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General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company's technical progress. The planned fusion machines is to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, and progress toward scientific breakeven by 2026. They completed the first close of its Series F raise for a combined $25 ... Read more

Zhihu is very impressed by the recent claims of @iris_IGB (Iris Alexander) to have achieved 0 resistivity of #LK99 under 280K (7 Celsius). @sanxiyn fully agrees with this sentiment. Chinese observers are impressed. Iris Alexander is one of the first to replicate levitation effect in an LK99 Replication effort. IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no peer ... Read more

WeWork reported that there is substantial doubt" the company will be able to stay in business, citing a slight decline in memberships" and increasing competition." They indicate that avoiding bankruptcy is contingent upon successful execution of management's plan to improve liquidity and profitability over the next 12 months." In March 2016, WeWork raised $430 million ... Read more

Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested on fraud charges last year after the collapse of his cryptocurrency firm, must await trial behind bars, a US judge has ordered. The 31-year-old was handcuffed in court and led away. Judge Lewis Kaplan had agreed with prosecutors who had accused Mr Bankman-Fried of trying to intimidate witnesses expected to ... Read more

Russia is testing a digital ruble to try to circumvent US and European sanctions. The planned timeline is for regular Russian people and businesses to use the central bank digital currency at their own request starting 2025, said Olga Skorobogatova, first deputy governor of the Bank of Russia in a statement. The Bank of Russia ... Read more

UPDATE: Hyun Tak Kim has put out news slides that describes a semiconductor and superconductor phase for LK99. He quoted his own paper on VO2 to explain that most researchers did not understand the difference between MIT and MST (MIT, metal to insulator transition: after cooling down, the resistivity jump becomes very large; MST, ... Read more

Two updates on LK99. The Indian scientist who got LK99 sample replication on his third try says that his new sample is not superconducting. One of the original LK99 team responded with the description of two phases of LK99 (semiconductor and superconductor). New Facebook Posting from Indian Scientist Awana VPS - LK99 CSIR-NPL (INDIA) LK-99 ... Read more

California Public Utilities Commission have voted to allow the Waymo and Cruise to expand their robotaxi service to thousands of vehicles in San Francisco. Before expansion Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise were limited in times and areas they could operate. Cruise cars can only be accessed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the Sunset, ... Read more

Changing the world with science and technology is very hard. Persistence is needed. An Indian researcher has succeeded in replicating the levitation of an LK99 sample on his third major attempt. Others want to quit right away and dismiss what could be or could lead to the biggest scientific breakthrough of the century. Tesla constant ... Read more

VPS Awana has been trying for weeks to get a good LK99 replication. He has been in direct contact with the Korean team. He published two arxiv preprints talking about how his previous samples didn't work. NEW most promising replication yet: The National Physics Lab New Delphi, led by VPS Awana, has finally succeeded in ... Read more

Cruise is expanding its self-driving car operation to Los Angeles. CNBC reports Cruise has 400 robotaxi's and most are in San Francisco. There are over 2000 robotaxi vehicles in California. Cruise is increasing autonomous rides by 49% per month and are doing more than 10,000 rides per week. Cruise CEO said they were operating tens ... Read more

Geordi Rose and Suzanne Gildert at Sanctuary AI are one of the world leading companies working on humanoid robotics and AGI (artificial general intelligence). They have an interesting thought experiment about how much data it would take to generate a human like general intelligence. However, this would be an NPC (non-player character) style general intelligence. ... Read more

The LK99 discusses CUS2 as an impurity. This would mean the original researchers are aware of CuS2 and did not make the mistake that the Beijing National Lab say was made. Plot Twist #LK99 works when there's current flowing. This was said during the initial demo, and their patent discusses CuS2 as an impurity. In ... Read more

The Tesla GigaNevada factory is currently about 30% complete as Tesla and Panasonic have been optimizing the current production capacity and not expanding. Last month, Tesla hired Michael Hildebrand in the role of Head of Giga factory Nevada Expansion Engineering and Construction. This should mean that construction and deployment of the 500 GWh/year, $3.6 billion ... Read more

The odds would be overwhelming for Sabine's prediction that LK99 will prove not to be a room temperature superconductor. If an explanation is that it was a regular copper sulfide transition with some minor magnetic effect. However, the theory and simulation work indicates that certain variations of copper positioning and oxygenation might still be highly ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 9th, 2023, Chainwire Wallet, the TON-based application in Telegram Messenger, announces the launch of TON Space, a new self-custody wallet, that gives users complete control of their digital assets. In tandem with this upcoming product comes the opening of a waitlist for developers to integrate with TON Space in beta. ... Read more

Abu Dhabi, UAE, August 9th, 2023, Chainwire Venom Foundation, a leader in blockchain technology adoption in regulated markets, is thrilled to announce the signing of a momentous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UAE Government to develop and implement the National Carbon Credit System. This landmark partnership represents a significant step towards leveraging blockchain technology ... Read more

Princeton University has reported their research which will post to Arxiv tomorrow. They failed to get superconducting results but could not get the copper to the right lead sites. Results where the group fail to get any partial levitation are not good attempts at replication. 1. Samples following the described synthesis are multi-phase 2. Single ... Read more

Youtuber David G is livestreaming the Rocket Labs quarterly earnings call. Rocket Labs is doing very well and is on track to 15 launches in 2023. Their average launch selling price is increasing. They sold ten launches in the quarter and are on track to 20 launches in 2024. They are developing a larger medium ... Read more

A Peking University group did get some levitation in an Lk99 replication attempt. Their sample is not a superconductor. They describe the semi-levitation is the result of magnetic torque. Guo et. al synthesized #LK99 with the published methodology and matched the material composition to the original using X-Ray Diffraction. They observed levitation in the sample ... Read more

Researchers at Korea University of Energy and Technology confirmed that the crystal structure of a sample of LK-99', proposed room temperature superconductor, is the same as the crystal structure presented in the original papers by Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim et al. The College of Energy Engineering is the only external institution conducting research after receiving ... Read more

Lanzhou University researchers analysis on improving the superconducting of LK99 with more oxygen. They conclude that the hybridization between the Cu d-states of the Cu doped with the p state of the fully occupied 1/4 occupied O1 atoms may be the key for the realization of the room temperature superconductivity. In order to improve the ... Read more

Vienna, Austria, August 8th, 2023, Chainwire TaskChain, a groundbreaking Web3 project, has just announced the launch of its presale today. This new development comes prior to the introduction of TaskChain's innovative platform which is set to transform the way users earn income online. For early investors, the news about TaskChain's presale launch is another exciting ... Read more

People on the internet want instant gratification on the LK99 room temperature superconductor science. We can hope for this and want this but this science is difficult. I describe in these two videos how difficult but also how important LK99 science is. The positive partial results only happen in about 10% of the experiments where ... Read more

Reviewing the China Southeastern University LK99 preprint paper. They successfully synthesized the compound Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O, and observed the zero resistance above 100 K. However, the Meissner effect has not been observed yet in our samples, which suggests that the superconducting volume is relatively low. They still need more evidences to confirm the superconductivity, and to identify ... Read more

Seoul Economic Daily reports the Quantum Energy Research Institute, the original LK99 developer, has verified samples made by foreign researchers and will make an announcement around the end of August or beginning of Septemeber, 2023. The Seoul Economic Daily reports speculation that the Quantum Energy Research Institute will officially announce the results of the thesis ... Read more

Researchers from POSTECH and Sogang University developed a functional polymeric binder for stable, high-capacity anode material that could increase the current EV range at least 10-fold over current graphite anode electric car battery range. There is already commercial use of electric cars with 3-8% silicon anode by weight with out 10-30% range increases. There are ... Read more

SpaceX had a static fire of 29 out of 33 Raptor 2 engines and the test also used the water deluge launch pad protection system. The water protected steel plate and launch pad were undamaged after the 29 engine static fire Drone view of Booster 9 static fire test pic.twitter.com/ARv6H6njgu - SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 6, ... Read more

There are real LK99 Videos and there is an increasing number of fake LK99 room temperature superconductor videos. There are pure video effect fakes and those using strings or wires. However, there are real videos of flakes and pieces with partial levitation. Fake Chinese #LK99 replication Someone claimed to be from University of Science and ... Read more

Kowloon city, HongKong, August 7th, 2023, Chainwire Founded in August 2018 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Crypto Miner Bros has become one of the leading crypto mining hardware distributors within five years of its launch. With a dedicated team of blockchain experts, e-commerce specialists, and crypto mining professionals, Crypto Miner Bros has become a reputable ... Read more

Precise radiocarbon dating in a peer reviewed Journal show that Panagrolaimus individuals worms remained in cryptobiosis since the late Pleistocene (~46,000 years) and were revived in 2018. Phylogenetic inference based on our genome assembly and a detailed morphological analysis demonstrate that they belong to an undescribed species, which we named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis. Comparative genome analysis ... Read more

RF SQUIDs (radio frequency Superconducting quantum interference device) only need one Josephson junction to work. This is used for magnetic field sensing. It would not need high current or other high performance capabilities. There are two main types of SQUID: direct current (DC) and radio frequency (RF). RF SQUIDs can work with only one Josephson ... Read more

Another one of many groups working to replicate the LK99 room temperature superconductors. 3/4A humbling admission: a mistake in our laboratory logbook led to mixing the first powders in the wrong ratio Such hiccups are part of the scientific journey but rarely reported. Nevertheless, the correct mixture is now in the furnace and we will ... Read more

Andrew McCalip, who works on space manufacturing at Varda Space, has had the most public and possibly first replication of the proposed LK99 superconductor in the United States has made new samples. It is a larger and better sample. Will try to drop a video tomorrow. Can confirm two things. Note this is with a ... Read more

Pepsi is deploying Tesla Semis at its Sacramento, CA location in long-haul applications with heavy loads. Trip distances are up to 450 miles on a single charge. One of the drivers indicates that they are needing less than 1.7 kWH per mile. The Tesla Semi can be charged from 5% to 90% in 20 to ... Read more

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation with flux pinning. The video was posted to the Chinese video-sharing site BiliBili and claims to be a highly pure synthesized sample of LK-99. UPDATE- Report that this was faked Update on fake Chinese replication video of #LK99 showing complete levitation The poster has said on their Weibo that ... Read more

Huazhong University of Science and Technology has published a preprint paper on Arxiv that claims successful growth and room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation. The chinese team from HUST has successfully for the first time verify and synthesize the LK-99 crystals which can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee's sample at room ... Read more

PG&E, one of California's main energy utility, CEO Patti Poppe spoke with Elon Musk. Elon said that he is certain that global electrical output will need to triple to handle the electrification of transportation and the heating of buildings. This trend and increasing development could increase energy usage by ten times for developing countries like ... Read more

Andrew McCalip and Varda had all of the equipment to replicate and used about $500 in material. They seem to be the first in the USA to have a public replication with some partial reported success. They do not have the equipment to characterize the material. They have given it to USC to analyze. They ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, August 5th, 2023, Chainwire Decentralized hedge fund VC Spectra has reported strong demand for its Stage 2 presale. The token sale has drawn considerable interest from early investors and underlined VC Spectra's potential to redefine the crypto industry. Priding itself on democratizing access to investment opportunities, VC Spectra has carved a distinct ... Read more

David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors. Friedberg estimates that 70% of the energy we produce is lost to heat and friction. However, computer chips and networking without heat problems can mean computers that are 100 to 200 times faster. The ... Read more

LK99 is the proposed room temperature superconductor and IF it is confirmed as a superconductor then it will likely be a new class of superconductor. It is different than the previously known type 1 and type 2 superconductors. We will need to discover more variants than the first lead-apatite copper phosphorous material. This will help ... Read more

The global superconductivity market was valued at about $8.4 billion in 2022. Magnet resonance imaging (MRI) systems, most of which use Nb-Ti, accounted for about 80% of the total market value. The higher temperature superconductors (YCBO, nitrogen cooled) remained a much smaller market. The LK99 material has not shown the very large current capacity or ... Read more

Purdue University has developed HADAR, heat-assisted detection and ranging, which sees texture and depth and perceives physical attributes of people and environments. HADAR vividly recovers the texture from the cluttered heat signal and accurately disentangles temperature, emissivity and texture, or TeX, of all objects in a scene. It sees texture and depth through the darkness ... Read more

Andrew McCalip was one of the first to start on Twitter and Twitch with his LK99 replication effort. This video of the final product seems to be showing some success. It will be further analyzed. Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 We made the rocks pic.twitter.com/ygVOATBaHD - Andrew McCalip (@andrewmccalip) August 4, 2023 Pulling LK99 ... Read more

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Iris Alexander used construction grade phosphorous which is often contaminated with sulfur. Iris replicated what seems like a very good flake of LK99 that seems to show a strong Meissner effect. This could be because of Cu2S. Chinese paper on the theory had mentioned the need for another redox dopant (they considered either) Chinese reproduction ... Read more

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics (KSSC) told the Korea JoongAng Daily Thursday, that it has skepticism towards the LK99 results. The verification committee includes research institutes from Seoul National University, Korea University, Pohang University of Science and Technology and Sungkyunkwan University. The committee is led by Kim Chang-young, a physics professor at Seoul ... Read more

Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, a professor of molecular biogerontology at the Institute of Inflammation and Aging at the University of Birmingham in England, has calculated how long people can live if there was no aging and disease. The human mortality rate between the ages of 10-20 is when we are not dying from aging and ... Read more

Twitter user @fodagut has an explainer tweet thread on LK99. @fodagut says LK-99 is quite likely a room-temperature superconductor, or if not it points the way towards building one. But LK-99 is not going to be as easy to synthesize as you have been told, and it's going to be a long, long way to ... Read more