JGC Holdings (Japanese company) has invested $40 million for a roughly 3% stake in NuScale, developing small modular pressure water nuclear reactor. The Japanese group will work with NuScale’s parent, U.S.-based engineering company Fluor, on construction management and other aspects of the Idaho project. The partners will eventually make similar projects in the Middle East …
BridgeComm, a leader in optical wireless communications, announced it has developed high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100GB per second and will offer point-to-point demos at the Hampton Inn in Sneads Ferry, NC, in conjunction with a global conference April 6-15. This project, which has already confirmed 100gbps connectivity in the lab, is enabled by …
Dr. Rich Madonna gave a talk on Caltech’s SSPP (Space based solar power project) this past week. Attendees of his talk are the leaders in the Space Based Solar Power community. · Dr. Paul Jaffe (UMD) · John Bucknell (Virtus Solis) · Dr. Al Globus (UC San Jose) · Skylar Hoffert (student) · Dr. John …
The US military tested a pizza box sized solar power module – Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM) in space. It was first launched in May 2020, attached to the Pentagon’s X-37B unmanned drone. Orbital Demonstrations for Large-Scale Deployable SPS The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is executing a major demonstration project with the goal of …
If we look at the mortality tables, it can explain why reversing aging damage reversal has to work very well for people to live very long lives. Let us imagine that we are able to reverse aging damage so that someone is 65 or older has the same amount of aging as someone who is …
A pig or chicken spends its life-consuming feed concentrates while most beef is raised on grass to a weight of 750 pounds prior to entering the feedyard. The average slaughter weight of a steer is 1,300 pounds, so only the last 550 pounds of beef is produced from grain. Thus, beef only uses 2.5 pounds …
Peter Chapman, CEO and president at IonQ, discusses IonQ going public via a special purpose acquisition company deal with dMY Technology Group. IonQ will have a market capitalization of $2 billion. Chapman believes quantum computing will become mainstream and real-life issues it can solve. Quantum computing is very good at optimization problems with a cost …
China will build 2 Million hectares (20 billion square meters) of controlled environment greenhouses by 2025 and this will produce half of their vegetables and crop needs. Temperature, humidity, lighting would all be under controlled conditions. It would not matter if there were new extreme temperature swings outside or if there was drought. The needed …
There are various doomers who say because of climate change farming and food production will collapse by 2060 but they ignore that greenhouses are built in the desert. UN Food and Agriculture Organization study from 2015, under a high-emission climate scenario, harvest reductions by 2100 of between -20 and -45 percent are expected for maize …
Ukraine’s army commander Gen Ruslan Khomchak says Russia has deployed 28 battalion tactical groups near Ukraine’s eastern border and in Crimea. This is 20,000-25,000 troops. Russian officials have not confirmed that, nor given any precise figures. The Russian military has confirmed that an airborne assault brigade – about 4,000 troops – is being redeployed to …
Tesla produced just over 180,000 vehicles and delivered nearly 185,000 vehicles in Q1 2021. Model Y in China is doing well and ramping to full production capacity. The new Model S and Model X have also been exceptionally well received, with the new equipment installed and tested in Q1 and they are in the early …