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In November 2017, Terrestrial Energy completed the first engineering program for the IMSR® design and the first step of the Canadian regulatory phase — Phase I of CNSC’s Vendor Design Review. This is a first for an advanced reactor. In addition, IMSR® power plant site selection work is underway in ...

I hope it works out that way (StarLink giving Musk oodles of cash to play with). I'll be looking very closely at signing up once StarLink goes into service.

They've set up a company to develop this:

https://www.hb11.energy

I didn't see Rossi's picture in the article, but a thermal generator with only 3 moving parts? Suggests thermoelectric generator with efficiencies ranging from 6% to 15%, that doesn't seem like a very good deal to me. I guess that would depend on the inputs to the grid. If there's going to be a fai...

Molten silicon. Grid-level storage, not for vehicles. They claim 60%-80% the cost of lithium.

https://newatlas.com/cct-silicon-energy ... age/59098/

(not an April fools article)

6 cubesats deployed. Launch is at 19:48.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPwMuUxSrcA

Does anyone know what their funding situation is now? I cast about on the web and it seems their most recent influx of money was from a $25M grant in May of 2016. They say they'll need several hundreds of millions to build their 70% prototype.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180926005265/en/NantEnergy-Announces-Largest-Global-Deployment-Novel%C2%A0Air-Breathing Two things caught my eye: ⋅ NantEnergy announces largest global deployment of a novel air breathing zinc rechargeable battery – 3,000 installations in nine count...

Since news is slow lately:

"World's First Closed Suncell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM-h9bguelk

Here we go again? Deneum Proves Feasibility Hypothesis for its Nuclear Fusion Power Station, Concludes $ 1M Private Round https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/deneum-proves-feasibility-hypothesis-for-its-nuclear-fusion-power-station-concludes-1m-private-round-2018-08-29 Offering global market t...

The owner of the company replied to a comment attached to the article: If the specific impulse is as they say, 150 to 180, then this is completely worthless technology. Chemical rockets get a specific impulse of up to 400, I think they meant either 1500 or 15,000. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT PEOPLE Hey CJ,...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/21/propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff/ First product has a specific impulse of 150 to 180, later products higher as the supplied power increases. The chief benefit seems to be cost. EDIT: more information on the website of...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/first-semisolid-lithium-batteries-to-debut-this-year-in-drones They seem to be in exactly the same place they claimed to be about two years ago. The company is currently testing its batteries for drones and expects to begin selling them later this year, f...

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/231351/20180628/fusion-reactor-shatters-records-with-temperature-almost-3-times-hotter-than-the-sun.htm The stellarator has reached a temperature of 40 million Kelvin at a plasma density of 0.8 x 1020 particles per cubic meter. This was maintained for a total of 26...

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/26/th ... y-done-it/

There's a link to his paper (published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society) early in the article.