SpaceX is increasing the thrust of the Raptor engines to 300 tons of thrust. 28 Raptor engines will provide 7500 tons of thrust for the Super Heavy Booster. The 15 million pounds of thrust is five times the 3 million pounds of the SLS booster which was tested recently. The first stage of the Saturn …
The walls and roof for the first factory building at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin are done. There appear to be four main buildings and several smaller ones. Tesla has published plans which show four main buildings and about eight smaller ones. SOURCES- Tesla, GigaBerlin Youtube Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
US Federal Reserve Chairman James Powell has said interest rates are likely to stay low for years as the economy fights its way back from the coronavirus pandemic. For decades, the goal of US Federal Reserve was to control inflation. Inflation control has now been de-emphasized, the main goal is now maximizing employment. This is …
Serbia and Kosovo have committed to economic normalization. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a real breakthrough on economic cooperation across a broad range of issues. Kosovo and Israel have agreed to normalization of ties and the establishment of diplomatic relations. Serbia has committed to opening …
Nextbigfuture has had dozens of articles covering the experimental and theoretical propellantless propulsion system of James Woodward. In 2017-2018, there was belief that significant propulsion effects were realized. The actual experiments were at 1-5 micronewtons but there was hope of scaling it with increased power to 60 millinewtons with a kilowatt system. However, errors were …
The SpaceX SN6 Starship prototype had a successful 150-meter hop test. This is the second SpaceX 150 meter hop test using a prototype Starship. There was Starhopper test flight in 2019. Elon Musk tweeted there will be several short hop tests to ensure they have the launch process completely worked out. They will than add …
SpaceX has tweeted out that Starlink is providing over 100 Mbps download speeds in user tests. They launched the twelfth batch of 60 Starlink satellites. The speed and low latency is fast enough to stream multiple HD movies at once and still have bandwidth to spare. It also can play any online game. Latency tests …
Pfizer and BioNTech have a COVID-19 mRNA (messenger RNA) Vaccine candidate in a phase 3 trial. Pfizer will have up to 30,000 participants in phase 3 clinical trial that started in July 2020. As of Aug 20, 2020 they had enrolled more than 11,000 participants. BNT162b2 remains under clinical study and is not currently approved …
Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputer modeling analysis suggests COVID-19 causes the inflammatory molecule bradykinin to run amuck in the human body. The Bradykinin storm cause gel to form in the lungs and the blood vessels to leak. The same analysis identifies about ten interventions to reduce the severity of COVID-19. An easy precaution is to …
A letter from Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is telling states they will soon be receiving permit applications from McKesson Corp to distribute vaccines to places including state and local health departments and hospitals. The CDC is urgently requesting state governor assistance in expediting applications for vaccine distribution …
Mark Twain said history does not repeat but it often rhymes. This will likely be the case with the future of lithium-based battery storage having a dominance like silicon was dominant for decades for computer chips. The silicon chip was invented in 1961 by Robert Noyce (Fairchild, Intel) and Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments). Silicon is …