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America Can't Secure Its Future On Imported Minerals
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (456+ words) If the past few years taught us anything, it's that national security no longer stops at the water's edge or the factory gate. It runs through the mines, mills, refineries, and logistics networks that supply the metals inside our jets,…...
Scientists Pioneer Reverse Solar Panels To Create Energy At Night
10+ hour, 45+ min ago (321+ words) By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are developing a "reverse solar" panel, called a thermoradiative diode, which generates electricity by emitting infrared light (heat) into cold surroundings. The device works by capturing…...
2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market
17+ hour, 45+ min ago (677+ words) By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The data is rough. As of March 2025, QuantumScape sat on $860 million in cash against a trailing twelve-month burn rate of $331 million. This 2.6-year window is the "valley of death" made manifest in a ledger....
Here Come Humanoid Robots: Industry Makes Clear Pivot Toward "Dedicated-Purpose" Commercial Deployments
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (359+ words) Goldman analyst Jacqueline Du published her field trip notes after speaking with six C-level management teams at robotics companies across Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen in recent days. The companies she met with include Unitree, Mechmind, Fourier, LimX Dynamics, UBTech, EngineAI,…...
2026 Looks Better For US Automakers Than Suppliers; Deutsche Bank
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (705+ words) ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero Deutsche Bank is looking at U.S. autos heading into the new year with a growing sense of separation between winners and laggards. In a new 2026 outlook note,…...
Watch Live: Elon Musk Speaks With Larry Fink At Davos
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (871+ words) Musk says there are 9,000 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit and that SpaceX has never had to maneuver to avoid an alien spacecraft. Musk says AI and robotics will improve the standard of living. This could lead to an explosion…...
Tesla Cuts Berlin Gigafactory Workforce By 1,700 Employees
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (246+ words) Tesla's workforce at its Gigafactory near Berlin has fallen by about 1,700 employees, according to a report by Germany's Handelsblatt. An internal document cited by the paper shows the Gruenheide site'Tesla's only European production hub'now employs 10,703 people, a decline of roughly…...
UBS: Will There Be Chinese EVs In America?
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (561+ words) UBS analyst Joseph Spak asked clients on Sunday: Will there be Chinese cars in the US? Spak pointed to comments from President Trump last week at the Detroit Economic Club, in which he said, "If they want to come in…...
Musk's Boring Company To Build Free 1-Mile Tunnel In "Tunnel Vision Challenge!"
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (269+ words) In a new contest, Elon Musk's tunneling firm, The Boring Company,will build a 1-mile tunnel for freeto the best idea submitted to the company. "Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge!" the company wrote on X. "Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel…...
Germany Forces Lexus To Deactivate Remote Start With Over-The-Air Update
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (298+ words) Germany - whose chancellor just admitted they made a'serious strategic mistake' chasing green unicornswhen they shut down their nuclear plants -has just forced Lexus to deactivate the remote start featurewhich pre-warms an owner's car so they don't freeze their nethers off…...