Energy, space, and the long-horizon research that does not fit a quarterly report.
Starship V3 made a fiery splash in the Indian Ocean and Elon Musk called it epic. The number that matters is dollars per kilogram to the lunar south pole — and that number is still doing the heavy lifting NASA's renderings won't.
Thea Energy’s oversubscribed Series B is real money for a real machine. The interesting question is what the money is actually buying — and on what timescale.
Commonwealth Fusion has applied to plug a 400-megawatt fusion plant into the grid. The reactor it depends on has not yet produced a single watt of net energy — and that is the whole story.
