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Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel

Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

SanDisk stuffed 1 TB of storage into the smallest Type-C thumb drive ever

Calling Dr. Grok. Can AI Do Better than Your Primary Physician?

HUGE 32kWh LiFePO4 DIY Battery w/ 628Ah Cells! 90 Minute Build

What Has Bitcoin Become 17 Years After Satoshi Nakamoto Published The Whitepaper?

Japan just injected artificial blood into a human. No blood type needed. No refrigeration.

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Testing My First Sodium-Ion Solar Battery

A man once paralyzed from the waist down now stands on his own, not with machines or wires,...

Energy

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.

China will make commercial floating nuclear reactors and reactors for nuclear military ships

A consortium of Chinese organizations is teaming up with state-owned China National Nuclear Power Company to develop and produce small, floating nuclear power plants.

GS Yuasa Promises Range-Doubling EV Battery By 2020

Range-doubling battery technology!

New propulsion system gets CubeSats moving with teaspoons of water

Inexpensive and compact CubeSats are great for certain missions, but their simplicity can limit their applications. For one, most of them don't pack their own propulsion systems, instead hitchhiking into orbit aboard other satellite launches.

Supercapacitors game changing improvement on energy density compared to batteries

Supercapacitors have long been far faster charging than batteries but usually have 40 times less energy density (5 watt hours instead of 200 watt hours) compared to batteries.

Argonne Lab will verify Transatomic Power molten fuel salt

Transatomic Power Corporation has been awarded a second voucher to complete work with the Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last month.

Creating nearly perfect meter sized graphene one hundred times faster

Researchers have achieved a leap forward in graphene production, from a technique that synthesizes a few square centimeters of single-crystal graphene in a couple of hours, to...

A Pod Races Through the Hyperloop for the First Time Ever

The future sounds a bit like a witch crying over a dead cat. That spooky wail is the sound hyperloop makes--at least, the version of the high-speed transportation system designed by Hyperloop One, which just took a big stride toward the day it fling

Carbon Nanotubes Turn Electrical Current into Light-emitting Quasi-particles

Strong light-matter coupling in these semiconducting tubes may hold the key to electrically pumped lasers

Bollinger B1 Electric Truck Ready For Work, CHAdeMO Fast Charging –

– Watch Livestream Debut

Off-Road-Ready Tesla Model X Rendered

This macho beast of a Tesla Model X is ready to tackle the toughest terrain.

China producing 60 gigawatts of solar panels this year up 25%

China's solar industry is expected to produce 25 percent more panels in 2017 than last year, supported by domestic sales and demand from the United States and emerging markets, the head of a Chinese industry association said.

A handful of North American advanced nuclear reactor projects have made substantial progress

Third way has a report on 48 north american companies and research institutions working on advanced small nuclear reactors.

Gaye Levy on how to recharge Alkaline batteries.

About a month ago, I learned that it was possible not only to test old alkaline batteries to see if they are still are usable but also that, with the right type of charger, you can bring dead batteries back to life and that you can actually recharge

Los Alamos self regulating reactors from tens of kilowatts for NASA to several megawatts

Los Alamos is working with NASA on nuclear fission systems (Kilopower and MegaPower) as a heat source that transfers heat via a heat pipe to a small Stirling engine-based power convertor to produce electricity from uranium.

Very small modular nuclear fission reactors for military and space applications

The Defense Science Board has a 99 page report which proposes that the US military fund the development of very small nuclear reactors for forward remote operating bases.

OFFGRID Living: How many solar panels and Batteries do you need to run your home?

So you're looking to go off the grid, or maybe just build a backup power system to ensure you can survive a long-term grid down situation? If you're like most people who email us, you probably have a number of questions on how to do it, how much

Lucid Air Prototype Hits 235 MPH On High Speed Oval (w/video)

When 217 miles per hour isn't fast enough you go back to the drawing board if you're Lucid Motors.

Tesla Wins Energy Storage Contract In Australia – 129 MWh / 100 MW

Tesla won the world's largest energy storage order in Australia so the 100 MW-scale, 100 days challenge in now underway.

Carbon nanotube reinforce Composites can reduce space vehicle mass by 30%

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology – an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.

India nearing completion of 500 MW commercial fast breeder reactor

India plans to commission its first fast breeder reactor (FBR) by the end of this year at Kalpakkam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

NASA will test simple nuclear power system which will be in the 1 to 10 kilowatt power range

NASA's technology development branch has been funding a project called Kilopower for three years and testing is due to start in September, 2017 and end in January 2018.

Solar Team Eindhoven Launches Lightyear One Solar Electric Car – Video

Meet Lightyear, a Dutch company which is developing solar-powered electric car – the Lightyear One, reportedly capable to "drive for months without charging".

Terrestrial Energy begins siting study for commercial Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to suppo

Solar powered EMdrive version of Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.

India has world's cheapest solar at 65 cents per watt

GTM Research has found that India's system competitive bidding, has produced record low solar pricing. India has utility PV system pricing of 65 cents per watt. This is 11 cents per watt cheaper than in China.

9 Gigawatts of nuclear power completed in 2016 which is the most in 25 years

The nuclear industry brought more than 9 GWe of new plant on line last year, the largest annual increase in 25 years putting it on track to achieve the Harmony goal of providing 25% of electricity in 2050 using 1000 GWe of new capacity.

Rolls Royce has 450 MW modular nuclear reactor design

Rolls-Royce's director of technology and engineering, John Molyneux gave more details on Rolls-Royce's new reactor design and the next steps in its development when speaking to the European Young Nuclear Generation Forum event in Manchester, orga

China completing another nuclear reactor and Japan's court clear two more reactors for restart

1. Unit 4 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province has begun fuel loading. The unit is expected to start up later this year.

New Paper Ream-Like Battery Boasts Impressive Energy Density

Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.

IVYS Simple Fuel Station Offers Homemade Hydrogen For $250,000 – live video

It's a lot cheaper than a full-scale H2 station, that's for sure.

Lightning Motorcycles Gunning For 400-Mile Single-Charge Run

According to Lightning Motorcycles, the company intends to test an eMoto capable of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco without a recharge. The run is expected to be late this summer or early fall.

Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.

Tesla plans 10-20 gigafactories which would eventually be about 12 to 24 million vehicles per year

Tesla had its annual shareholders meeting on June 6, 2017 and there were many big announcements in it.

Tomahawk 370 Mile Electric Supercar Enters Production In 2018, 60 MPH In 2 Seconds

Dubuc Motors has announced that its $125,000 or so electric sports car, the Tomahawk, is now scheduled for production in 2018, complete with 0-60 mph time in 2 seconds*.

An interview with alleged KickassTorrents founder in his jail cell in Poland

In July 2016, Artem Vaulin left Ukraine for a vacation to Iceland with his family, but he never made it to his destination.

Volvo CEO: Consumers Want EVs, So That's What We'll Make

Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson revealed that his company is updating its business model to a changing world; a world that is demanding more and more plug-in vehicles.

Consumer Reports Runs The Numbers On Tesla's Solar Roof

Consumer Reports, which six months ago was skeptical about the viability of Tesla's Solar Roof product, has once again "done the math" using newly announced pricing estimations.

Meet The Guy Who Beat A Tesla P100D With His $13,000 Trash Car

He's done it again. Eric Lundgren took parts that other people thought were trash, turned them into a DIY, long-range EV he called the Phoenix.

Tesla Solar Roof Smooth And Textured To Go On Sale Today

Today is the day when two variants of Tesla's solar roof will launch.

Moon as unprospected eighth continent that will produce trillionaires

Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds' first multi-mission launch contract with

LG Chem Launches Residential Energy Storage Systems In U.S.

If you make the cells themselves, why not make the energy storage system to go around them?

Graphene inherits superconductor qualities when close to superconductors

MIT physicists have found that a flake of graphene, when brought in close proximity with two superconducting materials, can inherit some of those materials' superconducting qualities. As graphene is sandwiched between superconductors, its electroni

TankTwo String Batteries

Franco Gonzales of IDTechEx interviews Bert Holtappels of TankTwo about their battery packs for electric cars at the IDTechEx Show! In Berlin. TankTwo's system is comprised of multiple individual intelligent cells made from same material as traditi

New Materials - More Energy from the Battery of the Future | Tomorrow Today

Hopes are riding on electric motors to power the cars of the future. Their Achilles heel is the batteries. They're too heavy, too short-lived and take too long to re-charge.Now

The future of rechargeable batteries

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are developing car and smartphone batteries that can hold 50 percent more energy.

New, more efficient catalyst for water splitting

Discovery could remove hurdle to producing hydrogen from water

New Tesla Patent Lists Method For Charging Lithium-Air Battery

Tesla has filed an updated patent related to metal-air batteries.

Bloqueplás. Sistema Contructivo con Bloques de Plástico Recuperado

Casas de Plástico elaboradas con el sistema constructivo Bloqueplás. La re-utilización del plástico para proyectos arquitectónicos, permite construir casas de manera rápida, con alta durabilidad y bajo costo. Sistema que aporta al cuidado amb

Home Sweet Dome

The Monolithic houses dotting the country that protect against tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires

$6,800 House Made From Recycled Plastic Bricks Was Constructed In 5 Days

This eco-friendly abode is combustion resistant, meets local earthquake-resistance requirements, and is very insulated due to the unique bricks.
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