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CANCER HAS BEEN CURED
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Humanoid robots are hitting the factories at an increasing pace
Microsoft's $400 Billion Mistake Is Now a $200 Phone With Zero Tracking
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Interceptor-Drone Arms-Race Emerges
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$433 280Ah LiFePO4 Cells Tested: Cheaper than lead acid!
These are new lishen 272Ah cells, not eve 280Ah. I used the barcode under the covers for verification. These cells were resleeved and had the same overpressure valve as the older eve cells, and same dimensions, and same capacity, so I figured they we
Scientists stretch diamond to improve its electronic properties
Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists at City University of Hong Kong have managed to stretch it further than ever before.
KSTAR fusion device maintains 100 million degrees for record 20 seconds
While harnessing the power of the Sun has progressed in leaps and bounds in recent years, harnessing the process that powers the Sun is proving a tough nut to crack.
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.
Research Progress Toward Better Hydrogen Production
Researchers led by chemistry professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have produced a new form of catalyst for more efficient hydrogen hydrogen using the elements cobalt and titanium.
Full-throttle electric snow bikes quietly tear up Alpine powder
Electric cars and trucks may be the hottest topic in e-mobility, but quiet, clean-running electric drives have the ability to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles and machinery.
Magnix working towards all-electric Cessna Caravan STC
Magnix, a specialist for aeroplane electrification, is working with Sidney Seaplanes and Dante Aeronautical to convert a Cessna to zero-emission drive. The partners want it to become the first all-electric aircraft certified by the Australian Civil A
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Indonesia Could Justify Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Development to Get a Nuclear Navy
In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine vehicle propulsion.
Breakthrough Electronic Amoeba Analog Computer For Approximate Solving Traveling Salesman Problems
Many important and valuable planning and scheduling problems in logistics and automation are combinatorial optimization problems. The most famous problem of this type is the traveling salesman problem.
Moltex Nuclear Would Work in a World With Abundant Solar Energy
Moltex Energy calculated that abundant solar and wind energy will mean nuclear energy needs low capital and fixed operating costs to be profitable at 30-50% capacity factor in unsubsidized competition with fossil fuels. Radical innovation will slash
Indonesia Could Justify Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Development to Get a Nuclear Navy
In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine vehicle propulsion.
Solid-State Batteries Break Out, Toyota EV Coming Soon, Aptera Launches
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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
Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid for $3,000
Students at the University of Middle Tennessee have installed a full plug-in hybrid kit in a stock 1994 Honda Accord. The setup gives between 50 and 100 percent better gas mileage with two electric motors delivering power directly to the rear wheels,
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Aptera Is Getting Sandy Munro's Help To Spread Efficiency's Gospel
The resurrected efficiency champion uses 2170 cells and targets 20,000 sales per year.
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.
Aptera opens orders on 1,000-mile solar EV that never needs charging
Since electric vehicles first started hitting the mainstream, people have been asking "why doesn't that have a solar panel roof?"
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.
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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
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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.