SAN FRANCISCO - A former employee of SpaceX has set a very ambitious goal of building a working solution for humanity's ever-growing need for electricity. No bigger than a regular container, his invention is a nuclear fission reactor generator. Portable, affordable, and economically feasible, the power plant can be deployed everywhere. In an interview for
TORONTO, Canada - FluxJet is the name of a new hybrid between a train and a jet, able to carry up to 54 passengers at over 1,000 kph (621 MPH), which is three times faster than high-speed trains and faster than a jet. This fully-electric vehicle was developed by the Toronto-based TransPod, in collaboration with various
TOKYO, Japan - A climate scientist at Tohoku University in Japan has run the numbers and does not think today's mass extinction event will equal that of the previous five. At least not for many more centuries to come. On more than one occasion over the past 540 million years, Earth has lost most of
LAKE ORION - Miss Michigan Melissa Beyrand attended the Michigan Council of Women In Technology golf outing on July 25 to help promote one of her passions, supporting other women who want to build careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. She is a biomedical engineer, a violinist, and an aspiring craniofacial reconstructive surgeons.
DETROIT - GM says it will have its own family of microchips locked in by 2025, a move that is expected to offset future chip-related production delays. In a recent interview with Associated Press, GM CEO Mary Barra said that GM is moving toward three families of microchips that the automaker will buy and control directly. This is
DETROIT - In a new study, a team of engineers lay out plans for train cars that can filter nearly 25 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air for every mile they travel. The idea is manifested in CO2Rail, a U.S.-based start-up founded by one of the study’s authors. The concept rests on a braking
DETROIT - Kodak has announced that it is repurposing some of the expensive, high-tech machines used to manufacture its photography film for use on batteries for electric vehicles. The company has invested in Wildcat Discovery Technologies, which makes EV batteries. Engineers at Kodak have discovered that the “supercell” batteries Wildcat manufactures, require a similar coating
DETROIT - Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) announced they found a way to build powerful magnets much smaller than ever before, a press statement states. The new innovation could help in the development of tokamak reactors, unlocking the potential of nuclear fusion that powers the sun and
DETROIT - The Midcontinent Independent System Operator on Monday, approved a $10 billion investment for 18 long-term transmission projects for its Midwest Subregion. Natalie McIntire, technical consultant for the Clean Grid Alliance, called the action monumental amid the push for a carbon-free future under goals set out by state governments and utilities themselves. The operator estimated
LONDON, UK - The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) profits. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly to their tenants – bypassing FPL and its monopoly on electricity. “I
