australiaThe Oceans and Kelp are Critical to Solving Climate Change

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February 18, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Trees can help with climate change and CO2 emissions but we would need about 150 Brazilian rain forests to offset current global emissions. This would be about 50 trillion trees. A more powerful biological offset would be to use kelp …
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asteroidsFifth Asteroid Day is on June 30, 2019 But There Will Be a Full Week of Events

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February 17, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Asteroid Day is the official United Nations’ day of global awareness and education about asteroids. The World will celebrate the fifth anniversary on June 30, 2019. There will be thousands of independent events organized by citizens around the world on …
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Nuclear Fission is a Better Energy Solution than Solar and Wind for the Climate

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February 17, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Michael Shellenberger is the President, Environmental Progress and he described the flaws with depending upon solar and wind to solve the climate issues. Environmental Progress saved several nuclear power plants in the US and around the world. The clean energy …
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energyITER and Many Nuclear Fusion Startups Use Misleading Power Terms

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February 17, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
The Nuclear Fusion industry has been working towards various kinds of milestones in energy generation and various kinds of energy breakeven. The public only cares about the point when the fusion reactor will continually generate commercial power at a price …
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colonizationGateway Foundation Simplifies What is Still an Ambitious Space Station

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February 16, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Gateway Spaceport is a membership funded organization that wants to create next-generation space stations. Nextbigfuture has written about their earlier designs for an orbiting spaceport. They have made nice renderings and animations of their designs and construction methods. The Gateway …
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artificial intelligenceA Tsunami of Fake News is On Its Way and Here is How

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February 16, 2019 | christina wong |
 
The Elon Musk funded OpenAI non-profit has created a breakthrough system for writing high-quality text. It can write text, performs basic reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization and all without task-specific training. The system is able to take …
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elon muskElon Musk Believes Super Heavy Starship Will Eventually Be Built for Less than Falcon 9

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February 15, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Elon Musk believes there is a path for the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) to be built for less than a Falcon 9. Currently, a single use SpaceX Falcon 9 can be purchased for about $62 million. The estimates for …
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businessBillionaire Naval Ravikant Provides Keys to Getting Rich

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February 15, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList. He has invested in more than 100 companies, including Uber, Twitter, Yammer, and many others. His current net worth is over $2.2 billion. He is president of Clarium Capital and …
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artificial intelligenceUS Navy Buys Four Large Robotic Submarine Drones

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February 15, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
The US Navy will pay Boeing $43-million to buy four Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (Robotic submarine drones or XLUUVs). Boeing based its winning Orca XLUUV design on its Echo Voyager unmanned diesel-electric submersible. The 51-foot-long sub will launch …
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