Time
America’s most expensive government housing project cost north of $100 billion, took 13 years to build, and has been continuously occupied since 2000. But the ISS is getting old, and NASA and the 14 other partner nations that built, maintain, and operate it have plans to de-orbit it by 2030, sending it tumbling down through the atmosphere for a controlled splashdown in a remote patch of ocean. Before the ISS dies, however, it will help birth its own replacement—one that will be built and launched by Axiom Space. Over the past three years, Axiom has launched three private, paying crews of four astronauts to the ISS, preparatory to the commencement of station construction.
Yahoo Finance
Lyten, the supermaterial applications company and world leader in lithium-sulfur battery manufacturing, announced further progress in building its US supply chain to meet rapidly growing demand for its Lithium-Sulfur batteries. Lyten has signed agreements with California Sulphur Company, at the Port of Los Angeles, and a Port of Stockton company to supply domestically sourced, industrial-grade sulfur to Lyten’s manufacturing facilities in San Jose, CA, San Leandro, CA, and its recently announced Reno, NV, gigafactory.
Time
Solar and wind energy are renewable, but rely on the weather. Energy Vault’s EVx Gravity Energy Storage System instead employs massive blocks, which, after being raised, store the energy that went into lifting them, and when lowered, release that energy when it’s needed. The ever-present pull of gravity amounts to a natural battery that can provide short-, medium-, or long-term storage. It's resilient to harsh weather conditions and high temperatures, and since the energy is produced inside the structure, there is no risk of chemical fires.
Fast Company
Graphene was invented in 2004, and Lyten is now leading efforts to use it to build cleaner, lighter, and more powerful lithium-sulfur batteries. Using a “scaffold” of 3D graphene within the electrolyte to tame the typically unruly lithium-sulfur combination, Lyten’s batteries avoid the need for nickel, manganese, cobalt, and graphite. They offer dramatic efficiency gains over their lithium-ion counterparts—not to mention environmental and ethical improvements. These will be critical for electric vehicles, drones, satellites, and other energy-intensive devices, like eVTOL aircraft.
CNBC
A fusion power plant has been, so far, firmly rooted in the realm of science fiction. Commonwealth is trying to change that, and has raised more than $2 billion in venture capital from the likes of Bill Gates, Gates’ climate investment firm Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Google, John Doerr, Khosla Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures and more. That’s more private capital than any other fusion startup, according to the Fusion Industry Association, the industry’s trade group.
