energy
Kirk Sorensen has been a leader in promoting thorium energy, molten salt nuclear reactors and the liquid fluoride thorium reactor. Kirk formed the company Flibe Energy back in 2011. Nextbigfuture spoke with Kirk frequently when Kirk blogged at Energy from …
Tesla model 3 and model Y have been given 10-31 miles of increased driving range in the latest update. This is likely due to about 5% improvement in Panasonic batteries. Rob Mauer at Tesla Daily summarized the changes in range …
There are dozen nuclear reactors that in applying or in the process of getting vendor design reviews from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. The VDR is divided into three phases, each requiring increasingly more detailed technical information: Phase 1: …
Bruce Power and Westinghouse Electric have agreed to develop applications for Westinghouses leading eVinci micro reactor program within Canada. The reactor has channels for fuel pellets and heat pipes that remove heat from the core and has minimal moving parts. …
University of Rochester researchers squeezed carbonaceous sulfur hydride in a diamond anvil and it superconducted at 15 degrees Celsius under 270 gigapascals of pressure. This is about 2.5 million times regular atmospheric pressure. The bottom of the Mariana Trench has …
Oxford PV will commercially launch a perovskite tandem solar cell that is integrated with standard silicon solar cells in mid-2021 and it will dramatically to improve solar cell performance. They will be built into industry-standard solar PV panels, the tandem …
Commonwealth Fusion Systems new high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable can be engineered into magnets directly applicable to the high magnetic field approach to fusion. The new HTS cable, called VIPER, can carry over fifty thousand amps of current with magnetic fields …
The largest cross-country 18-wheel trucks will need five to 10 times more electricity than an electric car to recharge its battery. And these trucks often need to recharge far from high-power transmission lines. Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energys …
Tesla Battery Day had the goal of the world producing 20 TWh per year of low cost, high energy density batteries. Reaching this goal would enable all new cars, buses, and trucks to be electric and it allows solar and …
Elon Musk says Tesla Berlin will produce and use the new 4680 battery cell and the structural battery pack. Tesla Berlin should be producing cars in Q1 or Q2 of 2021. Berlin will use 4680 cell with structural battery pack …