烏瓦 uploaded a video of the current state of construction at the Tesla Gigafactory 3 in China. There are over a dozen large piledrivers creating the foundation for the Gigafactory 3. Media in China reports that the Gigafactory 3 should be completed in the summer of 2019. Tesla is stepping up its GF3 construction in …
Amazon has led a $700 million investment in electric truck and electric SUV company, Rivian. Amazon and Rivian will develop Amazon delivery vehicles and build out its logistics network. General Motors might also invest in Rivian. Rivian’s CEO R.J. Scaringe told Greentechmedia that they will have a 400-mile range truck with 185 kwh of cattery …
At the end of a long talk, Peter Zeihan predicts the World Population will never hit ten billion. The UN and others are projecting that world population will hit 10 billion in 2050. World population is currently 7.7 to 7.8 billion. In 2017, the UN projected world population will hit 8.6 billion by 2030. Zeihan …
BYD, China’s leading electric car maker, has started building a new battery factory in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. The battery factor will cost 10 billion yuan (about 1.49 billion U. S. dollars. It will have an annual capacity of 20-gigawatt hours (GWh) of batteries. BYD will build eight fully-automated lithium-ion battery production lines to make …
One of the most likely places for a major power war or nuclear war is between India and Pakistan. They each have between 80 and 200 nuclear weapons. This is the most likely place where a major nuclear war could break out. It is important for us to understand the situation and the thinking of …
Elon Musk indicates that a new Tesla AI chip is twenty times faster than Nvidia GPUs for AI. Tesla has a patent for an accelerated mathematical engine for performing complex convolution operations based on matrix multiply operations. Elon Musk indicates data and AI software are the key to creating super safe self-driving cars. Tesla has …
Dr. Walden Rhines, Chief Executive Officer, Mentor Graphics talked about the semiconductor industry. Semiconductors are critical to global technological competition. The world-class semiconductor companies are in the USA, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan and Europe have solid semiconductor technology as well. China lags about 5-10 years behind in this critical technology. China will invest hundreds …
Marc G. Millis, Jeff Greason, Rhonda Stevenson of the Tau Zero Foundation provided a 69-page review to NASA of the Interstellar Flight Challenges and Prospects. A lot of the focus is on the massive speed, distance, and power challenges. We Are Crippled Because We Cannot Really Build in Space The most technically feasible ways to …
Ark Invest is a firm believer in Elon Musk, Tesla and the self-driving car future. For many years, there were people who did not believe in Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Ark Invest believes Tesla will be proven out in a few years just as Amazon was. Ark Invest interviewed Elon Musk for a podcast. Tasha …
Salvatore Cezar Pais is a US Navy researcher. Salvatore has three amazing patents that would be incredible breakthroughs in physics if they are true. The least extreme is a patent for Piezoelectricity-Induced Room Temperature Superconductor. The other two patents are gravity wave generator and inertial mass reduction. If these could be realized as technologies then …
Most financial media coverage is currently predicting conclusive US-China Trade Deal at the March 1, 2019 deadline. Many financial analysts indicate this could trigger a double-digit move upwards in share prices. Bank of America’s Savita Subramanian told that a real deal would add 1 to 2% to earnings in 2019 that is not currently factored …