Spacex is a space launch juggernaut. In just two decades, the company has managed to expel former Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman heavyweights to obtain an almost monopoly status on rocket launches in the United States. Now it is also the launch supplier of commercial customers, which has raised numerous satellites and five private crew spaces, with more to come.
Other space companies have been fighting to compete for years, but the development of a reliable rocket requires slow and constant work and large budgets. Now at least some of them are updating. Read the complete story.
“Skibba.”
We should talk more about air conditioning
– Casey Crownhart
Things begin to warm here in the New York City area, and it makes me think once more about something that people are not speaking enough: demand for energy of air conditioners.
I understand it: the data centers are the new and brilliant of what to worry. And I am not saying that we should not be thinking about the voltage that Gigawatt computer facilities put in the grid. But a little perspective is important here.
I just finished a new story about a new way of making heat exchangers, a crucial component in air conditioners and a large number of other technologies that cool our buildings, food and electronics. Let’s invent why I write about the bowels of cooling technologies and why this sector really needs innovation. Read the complete story.
