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Graphene Dream Becomes a Reality as Miracle Material Enters Production for Better Chips, Batteries
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Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality'
Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor appears to reverse thrust before vanishing behind the sun
Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone
Amazon goes nuclear with new modular reactor plant
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China Innovates: Transforming Sand into Paper
Shelter
Flourishing in our new autonomy requires that we construct secure habitats in which to dwell. Cutting edge materials and methods provide unimaginable new options, allowing us greater mobility, and access to many previously uninhabitable environments.
Bigelow Aerospace Launches New Company to Operate Private Space Stations
A company that builds big, inflatable space habitats has launched a new venture that will market and operate these structures in Earth orbit and beyond.
Heating and ventilating a 10,000 person space station
The National Space Society has a 33-page analysis of heat and energy transport and management for an outline but realistic habitat design.
Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for...
Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for 2 million people by 2040
Engineering The Strongest Foam in the World
Motherboard visits the laboratory of Nikhil Gupta, a professor who is currently working on creating lightweight metal foams that could be a game changer for our transportation of tomorrow.
Coming to a Home Depot near you:
Coming to a Home Depot near you: Tesla's "invisible" solar roof tiles and home energy storage units will become available this year
Scientists Discover Hundreds of 2D Materials That Could Be The Next Graphene
This is so amazing!
Revolutionary small modular nuclear reactors for space and earth applications starting in 2024
The three-year Kilopower safe 4 kilowatt nuclear reactor project started in 2015 with a challenging goal of building and testing a full-scale flight-prototypic nuclear reactor by the end of 2017 mid-2018.
New desalination membrane produces both drinking water and lithium
Seawater is a complex cocktail of useful minerals, but it's hard to separate out the specific ones we need.
TAE Technologies Gen 5 reactor targets tripling confinement with 10 times the power by 2020
TAE Technologies, Inc. (formerly Tri
Alpha Energy), the world's largest and most advanced private fusion company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator, "Norman," surpassed a new tec
New Tesla Model 3 Battery Line Could Increase Output By Factor Of 4
One of the overlooked takeaways from the recent Tesla earnings call was connected to automation in battery module production.
Think and plan a lot bigger in space as the SpaceX BFR will give 1000 times old...
Think and plan a lot bigger in space as the SpaceX BFR will give 1000 times old space capabilities
Crumpled Graphene balls makes better batteries
With its high theoretical capacity and low electrochemical potential, Li would be the ideal anode for Li-ion batteries. However, practical use of the Li anode has been hindered by its tendency for dendritic growth, which leads to unstable solid elect
Removing heavy metals from water: Activated charcoal from palm kernel cake is a low cost biosorbent
(Natural News) Contaminated water contains all sorts of harmful toxins that can result in dangerous diseases in humans. This has led scientists to devise various ways to decontaminate water ---so much so that decontamination has become an industry o
Honda's Mobile Power Pack – One Battery Powers Everything From ATV To Tiny Scooter
Honda recently presented its Mobile Power Pack World – a single battery module for all sorts of different applications.
Selco: The Reality of Barter and Trade in an SHTF Economy
Barter is a hot topic in prepper circles, so I thought we should ask someone who has a lot of real-world experience with trade in a dangerous situation.
How 3D printing is disrupting the architecture and design industry
Three-dimensional printing is one of the most talked-about technologies of this decade.
Super-strong aluminum as strong as steel
Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.
The Swiss army house: Tiny building has furniture folded into its walls that swing out ...
for when you want a bedroom, kitchen or bathroom...This tiny house has furniture folded inside its walls, mimicking the functionality of a Swiss Army Knife. The ninety-six-square-foot building, which cost just £35,000 to build, starts out consistin
Flatpack Urban Farm Grows 6.6 Tons of Food in 538 Square Feet
This flatpack urban farm only takes up 538 square feet, but its creators say that it can yield as much as 6 tonnes (6.6 tons) of fresh produce per year.
Destroying, suppressing evidence is FBI standard procedure
Congressional investigators were rocked this weekend when the FBI notified them that five months of text messages from a top FBI investigator into the Trump campaign's Russian connections had mysteriously vanished.
What it really takes to power your home for a day
Here's how much gas, coal, oil, wind, solar, water, or nuclear fuel is required.
Graphene aerogel is seven times lighter than air, can balance on a blade of grass
Chinese material scientists have created the world's lightest material: A graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air, and 12% lighter than the previous record holder (aerographite).
Iran's Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Arrested For Inciting Unrest:
Iran's Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Arrested For Inciting Unrest: Report
Stronger and tougher fiber created by MIT
MIT has used new gel electrospinning for thinner fibers. This has enabled them to create materials that are stronger and tougher than Kevlar and Dyneema.
China built 2000 meter long solar highway with transparent concrete over solar panels
Qilu Transportation Development Group, a state-owned transport firm operating in Shandong, is completing a 2000 meter solar highway in China.
Los Alamos quantum dots will make cost effective double-pane solar windows
Using two types of "designer" quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure. It's all made possible by a new window architec
Foldimate laundry folding robot can be pre-ordered in 5 days
You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com.
California Supreme Court Set For Ruling That Could Cut Pensions For Public Workers
For decades now public pensions have been guided by one universal rule which stipulates that current public employees can not be 'financially injured' by having their future benefits reduced.
Super aluminum-graphene battery has a 5-second charging time
Material and engineering researchers at East China's Zhejiang University unveiled a "super" aluminum-graphene battery that can be fully charged in 5 seconds and then last for two hours.
New giant 3D printer can build a house in 24 hours
Scientists claim to have developed a revolutionary new giant 3D concrete printer that can build a 2,500-square-foot house in just 24 hours.
CNN Reporter Hides in Bushes to Film Trump Playing Golf
CNN reporters are hiding in bushes to film Trump playing golf. And there you were thinking a news network couldn't behave like a dumped bunny boiler who proceeds to stalk her ex-boyfriend like a total creep.
Want to build an igloo? Here's how.
Before he retired from McGill University, Pieter Sijpke used to give his architecture students some pretty cool homework.
Zaha Hadid's sustainable "sand dune" emerges from the desert
We first reported on Zaha Hadid's sand dune-shaped Bee'ah headquarters back in late 2014. The project is now well underway, with significant sections already finished, and some further details have been revealed regarding its sustainability. It's exp
33% improvement in superconducting magnets to 32 Tesla and 100+ Tesla magnets are on the horizon
The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet -- 33 percent stronger than what had previously been the world's strongest superconducting
Two-Layer Graphene becomes a Diamond-Hard Material on Impact which could make super armor
Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene -- each one-atom thick -- could be made to transform into a diamond-like material upon impact at room tem
Incredible images reveal a futuristic vision inspired by Polynesian traditions
Stunning concept images for the world's first first floating nation have been released as part of a project bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
Researchers have designed a new solar device that may finally make hydrogen cars a reality
(Natural News) Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have crafted a device that can utilize solar energy to effectively and cheaply create and store energy, which could then be used to power electronic devices, and to harness hydro
Battery Breakthrough May Triple the Range on a Single Charge
New research at the University of Waterloo in Canada may triple the range of current batteries.
A battery breakthrough may be on the horizon if Canadian research pans out.
This Upcoming "Black Swan" Event Could Wipe Out Your Life Savings
First "Brexit," then Trump.
Breakthroughs could make commercial laser nuclear fusion through billion times improvements in yield
Two recent scientific breakthroughs have opened a new way to laser fusion reactions according to startup HB11 Energy.
Six Ways US Stocks Most Overvalued in History
US large cap stocks are the most overvalued in history. Let's investigate six ways.
New metallic glass material created by starving atoms of a nucleus
Metallic glass is an emerging type of material, so its secrets are still being discovered. While working with the stuff, a team of Yale researchers created a brand new type of metallic glass, by shrinking samples down to the nanoscale until it forms
Fashion on the final frontier: The story of the spacesuit
Ever since NASA retired the silver lamé Mercury spacesuits of the early 1960s astronauts have fallen a little behind in the fashion department, but now a new generation of spacesuits is being developed for both the public and private sectors.
Game changing nuclear molten salt reactor will be cheaper than natural gas
Recently , Terrestrial Energy Inc.'s (TEI) announced the completion of the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor design review.
Thorcon floating supertanker molten salt reactors starting with 2021 prototype
ThorCon is a liquid-fuel fission power plant, under development in the US, to be built in a far-east shipyard, then floated to Indonesia, with testing starting in 2021.
Heat only nuclear plants proposed to get rid of coal power at one third the cost
There has been proposal in China to switch from fossil fuel burners to "swimming pool" nuclear reactors.
NASA testing ultra-simple small nuclear reactors that will power missions to Mars and beyond
NASA is pushing forward on testing a key energy source that could literally "empower" human crews on the Mars surface, energizing habitats and running on-the-spot processing equipment to transform Red Planet resources into oxygen, water and fuel.
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Icyball
IcyBall was a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (filed 1927, granted 1929), and manufactured by American Powel C
20 kWh Powerwall working beyond expectations!
This project is now at 40kwh of storage with fully configurable BMS from http://www.batrium.com.