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There's an interesting note that the battery doesn't need pure aluminum to operate. So maybe the plan is to buy inexpensive scrap aluminum and include that in the recycling? A quickie Google search suggests an aluminum can is worth 1.7 cents at a recycling center. About 70 cans to the kilogram. That...

Hopefully true? The Daily Mail isn't the greatest source. Take it with an enormous grain of salt, who knows what problems aren't mentioned. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html ⋅ electrolyte ...

Wasn't there another ST startup in the UK?

I haven't heard of another one. There's FIrst Light Fusion but they're trying inertial confinement.

UK hatches plan to build world's first fusion power plan t Nuclear scientists are designing an ambitious prototype facility that could demonstrate commercial energy production by 2040. The British government announced a £200-million (US$248-million) investment on 3 October. So more funding than the...

Some recent/upcoming activity: 1. Paper by Dr. José J. A. Rodal which suggests the effect cannot be practical for space travel: A Machian wave effect in conformal, scalar–tensor gravitational theory https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-019-2547-9 (first online 15 May 2019) 2. New experim...

They claim: 1400 Wh/l and 405 Wh/kg using etched silicon wafers: each 12-inch silicon wafer consists of some 36 million of these vertical “micro-batteries” machined into the wafer’s surface. Which, as the explainer video argues, decreases the charge time of the macro-battery (made up of many micro-b...

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...