There were hundreds of heatwave deaths in the Pacific Northwest of North America this year. Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly — one as old as 97. In Canada, British Columbia’s chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, said her office received reports of at least 486 …
The Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) generated reliable electricity for the New York State. Indian Point permanently stopped generating electricity on April 30, 2021, when it retired its last operating nuclear reactor, Unit 3, earlier than originally planned. The Indian Point nuclear power plant began operations in 1962 and produced over 565 terawatthours (TWh) …
China has been pretty good at large engineering projects. Readers of Nextbigfuture over the last 15 years know that Nextbigfuture tracks all of China’s megaprojects and all of the major space, energy and technology projects that have ever been proposed. China does not have infinite funds and I will go over the fundamental engineering, science, …
Richard Branson is racing Jeff Bezos to their first sub-orbital flight into space. Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Galactic. He plans to fly into space aboard his company’s VSS Unity rocketplane on July 11 for an up-and-down test flight. Amazon-founder and rival Jeff Bezos plans to fly on his Blue Origin rocket into …
Tesla delivered 201,250 cars in Q2 and produced 206,421. This was slightly higher than analyst expectations and was in spite of automobile industry chip shortages. The production was up 14% of the first quarter of the year and up 115% from 2020 Q2. Tesla delivered about 17000 more cars in Q2 vs Q1. This means …
Antiaging gene therapies to overexpress TERT and Follistatin were used in a mouse model. The mice saw a 41 and 32% increase in median life span. The study also used a novel viral vector, cytomegalovirus for the delivery. Liz Parish of Bioviva has treated herself with all of these antiaging gene therapies. If humans experienced …
Casgains Academy presents the career of Cathie Wood. Cathie Wood was an economic analyst in the late 1970s and 1980s when there was high inflation. Many noted experts believed that high inflation was going to stay for a long time. Cathie predicted that high inflation would go away soon and she ended up being correct. …
At the Mobile World Congress 2021, Elon Musk discusses the overall strategy around the SpaceX Starlink internet service and the goal to reach 500,000 users in the next 12 months. Starlink is filling in the gaps between 5G and fiber. Starlink will help the hardest to reach 3-5% of the world’s users. The combined power …
China has approved constructing a Demo multi-purpose 125 MWe pressurized ACP100 water reactor (PWR) (aka Linglong One) is designed for electricity production, heating, steam production or seawater desalination. The demonstration ACP100 plant would be located on the north-west side of the existing Changjiang nuclear power plant, according to a March 2019 announcement from China’s Ministry …
The Indian Delta Variant of COVID has over twice the transmission rate of the original COVID and is hitting parts of Asia and Africa that mostly avoided COVID in 2020. Brazil, India, Colombia and Argentina have the most COVID cases this week. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan will have a lot more cases in the coming weeks. …
Forbes and Fortune lists the wealth of the world’s billionaires but they can mainly track the ownership in public companies or widely publicized holdings in disclosure documents. Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal and founder of Palantir, was able to turn $2000 in a Roth IRA into $5 billion. Thiel purchased some of his Paypal founder …
