Plug-in electric car sales in China in October 2021 more than doubled October 2020 to over 325,000. Battery electric cars are now over 13% of China’s total new car market. The share of battery electric cars is rapidly growing in China and Europe. Germany is 30% EV. A rapid shift four to six year shift …
Grace Tao, vice president of Tesla China, said Giga Shanghai could reach its 500,000 vehicle production target this year. This means Tesla China will make at least 195,000 cars. It will also mean that Tesla will produce an average of at least 70,000 cars in November and December. 70,000 cars per month would be 840,000 …
The USA is increasing its lead in per capita income (Purchasing power parity and nominal income) versus major European countries, Japan and Latin American and central american countries. Only faster growing asian countries are catching up in per capita income compared to the USA. The rate of catchup for Asian countries has slowed. The pandemic …
China is developing a megawatt nuclear reactor for moon and Mars missions according to the South China Morning Post. Jiang Jieqiong, a professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Nuclear Safety Technology, has suggested that the nuclear reactor could use a foldable structure – similar to an umbrella – to increase the surface …
Tesla sold more cars of any kind than all other carmakers other than Toyota and Honda in California in the third quarter of 2021. California passed 10% for EV sales in the third quarter. Passing 10% for EVs for total car sales seems to be a major milestone. Norway went from 10% EV sales to …
Stanford research on whale feeding highlights how the precipitous decline of large marine mammals has negatively impacted the health and productivity of ocean ecosystems. Nextbigfuture had a video highlighting the problem of lack of whales and whale poop. Nextbigfuture also identified how iron fertilization of the ocean by humans could take the place of whales …
French President Emmanuel Macron said France will build six new nuclear reactors. This will keep France’s energy costs at a “reasonable” level and reduce dependence on imports. France will save energy and invest in domestic carbon-free energy production. Nuclear power was at the heart of Macron’s France 2030 plan for re-industrialization which was announced last …
Robert Zubrin was interviewed on the History Unplugged podcast about the critical transformation of humanity with from a new age of discovery. I will review Zubrin key points to understand old age of discovery and how it will apply to the colonization of the solar system in the decades ahead. I will also look at …
The number of Chinese provinces with significant power shortages is down to two in mid-October instead of 18 at the start of the month. The number of coal power plants with dangerously low coal stockpiles (less than 7 days) has also decreased by 90%. China’s coal imports jumped 76% in September from the level of …
There is a bet on the prediction site Metaculus, that asks will US labor force participation drop below 10%? The formulation of the argument for the question focuses on automation and a related question on Whole Brain Emulation or other paths to Artificial General Intelligence. The U.S. labor participation rate stood at 61.4% as of …
Dr. Eli David and others have noted that UN food program gets over $8 billion per year to reduce world hunger. UN director said that $6B could save 42 million, not end world hunger. The UN director, David Beasley, asked for $6 billion from Elon Musk to save 42 million people. the World Food Program …
