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Slava G. Turyshev and his team are on their phase III NASA NIAC project to develop a solar gravitational lens telescope. At optical or near-optical wavelengths, the amplification of light is on the...

The US, Poland, UK and western allies have provided all of the weapons that they can spare to Ukraine. There will be a lag for many weapons like Stingers while missile factories are ramped up....

Brian Wang explores what SpaceX will be achieving this decade. Brian is a SpaceX investor and is a member of angel investment groups including Space Angels and Allocations which each make many space...

SP Global forecasts that more of the solar battery storage projects will be completed in the next two years in the US and the world. There are some 160 utility solar with battery storage projects...

Grace Rudolph is a Youtube movie reviewer but she also has the pulse of the entertainment business. She has a video that I think nails the future of Netflix and the other streaming services. This is...

Musk announced Thursday morning he has $21 billion in cash equity from himself and other co-investors to make a $46.5 billion bid for Twitter and Elon arranged $25.5 billion of committed debt...

the Space Launch System is rolling back from the launch pad to find and fix and hydrogen leak and other issues. NASA had been trying to prep for a June 6 to 16 window and the next window opens June...

Elon Musk has described a vision for a self-sustaining Mars City with 100k to 1 million people that would be hard on the pioneers to establish. He also has described a vision for Teslabots where it...

Elon Musk says the only way to solve self driving is to solve real world AI. You have to have cameras and silicon brains match human vision and biological brains. Elon still thinks Tesla will solve...

ARK Invest has updated its Tesla model and it provides new expected value per share of $4,600 in 2026. Ark Invest is famous for correctly predicting Tesla would run to over $4000 three years before...

Elon Musk spoke at TED 2022. Highlights: Teslabot – Optimus- will sell for less than a car. Three years that Elon Musk spent living at the Tesla factory during the Model 3 launch made him...

Finland and Sweden are moving ahead on separate tracks to quickly move ahead to join NATO. Finland had indicated it would prefer a solution that would see the two Nordic unaligned states “jump...

Brian Wang discusses how to take processes that already absorbed trillions of tons of CO2 and solve the global climate issue within 20 years. This will be done at a cost 100 times less than other...

Elon will use Twitter as part of something to make loads of money. Elon Musk thinks big and will compete for everything. He thinks global and beyond. Elon will obviously compete for everything. He...

The Russian Navy’s Black Sea flagship has suffered major damage and the crew has abandoned the ship. Ukrainians claimed to hit the ship with a missile strike. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed...

The UK has setup a new program called Great British Nuclear, which has the goal of building up to seven new nuclear reactors by 2050. They will identify sites, cut through red tape to speed up the...

There is some mostly empty talk from Germany about reducing imports of Russian energy.

I, Brian Wang, have a made a new youtube video about how SpaceX will dominate global communications and air cargo by 2027. This will be how SpaceX will become a multi-trillion business with the...

Elon Musk has extra money from selling shares of Tesla and Elon can get loans against his Tesla wealth. Elon can probably accumulate 50+% control of Twitter over the next 4-6 months. The current...

I wrote in February, 2022 about the need to get hardcore about mitigating aging when you are 60 and over. I, Brian Wang, am turning 57 in a few months and the US actuarial tables show that my risk of...

Sandy Munro has been taking apart cars for decades to advise car companies on how to improve factory processes and designs. Sandy is super-impressed with the engineering of the Tesla single front and...

Elon Musk and Tesla opened Gigatexas yesterday. Here are some highlights from Elon’s talk and from the Teslacon panels. * Elon indicated that Gigatexas will scale to over 1 million cars per...

Volkswagen sold about 1 million fewer cars in China in 2021 compared to 2019. But in 2020, the total declined by 9.1%. In 2021 as China’s passenger vehicle market grew 6.5%, Volkswagen’s sales fell...

Landlords have been embracing technology for decades, but now that certain advanced technologies are available – like biometric scanning – landlords need to be cautious. Although using technology can...

Elon has 9.2% of Twitter shares and Twitter is appointing Elon to its Board of Directors. NEWS: Twitter said it would appoint Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors a day after he disclosed a...

Other securities law experts said that kicking off his stake disclosure with a “passive” filing gives Musk more flexibility, and keeps everyone guessing as to what his real intentions are. Elon can...

Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist. Elon has revealed that he now owns 9.2% of Twitter. Elon is the largest shareholder of Twitter. Elon has about 73.5 million shares of Twitter. Twitter is up 25%...

Ukrainian troops have retaken control of the entire territory of Kyiv region, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Saturday on Facebook. “The whole Kyiv region is...

Farzad Mesbahi, who used to work at Tesla, has some rough calculations of how the supply chain and Shanghai shutdown constrained impacted Tesla. He roughly estimates that Tesla could have produced...

Sam Evans was inspired and convinced by my Nextbigfuture Tesla and the Perfect EV Storm video. Sam obviously saw my Perfect EV Storm video. He uses my thumbnail in his tweeted video announcement and...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the wrong...

There were about 2.5 million EVs out of 4.6 million are in a similar category as Tesla. EVs that are over $25k in price. Traditional ICE cars are segmented into various size, truck and price...

Arkansas physicists have successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current. This lab curiousity only needs to be...

Russia has not created a stable front that can be held with sustainable losses. Russia cannot sustain 5000-10000 killed and wounded each week. Ukraine’s military is making efficient counter...

Global Plug-in car sales in 2021: BEVs: about 4.6 million (up about 115% year-over-year) and 6.1% share PHEVs: about 1.9 million (up about 93% year-over-year) and 2.9% share Total: 6,495,388 (up 108%...

SpaceX has made launch costs per kilogram over three times lower with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy but will make costs another 5 times lower with the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. SOURCES- Visual...

The delays in the FCC approval for the first SpaceX Super Heavy Starship orbital flight will give SpaceX the time to replace all of the old Raptor rocket engines with new 15% more powerful Raptor 2...

Ford Mustang Mach-E sales in February, 2022 were 2,001, which is little over half (46.5% less than) than the same month in 2021. Ford has been averaging 2000-3000 mach-e each month. Ford halted...

BYD published their 314 page 2021 annual report and it shows lower net profits and still about 40% revenue from mobile phones and not electric cars or batteries. The mobile phone business increased...

CATL claims that a new ‘Kirin battery’ with Cell to Pack (CTP) technology will deliver 13% more power than Tesla 4680 batteries with the same cell chemistry and battery pack size. The market launch...

Tesla is preparing to split its stock again. $TSLA hasn’t announced a stock split yet but by seeking approval to increase the authorized shares at the upcoming AGM, the Board is signaling its intent....

ASML is the only producer of critical EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography machines which are needed for the most advanced chips. ASML predicts the chip shortages will persist for at least the next...

Tesla plans to suspend production at its Shanghai plant for at least one day (starting Monday) as the local government intensifies Covid restrictions after a surge in cases in the city. Earlier in...

Elon expects a pretty good prototype Teslabot this year and a low volume production for Teslabot will start next year. Elon also says Full self-driving safer than human driving and the fully rapidly...

The DOE has information about adjusting the energy grid for mass EV adoption. The problem is the DOE assumes it will take until 2050 when mass EV adoption will occur 2025-2030. Natural gas...

Three extremely powerful change forces will drive combine to switch the global car market from 6% EV to 60-80% EV for new cars by 2025. This sudden and rapid transformation will more than 10X Tesla...

Adam Brown (Stanford) and Robin Hanson (George Mason University) talk about some interesting intellectual concepts for the distant futures in the conference video below. Christine Peterson, Foresight...

The Foresight Institute is tracking longevity and rejuvenation science and technology. There are already over 130 funded companies working on aging damage repair and aging reversal. A few of the...

Lex Friedman asked Elon Musk: What is your source of belief in situations like this when the engineering problem is so difficult there’s a lot of experts many of whom you admire who have failed...

There are estimates that Russia has lost 40,000 soldiers (killed or wounded) out of 190,000 after the first three weeks of the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia has 900,000 in the military but this includes...