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If housing prices had simply followed income growth since 1970
According to INSEE data, France is now channeling 57.2% of its GDP through government spending
Power is moving eastwards and westerners are talking about how great it is...
Agricultural commodities are now breaking out decisively from nearly 20-year resistance.
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Researcher wins 1 bitcoin bounty for 'largest quantum attack' on underlying tech
Interceptor-Drone Arms-Race Emerges
A startup called Inversion has introduced Arc, a space-based vehicle...
Mining companies are using cosmic rays to find critical minerals
They regrew a severed nerve - by shortening a bone.
New Robot Ants Work Like Real Insects To Build And Dismantle On Their Own
Russian scientists 'are developing the world's first drug to delay ageing' months after
Sam Altman's World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checks
China Tests Directed Energy Beam That Recharges Drones Mid-Flight
Jurassic Park might arrive sooner than expected, just with Dinobots.
Shelter
Flourishing in our new autonomy requires that we construct secure habitats in which to dwell. Cutting edge materials and methods provide unimaginable new options, allowing us greater mobility, and access to many previously uninhabitable environments.
Looking for Prior Industrial Civilizations in the Geological Record
If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?
LG Has 20X65 Foot Curved TV Waterfall Display at CES
LG Electronics has an immersive exhibit of flexible commercial displays at CES® 2019. The "LG OLED Falls" display features 260 LG OLED digital signage screens, in curved and flat configurations.
Fabrication of Ultrastrong 700 Gigapascal Fused Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes
The Clean Energy Research Foundation has discovered a method of manufacturing the worlds strongest and toughest materials.
Tesla Move to Bigger Battery Packs and 2170 Batteries for S and X Cars
Tesla is discontinuing the 75 kWh battery pack versions of the Model S and X cars.
Expert: "I'm 100 Percent Confident" Fusion Power Will Be Practical
Companies chasing after the elusive technology hope to build reactors by 2030.
Impressive solar-powered island resort opens in the Maldives
New York-based architectural firm Yuji Yamazaki Architecture (YYA) is behind the design of the Kudadoo Maldives Private Island that opened recently in Lhaviani Atoll, Maldives.
Swedish research multiplies the life of rechargeable NiMH batteries
Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a method to multiply the lifespan of nickel-metal hydride batteries.
A long-awaited battery that would cut electric-vehicle costs may finally be close
24M is reducing manufacturing costs by stripping out extraneous materials--and just got $22 million to begin building its first commercial factory.
Got Milk? Driverless Cars Will Deliver Your Grocies
Deliveries from an Arizona grocery store will soon be arriving with no one behind the wheel.
A fully autonomous vehicle is about to pilot public roads Tuesday with no back up driver, though it will be monitored by humans in another automobile.
The Boy Scouts Filing Bankruptcy After a String of "Woke" Decisions Caused It to Go Broke
The once proud organization known as the Boy Scouts is declaring bankruptcy after severely flagging numbers due to a myriad of problems, including implementing social justice measures to make it more inclusive.
Running a 5000btu air conditioner on Harbor Freight solar panels?
in this video I test out a 5000 BTU air conditioner with 150 watts of Harbor Freight solar panels, 352 amp hours of deep cycle batteries, and a power inverter to demonstrate how well you can run a 5000 BTU air conditioner on this equipment. Off Grid
Tesla's Record-Breaking Mega Battery, Installed on a Bet, Saves Australia $40 ...
Million in Its First Year...It has been one year since the world's largest lithium ion battery was switched on in South Australia to combat costly statewide power outages - and this new report shows that it has performed astonishingly well.
Oil Analyst Makes Case for Electric Cars and Picks Copper as Way to Play Battery Future
Marin Katusa of Katusa Research is an oil and uranium analyst. He gave his take last year on oil and uranium prices. Oil will remain range bound and Uranium prices will recover but in 2 to 5 years from last year. This means in 2020 to 2023.
Why you need to try 'strip washing': The three-ingredient 'miracle' soaking system..
Why you need to try 'strip washing': The three-ingredient 'miracle' soaking system that works better than bleach at cleaning stained clothes
How George H.W. Bush Rode a Fake National Security Scandal to the Top of the CIA
ON DECEMBER 15, 1975, a Senate committee opened hearings on whether George H.W. Bush should be confirmed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
China Witch Hunt: It's Here!
A joint project of the Asia Society and the Hoover Institute produced a study on China influence operations and how to counter them.
Simulated One Gravity Living on the Moon and Mars With a Supertrain
The moon has one-sixth the Earth's gravity and Mars gravity is 38%. There will be negative health impacts for people to live for extended periods at lower gravity. In space stations, we can spin the station to get the desired gravity.
Twenty Month Payback for Tesla 100-MW Utility Scale Battery Storage System
Australia has determined that Tesla 100MW battery system saved $40 million and the system had cost only $66 million. This is a 20-month payback on the investment.
Equipment for Moon Mining Operations are Being Developed
The technology needed for mining water ice on the moon and converting it into fuel is pretty straight forward. Various groups are already making the actual needed hardware.
While You Weren't Looking, Engineers Combined a Plane and a Blimp to Make a Plimp Airship
What happens when you cross a blimp with a plane, and give it a few helicopter features? A lighter-than-air plimp-hybrid airship is born, according to a Seattle-based company looking for investors.
This is Elon Musk's key to Tesla's future
Elon Musk's Gigafactory is arguably the most important thing that Tesla makes. The 1.9 million-square-foot factory in Sparks, Nevada, is only 30 percent complete, but it's already on track to make 60 percent of the world's lithium ion batteries
Richard Branson launches $3m challenge to reinvent the air conditioner
The amount of air conditioner units is expected to increase greatly over the coming decades ??" but is there a better way to keep cool?
Moon Direct SpaceX Falcon Heavy Plan is 6 Years Faster and 50 times Cheaper than NASA
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the U.S. is within 10 years of having a continuous manned presence on the moon, which will lay the groundwork for expanding space exploration to Mars. A Moon Direct plan (created by Robert Zubrin) could get con
Pocket-sized camping stove creates a clean vortex of fire
There's a lot of high-tech gear you could haul into the outdoors these days, but there's also plenty to be said for solutions that take a simpler approach. The Singapore-based designers behind the Ember Stove aren't ones to complicate things, taking
8 AMAZING ANTI - FLOOD INVENTIONS
Stay High and Dry with these amazing anti-flood innovations…
The Difference Between An Obama Judge And A Trump Judge
The last few days have seen President Trump escalate his tirade against judicial bias in America's higher courts following his initial comments responding to yet another liberal California judge earlier this week blocked one of President Trump's po
Why 3D Printing Is The Future Of Housing
Technology has drastically changed our lives over the years.
Fmr NFL Star Has Created the 'City of the Future'--First Completely Solar-Powered Town in Am
Instead of fading away after his NFL career ended, the former player helped to develop the country's first solar city that will house up to 50,000 people.
Graphene water filtration system
Graphene Leaders Canada has its new GLC+™ WATER TECHNOLOGIES PLATFORM. The platform offers a disruptive solution to water pollution and remediation and is based on years of expertise in graphene solutions work with a keen focus in water filtration.
Nanotube film enabling ten times higher energy lithium metal batteries
Thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries.
Fusion breakthrough as China's "artificial sun" reaches 100 million degrees
The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).
Tesla Reduces Pricing Of Solar System Installations By 10-20%
Tesla solar panels become more affordable
50 MWh Tesla Battery ESS Launched At Solar Farm In Australia
Tesla supplied a 50 MWh energy storage system in Australia
Australia continues its leadership in the battery energy storage market, introducing another big ESS.
FCC tells SpaceX it can deploy up to 11,943 broadband satellites
Initial launch of 4,425 satellites to be followed by 7,518 closer to the ground.
House Dems Already Have Their List of Trump Scandals to Investigate. Here It Is.
The subpoenas are coming.
Elon Musk's tunneling company could become his most valuable
Elon Musk and the Boring Company has completed most of phase 1 of a 2.7-mile proof-of-process tunnel through Los Angeles.
China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered
China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolises the country's major ambitions beyond Earth.
3D printed knitted frameworks enable breakthrough complex architecture
3D printing of knitted textiles has been used as a structure for complex architecture. This cuts down on material, labor and waste, and simplifies the construction process for complex shapes.
World-first aerogel is made from plastic bottles, and has many potential uses
The process, which is said to be easily scalable for mass production, can produce an A4-paper-sized aerogel sheet from a single bottle
Discussion of 80 Gigapascal super material potential for energy and space
Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material.
Graphene used to make stronger, greener concrete
Graphene, the "wonder material" composed of a one-atom-thick sheet of linked carbon atoms, is the world's strongest manmade material. Now, scientists have used it to create a new type of concrete that is much stronger, water-resistant and eco-friendl
Elon tweets that moonbase will be created in 2025
A SpaceX BFR with a refueling in orbit would be able to take about 100 tons to the moon. This would mean one trip could take several Bigelow inflatable space stations.
Superstrong materials for electric spaceplanes instead of space elevators
China has carbon nanotube bundles in the lab that are 20 times stronger than kevlar.
What's Graphene And Why It'll Soon Take Over The World
What is graphene? What is it used for? The most amazing thing about this semi-metal of the future is the fact that you can produce it yourself in your living room!
FBI Admits It Used Multiple Spies To Infiltrate Trump Campaign
The Department of Justice admitted in a Friday court filing that the FBI used more than one "Confidential Human Source," (also known as informants, or spies) to infiltrate the Trump campaign through former adviser Carter Page, reports the Daily Calle
Can carbon fiber car panels double as energy storage materials?
Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit.
Wikkelhouse: pick your modular segments & click them together
After a couple decades creating theater sets in Amsterdam, Oep Schilling and his company of makers Fiction Factory, put their CNC expertise and resources into building a prefab tiny house, using cardboard as the main structural element.
Ultra-capacitor hybrid radically boosts power and efficiency of lithium batteries
Combining the unique strengths of lithium batteries with crazy-fast charging, carbon ultra-capacitors could save a ton of weight and add significant range and power to electric vehicles, according to Nawa Technologies.
Gartman: "A Global Bear Market Of Some Very Real Consequence Is Developing"
In retrospect, the bond rout which sent 10Y Treasury yields to the highest level since 2011 should have been obvious - after all just over a week ago, Dennis Gartman decided to go long "bonds and bond-link funds" in his retirement account, in additio