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NVIDIA just announced the T5000 robot brain microprocessor that can power TERMINATORS
Two-story family home was 3D-printed in just 18 hours
This Hypersonic Space Plane Will Fly From London to N.Y.C. in an Hour
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Swedish startup unveils Starlink alternative - that Musk can't switch off
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Energy
Energy independence turns the gears of the visionary’s imagination, and grants us individual control of our modern lives. No meaningful alternative to the Crown’s system can be achieved without exploring decentralized energy production and storage.
What Is A Gigafactory?
It's giga and it's a factory, but what does Gigafactory really mean?
Williams and Oxis take lithium-sulfur battery tech to the high seas
Two heavyweights in the world of high-performance battery technology are teaming up to create the world's first lithium-sulfur battery-powered luxury boat.
Stanford Increases Solar Cell Production Rates by Four Times and Up to Ten Times Lower Cost
Using rapid-spray plasma processing, the Stanford team was able to produce 40 feet (12 meters) of perovskite film per minute – about four times faster than it takes to manufacture a silicon cell.
Cerebras Trillion Transistor AI Wafer-Chip Crushes GPU Supercomputer by 200 Times
Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X.
Australian eVTOL prototype debuts a new spin on the tilt rotor
An Australian company has popped out of stealth mode to reveal a new electric VTOL aircraft that is already at the pre-flight prototype stage. AMSL Aero's Vertiia aircraft can fly up to 800 km (500 miles) on hydrogen, and it'll start out as an air am
Sandy Munro Reveals His Tesla 4680 Battery Pack Mock-Up
Sandy Munro would love to tear down a Tesla 4680 battery pack for all of us all to enjoy. However, it may be some time before that's possible. Rather than keep us on the edge of our seats, Munro simply designed his own mock-up to share.
Driving A Tesla Roadster Can Only Be Explained As 'Insane'
This Tesla owner can't wait to get his hands on his own Tesla Roadster.
These New Solar Panels Don't Need Sunlight to Produce Energy
The solar panels, developed by student Carvey Maigue, won this year's Dyson Sustainability Award.
New Heating Concept To Save Up To 6% Of EV Range
It should also help to reach the desired temperature in shorter time.
Breakthrough Material Enables No Electricity Sterilization Will Save Thousands of Lives
Optically transparent aerogel is essentially a lightweight foam made of silica, the material of beach sand, and consists mostly of air. It reduces the rate of heat loss by tenfold.
Ultra-Low Power Nonvolatile FeFET Memory
Ferroelectric Memory Company has $20 million in funding for sub-7 nanometer FeFET memories.
NawaStitch promises to make carbon composites even lighter and stronger
France's Nawa Technologies is setting up operations in the United States, and bringing its fast, affordable vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) manufacturing process into a new application: making carbon fiber composites much stronger.
Homemade Electric Airplane MK4
Just for fun...
Nuscale Will Get 25% More From Modular Nuclear Reactors For Breakthrough Economic Value
NuScale used advanced testing and modeling to determine the NuScale Power Module™ (NPM) can generate an additional 25 percent more power per module for a total of 77 MWe per module (gross), resulting in about 924 MWe for the flagship 12-module powe
Microwave Water Splitting for Breakthroughs for Making Hydrogen, Oxygen and Fast Battery Charging
Water was reduced via reaction with non-equilibrium gadolinium-doped CeO2 that was previously in situ electrochemically deoxygenated by the sole application of microwaves. The microwave-driven reduction was identified by an instantaneous electrical c
Microwave Water Splitting for Breakthroughs for Making Hydrogen, Oxygen and Fast Battery
...Charging
Tesla Cybertruck Vs GMC Hummer EV Off-Road Comparison And Review
Which upcoming electric 'Supertruck' will be more capable?
Argonnes Developing Micro-Nuclear Reactors for eTruck Supercharging
The largest cross-country 18-wheel trucks will need five to 10 times more electricity than an electric car to recharge its battery. And these trucks often need to recharge far from high-power transmission lines.
High-Temperature Superconductor Cable Will Speed Up Development of Nuclear Fusion
Commonwealth Fusion Systems new high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable can be engineered into magnets directly applicable to the high magnetic field approach to fusion. The new HTS cable, called VIPER, can carry over fifty thousand amps of curre
Tandem Solar Cells Could Boost Energy Conversion by 50% in 2021
University of Rochester researchers squeezed carbonaceous sulfur hydride in a diamond anvil and it superconducted at 15 degrees Celsius under 270 gigapascals of pressure. This is about 2.5 million times regular atmospheric pressure.
Physicists build "energy harvesting" circuit from graphene
A team of physicists from the University of Arkansas (U of A) has successfully developed graphene-based circuits capable of providing nearly limitless power for small devices.
Low Ambient Light Indoors Can Be Harvested to Charge Electronics
In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices and sensors will need to run without wires or batteries to be practical.
When It Comes to Generators, Bigger Is NOT Always Better
A generator can save the day when the power goes out. But, do you really need the biggest one you can find? Consider this alternative strategy instead.
Tesla Battery Farms Will Destroy Utility Grids
Many will say that Tesla is an overvalued car company but forget to address an integral part of Tesla's business. In this video, I explain why Tesla battery farms will end power plants forever.
SPARC Fusion Reactor on Track for 2035
The SPARC Fusion reactor team have made good theoretical progress to the goal of a commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Electric air taxi could take to the Paris skies in time for the Olympics
Innovation hub Paris Region, airport operator ADP and urban transport operator RATP are eyeing the development of an urban air mobility branch ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, and have joined forces with German air taxi startu
Study reveals potential of hydropower dams topped with floating solar
Scientists have carried out an analysis of the energy potential of combining these facilities with floating solar panels, calculating these hybrid plants could meet a "significant" portion of the world's current electricity needs.
Gryphon Technologies to develop nuclear rocket engine for DARPA
The High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system will allow the US military to carry out missions in cislunar space.
Ground testing completed for Rolls-Royce ACCEL electric aircraft tech
Last year, we heard how Rolls-Royce was developing what it claims will be the world's fastest electric airplane, the ACCEL. Now, the company has announced that it has completed ground testing of the technology that will be used in the aircraft.
How Transparent Solar Panels And 'Quantum Dots' Could Make Skyscrapers Power Themselves
This has been made possible by a seemingly fictional invention that has appeared over the last few years--organic, transparent solar cells that when inserted into panes of glass, absorb sun and turn it into electricity to power the building.
Solar Towers For Lunar Energy and Microwave Moon Mining
NASA NIAC has an update on the Lunar Polar Mining Outpost (LPMO). It is a breakthrough mission architecture that promises to greatly reduce the cost of human exploration and industrialization of the Moon.
Tesla: Significant Range Increase (30%) Possible Without New Chemistry
Cell form factor and cell vehicle integration will improve EV range by almost a third without switching to a new chemistry.
SPEAR Using a Fission Reactor and Advanced Thermoelectrics
The Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.
2020 Tesla Battery Day Is Today: See The Livestream Right Here (@1hr37mins)
The livestream will start at 4:30 PM Eastern, 9:30 PM GMT.
Here's Why Biogas May Be the Best Fuel for Preppers
Biogas is reasonably easy to produce, environmentally safe, and is made from readily available resources, making it an excellent choice for preppers.
Britain's National Grid Using Six Massive Tesla Batteries To Balance Supply And Demand...
Britain's National Grid Using Six Massive Tesla Batteries To Balance Supply And Demand Of Electricity
GM Considers Expanding Into Electric-Flying Air-Taxis
Like an elderly man wobbling into a party and trying to fit in with young kids by using "hip new lingo", General Motors - days after seeing its partnership with Nikola come under fire - has now come out and said it is going to now be exploring option
Elon Musk on Tesla Roadrunner Cell Leak: "It Will Be Very Insane"
After Electrek featured a massive battery cell that was supposedly from Tesla's Roadrunner line, Teslarati covered it in detail and Elon Musk replied saying, "It will be very insane."
Vanderhall Navarro Electric Off-Roader Announced Via Amusing Teaser Video
Vanderhall is known for its three-wheelers, but for its next project it's adding one wheel and going off-road.
The Lucid Air Is A True Engineer's Car, According to Ben Sullins
Form really follows function in what promises to be the best electric car around.
Kites of Renewable Energy Generate Wind Power By Flying Through The Air
A German startup is bringing the lightness of kites to green energy production by building small flying wind turbines that use 10 times less material at half the cost of traditional options.
2021 Lucid Air Dream Edition Revealed: Range, Pricing, Specs, And More
Lucid Motors has formally introduced the Lucid Air Dream Edition, its luxury long-range electric sedan set to launch in the second quarter of 2021. The Lucid Air is the first electric car to out-Tesla, Tesla, so we're going to take a close look at wh
New Graphene-Based SuperBattery To Charge In 15 Seconds
Will not replace lithium-ion batteries, but may supplement it for better performance.
Will Diamond Batteries (NDB) Change the World?
Will Diamond Batteries (NDB) Change the World?
Mini-Reactors To Complement Renewables For Carbon-Free Electricity Era
Perhaps the time is right for a new wave of nuclear reactors, ones that are smaller than traditional nuclear power plants for several reasons:
Musk Says German Tesla Model Y Will Be 'Radical Redesign Of Building A Car'
He said that in an improvised press conference at the Giga Berlin site.
Volta Trucks reveals electric truck built for inner city cargo hauling
Back in July, Volta Trucks released some specs and rendered images of its upcoming Zero electric truck. Now the start-up has revealed the first prototype, with trials due to start next year ahead of full production in 2022.
Tesla Battery Day Is Coming: Solid Predictions Of What To Expect
It seems Tesla fans are eager to forecast the future. Only good things can come from Battery Day, right?
Prototype gravity-based energy storage system begins construction
A Scottish company called Gravitricity has now broken ground on a demonstrator facility for a creative new system that stores energy in the form of "gravity" by lifting and dropping huge weights.
VW ID. Buggy To Be Reinvented As Affordable Off-Road EV
It'll debut in a few years.