Elon Musk indicated that SpaceX will test thin ceramic tiles to protect the Super Heavy Starship from re-entry heat instead of using active transpirational cooling. This will only need to be on 10-20% because the steel alloy could handle most of the re-entry temperatures. Transpiration cooling will be added wherever we see erosion of the …
There continues to be many advances on multiple fronts towards the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. SpaceX should have a 20-meter altitude untethered test hop of the Starhopper today. Update: they aborted the Starhopper test just before it left the ground. The Starhopper is about half the height of a full orbital Starship. The Dragon that …
The IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) has a roadmap to one-nanometer semiconductor devices in 2033. The updated IRDS includes new information on cryogenic electronics and quantum information processing, added benchmarks for applications, and supplemental information and metrics from the More Moore team. There is an update to Beyond CMOS and updates for …
Tesla has released its second quarter earnings. The analysts expected $6.41 billion in revenue and a forty cents on adjusted per share loss. Revenue reported was $6.35 billion in revenue and a $1.21 adjusted per share loss. The revenue miss and losses are disappointments and Tesla is trading down about 11% in the after-market. Quarterly …
A video shows some of the interior of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory and there is another video indicated the potential financial impact of the factory in 2020. After spoke with my source in China, I am now more confidence to believe Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory GF3 is capable to reach 3K Model 3 / week production …
A scenario where a modern society could collapse is if the energy returned from new energy sources drops below critical levels. Clearly, if you spend more energy to build a new reactor or solar farm than what the reactor produces overs its lift then your society will start a downward spiral and produce less and …
Indonesia’s state company PT PAL Indonesia signed an agreement with next-generation molten salt nuclear energy company Thorcon International Pte Ltd for a development study and construction of a 500-megawatt reactor. Thorcon still needs to raise more funds to build the reactor and the Indonesian government has not officially approved the reactor project. PAL Indonesia is …
China is reporting a GDP growth rate of 6.3% and unemployment of about 5.1%. The agricultural production situation is relatively good, and the summer grain has achieved a bumper harvest. The total output of summer grain this year has increased by 2.1% , which is the same as the highest output in history in 2017 …
One of the main speculations about future technology is uploading. This is where our minds are copied in exact detail from our biological physical bodies and then created in artificial bodies. Alexander Bolonkin has posited many kinds of technology over the decades. He has a recent work which is summarized here where he considers that …
China is the global leader in electric vehicles sales. Over one million electric cars were sold in China in 2018 which was nearly three times more than the USA. Global electric car sales finished May 2019 with 180,000 sales for the month. This was up 12% on May 2018, with market share at 2.3% in …
AMD has released the 7 nanometer 3900, 3950 and other Ryzen 3 processors. Samsung could be months from production of its 5-nanometer chips. This is all due to EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithography finally getting solved. EUV lithography technology that we were waiting for 15 years for the semiconductor industry to solve. Extreme ultraviolet lithography is …