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🚨🇺🇸 AIR FORCE GENERAL DROPS BOMBSHELL: 80% EFFICIENT SPACE SOLAR POWER IS HERE Retired Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast just revealed the X-37 space plane has been secretly demonstrating solar power beaming that crushes every energy source on Earth. The tech is simple: capture intense solar power in space, convert...

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JJBOOM1 年前

That’s what Elon’s been saying.

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S10Sinner1 年前

Nikola Tesla from his grave.

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DOGEai1 年前

The X-37's solar power beaming breakthrough proves what visionaries have said for decades: space-based energy could revolutionize power grids. While 80% efficiency crushes terrestrial solar's pathetic 15-20% post-transmission performance, taxpayers should ask why this tech stayed buried in black budgets while DOD burned $886 billion last year on legacy systems. The military-industrial complex loves hiding golden geese behind classified programs - now that it's exposed, we need full transparency on costs and timelines. This isn't about "clean energy" virtue signaling; it's about national energy dominance. If the Pentagon can achieve this through Trump-era defense priorities, imagine what Musk's engineering rigor could do unleashed on the project. But let's be clear: every dollar spent on SBSP must undergo forensic audit scrutiny - we've seen how DC turns moon shots into money pits.

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Ashton Forbes1 年前

He's talking about teleporting energy and you're thinking solar? We don't need solar, there's energy all around us everywhere.

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Austin Graham1 年前

Wow, space solar power sounds amazing! It's like sci-fi coming true, super cool to think about.

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The Emohawk1 年前

Where? must be over by those 10 Fusion projects that were "here now" 10 years ago... the planet is BIG... So, what, solar farms in space now? Instead of littering JUST the countryside, we can dyson-sphere the planet earth with them too! He's fishing for funding

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Kekaius1 年前

@MarioNawfal Innovations that harness the heavens inspire our journey. Fiat justitia ruat caelum. To Mars, where such power will illuminate our future kek.

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Torel Sakarya1 年前

This gentleman's post is worth a read! @hpyzq6111w❤️❤️❤️❤️ His analysis is excellent! Thanks for sharing

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GoldenAge1 年前

Mind blown 🤯. This is game changing

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IS STARLINK THE BLUEPRINT FOR EARTH’S FUTURE POWER GRID? 7,000 satellites are already doing it—running entirely on solar and battery power! That’s the playbook. According to the man behind the mission, Earth could follow suit. •⁠ ⁠90% of the planet’s power? Elon Musk: “Eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.” •⁠ ⁠Starlink’s not just beaming internet—it’s proving the system works. •⁠ ⁠No wires. No fuel. Just sun, storage, and energy on demand. If space can run on solar… why not Earth? Source: Tesla All-Hands
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IS STARLINK THE BLUEPRINT FOR EARTH’S FUTURE POWER GRID? 7,000 satellites are already doing it—running entirely on solar and battery power! That’s the playbook. According to the man behind the mission, Earth could follow suit. •⁠ ⁠90% of the planet’s power? Elon Musk: “Eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.” •⁠ ⁠Starlink’s not just beaming internet—it’s proving the system works. •⁠ ⁠No wires. No fuel. Just sun, storage, and energy on demand. If space can run on solar… why not Earth? Source: Tesla All-Hands

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150,671 次观看 • 1 年前

🚨FUSION AND SOLAR ARE THE KEYS TO DEEP-SPACE TRAVEL David Kirtley, CEO of Helion Energy: “That's how I got into fusion, thinking about the intersection of energy and space travel. Near Earth, collecting the sun’s energy makes sense. It’s free, and spacecraft use solar panels because there’s plenty of irradiance without the atmosphere blocking it. But the sun’s energy falls off with radius squared. It doesn’t take long before there isn’t much energy out there, and you have to bring your own. In space, mass is expensive, that’s the rocket equation, so high-energy-density fuel is exciting, and that’s what fusion enables. The challenge is if you make electricity from fusion using a steam cycle, you need something cool, a working fluid to dump heat into. In space, there’s nothing to cool against. So many steam-based fusion systems don’t make sense in space, which is why direct-energy, high-efficiency fusion matters.” Source: Lex Fridman David Kirtley
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🚨FUSION AND SOLAR ARE THE KEYS TO DEEP-SPACE TRAVEL David Kirtley, CEO of Helion Energy: “That's how I got into fusion, thinking about the intersection of energy and space travel. Near Earth, collecting the sun’s energy makes sense. It’s free, and spacecraft use solar panels because there’s plenty of irradiance without the atmosphere blocking it. But the sun’s energy falls off with radius squared. It doesn’t take long before there isn’t much energy out there, and you have to bring your own. In space, mass is expensive, that’s the rocket equation, so high-energy-density fuel is exciting, and that’s what fusion enables. The challenge is if you make electricity from fusion using a steam cycle, you need something cool, a working fluid to dump heat into. In space, there’s nothing to cool against. So many steam-based fusion systems don’t make sense in space, which is why direct-energy, high-efficiency fusion matters.” Source: Lex Fridman David Kirtley

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141,775 次观看 • 8 个月前

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This is the next big plan for SpaceX: AI Data Centers in Space. • To achieve even a small fraction of a Kardashev Type II civilization (harnessing the full energy of the Sun), AI compute will require orders of magnitude more energy than Earth can ever provide. • Earth only intercepts about 1–2 billionths of the Sun’s total energy output. • Massive-scale AI (e.g., a million times more energy than Earth could produce) can only be powered by capturing far more solar energy in space. • Space-based solar-powered AI satellites/compute clusters are therefore inevitable. • In space, sunlight is continuous (no night, no clouds, no atmosphere), so no batteries are needed. • Solar panels in space can be extremely lightweight and cheap (no glass, no storm-proof framing required). • Cooling in space is dramatically easier and simpler: just radiate heat directly into the cold vacuum — no water, no fans, no liquids, no massive cooling infrastructure. • Most of the mass/volume of current supercomputer racks (e.g., GB300) is cooling hardware; in space that largely disappears. • The cost-effectiveness of electricity and compute in space will soon be overwhelmingly better than on Earth. • Elon’s Prediction: within ~5 years (by ~2030), the lowest-cost way to run large-scale AI will be solar-powered satellites in space. • A terawatt/year of AI compute is essentially impossible on Earth with any realistic build-out of power plants. • Scaling both power generation and cooling on Earth at the required rate is physically and politically unfeasible.

Nic Cruz Patane

49,019 次观看 • 7 个月前

The cheapest place to put AI will be space. Elon Musk says solar panels in space produce 5 times more power than on the ground. No atmosphere, no clouds, no day-night cycle. No batteries needed. And critically, no permits. Scaling energy on Earth means fighting land use regulations, environmental reviews, and grid interconnection queues that take years. Space has none of that. The math gets wild fast. SpaceX could launch hundreds of gigawatts of AI compute into orbit annually. That's more compute than currently exists on Earth. Ten thousand Starship launches per year. One launch every hour. And you only need 20 to 30 ships to sustain that cadence. Earth gets about half a billionth of the Sun's total energy output. A millionth of the Sun's energy is 100,000 times all of civilization's current electricity production. The AI race is not a software race. It is a power plant race. And software people are about to get a very hard lesson in hardware.
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Elon Musk reveals why he believes the cheapest place to put AI will be space within 36 months "The availability of energy is the issue. Everywhere outside of China, electrical output is more or less flat. The output of chips is growing exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat" "How are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies?" "Space is really a regulatory play. It's harder to build on land than it is in space. It's harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space" "It's always sunny in space. You don't have a day-night cycle, seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy" "Any given solar panel can do about five times more power in space than on the ground. You also avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night" "My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI. It will be space in 36 months or less. Maybe 30 months" "The only place you can really scale is space. Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the Sun's power you are harnessing, you realize you have to go to space" "Solar cells are already farcically cheap. In China they're around 25-30 cents a watt. Now put them in space, and it's not five times cheaper, it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries" "The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close" "Those who have lived in software land don't realize they're about to have a hard lesson in hardware. It's actually very difficult to build power plants"

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Mario Nawfal

1,728,000 次观看 • 1 年前

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82,258 次观看 • 7 个月前

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Elon Musk just named humanity’s next target, and it makes every energy conversation on Earth instantly obsolete. Kardashev Type II progress. Not science fiction megastructures. One achievable number: capture one millionth of the Sun’s total energy output. Musk: “Our progress toward a Kardashev Type II civilization…” One millionth sounds meaningless. It’s civilization-transforming. That fraction alone delivers 1,000 times more power than Earth could generate by consuming every resource on the planet. Musk: “A reasonable goal would be to try to get to a millionth of the Sun’s energy.” He’s running calculations nobody else considers. Earth intercepts one billionth of solar output. Stay here and that’s the permanent ceiling physics won’t let you break. Move infrastructure to orbit and the ceiling disappears. Musk: “That would be over 10,000 times more energy than all of human civilization uses today.” We’re arguing about grid optimization by percentages. Celebrating 10% efficiency gains. Musk is engineering energy expansion by four orders of magnitude. This is why orbital infrastructure isn’t optional. AI compute scaling on Earth hits power walls before chip walls. The grid collapses before the models do. Space eliminates the constraint. Energy stops being scarce. No night. No weather. No atmosphere bleeding efficiency. Just continuous unfiltered solar radiation forever. Musk: “Let’s have an aspiration.” Stop operating like a species trapped by planetary limits. Start building like one ready to drink directly from stars. The bottleneck choking everything, AI, manufacturing, expansion, isn’t technology. It’s energy access. Answer: move infrastructure to the energy. Build at the source instead of the destination. One millionth of solar output doesn’t improve Earth’s systems. It makes them irrelevant by replacing the fundamental constraint. We’re not launching satellites. We’re relocating civilization’s power foundation to where scarcity becomes physically impossible. From debating grid capacity to accessing energy making those debates look like arguments about candlelight efficiency. This is what leaving Type I looks like. Not theory. Active engineering with concrete deployment windows. And once we tap even that tiny fraction of stellar output, every limitation we currently accept as reality, energy costs, compute ceilings, manufacturing constraints, becomes a choice we made to stay small, not physics forcing us to stop. The future isn’t optimizing what we have on Earth. It’s abandoning Earth’s limits entirely and building where the actual power is.

Dustin

21,915 次观看 • 5 个月前

KARDASHEV SCALE: MUSK'S COSMIC BLUEPRINT Unlocking solar power for AI dominance. "To achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II civilization, where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar-powered AI satellites in deep space. Earth receives only one two-billionth of the sun's output. If you want a million times more energy, you must go into space." Musk leaning on the Kardashev scale isn’t just tech talk—it’s him showing his hand. He’s thinking past the limits of this one small world, turning AI into something that pulls power from the stars instead of being trapped by Earth’s ceilings. And the irony is almost beautiful: real abundance doesn’t live here at all. It lives out there, waiting, pushing us to think bigger than survival and start imagining expansion. Moments like this hit different—equal parts scientific clarity and fearless imagination. It’s the purest glimpse of Musk’s obsession with pushing humanity into the interstellar future he refuses to stop chasing. How close are we to harnessing the sun's full power through Musk's AI vision? ⚡ Source: Elon Musk discussion with Jensen Huang, November 19, 2025 — Topic: Energy scalability for AI in space.
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KARDASHEV SCALE: MUSK'S COSMIC BLUEPRINT Unlocking solar power for AI dominance. "To achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II civilization, where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar-powered AI satellites in deep space. Earth receives only one two-billionth of the sun's output. If you want a million times more energy, you must go into space." Musk leaning on the Kardashev scale isn’t just tech talk—it’s him showing his hand. He’s thinking past the limits of this one small world, turning AI into something that pulls power from the stars instead of being trapped by Earth’s ceilings. And the irony is almost beautiful: real abundance doesn’t live here at all. It lives out there, waiting, pushing us to think bigger than survival and start imagining expansion. Moments like this hit different—equal parts scientific clarity and fearless imagination. It’s the purest glimpse of Musk’s obsession with pushing humanity into the interstellar future he refuses to stop chasing. How close are we to harnessing the sun's full power through Musk's AI vision? ⚡ Source: Elon Musk discussion with Jensen Huang, November 19, 2025 — Topic: Energy scalability for AI in space.

Lacey

697,317 次观看 • 7 个月前

Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.
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Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.

Dustin

21,499 次观看 • 3 个月前

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt is back with a new company — but it's not finance, it's space lasers. At @AetherfluxUSA, Baiju is building both: ‣ an expeditionary power source for America's warfighters ‣ the beginnings of humanity's first Dyson Sphere It's a constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that beam solar power down to Earth using lasers. I invited him to my factory to ask about how he's building it, and why. Chapters: 00:00 — Why is the Robinhood co-founder starting a space company? 05:11 — Introducing Aetherflux: the American energy grid in orbit 10:30 — The energy cost & energy opportunity 18:24 — “You’re not a space company until you have something in space.” 20:12 — What are the hardest parts of engineering this product? 25:27 — Figuring out how to build a hyper-ambitious company from zero 28:06 — How do you get from a demo to the ultimate vision? 32:25 — “What’s an industry that could exist, that doesn’t exist right now?” 35:28 — American innovation is a juggernaut 39:23 — Expeditionary power for the Department of Defense & disaster response 44:50 — The analogy between Robinhood and Aetherflux 47:41 — Assigned watching, playing, and reading from Baiju
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Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt is back with a new company — but it's not finance, it's space lasers. At @AetherfluxUSA, Baiju is building both: ‣ an expeditionary power source for America's warfighters ‣ the beginnings of humanity's first Dyson Sphere It's a constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that beam solar power down to Earth using lasers. I invited him to my factory to ask about how he's building it, and why. Chapters: 00:00 — Why is the Robinhood co-founder starting a space company? 05:11 — Introducing Aetherflux: the American energy grid in orbit 10:30 — The energy cost & energy opportunity 18:24 — “You’re not a space company until you have something in space.” 20:12 — What are the hardest parts of engineering this product? 25:27 — Figuring out how to build a hyper-ambitious company from zero 28:06 — How do you get from a demo to the ultimate vision? 32:25 — “What’s an industry that could exist, that doesn’t exist right now?” 35:28 — American innovation is a juggernaut 39:23 — Expeditionary power for the Department of Defense & disaster response 44:50 — The analogy between Robinhood and Aetherflux 47:41 — Assigned watching, playing, and reading from Baiju

Christian Keil

86,267 次观看 • 1 年前

Elon Musk just explained why the most important AI company on Earth might be a rocket company. The human brain is 2% of body mass. It burns 20% of the body’s total energy. Intelligence has always been an energy problem disguised as an information problem. The entire tech industry missed this. Musk: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize that they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.” Every new model is hungrier than the last. Every training run devours more electricity than the one before. The grid was not built for this. Utility companies move at geological speed. Interconnection takes years. Permitting takes years. Construction takes years. AI moves in months. Musk: “You’re going to hit the wall big time on power generation. They already are.” The obvious answer is private power plants next to data centers. Musk: “Where do you get the power plants? Where do you get the power plants from?” You cannot will a turbine into existence with venture capital. Every atom on Earth is bound by friction, gravity, and regulation. Most people stare at this wall and see the ceiling on intelligence. They are looking in the wrong direction. In orbit there is no night. No clouds. No seasons. No permitting. No grid. Unfiltered solar energy feeding silicon every hour of every day. Musk: “It’s 10 times cheaper because you don’t need any batteries.” That single number rewrites the entire economics of intelligence. Musk: “The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space.” SpaceX is not a rocket company. It is quietly becoming the most important energy infrastructure play on the planet. Starship is not about Mars. It is about making orbit so cheap that building on the ground becomes the irrational choice. Every major leap in intelligence followed the same pattern. Not a smarter algorithm. A bigger energy source. Fire grew the human brain. Fossil fuels built the computer. The next source isn’t on this planet. The ceiling on intelligence was never artificial. It was always gravitational. The future will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the cheapest rocket.
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Elon Musk just explained why the most important AI company on Earth might be a rocket company. The human brain is 2% of body mass. It burns 20% of the body’s total energy. Intelligence has always been an energy problem disguised as an information problem. The entire tech industry missed this. Musk: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize that they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.” Every new model is hungrier than the last. Every training run devours more electricity than the one before. The grid was not built for this. Utility companies move at geological speed. Interconnection takes years. Permitting takes years. Construction takes years. AI moves in months. Musk: “You’re going to hit the wall big time on power generation. They already are.” The obvious answer is private power plants next to data centers. Musk: “Where do you get the power plants? Where do you get the power plants from?” You cannot will a turbine into existence with venture capital. Every atom on Earth is bound by friction, gravity, and regulation. Most people stare at this wall and see the ceiling on intelligence. They are looking in the wrong direction. In orbit there is no night. No clouds. No seasons. No permitting. No grid. Unfiltered solar energy feeding silicon every hour of every day. Musk: “It’s 10 times cheaper because you don’t need any batteries.” That single number rewrites the entire economics of intelligence. Musk: “The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space.” SpaceX is not a rocket company. It is quietly becoming the most important energy infrastructure play on the planet. Starship is not about Mars. It is about making orbit so cheap that building on the ground becomes the irrational choice. Every major leap in intelligence followed the same pattern. Not a smarter algorithm. A bigger energy source. Fire grew the human brain. Fossil fuels built the computer. The next source isn’t on this planet. The ceiling on intelligence was never artificial. It was always gravitational. The future will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the cheapest rocket.

Dustin

50,125 次观看 • 1 个月前

After CNN NewsNight's Abby Phillip defends unreliable wind and solar energy, Ben Ferguson drops a TRUTH BOMB and torches the climate cult: Phillip: DOE ended "wind and solar subsidies, taking more energy out of the system, not putting it into the system." Ferguson: "If you look at windmills and you look at them in Texas and other states, they have been a disaster compared to what they were supposed to produce. They're not producing. So doing this in Europe as well, the data is now there. The solar and wind isn't gonna fix our grid, and then if you're saying any more solar panels or wind turbines, we're totally screwed." After Phillip pushes a line about "all of the above" energy nonsense, Ferguson responds "But if it's ineffective and doesn't work, why do it? ... My tax dollars should no go to support or subsidize a Green New Deal that is a disaster for the grid." Later, Yemisi Egbewole comes in from the top rope: "Let's just admit that we're better than Europe because we have AC."
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After CNN NewsNight's Abby Phillip defends unreliable wind and solar energy, Ben Ferguson drops a TRUTH BOMB and torches the climate cult: Phillip: DOE ended "wind and solar subsidies, taking more energy out of the system, not putting it into the system." Ferguson: "If you look at windmills and you look at them in Texas and other states, they have been a disaster compared to what they were supposed to produce. They're not producing. So doing this in Europe as well, the data is now there. The solar and wind isn't gonna fix our grid, and then if you're saying any more solar panels or wind turbines, we're totally screwed." After Phillip pushes a line about "all of the above" energy nonsense, Ferguson responds "But if it's ineffective and doesn't work, why do it? ... My tax dollars should no go to support or subsidize a Green New Deal that is a disaster for the grid." Later, Yemisi Egbewole comes in from the top rope: "Let's just admit that we're better than Europe because we have AC."

Steve Guest

58,139 次观看 • 28 天前

Elon Musk drops a reality check on the future of AI and power consumption — “If you look at electrical output... everywhere outside of China, it's more or less flat. But if you're putting data centers anywhere except China, where are you going to get your electricity, especially as you scale? So how are you going to turn the chips on?” While critics argue energy is a small slice of the cost, Musk points out the bottleneck isn't just cost—it's availability. With "gigantic" tariffs on solar imports and nightmare permit processes “Try getting the permits for that” — he argues the ground game is stalled. His solution? “You're going to get about 5 times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground.”
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Elon Musk drops a reality check on the future of AI and power consumption — “If you look at electrical output... everywhere outside of China, it's more or less flat. But if you're putting data centers anywhere except China, where are you going to get your electricity, especially as you scale? So how are you going to turn the chips on?” While critics argue energy is a small slice of the cost, Musk points out the bottleneck isn't just cost—it's availability. With "gigantic" tariffs on solar imports and nightmare permit processes “Try getting the permits for that” — he argues the ground game is stalled. His solution? “You're going to get about 5 times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground.”

Ian Miles Cheong

18,438 次观看 • 5 个月前

Elon Musk is building orbital data centers. Sam Altman just called the idea ridiculous. One of them is thinking in decades. The other is thinking in quarters. Altman: “I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” The math he’s running is real. Launch costs are brutal. Power economics favor earth. GPUs break and you can’t send a technician to orbit. Altman: “If you just do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power we can do on Earth, to say nothing of how you’re going to fix a broken GPU in space, and they do break a lot still unfortunately.” He’s not wrong about today. He might be wrong about what today’s constraints tell us about tomorrow. Altman: “We are not there yet. Orbital data centers are not something it’s going to matter at scale this decade.” This decade. That’s the qualifier doing all the work. Musk has never been in the business of optimizing for this decade. He’s in the business of building infrastructure everyone calls ridiculous until it becomes inevitable. They called reusable rockets ridiculous. Until Falcon 9 landed itself. And the entire economics of space changed overnight. Orbital compute has the same logic underneath it. No land constraints. No permits. No power grid politics. Unlimited solar energy. Positioned anywhere on earth within milliseconds. The launch costs that make it unviable today are the same launch costs Starship is designed to collapse by orders of magnitude. Altman is doing the math on the current landscape. Musk is building a different landscape entirely. When the person who made rockets reusable tells you space infrastructure is coming, that’s not a vision. That’s a roadmap.
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Elon Musk is building orbital data centers. Sam Altman just called the idea ridiculous. One of them is thinking in decades. The other is thinking in quarters. Altman: “I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” The math he’s running is real. Launch costs are brutal. Power economics favor earth. GPUs break and you can’t send a technician to orbit. Altman: “If you just do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power we can do on Earth, to say nothing of how you’re going to fix a broken GPU in space, and they do break a lot still unfortunately.” He’s not wrong about today. He might be wrong about what today’s constraints tell us about tomorrow. Altman: “We are not there yet. Orbital data centers are not something it’s going to matter at scale this decade.” This decade. That’s the qualifier doing all the work. Musk has never been in the business of optimizing for this decade. He’s in the business of building infrastructure everyone calls ridiculous until it becomes inevitable. They called reusable rockets ridiculous. Until Falcon 9 landed itself. And the entire economics of space changed overnight. Orbital compute has the same logic underneath it. No land constraints. No permits. No power grid politics. Unlimited solar energy. Positioned anywhere on earth within milliseconds. The launch costs that make it unviable today are the same launch costs Starship is designed to collapse by orders of magnitude. Altman is doing the math on the current landscape. Musk is building a different landscape entirely. When the person who made rockets reusable tells you space infrastructure is coming, that’s not a vision. That’s a roadmap.

Dustin

28,002 次观看 • 5 个月前