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WEB2 days ago · September 18, 2024 by Brian Wang. Mercedes, BMW and Tesla are the leading car companies by profits per car with over 500,000 cars sold for the first 6 months of this year. This is for all kinds of cars. (Battery electric, Plug in hybrid, hybrid and combustion engine). Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche had very high profits per car but far lower ….
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WEBAbout. Brian Wang, a Co-Founder and Futurist Thought Leader, is a prominent Science blogger whose platform, Nextbigfuture.com, boasts over 1 million monthly readers and is ranked as the #1 Science News Blog. On occasion, Nextbigfuture.com even surpasses technologyreview.com in site traffic.
SpaceX Raptor 3 Engine is Test Fired and Has 17% More Thrust
WEBMay 13, 2023 · SpaceX Raptor 3 is an improved and more powerful rocket enigine. It has reached 350 bar of pressure and 269 tons of thrust. Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently by February 2022, although SpaceX expects to be able to tune engine parameters and design over time to achieve at least 250 tf (550,000 lbf).
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WEB4 days ago · SpaceX Polaris Dawn’s Return and Splashdown off the Cost of Florida. September 16, 2024 by Brian Wang. SpaceX launched and returned commercial astronauts in the first crewed Polar mission and that mission included a space walk. Three countries (US, Russia and China) have performed Spacewalks on …
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Real Mars versus Virtual Metaverse Worlds. September 10, 2024 by Brian Wang. SpaceX and Elon Musk will need to get to about $200 billion per year in profits to sustain spending $40-50 billion per year for the major Mars colonization goals. SpaceX and Elon need to make $5-8+ trillion to spend $1-2 Trillion for the Mars City Program.
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WEB6 days ago · Destinus is a startup developing hydrogen powered hypersonic drones and planes. They are headquartered in Switzerland. Destinus has received $58+M funding from private and public sources. In 2026, they plan to test the supersonic hydrogen prototype, and by 2030, to build a hypersonic airplane.
Blue Origin Rockets Crumple And Explode in Two Incidents
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Blue Origin is trying to launch NASA Escapade mission to Mars. It needs to launch in October, 2024 when the Mars launch window is open. Mars and Earth get aligned every two years. The two mishaps involved hardware for the second and third flights of the New Glenn rocket, which are supposed to happen after the October debut.
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WEBAug 15, 2024 · Boring Company Path to Continuous Tunneling. August 15, 2024 by Brian Wang. Boring Company Prurfock 3 and the new Prufrock 4 tunneling machines can only tunnel about 11 hours per day. There are limitations are maintenance and how they have to stop tunneling to put in the concrete segments. The Boring Company likely has a …
Can Utility Scale Nuclear Batteries Be Economical?
WEBJan 17, 2024 · Shell Oil and Southern Electric utility company had a 2021 research paper that explored if nuclear batteries could be economical for generating power. (Above – (a) MIT’s conceptualization of a nuclear battery (NB) with integrated gas turbine; (b) LANL’s Megapower; (c) NASA and LANL’s KRUSTY/Kilopower reactor using Stirling engine technology for space applications; (d) Westinghouse’s ...
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WEB4 days ago · September 9, 2024 by Brian Wang. Billionaire Venture Investors BG2 (Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley) have dug deep into nuclear fission energy. They had their most recent podcast at Diablo Canyon. The California Diablo Canyon facility has two nuclear plants with a total 2.5 Gigawatts of clean baseload power.
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