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EARTH'S POWER GRIDS ARE SWEATING — STARLINK’S BEEN COOL FOR A WHILE Battery demand is off the charts! The grid is panicking. Starlink's been there. Charged that! ELON: “Eventually, it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. My predictions... show more

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🚨ELON MUSK: "My prediction is that long-term the majority of power on earth, eventually 90% or more of all power on Earth, will be solar panel with batteries. That's my prediction. My predictions have a pretty good track record."

🚨ELON MUSK: "My prediction is that long-term the majority of power on earth, eventually 90% or more of all power on Earth, will be solar panel with batteries. That's my prediction. My predictions have a pretty good track record."

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Elon Musk: Eventually, 90%+ of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. “Satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That's how all satellites work. And with the Starlink satellite network, there's 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery. And my prediction is, long term, a majority of power on Earth, in fact, eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. That's my prediction.” Tesla All-Hands, March 20, 2025

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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 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk: "Satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That’s how all satellites work. With the Starlink satellite network, there’s 7,000 (now ~10K) satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery My prediction is, long-term, a majority of power on Earth - in fact, eventually it might be like 90% or more- will be solar panels with batteries That's my prediction. My predictions have a pretty good track record"

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Elon Musk: My prediction is that long-term, 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.”

Elon Musk: My prediction is that long-term, 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.”

ELON CLIPS

1,276,937 views • 1 year ago

ELON: THE WORLD CAN BE POWERED ENTIRELY BY SOLAR AND BATTERIES “The energy that reaches the Earth from the Sun is staggeringly high. We have this enormous fusion generator in the sky that is lobbing out vast amounts of energy. If you take a nuclear plant, took its current output and compared that to putting solar panels on the area used by the nuclear power plant. The solar panels would typically generate more power than the nuclear power plant.” Source: Elon Musk

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Mario Nawfal

46,577 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk just showed you the machine that will power the rest of human history. The world is convinced we are running out of energy. The grid is cracking. AI is consuming power faster than anyone can produce it. Governments are pouring billions into holes in the ground to burn whatever is left. Musk pointed at the sky. Musk: “With the Starlink satellite network, there’s 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery.” 7,000 machines. Circling the planet at 17,000 miles per hour. In the most hostile environment humans have ever operated in. No grid. No supply chain. No second chance. If you lose power in orbit, you are dead. And every single one of them runs on two components. A sheet of glass that catches a star. And a battery that holds it. That is not a theory. That is 7,000 proof points screaming the same answer from low Earth orbit. Now he is pulling that exact architecture down to the surface. Musk: “Eventually, it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.” Every institution on Earth will tell you this is impossible. The grid is too complex. Base load demands something burning at all times. Musk: “My predictions have a pretty good track record.” Now zoom out. For ten thousand years, civilization ran on death. We burned dead wood. Dead plants. Dead organisms crushed into oil across millions of years. Every watt of power the modern world has ever used was ripped from something dead and buried in the dark. That era is ending. We are about to disconnect civilization from the ground beneath it. Stop digging for fuel. Start harvesting the fusion reactor that has been burning 93 million miles above us for 4.6 billion years. We were never running out of energy. We were looking down when the answer was up.

Elon Musk just showed you the machine that will power the rest of human history. The world is convinced we are running out of energy. The grid is cracking. AI is consuming power faster than anyone can produce it. Governments are pouring billions into holes in the ground to burn whatever is left. Musk pointed at the sky. Musk: “With the Starlink satellite network, there’s 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery.” 7,000 machines. Circling the planet at 17,000 miles per hour. In the most hostile environment humans have ever operated in. No grid. No supply chain. No second chance. If you lose power in orbit, you are dead. And every single one of them runs on two components. A sheet of glass that catches a star. And a battery that holds it. That is not a theory. That is 7,000 proof points screaming the same answer from low Earth orbit. Now he is pulling that exact architecture down to the surface. Musk: “Eventually, it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries.” Every institution on Earth will tell you this is impossible. The grid is too complex. Base load demands something burning at all times. Musk: “My predictions have a pretty good track record.” Now zoom out. For ten thousand years, civilization ran on death. We burned dead wood. Dead plants. Dead organisms crushed into oil across millions of years. Every watt of power the modern world has ever used was ripped from something dead and buried in the dark. That era is ending. We are about to disconnect civilization from the ground beneath it. Stop digging for fuel. Start harvesting the fusion reactor that has been burning 93 million miles above us for 4.6 billion years. We were never running out of energy. We were looking down when the answer was up.

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ELON MUSK: EARTH HAS EVERYTHING IT NEEDS TO RUN ON CLEAN ENERGY "You can completely power Earth with solar panels and batteries, and there's no shortage of anything" Earth is mostly iron - roughly a third iron, a third oxygen, and the rest spread across other elements. In simple terms, it’s basically a rusty metal ball with silicon on the surface in the form of sand That matters because the same common elements make modern energy systems possible Iron, phosphorus, carbon, and lithium are all abundant on Earth and form the core of iron-phosphate lithium batteries "You can do the math. In fact, we did the math and published it, but nobody looked at it. It’s on the Tesla website It shows that you can completely power Earth with solar panels and batteries, and there's no shortage of anything"

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Elon Musk: Solar is already the source of the vast majority of Earth's energy. “A lot of people would say, well solar, can that really provide the energy that we need? A lot of people don't perhaps appreciate that solar energy is already the source of the vast majority of Earth's energy. Without solar power, we would be a frozen ice ball at about 3 or 4 degrees above absolute zero. So really, all we're talking about for solar electricity is taking the tiny, tiny bit of energy that humanity needs for electricity, which I emphasize is super tiny compared to the amount of solar energy that hits the Earth. You could generate all the electricity that the United States needs with about a 100 mile by 100 mile grid of solar power. So you just take like a corner of Arizona, and that would be all the energy that the United States needs.” From: / Youtube, December 4, 2011

Elon Musk: Solar is already the source of the vast majority of Earth's energy. “A lot of people would say, well solar, can that really provide the energy that we need? A lot of people don't perhaps appreciate that solar energy is already the source of the vast majority of Earth's energy. Without solar power, we would be a frozen ice ball at about 3 or 4 degrees above absolute zero. So really, all we're talking about for solar electricity is taking the tiny, tiny bit of energy that humanity needs for electricity, which I emphasize is super tiny compared to the amount of solar energy that hits the Earth. You could generate all the electricity that the United States needs with about a 100 mile by 100 mile grid of solar power. So you just take like a corner of Arizona, and that would be all the energy that the United States needs.” From: / Youtube, December 4, 2011

ELON CLIPS

39,698 views • 1 year ago

🚨 ELON MUSK: "Batteries are going to be a massive thing. The scale of battery demand, I think not that many people appreciate just how gigantic the scale of battery demand is. The sustained power output from the US grid is around 1 TW, but average usage is less than half of it. If you add batteries to the mix, you can run the power plants 24/7 at full capacity. More than doubling the energy output per year of the United States, just with batteries."

🚨 ELON MUSK: "Batteries are going to be a massive thing. The scale of battery demand, I think not that many people appreciate just how gigantic the scale of battery demand is. The sustained power output from the US grid is around 1 TW, but average usage is less than half of it. If you add batteries to the mix, you can run the power plants 24/7 at full capacity. More than doubling the energy output per year of the United States, just with batteries."

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ELON: WE CAN'T WASTE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE LIFE MULTIPLANETARY "This is the first time in the history of Earth that it has been possible for life to extend beyond Earth. That window is open; it may be open for a long time, or may be open for a short time; it may be open now and then never open again. So I think the smart move here is to make life multiplanetary, while it is possible to do so. If we do not become multiplanetary and ultimately go beyond our solar system, annihilation of all life on Earth is a certainty." Source: Elon Musk, Lex Fridman

ELON: WE CAN'T WASTE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE LIFE MULTIPLANETARY "This is the first time in the history of Earth that it has been possible for life to extend beyond Earth. That window is open; it may be open for a long time, or may be open for a short time; it may be open now and then never open again. So I think the smart move here is to make life multiplanetary, while it is possible to do so. If we do not become multiplanetary and ultimately go beyond our solar system, annihilation of all life on Earth is a certainty." Source: Elon Musk, Lex Fridman

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38,845 views • 11 months ago

ELON MUSK: "The most obvious one is actually solar powered AI satellites, sort of to move the AI to orbit and essentially deep space over time, because there you can actually access over a billion times more energy from the sun in deep space than you can on Earth. The scaling to Kardashev, which is using some non trivial amount of energy from the sun. You kind of have to do space solar power. Like to even use a millionth of a percent of the sun's energy you you really have to be have your solar power in deep space."

ELON MUSK: "The most obvious one is actually solar powered AI satellites, sort of to move the AI to orbit and essentially deep space over time, because there you can actually access over a billion times more energy from the sun in deep space than you can on Earth. The scaling to Kardashev, which is using some non trivial amount of energy from the sun. You kind of have to do space solar power. Like to even use a millionth of a percent of the sun's energy you you really have to be have your solar power in deep space."

DogeDesigner

266,777 views • 8 months ago

The first question I asked Elon Musk: What’s the point of sending GPUs into space? The whole idea behind orbital data centers is that if the launch costs continue to drop, it will become cheaper to put GPUs in orbit than to build power plants on Earth. The problem with this argument is that energy is only about 15% of a datacenter’s lifetime cost. The chips themselves are around 70%. And you still have to launch those to space! Elon kept returning to one point over and over again: It will simply not be physically possible to scale power production to the scale needed for AI on Earth. He kept pointing out the bottlenecks we’ve already run into on Earth: You can’t plug into the utilities - the interconnect queues are too long. You can’t do behind-the-meter natural gas and generate power yourself - lead times for turbines stretch past 2030. You can’t do solar on Earth, because of permits, and because of the tariffs. For it to make economical sense to shift compute to space, all of the following things would need to be true: - Power generation on Earth hits a ceiling, or AI demand outstrips every terrestrial option (for context, 1 TW of solar power is only 1% of the land area of the US, and AI currently only uses about 20 GW globally). - Chip production scales faster than power generation (because Elon builds TeraFab). It would be surprising if building and placing solar panels turned out to be harder than scaling semiconductor manufacturing. - Starship reaches thousands of launches per year. In that world, Elon wins the AI race outright. SpaceX is the only entity that can launch at that scale. xAI would have unlimited power. Everyone else will be stuck fighting over grid interconnects and turbine orders. And if those 3 conditions aren’t met? Well, on Earth, xAI is just gonna be one of the pack anyways - and there’s no market for the 4th best AI model. Elon’s comparative advantage was never going to be navigating utility interconnect queues or filing permits faster than Google. His advantage is SpaceX. So why not just bet on the world where SpaceX becomes the kingmaker? I asked Elon what that world looks like. 100 GW = 10,000 starship launches, and he wants to do more than that every year by 2030. That’s one starship launch every hour.

The first question I asked Elon Musk: What’s the point of sending GPUs into space? The whole idea behind orbital data centers is that if the launch costs continue to drop, it will become cheaper to put GPUs in orbit than to build power plants on Earth. The problem with this argument is that energy is only about 15% of a datacenter’s lifetime cost. The chips themselves are around 70%. And you still have to launch those to space! Elon kept returning to one point over and over again: It will simply not be physically possible to scale power production to the scale needed for AI on Earth. He kept pointing out the bottlenecks we’ve already run into on Earth: You can’t plug into the utilities - the interconnect queues are too long. You can’t do behind-the-meter natural gas and generate power yourself - lead times for turbines stretch past 2030. You can’t do solar on Earth, because of permits, and because of the tariffs. For it to make economical sense to shift compute to space, all of the following things would need to be true: - Power generation on Earth hits a ceiling, or AI demand outstrips every terrestrial option (for context, 1 TW of solar power is only 1% of the land area of the US, and AI currently only uses about 20 GW globally). - Chip production scales faster than power generation (because Elon builds TeraFab). It would be surprising if building and placing solar panels turned out to be harder than scaling semiconductor manufacturing. - Starship reaches thousands of launches per year. In that world, Elon wins the AI race outright. SpaceX is the only entity that can launch at that scale. xAI would have unlimited power. Everyone else will be stuck fighting over grid interconnects and turbine orders. And if those 3 conditions aren’t met? Well, on Earth, xAI is just gonna be one of the pack anyways - and there’s no market for the 4th best AI model. Elon’s comparative advantage was never going to be navigating utility interconnect queues or filing permits faster than Google. His advantage is SpaceX. So why not just bet on the world where SpaceX becomes the kingmaker? I asked Elon what that world looks like. 100 GW = 10,000 starship launches, and he wants to do more than that every year by 2030. That’s one starship launch every hour.

Dwarkesh Patel

404,497 views • 5 months ago

ELON: MARS IS GOING TO NEED A LOT OF GLASS DOMES AND SOLAR POWER “We'll have the first humans lay the groundwork for permanent presence on the surface. The goal will be to make Mars self-sustaining as quickly as possible. This is just a sort of rough idea of what things will be like for the first city on Mars. My guess is we'll probably put the launchpads or the landing pads a little further away, just in case. We're going to need a lot of solar power. Since you can't really walk around on the surface of Mars, at least until Mars is terraformed to be like Earth, you need to walk around with a Mars suit and be initially in kind of glass domes. But it would work. And eventually we can make Mars into an Earth-like planet.” Source: Elon Musk, SpaceX Update, May 2025

ELON: MARS IS GOING TO NEED A LOT OF GLASS DOMES AND SOLAR POWER “We'll have the first humans lay the groundwork for permanent presence on the surface. The goal will be to make Mars self-sustaining as quickly as possible. This is just a sort of rough idea of what things will be like for the first city on Mars. My guess is we'll probably put the launchpads or the landing pads a little further away, just in case. We're going to need a lot of solar power. Since you can't really walk around on the surface of Mars, at least until Mars is terraformed to be like Earth, you need to walk around with a Mars suit and be initially in kind of glass domes. But it would work. And eventually we can make Mars into an Earth-like planet.” Source: Elon Musk, SpaceX Update, May 2025

Mario Nawfal

411,025 views • 8 months ago

ELON MUSK: "When you have solar in space, you get five times more effectiveness, maybe even more than that, than solar on the ground, because it's always cold, so you don't have a day, night cycle or weather, and you get about 30% more power in space because you don't have atmospheric attenuation of the power, the net effect in solar is five times more. Any given solar panel will do five times more energy in space than on the ground."

ELON MUSK: "When you have solar in space, you get five times more effectiveness, maybe even more than that, than solar on the ground, because it's always cold, so you don't have a day, night cycle or weather, and you get about 30% more power in space because you don't have atmospheric attenuation of the power, the net effect in solar is five times more. Any given solar panel will do five times more energy in space than on the ground."

DogeDesigner

35,114 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk: If you covered the entire cleared area around a nuclear power station with solar panels, the solar panels would often produce more electricity than the nuclear plant itself. “If you take a nuclear power station and the whole clear area that's around it, it ends up being quite a bit of land. If you carpeted that land with solar panels, which would generate more, the nuclear power station or the solar panels? And usually, it's the solar panels. Now of course, you could always amp up the nuclear power station, but just taking the way things currently are, that's sort of an interesting data point. It's just to give you a sense of how much energy is hitting the Earth from the sun.” From: Interview at the EEI Annual Convention, June 11, 2015

Elon Musk: If you covered the entire cleared area around a nuclear power station with solar panels, the solar panels would often produce more electricity than the nuclear plant itself. “If you take a nuclear power station and the whole clear area that's around it, it ends up being quite a bit of land. If you carpeted that land with solar panels, which would generate more, the nuclear power station or the solar panels? And usually, it's the solar panels. Now of course, you could always amp up the nuclear power station, but just taking the way things currently are, that's sort of an interesting data point. It's just to give you a sense of how much energy is hitting the Earth from the sun.” From: Interview at the EEI Annual Convention, June 11, 2015

ELON CLIPS

52,173 views • 7 months ago