My neighbor dropped his bottle of mountain dew, leaned over to pick it up and ended up in another neighbor yard

The first rover mission was $1BN, the latest rover mission was roughly $3BN. $1BN wont cover anything today. It has to be commerically led for an ROI vs tax payer funded science. Just because its led by private dollars doesnt mean science wont be moved forwarded. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fn...

This is directionally correct, but not 100%. A blockade with China would be easier than a hot war. They are heavily dependent on imports for fuel/food. They cant grow food worth a dam now, the land destroyed. Blockade = you run out of dino juice to fuel a military, and within a few months people will go nuts with lack of food. EVs dont meet jack when the military runs on dino juice with the exception of a few nuke subs. You still need food, which again, they cant grow worth a dam (hence their huge dependence on imported food goods)

This is true because China cant magically make up decades of ICE experience like the other asian and western competitors. ICE is real hard, especially with emissions rules. This is also why they dont have competitive domestic miliary/commerical jet engines, too late to the game. EVs on the other side have less barrier for entry with off the shelf key technologies out there. See why you have not seen a startup go for ICE and succeed.

Darn, link didnt work, try this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhourlypricing.comed.co...

Here is Chicago IL, time of use chart of cost. Really cheap, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhourlypricing.comed.co... click on YEAR to see.

Im not huge into renewables (as in I dont want to convert my house to a utility company and put panels on the roof), but the idea of battery storage is awesome. Its not 100%, but its definitely making impacts during peak usage hours. I was toying of the idea of having house batteries that vampire suck energy when its cheap at night (im on time of use plan) and unleash it during peak hours (4pm-9pm). May not be 100%, but it def does save money in the middle of summer while keeping the AC at more comfy levels.

You could have just listened to any one who cooks alot and actually invests & maintains good knives vs blowing $$ on this dumb ass study. I never had tear issues cutting onions

Yes, clearly tech people dont know that the majority of the dust comes from the pads. They are designed to be rubbed off .... if EV barely using friction stopping, and the discs are not the majority of the dust ... this is pointless. I didnt get any information of how they magically elimiated pad rubbing off over time. Mass is mass, the mass goes into the environment.

When you making sweet love to your sex robot that needs AI data center support, AI will be sucking energy 24hr/day

If you read the use case for this, this aint to service/fix a mis-aligned giant ass mirror. It either 1) Attaches to a satellite running out of fuel and nudges it around to prolong its life in orbit. 2) Nudge a satellite out of orbit to decommission it.

Its an experiment, no one said its commercially viable.

If you read the full details of the deal: Help UAE build AI center with American companies (AWS/NVDA), expand arms sells to UAE (lots of make shit go boom companies from US), in return UAE will fork out the cost of building an aluminum smelting plant in the US, doubling US aluminum capacity. Who will take ownership of the plant TBD, maybe Alcoa? Sounds like a good deal to me.

China drastically reduced world C02 emissions in 2020 with COVID. amirite?

AF-1's are vanilla 747s, procured and gut to AF-1 mechanicals/defense/eletronic/interior/military specs. The delayed ones rolled off the line years ago, its the re-fitment process thats being delayed, not the production of the base airframe. You dont just take any 747 and slap on new paint and call it a day, its gut completely. No different how this gift was gut to the ground and made a luxury flying yacht.