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US Navy buying $81 million in heat resistant batteries for hypersonic railguns
The U.S. Navy placed an $81.4 million order with K2 Energy Solutions Inc. for a battery system to power an electromagnetic railgun. K2 will design and build the lithium-ion storage system.The U.S. Navy...
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Production of 300,000 fuel pebbles per year will start in August as China...
Qualification irradiation tests of fuel elements for the demonstration HTR-PM high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) plant being built at Shidaowan, China, have been completed in the...
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Electric Scooter with vending machine like battery swaps in 6 seconds would...
The Gogoro Smartscooter was revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is the first high-performance, zero emissions, connected two-wheeled electric vehicle on the market—but in many ways the bigger...
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Spacex will try again to launch ISS mission with chance of proving reusable...
Spacex will again try to launch what could be a rocket that will attempt to successfully land its first stage on a barge. This will enable recovery and reuse. This is the link to the livestream...
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Spacex first stage reaches the barge but landing was too hard - ISS mission...
SpaceX lofted a Dragon cargo capsule on its way to the International Space Station early Saturday, but a highly anticipated attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket booster on an ocean platform ended with the...
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Spacex has once per month launch schedule but targeting twice per month
Spacex has an aggressive launch schedule for 2015. They are going to try to launch about once per month. They plan to ramp to twice per month launchesThe Spacex manifest of upcoming missions does not...
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2015 World car sales forecast 74 million cars, China 19 million, USA 17 million
Canada's Scotiabank has a Global Auto Report They reported 71 million cars were produced in 2014 and expect 74 million cars for 2015.China Will Continue To Lead Global GainsChina will continue to be...
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Lithium ion sulfur with polymer membrane safe enough for future car batteries...
Greencarcongress reports researchers added a polysulfide to the polymer membranes during their synthesis with the aim to reduce the cathode dissolution during operation. To improve the room-temperature...
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Chevy Bolt will have 200 mile range and price competitive with Tesla Model 3...
General Motors Co. plans to launch a $30,000 electric vehicle called the Chevrolet Bolt that would be capable of driving 200 miles on a charge by 2017, according to people familiar with the strategy, a...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 242
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 242 is up Atomic Power ReviewForbes - 2014 - The Year In EnergyEnergy soared in 2014, but the place to watch was China. China has embarked on the biggest energy expansion...
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Carnival of Space 387
The Carnival of Space 387 is up at Everyday spacerPaul Scott Anderson | The Meridiani Journal - Kepler finds ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in first discovery of new missionThe Kepler space telescope has...
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Israel Iron Beam will become the world's first active duty combat laser in 2015
Iron Beam is an air defense system currently in development by Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is expected to enter service with the Israel Defense Forces in 2015, the...
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China's J-20 stealth fighter may have started mass production
Russian sources report the start of J-20 mass productionMass production of ready-to-fly J-20s, China's first fifth-generation stealth fighter, may have started after the sixth prototype aircraft was...
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Makerbot shows off new composite filament for limestone, wood and metal objects
In 2015, Makerbot is improving the overall 3D printing process to make it easier and more accessible for everyone. They are expanding what is possible with new composite filament to enable limestone,...
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Radical Life Extension getting more mainstream and getting more funding
Joon Yun launched a $1 million prize challenging scientists to “hack the code of life” and push human lifespan past its apparent maximum of about 120 years (the longest known/confirmed lifespan was 122...
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Implant mimicks spinal cord and brain membrane for long term spinal cord and...
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the...
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Nextbigfuture over 1.5 million pageviews per month
Alexa is ranking Nextbigfuture in the top 60,000 websites worldwide and top 11,000 in the USA.Nextbigfuture has over 85 million views at Google PlusNextbigfuture has almost 47.5 million pageviews on...
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If US achieves expected strong economy in 2015, it could edge out China in...
The U.S. could account for a larger share of nominal gross-domestic-product growth in 2015 than China, according to Bob Doll, Nuveen Asset Management’s chief equity strategist. Doll sees the U.S. eking...
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China's starting third aircraft carrier and new carriers should be better...
China will soon start building its second locally designed aircraft carrier in Shanghai. It would be China's third aircraft carrier.The 60,000 ton Liaoning is an operational training aircraft...
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