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The test-fire of the Space Launch system rocket two days ago should have lasted eight minutes but the engines shutdown after one minute. Eight minutes is the time to launch the rocket to orbit. A...

As a business or an individual, it is important that you keep up with technological advances and continue to follow leading practices. Part of staying on top of best practices is to make sure you are...

Prior categorizations of world development were not flexible to changing technology or changing geopolitics. The Second world of the first, second and third world referred to the countries under...

Zhenda Xie at Nanjing University has created cheap quantum encrypted communication between drones. Above – Quantum network and physical realization with mobile drone-based nodes. (a) A...

Tesla new 2021 Model 3 will only lose about 13-19% range in cold weather versus 40% range reduction in older models. This will help Tesla increase sales in Canada and Northern Europe. There is...

A thermoradiative devices (TRD) based power generator that harvests solar energy via concentrated solar irradiation during daytime and via thermal infrared emission towards the outer space at...

Tesla had 16% of its revenue from its non-car business in the third quarter of 2020. This might have increased to 20% in Q4 of 2020. Tesla should be proving the ramp of car production to about 4...

Ark Invest has started a new space focused investment ETF called ARKX. ARK Invest is famous for its ARK Innovation fund ARKK. Their largest holding has been Tesla and they have been the Tesla Bulls...

The LVCVA board approved $6.25 million to Boring to operate the mile-long convention center system from Feb. 1 through June 30, 2022. At no cost, authorized access to Boring to dig tunnels connecting...

NASA is now targeting Saturday, Jan. 16, for the final test in the Green Run testing series for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the agency’s Artemis I mission....

Orbital Assembly Corp. (OAC) is planning a virtual media event on Friday, January 29 from 1-2 pm PST / 4-5 pm EST. OAC was established in September 2019 as the world’s first large-scale space...

As we live out more and more of our lives online, the need for a comprehensive digital identity solution is becoming more pressing, and for several good reasons. First, and perhaps the most...

Tesla started 2021 at a price of $735 per share.The post Tesla Skeptics Three Conditions for Tesla to Double in 2021 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com.

China-based PV manufacturing industry has possibly over built new Solar PV Module technology for 2021. If global installs follows the 20% annual global growth of recent years then the world will...

Caroline Wang passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 86. She was born October 4th, 1934 in Shanghai. She was married to Chung-lie Wang, who was a professor of Mathematics. They were my mother...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today’s lithium-ion batteries that...

NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. The NIO ET7 sedan will ship in China...

Tesla Daily is providing an update on Tesla. Rob discusses the fact that Benchmark funds need to buy Tesla. SP500 index funds acquired Tesla shares Dec 18, 2020. They got in at $695. Benchmark funds...

Tesla now has a $780 billion market capitalization. I wrote in August, 2020 that Tesla will overcome denial within 8 months to become a $1 trillion tech giant. Five months have passed. A surge to...

Tesla is trading at about $800 per share. Elon Musk is now worth about $187 billion. CNBC reported that Elon Musk is the richest in the world earlier this morning as Tesla traded at about $790 per...

Bloomberg Billionaires has the wealth of Jeff Bezos at $184 billion and Elon Musk at $181 billion. During intraday trading Tesla was 1-2% higher than the close. Elon Musk was richest during the day....

Bitcoin is trading over $35,000 and Ethereum is trading a bit over or bit under $1200. JPMorgan has said that Bitcoin could rally as high as $146,000 as it competes with gold as an alternative...

Saudi Arabia’s plan to cut one million barrels a day in February and March 2021. This was a unilateral move. Russia and other oil countries will increase their production. The US shale oil...

Tesla is moving up after hours. $748 and climbing. Morgan Stanley turned has gone very bullish on Tesla. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas raised the price target on Tesla to a ‘Street...

Guest Post by Philip Piletic In the earliest days of the internet, nobody thought much about the concept of privacy. After all, surfing the internet was a mostly anonymous exercise. Advertising was...

Bitcoin has been trading over $30,000 and Etherium is over $1000. Bitcoin is up 300% since late in 2020. Bitcoin gained the public support of more billionaires and mainstream investors. Paul Tudor...

There are two major events in the middle east today. Iran hijacked a South Korean ship and Saudi Arabia and Qatar have a new diplomatic deal that creates a unified Arab front against Iran. 1. Iran...

American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a program of NY CREATES gave $19 million in research program awards for advanced integrated photonics under The Defense...

Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have demonstrated large, uniform tensile elastic straining of microfabricated diamond arrays through the nanomechanical approach. This has the...

In 2020, Tesla produced and delivered half a million vehicles. In addition, Model Y production in Shanghai has begun, with deliveries expected to begin shortly. The delivery count should be viewed as...

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm. Large grid fins will take the load. This will save the cost of legs and enable the booster to be...

New research could increase desalination membrane efficiency by 30% to 40% resulting in more water filtered with less energy/A> — a potential cost-saving update to current desalination processes....

A brain-inspired computing architecture speeds up complex data processing by running its algorithms inside its memory, significantly saving time and energy. Above – Software and hardware...

Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy-efficient than CMOS semiconductor...

In November, DARPA X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) flew for more than two hours, successfully validating all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features. Nine attempts were made at...

The US Army is making new drones to replace the RQ-7B Shadow which will give brigade commanders’ primary day/night, reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition system. Commanders will see...

Nextbigfuture found cost of living data indicating that China’s purchasing power parity economy is about $31 trillion. This is 30% larger than official estimates and is 50% larger than the $21...

Wells Fargo, Chris Harvey, was wrong about 2020. He called for getting out of the stock market before the 16% increase in the SP500 in 2020. “We kinda hate this market,” Harvey told CNBC’s “Trading...

The official purchasing power parity (PPP) statistics say that China’s PPP GDP is $24 trillion, but people can buy 30% more than those figures indicate. Reviewing cost of living data and living...

Elon Musk indicated that Spacex is a few months away from test hops for the Super Heavy booster. Above – Brendan Lewis @brendan2908 on twitter shows the status of the SpaceX prototypes. A few...

Nuclear Energy generation increased 5% in 2020 over 2019. China’s nuclear energy production was 331 TWh for the first 11 months of 2020. China generated 349 TWh in 2019 and is on track to...

In November, 2020, China’s power generation was 641.9 billion kwh, an increase of 6.8 percent year-on-year. The average daily power generation was 21.4 billion kwh, with a month on month...

Rural China has a better power grid than Northern California. Rural China power outages in 2019 averaged 900 minutes while Northern California had 2019 power outages of over 1300 minutes. Rural China...

China’s energy improvements are hugely important for the world. China has the highest share of global energy usage. China is the main global source of energy pollution. In 2019, China coal...

Gali at Hyperchange has sources who say Apple has been testing it’s EV battery. The Apple EV battery pack is almost ready to be driving around the road. His source told him there are 312 cells...

Youtuber Chicken Genius Singapore argues against the X Holding Company. He is also a large Tesla shareholder. David Lee who made the suggestion is also a large Tesla shareholder. Chicken Genius...

David Lee suggested creating a holding company called X to hold all of Elon’s major companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company and Neuralink). Elon responded with a tweet that this seems like a...

On December 1, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) gave its recommended COVID-19 Vaccination Priority plan and it is still wrong. The CDC is ignoring its own science on the most...

New simulations show what might be a solution of the current oscillation problem that LPPFusion’s research team has been struggling to solve since mid-2019. These oscillations are the most likely...

We have to protect the old people first to prevent the most COVID-19 deaths. COVID-19 is most deadly to older people, so vaccinating the roughly 7-10% of people who are over 70 would prevent over 75%...