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ELON MUSK ON BATTERIES DOUBLING ENERGY OUTPUT A foundational shift toward abundance. “What batteries actually enable is, even if you don't build any incremental power plants, you could double the energy output of the United States just with batteries. This is a super big deal.” This isn’t about generating...

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Elon Musk explains why solar is the path to energy abundance “Solar is by far the biggest source of energy. On earth and beyond earth, the sun rounds up to 100% of all energy. This is an important thing to consider. The sun is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Jupiter is about 0.1% and everything else is miscellaneous. Even if you were to burn Jupiter in a thermonuclear reactor, the amount of energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%… So it’s really all about the sun.” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink asks Elon what it would take to electrify the United States with solar power. Elon replies: “The rough way to think about it is: 100 miles x 100 miles of solar is enough to power the entire United States. You could basically take a small corner of Utah or Nevada or New Mexico — obviously you wouldn’t want it all in one place — but it’s a very small percentage of the area of the U.S. to generate all of the electricity the U.S. uses.” He continues: “The same is true for Europe. You could take relatively small, unpopulated areas of Spain and Sicily and generate all of the electricity power that Europe needs.” Source: CNBC (Jan 2026)
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Lacey

1,472,188 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

Elon Musk: The real bottleneck for AI is not chips, it is electricity. “If you look at electrical output outside of China, everywhere outside of China, it’s more or less flat. It’s maybe a slight increase, but pretty close flat. China has a rapid increase in electrical output. But if you’re putting data centers anywhere except China, where are you going to get your electricity? Especially as you scale. The output of chips is growing pretty much exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat. So how are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies? 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. But also, you’re going to get about 5 times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground, and you don’t need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt, which says it’s always sunny in space because you don’t have a day-night cycle or seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere in space. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy. So, any given solar panels can do about 5 times more power in space than on the ground, and you avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night. So it’s actually much cheaper to do it in space. And 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.” Dwarkesh Podcast, February 5, 2026.
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Elon Musk: The real bottleneck for AI is not chips, it is electricity. “If you look at electrical output outside of China, everywhere outside of China, it’s more or less flat. It’s maybe a slight increase, but pretty close flat. China has a rapid increase in electrical output. But if you’re putting data centers anywhere except China, where are you going to get your electricity? Especially as you scale. The output of chips is growing pretty much exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat. So how are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies? 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. But also, you’re going to get about 5 times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground, and you don’t need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt, which says it’s always sunny in space because you don’t have a day-night cycle or seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere in space. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy. So, any given solar panels can do about 5 times more power in space than on the ground, and you avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night. So it’s actually much cheaper to do it in space. And 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.” Dwarkesh Podcast, February 5, 2026.

ELON CLIPS

70,605 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

How science works according to Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof: Very often, politicians think that you can tell scientists what they’re supposed to discover. You can’t! Scientists don’t know what they are going to discover. They have to try things. They have to have curiosity and ideas, but they also have to have the knowledge to try things. Very often, it leads to nothing; it’s a waste. But we didn’t know when we started it’s a waste. But when something does work. When something clicks, it is exciting and rewarding but it’s never just one click. You get a result on it, you’re hopeful, you build on it. Maybe it’s confirmed you’re even more hopeful. So it’s an incremental process. It is never one thing - boom we discovered a major thing, my god this is it. It is more like walking up a flight of stairs where each step counts and the higher up the stairs you go the better you can see what’s on top and become excited about what’s there and how you can use.
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How science works according to Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof: Very often, politicians think that you can tell scientists what they’re supposed to discover. You can’t! Scientists don’t know what they are going to discover. They have to try things. They have to have curiosity and ideas, but they also have to have the knowledge to try things. Very often, it leads to nothing; it’s a waste. But we didn’t know when we started it’s a waste. But when something does work. When something clicks, it is exciting and rewarding but it’s never just one click. You get a result on it, you’re hopeful, you build on it. Maybe it’s confirmed you’re even more hopeful. So it’s an incremental process. It is never one thing - boom we discovered a major thing, my god this is it. It is more like walking up a flight of stairs where each step counts and the higher up the stairs you go the better you can see what’s on top and become excited about what’s there and how you can use.

Itai Yanai

36,756 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад