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Chinese researchers have developed a sodium-metal battery that can fully charge in just 4 minutes...
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Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery
Floating capsule auto-disinfects water without chemicals or battery
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The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1
Today we are going to talk about "The Truth about Tesla's Batteries." If you're thinking about a Tesla, you've undoubtedly heard about how cheap they are to fill up, how little maintenance they require, and with recent Model 3 Production ra
25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles
In 1991, Sumio Iijima's discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White's independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would
Nick Oberg illustration of the SpaceX BFR
Nick Oberg created a cutaway illustration of the SpaceX BFR.
Our Solar System has 127 probable planets and 500+ possibles
It is estimated that there may be 200 dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt of the outer Solar System and possibly more than 10,000 in the region beyond.
EasyJet and Wright Electric 180 seat electric airline will start flying around 2027
In 2017, Los Angeles startup Wright Electric partnered with budget airline EasyJet to build a 180-seat electric airliner to fly routes of up to 300 miles starting around 2027.
Nine-passenger all electric regional passenger aircraft by 2021
Israeli startup Eviation is making a nine-passenger all-electric regional passenger aircraft by 2021. It will take 9 passengers up to 650 miles at a cruise speed of 240 knots.
Elon has four year old idea for supersonic electric plane and Hypermach continues in stealth mode
On 2014, Nextbigfuture covered Elon Musk describing his belief that an electric supersonic vertical take-off passenger jet could be built.
Experimental glider smashes record for high-altitude flight
"The biggest impression is, it's a long ways down from up here."
15 COOL VEHICLES AND PERSONAL TRANSPORT MACHINES
This mix of cool vehicles are some of the craziest machines you'll ever see. Here is our list of 15 cool vehicles and personal transport machines.
Superlong Tunnels now and in the near future
The Delaware Aqueduct is the longest tunnel that is currently in use. It was completed in 1945 and is 85 miles (135 kilometers) long.
SpaceX Mars and Moon Colonization with titanium alloy bulldozers and materials processing
Craig Davidson gave a talk in 2017 about Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans.
Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing
All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic.
Could the Airfish-8 finally get the Wing In Ground Effect Vehicle up and running?
A Singaporean company has resurrected a post-WW2 German design to commercialize a beautiful reverse-delta ground effect vehicle as a high-speed, high-efficiency ferry for six to eight passengers. The Airfish 8 hovers serenely between two and 23 ft (0
Scientists have invented a way to create 'unlimited renewable energy'...
Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.
SpaceX Mars and Moon Colonization with titanium alloy bulldozers and materials processing
Craig Davidson gave a talk in 2017 about Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans.
Make a moon and Mars capable bulldozer. Replace steel with titanium-aluminum alloy. Use electric battery technology and solar panels.
Superbridge over Gibraltar
Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,
Reaction Pre-cooled Engines could deliver reusable hypersonic planes by 2025
They have proven an innovative pre-cooling system which does not require the development of new materials to handle the heat of hypersonic flight speeds.
Airship POLICE CARS: Autonomous drones the future of emergency services
AUTONOMOUS airships are set to revolutionise policing, a cutting-edge company has claimed.
Pictures and Video of the SpaceX Crew Dragon
SpaceX revealed the SpaceX crew dragon which four NASA astronauts will ride into orbit in 2019.
Two test flights must go well and then the SpaceX crew dragon will be certified for manned flights for NASA.
US plans to build and man a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024
VP Pence announced the plan to put a manned crew on a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024.
Southern Company partnering with Bill Gates backed Terrapower on molten chloride fast reactor
Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors.
Progress to lithium-oxygen batteries with up to four times the energy density of lithium-ion
University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries.
Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar'
Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.
Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable
The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should contain more than one million liters of water.
Gravity Jet Suit Flight experiences now and Future Racing Events
Richard Browning spoke at SU Global Summit 2018 and demoed the Gravity Jetpack twice this week in the SF bay area.
Solar electric demonstrator takes to the air for the first time
Just a few short months after its Sun Flyer 2 prototype completed its maiden flight, Bye Aerospace reports that another of its aircraft has completed its first test flights.
The world's biggest plane inches closer to takeoff:
Stratolaunch, with a wingspan longer than a football field, could take to the air for the first time within weeks
China's top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries
China's largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.
Many startups that hope to become the next SpaceX
Robert Zubrin believes that by 2023, there will be at least six other private space launch companies that will join SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and Stratolaunch in commercial space launch.
Breakthrough to safer solid state batteries with double the performance
The University of Michigan has a made a breakthrough towards a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte which could enable lithium-ion batteries with twice the energy performance.
First Nanotubes, then Graphene and now new form of carbon schwarzites
UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now
Arizona confirmed for autonomous grocery delivery
A couple of months ago, supermarket retailer Kroger and driverless vehicle maker Nuro announced that they were to begin testing grocery delivery using the latter's self-driving pods. Now the partnership has confirmed Scottsdale, Arizona, as the first
Boring Company Announces Dodger Stadium Dugout Loop
Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to build a high-speed, zero-emissions underground public transportation system to Dodger Stadium.
Gold and silver nanostructures claimed to have room temperature superconductivity
Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
Carbon cage molecule formed inside pores of zeolites is a negatively curved schwarzite
50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record
For more than a century the Bonneville Salt Flats has drawn motoring enthusiasts to its vast open plains for its annual Speed Week, and for more than half a century one father-son duo has eyed a history-making run at the event.
Boeing believes mach 5 hypersonic passenger planes might have better economics than mach 2 ...
Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and jet engines today are strong enough to survive the
New spin on heat shields could cut cost of spacecraft
If you're building a spacecraft that's going to be landing on a planet that has an atmosphere, then you'd better equip it with a heat shield.
In-Depth Look At CATL's Massive Battery Factory In Germany
More details appear on the Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) lithium-ion battery plant in Thuringia, Germany announced by the way of a €4 billion (€4.7 billion) deal with BMW.
Particle accelerators centimeters long will drastically reduce size and cost of working ....
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams – Quasimonoenergetic laser plasma positron accelerator using particle-shower plasma-wave interactions
Amphibio artificial gills for a flooded future
If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world's coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope?
World's first graphene-skinned airplane unveiled in the UK
At the recent Farnborough Air Show 2018, aerospace engineers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire presented what they state is the world's first graphene-skinned aircraft. Known as Juno, the 3.5 meter-wide (11.5-ft) unmanned plane could be
SpaceX Workshop on how to get humans to Mars and then create a colony of hundreds
Mars Workshop Photos
Airbus Spy Drone Stretches Flight-Endurance Record to 25 Days
Floating almost motionless at an altitude of 70,000 feet, Airbus SE's Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth's atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous best.
Toddler's Popsicle-by-Air Marks Milestone in U.S. Drone Delivery
From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.
NASA Astronauts will wear the lighter SpaceX and Boeing launch spacesuits in 2019
When NASA announced the astronaut crews for the first SpaceX and Boeing crewed launches in 2019, they showed them with the new SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits.
China is spending millions on engineering and geological work for the 84 mile rail tunnel to Taiwan
In 2017, Chinese Academy of Engineering completed a detailed design for an 84 mile long Tunnel to Taiwan. The Academy is the largest central governmental advisory body on infrastructural construction.
Carbon nanotube reinforced graphene is twice as tear resistant
Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
NASA 3D Printed Mars Habitat Design winners
NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge.
After SpaceX Starlink upgrading to terabit space satellite internet
It's going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed.