D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions. Venture Capitalist billionaire, Steve Jurvetson, had been on the board of D-Wave for 17 years. He provides a chart showing the qubit scaling …
Normal US artillery has a range of 20-30 kilometers (12-18 miles) but new ramjet artillery will be able to reach 150 kilometers. The weapons will be able to farther, faster and higher. 150 kilometers means that if you were fighting in Belgium, then you could fire from Brussels to Bastogne. Bastogne was a famous area …
Nammo has made simple modifications for tripling the explosive power of grenade launchers. The modular grenades screw together in a few seconds. Two grenade modules will kill everyone in a room and three grenades destroy the building. SOURCES – Nammo Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a lake discovered two years ago and found three more lakes. Radar data from the European Space Agency Mars Express was analyzed to reveal the lakes. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) sent radio waves that bounce off layers of material in the planet’s surface …
Tesmanian reports that the Tesla Berlin factory will have eight giant casting machines for the manufacturing of Model Y. Giga Presses are the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world, with a clamping force of 6,100-tonne-force (60,000 kN) die casting machines for Giga Berlin. Elon Musk at Battery Day said that Tesla developed new …
At Tesla Battery Day, Elon said that the success of Tesla should be measured by how many years they speed up the electrification of transportation and energy. If Tesla achieves the goals of Tesla Battery Day then they bring forward the electrification of transportation and energy by decades. In 2019, BloombergNEF predicted that energy storage …
There is an arxiv paper “Fused Low-Earth-Orbit GNSS”, by Peter A. Iannucci and Todd E. Humphreys of the Radionavigation Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, that details how low-earth orbit satellites can be modified to provide super-precise GPS. MIT Technology Review indicates that the system would be accurate to 70 centimeters. Simple software upgrades …
The Universe expanded at a far faster rate than the speed of light for a tiny part of the first second of the life of the universe. Geoffrey Landis, NASA Engineer, who has had a great track record with solar sails and interstellar propulsion gave a talk on negative mass at the Interstellar Research Group. …
The double whammy for the European Union GDP is Brexit and COVID. In 2019, the EU had a combined GDP of $18.3 trillion. The UK leaving removes $2.5 trillion. COVID removed another 10-12% in 2020. The Jan, 2021 GDP will be after Brexit is official and enacted on Dec 31, 2020. $15.8 trillion after the …
Elon Musk has tweeted out the SpaceX Starship prototype SN8 with body flaps. The body flaps are moved using electric motors instead of hydraulics. SpaceX will add the nosecone and front flaps next week and Starship SN9 will be ready in October. The first flight for SN8 will be is to 15,000 meters or ~50,000 …
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence monitors and advises the global battery industry. They gave their reaction to Tesla anode and cathode and lithium announcements. The World produced 180 GWh of batteries in 2019. Tesla is going upstream in the battery supply chain. This will change the world from a China-dominated battery supply chain. Piedmont Lithium Limited has …