Austria is allowing electric cars to drive at 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) instead of 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph) on the IG-L highway. This affects 440 kilometers of highway. The next step is to open bus lanes for e-cars and offer free parking for e-cars. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought …
Stocks in Asia were mainly higher on Friday morning on the back of Wall Street gains and comments from U.S. President Donald Trump indicating progress in trade negotiations with China. Trump Tweet – Just had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping of China. We talked about many subjects, with a heavy …
Simulations have been used to analyze geoengineering to mimic the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions. Aerosols would be dispersed from balloons or airplanes at approximately 15 and 30 degrees latitude on both sides of the equator. The desired results would be reduced surface warming and a positive change in the temperature gradient. Researchers ran 20 …
Mayer Hillman is a climate doomer. His April 26, 2018 article in the Guardian UK is titled ‘We’re doomed’: Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention. Hillman is an 86-year-old social scientist. He is a British architect and town planner. An old architect has no ideas for how to address …
An Australian study notes that China’s army has sent 2500 scientists to foreign universities over the last ten years. * China’s military sent 2500 scientists to study in western universities * Australia has nearly 50% foreign born scientists * The US is dependent upon foreign born scientists and engineers including those from China * China …
Mixing magnetic nanoparticles into battery electrode materials and applying a light magnetic field doubles the discharge rate of batteries. 24M is making prototype batteries using this magnetic approach. Zunum will use the batteries for electric planes. The batteries must be able to deliver a massive amount of power at takeoff. They must have energy density …
Cray is building new Shasta Supercomputers. The first will be built for $146 million at Berkeley National Labs. It will use AMD Epyc processor and the next-generation Einstein Nvidia Tesla GPU accelerator. The “Perlmutter” NERSC-9 supercomputer will be installed in late 2020. Cray has built a new interconnect, called “Slingshot”. The current Cori NERSC-8 machine …
Ford has an ad where they diss keynote addresses and claim only the building of things matters. Building and executing is highly critical but if that was all that mattered then the future will be China’s. China is building more cars than the USA. China is building 24 million cars per year versus 18 million …
Tesla had registered a total of 61,843 Model 3 VINs in October. Elon Musk noted that a ramp to 7,000 Model 3 per week should be doable just by optimizing its existing lines. To date, 69,712 dual motor VINs have been registered w/ NHTSA (excl. test batches). This represents ~56% of all VINs registered (123,551) …
The World Wildlife Living Planet Report 2018 report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of our natural world. They track 16,704 populations of 4,005 vertebrate species, the LPI finds that global populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have declined, on average, by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014, the most recent year …
If Bitcoin is implemented at similar rates at which other technologies have been incorporated, then Bitcoin alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033. Peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change – Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°Celsius. A team of UH Mānoa researchers analyzed information such …