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Superheat Unveils the H1: A Revolutionary Bitcoin-Mining Water Heater at CES 2026

World's most powerful hypergravity machine is 1,900X stronger than Earth

New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry

Anti-Aging Drug Regrows Knee Cartilage in Major Breakthrough That Could End Knee Replacements

Scientists say recent advances in Quantum Entanglement...

Solid-State Batteries Are In 'Trailblazer' Mode. What's Holding Them Up?

US Farmers Began Using Chemical Fertilizer After WW2. Comfrey Is a Natural Super Fertilizer

Kawasaki's four-legged robot-horse vehicle is going into production

The First Production All-Solid-State Battery Is Here, And It Promises 5-Minute Charging

Storage doesn't get much cheaper than this

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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.

Analysis: Tesla Pickup Truck Battery Size, Range, & 0-60-MPH Time

Our model suggests that the upcoming Tesla Pickup Truck will have a 200 kWh battery, 380-mile range, and a 3.9 second 0-60-mph time.

Terrestrial Energy is a leader in commercializing next gen nuclear technology

Terrestrial Energy is leading the way to getting regulatory approvals for its molten salt fission reactor design and has built up an industrial board representing 10 of the largest Nuclear Reactor companies for advice it on its path to market.

China's giant ultra-high voltage grid is ambitious as its high speed rail

Ultra-high voltage energy grids are needed for efficient power transmission across large distances.

Volkswagen To Sell Subcompact Electric Crossover For $21,000

Also has a mid-size sedan and station wagon in the works.

Three Reasons Why Elections Don't Matter

In so many ways, elections in America have become just another manifestation of bread and circuses...

Daymak's latest all-electric ATV tackles all terrain for up to 223 miles

After first adding to its line of electric two- and three-wheelers with a four-wheeled variant a couple of years ago, Canada's Daymak has followed up with another electrified all-terrain vehicle. After making some refinements, the new 4WD Beast ATV U

Bionic mushroom uses bacteria and graphene to generate electricity

Could your home one day be powered by patches of mushrooms? Probably not, but scientists have nonetheless created a "bionic mushroom" that does indeed generate electricity – and it may pave the way for more practical bio-electric systems.

Race for Antimatter gravitational experiment this month

The ALPHA collaboration is an international team of researchers who study antihydrogen. They have built a detector that will determine the mass and gravitational effects on antimatter hydrogen.

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.

CNT bundle material for flywheels 40 times better than batteries

In the lab, China has small quantities of carbon nanotube bundles 20 times stronger than Kevlar.

Fisker gets investment from Caterpillar for solid state battery technology

Fisker and electric car company has gotten an investment from Caterpillar Venture Capital. Fisker is developing solid-state batteries.

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!

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.

Sodium ion batteries could finally be ready for prime time

High energy density sodium ion batteries using Cobalt oxide plating are providing better performance than lithium ion batteries.

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That'll Last for Thousands of Years

This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.

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.

A Quick-Start Guide to Handling a Power Outage Like a Boss

What's the most common event most of us have to deal with, at least on a short-term basis? Power outages! Not only do they happen alone, but an extended blackout often follows many other major disasters.

Helion Energy got funding for possible breakeven fusion device this year

Helion Energy has successfully raised $30 million raised in the past three years will be enough to get Helion through the debut of its 50-megwatt break-even nuclear fusion prototype.

Self-driving tractor that could be the future of farming: Hydrogen-powered vehicles...

Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans.

Bill Ford Hints At Future Pure Electric Ford F-150

Hmm … will it truly come to be? Perhaps, but it won't be this Rivian electric truck disguised as an F-150.

Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel

The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants.

Tokyo creates 1200 Tesla for 100 microseconds

Physicists from the University of Tokyo have generated the strongest controllable magnetic field ever produced at 1200 Tesla. The field was sustained for longer than any previous field of a similar strength.

Mazda Flips Rotary Engine, Shrinks It Down For Range Extender

The compact, single-rotor engine sounds exactly like revived rotary that a Mazda exec is teasing.

Ford Unveils Wild F-Vision Electric Semi Truck

Ford hints at a Tesla Semi contender

NuScale will start manufacturing its small modular reactor

NuScale Power has selected BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) as the first manufacturer of its small modular reactor (SMR). This marks the transition to the manufacturing phase and represents major progress in bringing the technology to market.

Panasonic To Speed Up New Battery Production Line Installs At Gigafactory

Gigafactory production capacity to hit 35 GWh annually this year.

Sodium ion batteries closer to commercialization

Purdue University researchers made a sodium powder battery that fixes the problem of charges and discharges of sodium ion batteries.

Wind Power costs at 2 cents per kilowatt hour

Technology advancements and cost reductions have driven wind power down to 2 cents per kwh. This is from the annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Venturing To The South Pole In An Electric Car Powered By The Sun

Effort aims to spur environmental action

Solid State Battery Firm Solid Power Raises $20 Million

Solid Power promises all solid-state batteries (ASSB). Established in 2012, Solid Power from Louisville, Colorado that develops all-solid-state batteries (ASSB) has closed $20 million in a Series A investment round.

Tesla Battery Biz Booming, Mostly From Tesla Energy

Despite increasing negativity about Tesla Energy, business is growing at an alarming rate.

Kreisel Introduces 2-Speed Auto Trans For Electric Cars

2-speed transmission in an electric car is a rare sight.

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

Watch Deutsche Accumotive Battery Production

If you ever wondered how Daimler's Deutsche Accumotive produces the batteries for electric smart cars in Kamenz, Saxony in Germany, here is a video that shows the process.

Kilopower first step to safe and power nuclear fission for space and other applications

Dr. David Poston, Los Alamos National Laboratory talks about the simple and safe NASA Kilopower Project.

Tesla Leads The Way In Cheapest Battery Pack Costs

Tesla's battery cost advantage is expected to last for (at least) several years.

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'.

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,

Cheap perovskite boosts commercial solar cell energy conversion by 20%

UCLA created a double layer solar cell by spraying a thin layer of perovskite onto a commercially available solar cell. The solar cell that forms the bottom layer of the device is made of a compound of copper, indium, gallium and selenide, or CIGS.

Understanding the super safety of the Moltex nuclear plant which will be built in Canada

In July, 2018, Moltex was selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to progress development of its SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor – Wasteburner) technology in New Brunswick, with the aim of deploying its first SSR-W

Sila Nanotechnologies will produce silicon anode batteries --

--with 10-15% more capacity in wearable gadgets in 2019 and EV cars in 2023

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.

Electrons that behaves like light in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal

Electrons that behave like light are Dirac electrons. Dirac electrons have been in monolayer graphene and now they are seen in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal.

In 2019, China and Russia will start using floating nuclear reactors for oil and gas rigs and ...

In 2019, China should complete floating mobile nuclear reactors to power drilling platforms in the ocean to expedite exploitation of oil, natural gas and combustible ice. A Pentagon report believes China will use floating nuclear reactors to power is

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.

Researchers Reveal New Faster-Charging Solid-State Batteries

Faster than what is the question, though.

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.

"Safest global travel adapter" surges past Kickstarter goal

A new travel adapter which includes built-in grounding and a reset button has charged past its Kickstarter goal. The Passport Pro also includes fast charging using USB-C Power delivery.
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