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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....

There is safety data on cars by model and types of cars. There is insurance and regulator data for whether particular car models are involved in more accidents and if the drivers of particular cars...

Tesla has declared they will split their shares 3 for 1. On Friday, Tesla submitted a 14A filing with the SEC that clarified its plans for the 2022 Annual Stockholder’s Meeting, which will take place...

Canadian quantum computer company, Xanadu, has used its photonic quantum computer chip, Borealis, to solve a problem in 36 microseconds versus classical supercomputers taking 9000 years. This is 7884...

Atom Computing has closed a $60M in Series B funding, which brings their total funding to $80 million. They are building a larger second-generation quantum computing system that can run commercial...

The Australian Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has installed a room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer developed by Quantum Brilliance. They use synthetic diamonds to run at room...

Gartner predicts that low-code/no-code use will triple by 2025, saying that 70 percent of new applications developed by organizations will have employed some form of low-code/no-code (LCNC)...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.0 percent in May on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.3 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported...

The national average price of gas in the U.S. surpassed $5 per gallon today for the first time ever, according to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving North American drivers the most...

US and Canadian nuclear regulators completed joint review of Terrestrial’s IMSR (molten salt) nuclear reactor. Terrestrial Energy looks to commercialise the Generation IV small modular reactor (SMR)...

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CNEVPost (China New Energy Vehicle Post) interviewed BYD VP Lian Yubo, BYD executive vice president and president of its automotive engineering research institute, said BYD will soon supply batteries...

At the end of April, 2022 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now expects the semiconductor industry to suffer supply shortages until 2024. Nextbigfuture had a video six weeks earlier showing analysis that the...