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Aptera's Solar EV Is Finally Ready For Production. Watch The Livestream Here

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After Trump Threatened Apple, His Sons Announce a Made-in-America Phone

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$839 Ecoworthy Version 3: Best Value 48V Battery for 2025?

Feature-packed portable learning lab for makers puts AI within reach

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Samsung Display shows off the foldable, rollable screens of the future

Samsung Display has been teasing some of the screen technology that it's working on for future smartphones, as part of the Display Week 2021 virtual conference. We've got foldables, slideables, and an under-display camera.

Energy Observer: On board the world's first hydrogen-powered boat

The 100-foot, repurposed catamaran is sailing around the the world to prove that the most abundant element in the universe is key to building a cleaner future.

Amazing Tech Developed by Private Firms Are on the Verge of Creating Nuclear Fusion...

Amazing Tech Developed by Private Firms Are on the Verge of Creating Nuclear Fusion Reactors to Power Humanity

Cartilage-inspired material may find use in self-lubricating bearings

As anyone with arthritis will know, cartilage plays a vital role in allowing our joints to move freely. Scientists have now replicated its qualities in a synthetic self-lubricating material, that only needs occasional infusions of water.

Feasability of Deploying Over 10 Terawatts of Space Based Solar

Zachary Manchester of Carnegie Mellon University has received a phase 1 NASA NIAC grant and will study how to create mechanical metamaterials to design lightweight deployable structures with unprecedented expansion ratios of 150x or more.

Scalable New Fusion Drive

It exploits magnetic reconnection as a fast, high-power ion heating mechanism; natural plasma self-organization as a robust, stable confinement scheme; and passive magnetic compression at modest ratios to reduce overall engineering complexity.

BAK Battery Unveils First Chinese 4680 Battery Cells

Limited production to start this year, mass production next year.

Jetman Dubai Takeoff - 4K

On Friday, February 14th, 2020: #Jetman? Vince Reffet took off, headed south towards Jumeirah Beach Residence, building speed and height. In 8 seconds he had reached 100 meters height, in 12 seconds 200m, 19 seconds 500m, and reached 1000m in 30 se

Ambri: A Battery that Could Change the World

Today Zac and Jesse speak to Donald Sadoway, the Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Advisor of Ambri.

The 12 Million Mile Battery

Tesla recently announced the coming "1 million mile battery" shocking the world.

Yacht of the future: Florida-based designer unveils plans for an eco-friendly...

Yacht of the future: Florida-based designer unveils plans for an eco-friendly $811m superyacht powered by retractable solar-panelled 'sails'

World's first space HOTEL to begin construction in low Earth orbit in 2025...

...complete with restaurants, cinemas and rooms for up to 400 guests

Powerpaste packs clean hydrogen energy in a safe, convenient gray goop

Fraunhofer researchers have presented a magnesium-based "Powerpaste" that stores hydrogen energy at 10 times the density of a lithium battery, offering hydrogen fuel cell vehicles the ability to travel further than gasoline-powered ones, and refuel i

Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster

QUT researchers have demonstrated a hybrid supercapacitor design that stores vastly more energy than a regular supercap while offering charge/discharge rates much higher than lithium batteries

New Electric Car Batteries Can Fully-Charge in 5 Minutes, Like Filling Your Car With Gas.

One of the major barriers to entry of electric vehicles may be set to disappear, as an Israeli startup is now mass-producing car batteries that can deliver 100 miles of charge in just five minutes.

Gigafactories With New Solar PV Module Tech Might Cause Solar Glut in 2021

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 installs 145GW to 160GW of solar.

Portable X-ray device would let patients check their own bones

Presently, if someone has been involved in a potentially bone-breaking mishap, they have to be X-rayed by trained staff at a hospital. Soon, however, it may be possible for them to perform their own X-rays, using a compact device that could be locate

Tesla Model 3's IPM-SynRM Electric Motor Explained

The use of Internal Permanent Magnet Synchronous Reluctance Motor improves efficiency by a few percent compared to an induction motor.

THE CHINESE AND RUSSIANS ARE PREPARING TO CARRY OUT AN ALL-OUT INVASION --

--OF THE UNITED STATES People laughed at me when I first published the intentions of the Russians and the Chinese to attack the United States from all sides as this was in 2014. In 2020, when I again raised the possibility, some people howled. Toda

NASA scientists achieve long-distance 'quantum teleportation' over 27 miles for the first ti

– paving the way for unhackable networks that transfer data faster than the speed of light

New silicon/perovskite solar cell world record nears 30% efficiency

Silicon has long been the gold standard for solar cells, but it's beginning to reach its limit. Perovskite is emerging as a promising partner, and now engineers have achieved a new efficiency record closing in on 30 percent for this kind of tandem

This Is Not Cheese: It Is A Single-Crystal Ni-Rich Cathode In Action

Researchers from PNNL may have found a stable solution for better Li-ion batteries.

Perovskite Tandem Solar Will Start Taking Solar to 43% Energy Conversion

Perovskite Tandem Solar Will Start Taking Solar to 43% Energy Conversion

New method quickly converts natural gas into solid form for storage

Engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to convert natural gas into a solid form, allowing it to be stored and transported more safely and easily.

World's largest fully-autonomous DRONE unveiled by US space startup will launch satellites...

World's largest fully-autonomous DRONE unveiled by US space startup will launch satellites into orbit in as little as 180 minutes

Deflating graphene balloons act as sensors for hard-to-detect gases

With excellent strength, flexibility and electrical conductivity, graphene has a lot of potential in a lot of different areas, and that may extend to the detection of odorless, colorless gases.

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.

World's Lightest Solid!

Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission.

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.

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

Building the Ideal Heat Sink

We all want faster smartphones and laptops, in smaller and smaller packages -- which means that heat dissipation becomes a vital part of their design.

TIG Welding with TOOL STEEL filler

Lay down hard tool steel weld beads... tell me that ain't nuts!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Algae for Fuel Production on Mars

Algae could be used for fuel production on Mars and it would also produce oxygen on Mars. It would also produce fertilizer for growing crops on Mars.

Inflatable Antennas for High Data Rate Satellite and 5G Communications

Freefall Aerospace is a NASA NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) success story.

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."

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:

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?

Silicon "sandwiches" make for lightweight, high-capacity batteries

The pursuit of better batteries means the exploration of alternative materials, and one that scientists see a lot of promise in is silicon.

"Holy Grail" Metallic Hydrogen Is Going to Change Everything

The substance has the potential to revolutionize everything from space travel to the energy grid.

Tesla Battery Partner Jeff Dahn Approaches Incredible New Battery Cell

The new battery cell chemistry would have game-changing density and an extended life span.

New Zealand's wireless power transmission: Your questions answered

Yesterday we covered the news that New Zealand's second-largest electricity distributor has signed a deal with startup Emrod to trial long-range wireless power transmission.

US Closer To Developing Small Nuclear Reactors That Sustain Life On The Moon & Mars

The US Department of Energy issued an unusual statement on Friday calling for private sector help in its years-long project to develop technology that would sustain future civilizations on the moon as well as Mars.

First boat to make its own hydrogen fuel from seawater. A new kind of boat and technology.

First boat to make its own hydrogen fuel from seawater. A new kind of boat and technology.

Carbon fiber exoskeleton is the latest to boost worker safety

More and more, workplaces are using assistive exoskeletons to protect their employees from injury. One of the newest, the 4th-generation version of German Bionic's Cray X, features a lightweight carbon fiber frame.

Sila Nanotechnologies Biggest Battery Breakthrough in Last Ten Years

Hyperchange has a conversation with Sean Mehta, a battery scientist at Sila Nanotechnologies, about the potential of transition metal-free Cathodes. This has the potential to disrupt the battery materials supply chain.

Progress to All Polymer Battery

Hideaki Horie's innovation is to replace the battery's basic components, which are metal-lined electrodes and liquid electrolytes, with a resin construction.
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