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Canadian researchers at the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) facility at INRS, generated 300 terawatt laser pulses (3 joules for a 10-femtosecond pulse). They plan to repeat the experiment with an energy of 3 petawatts (3000 trillion Watts – 13 …
Russia’s military is so meaningless to the US that the annual report on the capabilities of Russia’s armed forces is two pages long and a one-paragraph disclaimer. Oil and gas production makes up about 39% of Russia’s economy. Oil prices …
Tesla is trading at a valuation of over $250 billion. If Tesla has no factory shutdowns they will build another 55,000 cars in future quarters and they are expanding capacity. This could be 160,000 cars in the third quarter and …
Scientists attending the International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems in Bali, Indonesia, were excited by ThorCon CEO Lars Jorgensens presentation of the design of the TMSR-500 liquid fission power plant. Companies in Indonesia and the government of Indonesia are …
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) forecasted in the Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020 that battery pack prices will get below $100/kWh in 2024 and reach $61/kwh in 2030. EV battery demand has a slow start to the decade, with 2020 shipments …
Other carmakers had second-quarter auto sales drop 24-49%. Tesla grew auto deliveries from first quarter to second quarter. The expectation is that car sales will recover to nearly normal levels for Q3 and Q4. SOURCE – CNBC Written By Brian …
In February 2020, I wrote a Nextbigfuture newsletter about my bull case for Tesla. I have a variation on the high functioning EV company Ark Invest case which has a $3400 price target for 2024. The Ark Invest case assumes …
Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute has written Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.” An article covering his book was published and then censored at Forbes. The Breakthrough Institute has scientists on the staff. Zeke Hausfather, Director of …
There is a company called Nikola which claims they will sell semi-trucks using hydrogen. Amazingly, with virtually no revenue and no vehicles made, Nikola is worth over $22 billion. They say they will lease the vehicles and get hydrogen for …
Dr. Steven Howe identified an antimatter niche for the acceleration of small unmanned interstellar probes. Small amounts of antimatter can be used to initiate fission events whose daughters provided thrust. * use a dedicated customer $670 million accelerator to produce …