In 2018, Canada is ranked tenth in the world in nominal GDP. It is a rich developed country. Despite having an economy that is 11 times smaller than the USA or 7 times smaller than China, Canada has world competitive or world-leading projects in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, molecular nanotechnology, nuclear fusion and nuclear-molten salt. …
In July, 2018, Moltex was selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to progress development of its SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor – Wasteburner) technology in New Brunswick, with the aim of deploying its first SSR-W at the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor site before 2030. The agreement provides $5 million of financial …
Sila Nanotechnologies is developing silicon based anodes for lithium-ion batteries. They have raised another $70 million with Sutter Hill Ventures leading the round and other investors include Siemens’ venture firm Next47 and Japan’s ATL. Sila Nanotechnologies will scale production with the funding to get into millions of commercial wearable gadgets in 2019. Angstron Materials, Enovix, …
The US Navy will buy a new ship in 2023 which will be larger than a destroyer but which is not yet called a cruiser. It will be bigger and more expensive than the Arleigh Burke Flight III design and will have more room. The US Ticonderoga class of guided missile cruisers was first ordered …
Pentagon leaders say the U.S. Navy has no intention of altering any operations in the region. Iran has claimed control of the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz. Iran has about 100 small patrol boats that look like large speedboats with an automatic weapon and some other weapons on it. Iran also has anti-ship …
CBS is being sued for plagiarism over Star Trek Discovery. Tardigrades Dev is a game that was announced and submitted onto Steam Greenlight in November, 2014. A blog post from October 2017, describes multiple similar characters. Two gay characters that look like the actors cast in those roles. There are a lot of similarities but …
China has $3.3 billion funding two large molten salt fission reactor projects. There are 400 SINAP (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics) scientists that are working on molten salt reactors at a complex of three new building. There are 200 other researchers working on the same subject but at different institutions. China already generates 60% more …
SpaceX revealed the SpaceX crew dragon which four NASA astronauts will ride into orbit in 2019. Two test flights must go well and then the SpaceX crew dragon will be certified for manned flights for NASA. SpaceX Crew Dragon ship in anechoic chamber for EMI testing before being sent to @NASA Plum Brook vacuum chamber …
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University will use the exaFLOP Aurora supercomputer starting in 2021 to help solve the problems and complexities associated with the ITER tokomak project. Regular Nextbigfuture reader Goatguy notes: we have yet to invent a general AI that can even pass …
The US Navy’s newest 30-year shipbuilding plan gets to 308 ships by 2020, a year faster than the previous administration’s goal of 2021. The target is 326 ships by the end 2023. The US Navy will not reach the goal of 355 ships until the 2050s. The US Navy will refurbish six of the older …
The common argument in the Blockchain world is Proof-of-Work versus Proof of stake. Proof-of-Work is proven while Proof-of-Stake is more energy efficient and more scalable. There is now another solution: TAU Coin and its Proof of Transaction (PoT) technology. TAU is creating the first fair participation economy, where all users are involved in securing the …