NextBigFuture.com

NASA has funded the NIAC phase 2 study for Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch. A thousand meters is longer and larger than many of the vehicles and things seen in Science Fiction...

Many people have a mistaken notion that Russia has a superpower class military that is a match for the United States. Russia has not fixed problems that were revealed nearly thirty years ago in...

The crypto market has seen a surge in companies accepting cryptocurrency in recent years. By 2021, most companies that adopted in-house ATMs for cryptocurrency withdrawal were in the USA. Although...

A decade ago, real estate closings, employment contracts, and orders from suppliers all required wet ink signatures. Today, wet signature requirements are few and far between. It seems like...

There are “geopolitical experts” who base their analysis using broad sweeping abstractions. Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth’s geography (human and physical) on...

Auto chip shortages have prevented carmakers from making over ten million cars. The microcontroller shortage after the Renesas fire in Japan and the COVID lockdowns in Southeast Asia caused most of...

Pfizer has starting releasing their vaccine safety data per a court-ordered instruction to satisfy a freedom of information request. The data for the first 3 months has been released and partially...

The USA is reported to be working to assist Poland in sending fighter planes to Ukraine. Poland has Mig 29 planes which are ones used in the Ukrainian Air Force. The USA would resupply Poland with...

(Ba,K)BiO3 constitute an interesting class of superconductors, where the remarkably high superconducting transition temperature Tc of 30 K arises in proximity to charge density wave order. However,...

Russia’s military in Ukraine has shown that they still have major military logistics problems. “Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.” quote from Army General John J. Pershing, commander...

Another NASA advanced concpet project is Cryospheric Quantum Rydberg Radar. This is especially interesting to Nextbigfuture because this overlaps with ColdQuanta’s QuantumRF work. Nextbigfuture...

NASA NIAC (NASA Advanced Innovation Concepts) has 2022 grants. It is a bit confusing as some of the projects have been written about before. This makes sense for phase 2 projects but there is a phase...

There are various reports about Putin having decades long anger at Russia losing the Cold War to the West. Putin felt humiliated that Russia was treated as second rate by the West after the USSR...

OneWeb has been making a satellite network of about 648 satellites. They have launched 428 but still need to launch 220. Russia Soyuz rockets were being used for the launches but now Russia might not...

The Cold War was a decades-long global struggle between the USSR and the Western Alliance. The Battle of the Bulge was one of the last major battles in World War 2. Germany had expanded beyond its...

Chris Cappy of Task and Purpose and Bill Roggio are both veterans of the US military. They both agree that some delays and problems for Russia are expected. However, Russia is reaching its military...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Max Perez of ColdQuanta. Max Perez is the Vice President of Research and Security Solutions at ColdQuanta. ColdQuanta’s cold atom method is a transformational foundational...

I, Brian Wang, have a new youtube video explaining the iron LFP battery tsunami that started coming out of China in 2021. This is a massive earthquake that hit the EV World. The financial and...

Nextbigfuture pointed out the brain dead forecast made 9 days ago for cumulative COVID deaths in the USA by Washington University IHME. They projected out one hundred days that total US COVID deaths...

BYD has increased its 2022 battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) car production target from 1.2 million to 1.5 million units. BYD’s old target was about half BEV and half...

Lucid Motors had a reduced 2021 delivery target of 520 cars but they delivered only 125 cars. Another 175 cars have been delivered so far in 2022. Most of the cars have been recalled due to safety...

Taiwan Solid State battery maker Prologium received tens of millions of dollars in investment from Mercedes. Chinese EV maker NIO Inc said it would deliver its ET7 sedan equipped with a...

Ukraine is getting a total of 70 fighter jets from Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia. Russia already had failed to establish air superiority. Germany is sending antiaircraft missiles. This is significant...

On February 26, 2022, FAW and BYD started a planned 45 GWh/year power battery project in Changchun, Jilin Province. It has an investment of 13.5 billion yuan (about US $2.1 billion). The factory will...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced to parliament on Sunday Germany will raise its defense and military spending above 2% of its total GDP. They will spend €100 billion ($112.7 billion) of the...

I had an interview with legendary Tesla investor Emmet Peppers. Emmet made nearly $100 million out of $1 million in 2020 when he made major Tesla options investments. I spoke with Emmet Peppers and...

Tesla is testing FSD in Canada on 60 cars and will be expanding to more testers this weekend. We’ve had about 60 or so cars testing internally in Canada. Hoping to go wider this weekend. — Elon...

The main updates for the Ukraine War is the West has kicked Russia out of the SWIFT financial system and Ukrainian forces have been successfully resisting so far. Drones sent from NATO Ally, Turkey...

Dr. Kimberly Kagan founded ISW (Institute for Study of War in May 2007 to properly cover the war in Iraq. Frustrated with the prevailing lack of accurate information documenting developments on the...

I, Brian Wang, spoke at Technology Universe 2022 which was held in Portugal. I discussed antiaging and aging reversal, which is shown in the video below. I think the most interesting projects and...

Bloomberg reported that Kanye West has a net worth of $6.6 billion but Forbes believes his wealth is about $1.8 billion. Other reports have his net worth around $3 billion. Kanye West is 44 and has...

Tesla Model S Plaid Motors have vastly superior power and torque using revolutionary innovations in the electric engine. The only thing that is still the same compared to other electric motors is the...

Sandy Munro and his team have taken apart the electric engines. The rotor is where Tesla has created new innovations. The magnetic and electrical fields are aligned and superior to other electrical...

Ukraine President Zelensky says that Ukraine will go back to having nuclear weapons like they did before 1994 unless the US lives to the guarantees of protection made in the Budapest Memo. Ukraine...

If Russia wants to have a puppet or obedient government in Ukraine then Russia must hold the port and maritime facilities at Odessa. Possession of Odessa, however, would provide Russia with effective...

Tesla plans to start work on a new plant in Shanghai as soon as next month as part of a plan to more than double production capacity in China to meet growing demand for its cars in the country and...

Russia’s military is not that well trained and most of the Soviet-era gear is nearly useless and in rusting in storage. Russia has ground combat troops of amost 500,000. Russia has 600-1000...

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) said the fall in oil prices from 2014-2018 hurt Russia’s economy three times more than the sanctions. Russia’s economy is 60% oil and gas exports....

Russia’s President Putin has started the war in Ukraine. Nextbigfuture had previously reported that Ukraine has virtually no air force. Russia’s defense ministry says it has attacked military...

There has and will be substantial development of major super technologies this decade. There have been several major things with AI. We are in the age of narrow superintelligence. Here are some...

Elon Musk tweeted that there are over 250,000 Starlink Terminals which means that number of provisioned users. In August, 2021, SpaceX had connected over 90,000 Starlink customers and was adding...

South Africa, Denmark and the UK were all ahead of the USA in their Omicron BA.1 waves and are now ahead of the US with Omicron BA.2. Denmark and the UK have populations that are more vaccinated than...

Superconductivity in a photochemically transformed carbonaceous sulfur hydride system, starting from elemental precursors, with a maximum superconducting transition temperature of 287.7 ± 1.2 kelvin...

IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) has a statistical model to forecast COVID deaths and hospitalizations. The Annals of Internal Medicine had a review from 2020. The IHME projections...

After functioning for years in the centralized system, the internet is about to experience a breakthrough with the help of blockchain and its decentralization nodes. The move to Web 3.0 represents...

SEALER (Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor) is a passively safe lead-cooled reactor designed for commercial power production in a highly compact format. Its fuel is never replaced during operation, which...

France has unveiled new “Seabed Control” where they will have drones, mines, submarines and missile platforms to fortify their coastal defenses out to the bottom of the ocean. This is...

Chinese power battery supplier Svolt Energy is now targeting 600 GWh of battery capacity by 2025. Svolt’s “SV ‘600’ Strategy” was released on December 8. This is nearly...

China Lithium Battery Technology (CALB) has started building the thrid phase of an LFP lithium battery factory with manufacturing capacity of 40GWh and supporting assembly lines for battery modules...

French President Macron says with the electric car future, France must produce up to 60% more electricity than today and Nuclear Energy will be a big part of it. 1. The operation of all existing...