Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has won a contract from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft. The in-space flight demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle will take place no later than 2027. The project is called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). DARPA partnered with NASA’s …
Microsoft will integrate small modular nuclear reactors and microreactors to power Microsoft Cloud and AI datacenters. Artificial intelligence takes a lot of compute power, and Microsoft is putting together a road map for powering that computation with small nuclear reactors. Data Centers already use 20% of the electricity in the United States. 10% for regular …
Billionaire David Sacks of the All in Podcast explains how CEO Sam Altman will won most of OpenAI. Sacks says that the funding for OpenAI has been a capped return model. Capped return means that investors get returns up to some multiple say 10X or 100X. When they get their return then there shares revert …
Nextbigfuture is a top 1% predictor at the public prediction site Metaculus. My overall rank is 45 out of over 5000 forecasters and ranked 31st based on predictions resolved in the past 12 months. Only 8 predictions out of 238 were wrong for predictions resolved in 2023. 230 correct out of 238 predictions resolved in …
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $17.5 million contract option to X-energy develop an enhanced engineering design (second mobile reactor) for a transportable microreactor suitable for both commercial and defense use under the Project Pele initiative. X-energy has developed the Xe-Mobile – a power generation system that can be delivered to the …
The Boring Company (TBC) has been building tunnels at about 40 meters per day. This is for the digging and for the concrete reinforcement of the tunnel. Will at the Boring Revolution Youtube channel has spotted hundreds of hexagonal concrete segments at the Boring Company. This means that Boring Company has changed its tunnel walls …
Rolls Royce has made nuclear reactors for submarines and is in the second year of a micro nuclear fission reactor design effort. They will use encapsulated uranium fuel aka a pebble bed nuclear reactor. It will have heat pipes to move the heat from the core. The full sized reactor model and design will be …
Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion power company, and Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, announced an agreement to develop a 500 MWe fusion power plant at a Nucor steel manufacturing facility in the United States. This collaboration is aimed at accelerating the future of clean energy in the industrial manufacturing …
The Tesla Teslabot and the Agility Robotics Digit will both be mass produced in the thousands in 2024. Agility Robotics announced a factory they had started last year would be completed and in production late in 2023. Mass production takes a few months to ramp up. The Agility Robotics factory will have a capacity of …
One of the Pepsi Tesla Semi Trucks was driven for 1076 Miles in one day. This was on the 17th day when the three trucks had over 2600 miles of combined driving in one day. This shows that Tesla Semis can have multiple fast chargings in one day to give 240% of the trucks range …
