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Firefighters have been dousing the unstable chemical tank with water around the clock for days, trying to help cool the reaction taking place at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove. OCFA says the temperature inside the tank has significantly risen, beyond what is measurable by their gauge. It's unclear what temperature would trigger an explosion. Read more: abc7.la/dW6gEI

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

Casimir Energy is a startup that has engineered a nanoscale structure to harvest energy from the quantum vacuum. Here are the highlights of the phyiscs and economics from @DrSonnyWhite talk at NYC @deeptechweek 2026, presented by @M31Capital

Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…

@loombotic We’re launching the world’s first quick-turn, high-mix, fully automated wire harness production line. Our goal is to make wire harnesses as fast and easy to order as PCBs or sheet metal. Customers can already upload a harness design and get an instant quote. Starting today, these parts can now be produced on our automated line. We’re starting with Mini-Fit Jr., with more connectors coming soon.

Four foundries on Earth cast the single-crystal blades and vanes that let a gas turbine convert 1,500-degree gas into electricity. PCC and Howmet hold about 80% of the single-crystal market. Doncasters and CPP take most of the rest. Every heavy-frame gas turbine ordered in the past 18 months is sold out through 2030. Elon Musk on @dwarkesh_sp traced his own xAI Colossus power problem one layer down past the turbines and landed on the blades. He said SpaceX and Tesla will likely have to cast their own. We manufacture chemicals. Casting a single-crystal blade is not a metallurgy problem. It is a chemistry problem. The four foundries that cast them spent thirty years driving sulfur down to parts per billion and oxygen down to parts per million. Vacuum, gradient solidification, and mold chemistry are why nobody else can cast them. The bottleneck is chemistry.