China has created the HH70 device, the world’s first fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device, named HH70, in its eastern Municipality of Shanghai. By 2027, Energy Singularity aims to build a next-generation tokamak, a steady-state, high-magnetic-field, high-temperature superconducting model. This project will lay the groundwork for commercially viable fusion energy acquisition, with an ultimate goal of …
Applied Physics unveils a new type of warp drive—a theoretical method of space travel that complies with general relativity and operates at a constant subluminal speed without requiring unphysical forms of matter. They have created the Warp Factory which is open source software for testing out Warp drive designs. Warp Factory is one of the …
The Supreme Court overruled the Chevron Deference. This ruling has existed for 40 years. It was the courts letting regulatory agencies of the US government decide about ambiguous situations. The courts would decide about facts but let the agencies interpret many things. The Agencies are not allowed to make things up as they go along. …
China had 65% of global wind production in 2023. China wind power domination goes along with domination of solar power production. China has about 80-85% of solar power manufacturing capacity. Four Chinese wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are in the top five global companies in wind. 16.3 gigawatts (GW) wind was installed. Goldwind maintained …
Several hundred pounds of weight savings from less EMI (electromagnetic interference shielding) materials would reduce EV (electric vehicle) weight which will reduce batteries needed for EVs. This will reduce EV cost by $2200. This will be the impact of 99.7% efficient inverters. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …
CATL is using condensed battery (500 Watt hours per kg) is developing electric aircraft started with smaller planes, ranging from 1-ton to 8.8-ton, Zeng said at the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo on May 22 in Macau. CATL was already test-flying 4-ton aircraft, but reaching a commercial level will require success with aircraft …
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration used a Porsche Taycan and was conducted in collaboration with Volkswagen Group of America using the ORNL-developed polyphase wireless charging system. As a light-duty passenger vehicle, the Porsche Taycan …
Elon Musk announced Tesla’s plans to expand its AI hardware capabilities, aiming to increase power and cooling capacity from 130MW to over 500MW within the next 18 months. The expansion will support a mix of Tesla’s own AI hardware and Nvidia/other chips, with a goal to have half of the AI compute building dedicated to …
The Milestone June 8, 1974 agreement between the USA and Saudi Arabia was not about exclusively pricing oil in US dollars. It was about enabling Saudi Arabia to use its windfall of oil money into the US economy. The petrodollar system does and did become dominant but it was for mutual economic benefit. The non-renewal …
June 10, 2024 TerraPower, celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium reactor demonstration project. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction in the USA. “This groundbreaking represents the beginning of the next era of nuclear energy. The Natrium reactor is more than a design, it’s a plant coming …
There is massive growth in the utility-scale US solar market . It is driving record solar deployment figures as the segment added nearly 10 GW of new capacity in Q1. Florida and Texas saw strong utility-scale growth and led all states for new solar capacity in Q1. Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to double …