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Brain-inspired chip could reduce AI energy use by 70%
CANCER HAS BEEN CURED
"This is the first synthetic species," microbiologist J. Craig Venter told 60 Minutes'
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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This is a bioprinter printing with living human cells in real time
The remarkable initiative is called The Uncensored Library,...
Researcher wins 1 bitcoin bounty for 'largest quantum attack' on underlying tech
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Toyota Says It'll Launch Solid-State Battery EVs In 2022
We feel like we've heard this countless times already, but here we go again.
MXene Combines Supercapacitor Tech With Large Format EV Batteries
Researchers in Drexel University's College of Engineering are developing a new battery electrode design that will enable recharging in minutes…or even seconds.
Metallic Hydrogen claim, criticisms and rebutal
The Metallic Hydrogen Wigner–Huntington transition is only a piece of the story, – the problem of high pressure hydrogen metallization is much more interesting than we thought just a few years ago, with intriguing intermediate phases with unexpec
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 –
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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.