Inside EV shows that the Tesla model 3 was the top-selling electric car in the US in both January and February of 2018. February is the slowest car selling month in China. Electric car sales were around 34,000 which were up 88% over Feb 2017. China’s EV car sales were double the US EV car …
Toyota has temporarily suspended its self-driving car program after Uber fatal self-driving car accident. it would t suspend testing of its ‘Chauffeur’ autonomous driving system on US roads. Toyota (TM) had been road-testing robot vehicles in Michigan and California. The number of self-driving vehicles being tested by Toyota was “small” and didn’t specify how long …
The Piz Daint supercomputer is a Cray XC50. It was upgraded for about $42 million with almost 5000 Nvidia processors late in 2016. With a peak performance of seven petaflops, “Piz Daint” has been Europe’s fastest supercomputer since its debut in November 2013. It remains number one thanks to a hardware upgrade in late 2016, …
Japan has selected a Cray XC50 supercomputer to support its mission to advance nuclear fusion research and development. It will be a 4 petaflop computer that will replace a 1.5-petaflop Bullx cluster known as Helios that was shutdown already. It will be the world’s fastest supercomputer used for fusion energy research. Currently the most powerful …
EPRI, the electric utility industry’s R&D collaboration, thinks that advanced nuclear could dominate the US power sector. EPRI has a detailed analysis of what it would take to fix nuclear energy in the USA. Extensive deployment of advanced nuclear would likely require new policies, innovation in technologies to significantly lower costs, and/or innovation in business …
In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, “And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” According to the myth, God thwarted this effort by creating diverse languages so that they could no longer …
The US Navy wants to have contract for two aircraft carriers at time to potentially save $1.25 billion for each and get a new carrier every 3 to 4 years instead of every 5 years. * five percent cost savings from buying components for two ships at once. * smart acquisition measures and other efficiencies …
Almost 1 in 5 women in Japanese prisons is a senior. Their crimes are usually minor—9 in 10 senior women who’ve been convicted were found guilty of shoplifting. Japan has about 50 to 60 thousand people in prison. The number of Japanese seniors living alone increased by 600 percent between 1985 and 2015 to almost …
Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, told Congress that the US does not have any defenses against hypersonic weapons being developed by Russia and China. US Strategic Command is in charge of the nuclear weapons of the USA. General Hyten says he strongly agrees with the need for a low-yield nuclear …
Russia’s most advanced Avangard hypersonic strategic missile system is expected to come into service no later than 2019, a source in the Russian defense sector told TASS. Putin announced during his annual State of the Union address on March 1 that the Avangard HGV (Hypersonic glide vehicle), developed under the secret Project 4202 and codenamed …
Researchers at Leti, a CEA Tech institute, recently developed an electron holography technique capable of imaging material structures with a spatial resolution of just one atom. Electron holography, a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) technique, can be used to image a material’s crystal lattice, delivering valuable insights into the material’s electrostatic potential. Crystal lattices, which are …