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elon muskElon Musk will have to prove the funding at time of Tesla buyout or risk jail like Martha Stewart

August 17, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Harvey Pitt says Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces potential civil and criminal charges. Elon Musk needs to demonstrate that at the time he tweeted about the Tesla going private that Elon had a …
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energyNuclear energy generation should add 26 GWe in 2018 and 2019

August 17, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Global nuclear power generation in 2017 increased for the fifth consecutive year and reached 2506 TWh. At the end of 2017 the global nuclear capacity of the 448 operable reactors stood at 392 GWe, up 2 GWe compared with the …
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physicsClaimed Room Temperature Superconductor awaits independent confirmation

August 16, 2018 | brian wang |
 
The Indian chemists who posted an Arxiv paper that nanostructured silver and gold are room temperature superconductors are well-regarded chemical physicists from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. The researchers are not sharing their samples or their data. …
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energyGlobal Solar and Wind has to increase by about five times to provide all of annual increase in electricity

August 16, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Global solar power is projected to go from 500 TWh in 2018 to about 900 TWh in 2022. Global wind power is projected to go from 1200 TWh in 2018 to about 1600 TWh in 2022. This will cost over …
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economyResearchers projected post-2008 crisis growth onto the world through 2100 and then talked about 7% economic cost of climate damage

August 16, 2018 | brian wang |
 
A research paper claims that if the world stays at 2 degrees celsius of warming versus going up to 4 degrees celsius of warming then the world economy will be US$17.5 trillion per year stronger in 2100. At 4 degrees …
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batteriesTesla Semi truck should start production in 2019

August 15, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Tesla should start production of the electric Semi truck starting in 2019. The Semi will share many components with the Model 3. The Semi will use four Model 3 electric motors and the two touchscreens on the driver’s console. The …
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chinaGlobal Renewable power spending has been virtually flat for seven years and most countries will need expensive grid upgrades to handle more solar and wind

August 15, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Global investment in renewable energy (Solar, Wind, Hydro and biofuel) edged up 2% in 2017 to $279.8 billion, taking cumulative investment since 2010 to $2.2 trillion. The level of global renewable power spending has been virtually flat for seven years. …
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economic impactUSA weak but long recovery could last another ten years

August 15, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Based upon elapsed time since the last recession the USA is due for another recession. However, the US recovery has been exceptionally weak. Previous growth cycles in the USA have had 40% to 90% cumulative GDP growth. The USA is …
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energyGold and silver nanostructures claimed to have room temperature superconductivity

August 15, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures Despite being a low temperature phenomenon till date, superconductivity has found numerous applications in diverse fields of medicine, science and engineering. The great scientific interest in the phenomenon …
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environmentPotential global warming solution with rapid magnesite creation

August 14, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale then it can help offset global warming. A tonne of naturally-occurring magnesite can remove around half …
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