Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX Starship will travel across the solar system and to the cloud of objects around us. The cloud of objects around us are either referring to the Kuiper Belt (35-80AU and possibly larger) and the Oort Comet Cloud (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). Nextbigfuture has covered recent research findings that the Kuiper …
Chinese researchers are making variations of LK99 room temperature superconductor materials with more sulfur and copper in the chemistry. They are publishing results with stronger magnetic indications of a Meissner effect. The chinese researchers have been online discussing their room temperature superconducting research and the challenges of the materials. Here are the issues discussed. * …
Lex Fridman had another interview of Sam Altman of OpenAI. The highlights: Coding will go away. We will just talk to AI to describe what we want and AI will create it in code. Sam still will not talk about OpenAI Q-Star. Therefore, we know it is still real and big breakthrough. We just do …
Lordstown Motors has completed a bankruptcy deal. GM invested $75 million in the EV startup Lordstown Motors in 2019, and then sold in late 2021. GM invested as part of the sale of an Ohio plant to the electric vehicle startup as well as a $675 million SPAC deal that took Lordstown public. Lordstown Motor …
Charge Enterprises built electric charging for dealers, hotels and other business customers. They made as much as $750 million per year in revenue but almost always had losses. GM and Stellantis were among the funders and customers of Charge Enterprises. In August 2023, GM, Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Kia, and Stellantis announced a $1 billion …
Youtuber JerryRigEverything tested the Tesla Cybertruck against different caliber bullets a.22, a .17, a few 9mm, and of course a 223 and .50 cal round. He also tested the towing range in cold weather pulling the maximum 11000 pound load. Scroll down for the results or watch the videos: The Cybertruck resisted .22 and 9mm …
Tesla has launched a program that will let people take early delivery of a Foundation Series Cybertruck if they were a $TSLA shareholder on Feb. 28, 2021 and owned at least 500 $TSLA shares on Feb. 29, 2024. Cybertruck reservation must have been made prior to March 1st, 2024. BREAKING: Tesla has launched a program …
NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 2 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, was contacted by the Nano Nuclear team for a correction that their initial nuclear fission reactors will be 1-2 …
Japan’s overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan’s working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from the 1990s to today correlates with the working age population collapse. It is also the aging of the population. The median age …
The Doroni H1-X is a design for new two-passenger eVTOL that sets new standard for efficiency, sustainability, and versatility in air mobility. A full-scale system will have test flights by the end of this year, 2024. Doroni has $3.8 million in funding. The Doroni H1-X is an electric flying car that has an estimated cost …
Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson’s team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, …