumane living conditions in Manhattan or for the Asian high rise developments. There can be very comfortable population density of ... Read more

In 2018, Egypt announced they had destroyed 37 Gaza infiltration tunnels by flooding them with water and sewage. Egypt has in the past flooded Hamas tunnels along the Gaza Strip with sea-water or sewage, and has destroyed hundreds of homes on the Egyptian side of Rafah to remove the tunnels. The Egyptian military began cracking ... Read more

Tachyum's first chip Prodigy has not completely finished its design but one customer will buy hundreds of thousands of Universal chips to build a 50 exaFLOPS supercomputer. Tachyum(R) announced that it has accepted a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale system, based on its 5nm Prodigy(R) Universal Processor chip, which ... Read more

The Department of Energy (DOE) is making a $10 million investment in three projects to develop novel technologies to manufacture high-performance superconducting tapes in the United States. Superconductivity can transmit energy with almost zero wasted electricity. UH's Selva Research Group received $2 million for a three-year project, titled Low-Cost, High-Rate Fabrication of High-Performance, Uniform, Long ... Read more

Sandy Munro and his Dad worked in the US Car industry inside and outside of the UAW. Sandy explains that making the US car industry less competitive contributed to the General Motors shrinking from over 50% market share to less than 16%. The UAW auto industry members shrank from 1.5 million in 1979 to 180,000 ... Read more

The United States Air Force (USAF) plans to award the contract for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program and for new fighter engines in 2024. The NGAD is a sixth-generation fighter jet that will replace the F-22 Raptor. The Air Force hopes to have the NGAD in production by the end of the decade. ... Read more

There is fighting along a second front with Israel. The main activity has been in the South with Israel, Gaza and Hamas. Hezbollah has announced the Death of 4 of their Terrorists as a result of Clashes with the IDF along the Border with Lebanon throughout today. Hezbollah has about three to six times the ... Read more

South Africa is undergoing rapid collapse. South Africa used to have abundant energy and could sell energy to neighboring African countries. However, there was incompetent government and starting in 2007 there has been an energy crisis. There has been chronic shortages of electricity. This has reached the level where there are a constant schedule of ... Read more

Marc Lowell Andreessen is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface, co-founder of Netscape, co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that ... Read more

Critical challenges and technology development for colonizing and developing the moon are being performed. This includes getting oxygen, water, and metals like Aluminum from the lunar soil. There is In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) related to water-ice and other materials in lunar Permanent Shadowed Regions (PSRs) and extracting O2 and metals (or metalloids) from regolith in ... Read more

U.S. Defense Officials have reportedly convinced the Israeli Government not to launch a Preemptive Strike on Hezbollah Forces in Lebanon, with them promising that U.S. Naval Assets in the Eastern Mediterranean including the USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier will provide Military Assistance if Hezbollah does launch a Major Attack against Israel. According to the ... Read more

There will be heavy price for ultimate peace. Hamas is Gaza has fired 6000 out of 20,000 or more rockets, so Iran has supplied and Hamas has made a lot of weapons. There explosives, mortars, missiles and drones. There are 30,000 to 200,000 equipped soldiers. They do not have tanks but they are an equipped ... Read more

What became DARPA helped create the Internet standards that become the commercial internet and ecommerce and now DARPA is coordinating standards and efforts to commercialize the moon. A robust lunar economy within the next decade is coming quickly into focus. It's clear that many shareable, scalable commercial systems will be needed to support a future ... Read more

Over 43 startups companies are working on nuclear fusion and they have received over $6 billion in funding. This does not include the international and national Tokomak fusion programs. The IEEE Spectrum reviewed five of the nuclear fusion companies that are working on Aneutronic fusion. 1. TAE (TriAlpha Energy) is working towards Proton-Boron fusion. 2. ... Read more

Blinkov has excellent analysis of all wars and military situations. He provides coverage of the military situation for Israel and Gaza.

There is an online military map of the Israel-Hamas war. It is at liveuamap.com. #UPDATE: IDF and Shin Bet says they have killed overnight Billal al-Qedra, a Hamas commander in the Nukhba force in the South Khan Younis battalion who is responsible for the attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz and Nirim - ELINT News (@ELINTNews) ... Read more

Lockheed Martin has a US Army contract to develop and deliver up to four 300 kW-class laser weapon systems to the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) prototype program. The IFPC-HEL system complements other layered defense components to protect soldiers from stressing threats, unmanned aerial systems, rocket, artillery and mortars, along with rotary and ... Read more

While a Tesla owner was at the Tesla service center, two Cybertrucks that Tesla had been testing in rough off-road conditions in Baja California arrived. The owner mentioned that Cybertruck drivers told her the cyberrtruck will be able to go 500 miles on a single charge. While a Tesla owner was at the Tesla service ... Read more

DARPA selected RTX Corporation, Draper, and BEAM Co to design prototype lop wireless optical power relays. The Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, aimed at revolutionizing energy distribution through airborne wireless power transfer. The optical energy relays designed in POWER's phase one will be demonstrated on the ground. In the second phase, they will ... Read more

PepsiCo's best-performing Tesla Semi traveled an average of 574 miles per day over the course of 18 days at the RunonLess Real World data tracking event. The next best non-Tesla vehicle was WattEV's Nikola Tre BEV, which traveled an average of 255 miles per day. OK Produce's Freightliner eCascadia averaged 181 miles per day, and ... Read more

If you read the conditions under which you can use the Mercedes Drive Pilot Level 3 self driving then you will see the obvious silliness of it. It will only work on highways at less than 45 miles per hour and with another car in front of you. This obviously means it only works for ... Read more

Starlink satellites will soon be offering Direct to Cell capabilities to enable texting, calling, and browsing everywhere on Earth. SpaceX will start satellite-based text messaging in 2024 and expand to voice and text support in 2025. They will offer cellular connectivity to IoT devices in 2025. The service will work with existing LTE phones without ... Read more

The suspended dust generated when lunar rovers move across the lunar soil is a significant risk for lunar missions as it can affect the systems of the exploration vehicles. One solution to mitigate this problem is the construction of roads and landing pads on the Moon. 12 kilowatt laser(s) have melted simulated regolith in the ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to the ITU to place an additional 29,988 new satellites into orbit. SpaceX is using the Pacific island state of Tonga as its regulatory source and using TongSat which is looking to profit from the satellite industry. SpaceX has about 4200 active satellites now out of 5100 launched. The satellites will operate ... Read more

On Sept. 24, 2023 NASA recovered a 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, marking the first sample return of its kind in America and concluding the seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission. The asteroid sample mission was launched in 2016 and traveled an estimated 3.86 billion miles before it first landed on the Bennu asteroid in 2020. ... Read more

Matloff and Joseph Meany conceptualize a large solar sail made of aerographite which would only use the Sun to power a long term interstellar mission. It is based on an inflatable, hollow-body sail. This is updating concepts that goes back at least to the 1980s. Matloff and Meany set up an aerographite-graphene variant using a ... Read more

Giga Texas made their 20 millionth 4680 cell. This comes just 4 months after Tesla built its 10 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas. Tesla just built their 20 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas! What does that mean? -As per my analysis from the Q2 earnings call in the image below: It looks they're ... Read more

China has completed a 600 Megawatt fast neutron reactor. They had Russian help and it is part of the plan to have Uranium, plutonium and nuclear energy independence. They will close the nuclear fuel cycle in the 2040s and use the nuclear waste which is 95% Uranium 238 by mass. China first commercial scale large-capacity ... Read more

DARPA and Aurora, subsidiary of Boeing, are making a breakthrough X-plane without regular flights controls. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program aims to design, build, and flight test a novel X-plane that incorporates Active Flow Control (AFC) as a primary design consideration. Crane seeks to optimize the benefits of active flow ... Read more

This year, International's SuperTruck 2 reached even further, hitting 16 MPG in flatland duty cycles across Illinois with a 65,000-lb. gross vehicle weight, according to Dean Oppermann, chief engineer of advanced truck at Navistar. The Tesla Semi Truck is all electric which gives it the equivalent of 25-35 mpg depending upon the ratio of diesel ... Read more

The size of China's baby population in China is expected to fluctuate but will remain at around 10 million for the foreseeable future according to He Dan, director of the China Population And Development Research Centre, a think tank affiliated with the National Health Commission. Births in China could drop below 8 million this year, ... Read more

There are reports of Cybertruck features. There are pictures of hundreds of underbody castings. There is a video of an offroad test.

China is considering at least 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) of additional sovereign debt for spending on infrastructure such as water conservancy projects. If the debt is issued, the 2023 budget deficit would rise above the 3% cap set in March. Country Garden, China's largest private developer, has warned it will miss a loan payment ... Read more

Marvel Comics has many characters who are some form of super soldier. There is the Steve Rogers Captain America who has chemical and science enhanced musces, speed and strength. The Sam Wilson Falcon has a long duration and high speed jet pack and an AI enhanced super personal drone. The Gravity Industries Jet Suit is ... Read more

Sources are reporting that Chinese domestic battery cell prices are $70-75/kWh for LFP and $80-90/kWh for NMC. This is significantly lower than BMI's (Benchmark Mineral) weighted global cell price average of below $100. This would mean $30 per kWh lower prices would mean $1950 lower prices on a 65 kWh battery pack. According to my ... Read more

Researcher show that n-bit integers can be factorized by independently running a quantum circuit with orders of magnitude fewer qubits many times. It then use polynomial-time classical post-processing. The correctness of the algorithm relies on a number-theoretic heuristic assumption reminiscent of those used in subexponential classical factorization algorithms. It is currently not clear if the ... Read more

An Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning something big - which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo's intelligence minister to the prime minister. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and military chiefs at IDF headquarters in Tel ... Read more

In 2021, the California Air Resources Board voted to require that new, small off-road engines - like the ones found in leaf blowers and lawn mowers - meet zero-emission standards starting in 2024. In addition, portable generators, including those found in recreational vehicles, must be zero-emission by 2028. The rules do not ban the possession ... Read more

New nuclear fission technology is being developed but over 50 nuclear reactors involves over $200 billion of development. China is developing over $100 billion of new nuclear fission power. China can afford to complete two CFR600 sodium fast gen IV reactors and a molten salt nuclear program. China also completed a commercial high temperature pebble ... Read more

Fuse is funded for tens of millions and is developing hybrid fusion-fission commercial energy. They are extending concepts and experiments in pulse power studied at Sandia National Labs. The Sandia Z Machine used currents of about 26 million amps to reach peak X-ray emissions of 350 terawatts and an X-ray output of 2.7 megajoules. It ... Read more

Using the inflation calculator Officialdata.org, it is revealed that Europe has had 14 years of inflation in the last three years. The UK has had eight years of inflation in the last three years. Canada has had ten years of inflation in the last three years.

US inflation has increased about 18.6% overall and over 20% for food from 2020-2023 (3 years) and this is about the same overall inflation that happened from 2010 to 2020 (10 years). This is the official data provided in an inflation calculator at officialdata.org. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, St Louis Federal Reserve and other ... Read more

The official IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Nuclear energy forecast, which gets insider information on all of the funded nuclear energy projects and national programs, has increased its 2050 projections low-medium and high cases by about 12%. Europe has to get reliable energy and cannot use Russian oil and gas. This has led to an ... Read more

SpaceXVision has published renderings of a Mars Spaceship concept for an artificial gravity Mars/Earth cycler. Artificial Gravity Mars/Earth cycler concept with Starship in Mars orbit #SpaceX #STARSHIP pic.twitter.com/zG6zzVy0TE - SpaceXvision (@SpacexVision) August 13, 2023

The NY Times discussed the NASA funding of Icon to send 3D printers to the moon for the construction of buildings. NASA scientists are currently working to perfect a replica of lunar concrete. In the first half of 2024, NASA plans to test ICON's printers. If you can survive our [vacuum] chambers, then you're very ... Read more

Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum broke the men's marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon, running an astounding 2:00:35 as the 23-year old inched closer to breaking the 2 hour barrier. This will soon be taking human performance to a level that many used to believe was not possible. Shaving a little over one second off of ... Read more