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Dr. Know-it-all Knows it all explains how Neural Network Transformers work. Neural Network Transformers were first created in 2017. He explains how Transformers remember data better than other neural network architectures. Neural Network Transformers are the basis for Tesla FSD. Neural Network Transformers continually improve with more and more data. Tesla FSD now has over ... Read more

Lithium comes from spodumene ore via hard rock mining or from metallic brines stored in man-made ponds in the high deserts around the world, South America primarily. If brine is the source material, water has been pumped into the earth, usually in a very remote location, to create a brine that is captured in storage ... Read more

I have a farely comprehensive understanding of the huge challenges needed to create commercial nuclear fusion power. This is why I am more optimistic about molten salt nuclear fission. I try to explain this in two videos. However, this is a complex topic. I will try to state this as clearly and briefly as possible ... Read more

Preliminary data indicates that the Tesla Model Y has passed the Toyota Corolla and Toyota RAV4 as the top selling cars by unit volume in the world on a monthly basis. It is close in June but further increases in production will make it definitive in August, 2022. When this is revealed in official statistics ... Read more

NASA is sharing the James Webb Space Telescope images at this flickr account. There are higher-resolution images of the Carina Nebula and some other known great astronomical views. It can also image individual stars in certain distant galaxies. The James Webb space telescope had massive delays and cost overruns. It is good that it is ... Read more

Tesla’s 4860 structural battery packs are built so strong and tough that they are not designed to be repaired. The packs are so strong and durable that if there are any issues they will have to be replaced. Munro Associates perform disassembly analysis of cars. It is taking them about a week to safely take ... Read more

Subscription services are gradually becoming a part of the normal internet user; over the past two years, this industry has grown by a magnitude as more people subscribed to digital services such as Netflix and Spotify. That said, the process is not as smooth as it should be, most of the existing subscription packages often ... Read more

SpaceX Booster 7 had an explosion during a test. There was some fire. The booster is still mostly intact. It is being checked for damage assessment. Live coverage continues on Starbase Live. Crews are returning to the pad to begin damage assessments. Today will be a setback in terms of schedule, but it could have ... Read more

Reaction Engines today revealed the start of a new testing campaign to expand the performance envelope of their high-Mach enabling technology through the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program at the Department of Defense and supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The FCT Program is administered by the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering ... Read more

VW CEO Herbert Deiss said Volkswagen will pass Tesla in EV sales by 2025. Ford CEO Jim Farley says Ford will challenge Tesla globally. But Tesla doubled its US sales from the first half of 2021 in the first half of 2022. Tesla does not report official US sales numbers but monthly US sales for ... Read more

SpaceX is making a 480-foot-tall giant robot with arms that will catch giant rockets. It is insanely cool. Sci-fi made real. But moon landings were already insanely cool. The difference is with this working we have almost a thousand launches per month from the same launch pad versus at most one today. This means rockets ... Read more

Many countries have built nuclear reactors and different nuclear technologies have been successfully commercialized over the past six decades. There will be multiple winners with new nuclear fission technology and new reactor designs. The best new nuclear fission technology is molten salt nuclear. This is because reactors would be far more compact than current nuclear ... Read more

Munro Live have dissassembled the Tesla Structural Battery pack cover and car seat mountings. They show that the seat mounting has substantially fewer parts and are lighter weight. Reducing parts and...

We know what will happen in the next two years with electric cars because we know what electric car factories and battery factories have already been built. Electric Car Factories take time to build...

Can we get nuclear reactors that are walkaway safe with no physical possibility of meltdown? Can we have energy that is a hundred times safer than solar and a million times safer than coal? Can we...

Researchers looked at the transcriptome of aged mice to assesswhich genes are being expressed, and to what degree. The differences between mice in early and late old age are large. This reflects what...

Holtec HI-HEAT District Heater System could store surplus electricity generated by nuclear, solar or wind. It will be a two modules called the Preservator and the Steam Chest. The Preservator...

Munro Associates has dropped the 4680 structural battery pack out of Texas Model Y. The battery pack plus the seats and carpet only weighs less than 1200 pounds. It has about 68 kwh of batteries....

Meta0, an interoperability protocol for connecting metaverses, has announced the completion of its litepaper and the appointment of Jason Fung as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining and...

You may have thought the human genome was “solved” decades ago when it was first declared fully sequenced in 2003. However, the “complete” sequencing was incomplete with many...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) have demonstrated a magnet with a record-breaking 20 Tesla magnetic field. This is the core technology that they planned...

Thermal storage is a bridge to Molten-Salt Reactors. They can be set up rapidly and cheaply and they are an off-the-shelf item. They can use wasted curtailed “renewable” power, and might...

H2SITE, is a pioneer in on-site hydrogen (H2) production, and just raised 12.5 Million euros in a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), with participation from Equinor...

Electrek reports that they have obtained inside information for the first time that says Tesla Texas production rate reached 2000-5000 cars per week. Joe Tegtmeyer has daily drone footage of Tesla...

Sandy Munro and his team have a video showing a teardown of the Tesla Model S Plaid batteries. The Model S Plaid uses 7920 smaller 18650 battery cells. It has superior cooling and more cells in...

Direct detection of superconductivity has long been a key strength of point-contact Andreev reflection. However, its applicability to atomic-scale imaging is limited by the mechanical contact of the...

Ultra Safe Nuclear has been funded by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate a chargeable, encapsulated nuclear radioisotope battery (called EmberCore) for propulsion and power applications...

Avalanche is a VC-backed, fusion energy start-up based in Seattle, WA. They are designing, testing and building micro-fusion reactors that you can hold in your hand. Their modular reactor design can...

Zap Energy creating the first plasmas in their FuZE-Q prototype. They achieved Q=1 where the process of nuclear fusion inside a plasma yields more energy than was consumed to create the plasma. In...

The United States is the largest market for stationary (battery) storage in the world. Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that annual demand for lithium-ion batteries will surpass 2.7...

Smart exchange ecosystem, Unizen has received a $200 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM), a $3.4 billion alternative investment group, to expand its product range, expand...

Brian and Warren talked in this video about latest developments with Tesla, SpaceX, Boring company and the most important legacy for Elon Musk. Where Tesla will clearly be in two years is more...

Satellitemap.space has a real-time view of the Starlink low earth orbit satellite constellation. Each dot is a Starlink satellite. You can see how many are over any particular country or region....

I did some research on Tesla safety using non-Tesla data to address the issue from the AI experts. Some AI experts criticized FSD. I used US, UK government and insurance data to show Tesla is already...

Lars of Best in Tesla has reviewed the EV forecasts made by IEA, EIA and Opec and Deloitte and Ark Invest from 2016. Let us look at how much the energy picture changes as we shift over from gas cars...

A team from MIT bubbles could be manufactured directly in outer space, forming an extensive deflective raft to reduce light from the sun. This would be geoeneringeering to fix climate change. The...

Which Car Companies Goes Bankrupt or Restructures First? They will be losing 50-90% of their legacy auto business from 2024-2028. When and how fast will depend upon their region and types of cars...

A team of researchers from China used the Sunway supercomputer to train an AI model with 174 trillion parameters called ‘bagualu,’ which means “alchemist’s pot.” The AI...

High-tech plant-based 3D printed meat is the ‘gamechanger’ we’ve been waiting for. After a run of good press and some bold predictions, the ‘alt-meat’ naysayers have begun an inevitable backlash. The...

Elon Musk was interviewed by the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley. There were three parts to the interview. There were all kinds of highlights. He explained the reason for the slow ramp in Texas. There...

We know several new things about the growth of SpaceX Starlink and plans to increase mass production of the fully reusable Starship. Spacex President and COO Gwynn Shotwell talked about a target of...

SpaceX had three successful launches within a 37 hour period. 3 launches from 3 SpaceX pads in less than 37 hours pic.twitter.com/CLGdPg8smj — SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 20, 2022 June 17, Falcon 9...

Nio is now taking orders fo their new electric car models the ES8, ES6 and EC6. The Nio ES8 had a test drive from Sandy Munro. The

China’s battery maker and electric car companies were up from 1.5%-11% on hopes of “extraordinary policies to address the lack in downstream manufacturing companies”. CATL largest...

SpaceX COO and President Gwynn Shotwell says SpaceX wants to produce a rocket per day. She means one Starship per day. This was stated in her recent interview with the segment highlighted by What...

Bloomberg has predicted that Volkwagen Group will outsell Tesla for battery electric vehicles in 2024 and 2025. This is utterly ridiculous. They project Tesla will cap out at 2.3-2.5 million per year...

How Can We Usefully Measure Technology Progress? Can we have a scale that is immune to the Technology Singularity? Can we compare humanity on a common scale with animals and aliens? It is possible...

Jordan Giesege of the Limiting described the 20-35% range improvement possible by increasing the silicon in the anode of iron LFP batteries. This could be used to reduce the weight and lower the cost...

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation when we look at electric vehicle competition. There are many common mistakes or problems in reported EV data and analysis. * there is the inclusion of...

Robin Hanson and his co-authors have paper and presentations that the universe will become dominated by expansionist aliens who he calls grabby aliens. There are two kinds of alien civilizations....