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New York Mandates Kill Switch and Surveillance Software in Your 3D Printer ...
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His grandparents had heart disease.
At 11, Laurent Simons decided he wanted to fight aging.
Mayo Clinic's AI Can Detect Pancreatic Cancer up to 3 Years Before Diagnosis–When Treatment...
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.
Tesla Powerpack & Craft Beer Come Together At Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Not too long ago, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was just one of many little craft breweries popping up all over the U.S. Now, it's mainstream and produces a pale ale that most beer lovers have enjoyed. Sierra Nevada just added Tesla Powerpack batte
Tesla Battery Teardown In 9 Minutes – Video
Tesla battery packs are considered state-of-the-art, and have some of the highest energy density capacity in the industry.
Shaped femtosecond laser pulses might be able to improve muon catalyzed fusion for energy generation
Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile offered a glimpse into a possible new path toward controlled nuclear fusion.
Contoured 180 watt Solar roof for electric and hybrid cars
Outside the USA, Panasonic will offer a 180 watt solar roof for the Tesla Model 3 and other electric and hybrid vehicles.
This Guy Is Building a Sustainable Martian Habitat in His Backyard
Early last year, Jeff Raymond was hit with an epiphany. Despite enjoying the benefits of agricultural developments, he and his wife came to realize they weren't doing anything to contribute to sustainable agriculture themselves.
VIDEO: Disruptive Technology and Free Energy Under Donald Trump?
In this video, Luke Rudkowski interviews an expert on disruptive technology and creator of the Thrive documentary Foster Gamble.
Solar Panel Farm Yields 17,000 Tons Of Food Annually In The Worst Climates
Sundrop Farms is challenging traditional farming by producing food in the worst areas of the world.
Tesla Gigafactory 1 has 35% battery cost reduction to about $124/kWh and ....
....Tesla planing for 3 more Gigafactories
Inside the Race to Build the Battery of Tomorrow
is story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The battery might be the least sexy piece of technology ever invented.
Spark Racing Technology Releases Concept Images Of New Formula E Cars
Spark Racing Technology, the company engaged for the design of first Formula E racers (SRT01), won a new tender last year for the next generation cars (for season 5 in 2018-2019).
Molten Silicon thermal energy storage system has higher energy density...
1414 Degrees had its origins in patented (Australian) CSIRO research and has built a prototype molten silicon storage device which it is testing at its Tonsley Innovation Precinct site south of Adelaide.
Nanostructured electrode could boost lithium battery storage by 50%
The Nanode™ is a three-dimensional, nano-structured, porous electrode that will overcome the limitations of today's batteries by storing as much as 50% more energy than existing technologies.
Tesla Powerwall 2 Now Shipping With 2170 Gigafactory Batteries Inside
Tesla is finally ready to begin Powerwall 2 production and deliveries in earnest after fulfilling early batch of Powerpack 2 orders.
NASA developing carbon nanotube-based, ultra-high strength, lightweight aerospace---
--- structural material within five years for Stronger and lighter vehicles and Mars habitats
Perovskite mixed into solar ink can print 20.1% efficient solar onto glass or plastic
A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper.
"Rebar graphene" foam supports 3,000 times its own weight
Graphene spends most of its time in a two-dimensional form, but that makes it hard to make use of its long list of advantages, like its strength, light weight, and electricity and heat conduction.
Tata AirPod Compressed-Air Car To Launch In Hawaii This Year: Report
A few years ago, there was a flurry of interest in compressed-air cars--but, forgive the pun, that seemed to deflate quickly.
A Cheap New Metamaterial Offers Air Conditioning Without Air Conditioners
A major advance in daytime radiative cooling.
Telsa Motors will begin pilot production of the Model 3 on Feb 20 2017...
Tesla has told suppliers it planned to begin test-building its Model 3 sedans on Feb. 20, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could allay concerns about the company meeting its target to start production in July.
Hitachi and Honda team up for cheaper electric motors
As electric cars become more common, manufacturers are battling to find new ways to improve their hardware and lower costs.
China will go from 1% solar power in 2016 to possibly 2.5% power generation from solar in 2020
China's installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity more than doubled last year, turning the country into the world's biggest producer of solar energy by capacity, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Saturday.
Process for producing ammonia that generates electricity instead of consuming energy...
Process for producing ammonia that generates electricity instead of consuming energy. 500 million tons of ammonia are made each year for fertilizer
Toward all-solid lithium batteries
Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused with a liquid or gel electrolyte.
Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel
A cheaper way to make graphene.
Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating up
In an apparent contradiction to textbook physics, a metal has been identified that conducts electricity but produces almost no heat in the process.
Tokamak Energy plans net electricity production fusion by 2025...
Tokamak Energy plans net electricity production fusion by 2025 and commercial grid production by 2030
Surge in Utility Scale Battery Projects
Three massive battery storage plants--built by Tesla, AES Corp., and Altagas Ltd.--are all officially going live in southern California at about the same time.
Metallic Hydrogen update
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac Silvera and postdoctoral fellow Ranga Dias have long sought the material, called atomic metallic hydrogen.
2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap
Here is a 50 page 2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap from the Journal of Physics D- Applied Physics
A majorly better way of growing microalgae?
Among other things, microalgae is a potentially valuable source of biofuel. Unfortunately, however, growing it on a large scale can be a rather fussy process, making it less likely to be adopted commercially.
Did Harvard really create the "holy grail" of solid metallic hydrogen?
Researchers at Harvard University say they've managed to create a potentially revolutionary material that has only been imagined in theory for the past several decades: solid metallic hydrogen.
These slow-burning logs made out of coffee grounds, paraffin wax...
Most people throw out their coffee grounds without a second thought. Some toss them on the compost heap for fertilizer. A few students, however, are using spent coffee grounds in another way, one that is capable of helping others in need.
Physicists patent detonation technique to mass-produce graphene
A Kansas State University team of physicists has discovered a way to mass-produce graphene with three ingredients: hydrocarbon gas, oxygen and a spark plug.
Residential turbine design inspired by hummingbird wings
As unconventional wind turbines go, the flapping machine introduced by Tunisian company Tyer Wind is on the far edge of quirky.
Near term off-grid electrification for 1.2 billion people
1.2 billion people currently do not have electricity. It costs $800-2000 per person to connect people to a grid many poor countries do not the means or capacity to create a universal national grid.
Semiconductor for next generation power electronics
Researchers have demonstrated the high-performance potential of an experimental transistor made of a semiconductor called beta gallium oxide, which could bring new ultra-efficient switches for applications such as the power grid, military ships and a
Scientists unleash graphene's innate superconductivity
Already renowned for its potential to revolutionize everything from light bulbs and dental fillings through to semiconductors and motorcycle helmets, graphene can now add innate superconductivity to its repertoire.
Creating atomic scale graphene nanoribbons
Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make transistors, which are critical electronic components used to carry out logic operations in computing.
How It Works: AC Electric Motor Used by the US Air Force - Vintage Documentary
Vintage documentary explaining how the ac motor, used by the us air force in the past, are working.
5 Stylish Homes That Generate More Energy Than They Consume
Innovative, worldwide houses generate enough energy to power the entire house and electric cars.
New Technology Allows Human Activity To Generate Renewable Energy
Renewable energy can now be generated through the act of walking or running, thanks to innovative technology.
Room temperature Superconductor with critical temperature near the Melting Point of Tin
. They also demonstrate that superconductors with critical temperatures beyond 504 K (231 Celsius) are obtained by alkanes with 16 or more carbon atoms.
Hybrid Fusion Fission Molten Salt Reactor
A single HMSR (Hybrid Fusion Fission Molten Salt Reactor) is designed to produce 5 GW thermal power at 700 C, thermal conversion systems should be able to generate 2.1 GW gross electricity.
Nanocomp Technologies makes bulk carbon nanotubes 100 times longer at 1-10 ....
A new commercial manufacturing process for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) produces tubes in the range of 1-10 mm in length (5-12-nm dia.), two orders of magnitude longer than currently available CNTs, which typically have lengths from 5-20µm.
Proposals for new stellerator fusion designs and projects in the 2020s
Although there is as yet no clear path to a practical steady-state fusion system, stellarator research greatly improves the chances for success.
Current Flywheels moving to Superconducting flywheels using carbon fiber...
Current Flywheels moving to Superconducting flywheels using carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes
Gigafactory Battery-cell production begins
The start of Tesla Gigafactory battery mass production is a huge milestone in Tesla's quest to electrify transportation, and it brings to America a manufacturing industry--battery cells--that's long been dominated by China, Japan, and South Kor
Family Thrives In The Arctic Circle By Building Cob House Inside A Solar Geodesic Dome
This geodesic dome home was made from recycled building materials, is outfitted with solar panel technology, and enables its hosts to grow food year-round.
Nikola Tesla's 5 Lost Inventions That Threatened The Global Elite
(anonhq.com) Most great inventions fundamentally change the society in which they exist. Since the people at the top of the social structure have more to gain by reinforcing the status quo, they suppress revolutionary technologies favorable to the wo