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Totally unnecessary : I did the Math to cross-verify - Elon Musk is 100 % right !

Just ONE square mile of batteries and a TOTAL of 100 x 100 square miles of Solar can power the entire USA 24/7. Area required will be much lesser for Canada.

See : https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/elon-musk-...

Oil is totally cooked. Bloomberg reports an automobile that Fast charges 700 km in 9 minutes flat that is available today. One can imagine that charging can be done during the day from excess Solar. As Elon Musk puts it - just a total of 100 x 100 Miles of Solar can supply the entire USA. Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCYYrhL-kE

Oil is cooked. BYD is filing 52 patents every single day and has a 700 km in 9 minutes vehicle available TODAY ! Charging by Solar is going to be the norm. Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCYYrhL-kE

Thank you. I was not aware of prior references especially that it could be done with 10K square miles, until media reports of Elon's speech at Davos recently.

Elon Musk mentioned that just a 100 square mile grid of Solar can power the entire USA. I did not believe it; a simple calculation later, I was convinced. The USA of yesteryear would have done this already and more. Sure other sources are required, but honestly we humans have to advance beyond burning dead things for fuel.

The De Minimis loophole is highly significant with FOUR Million packages per day (What ???). The clause to address this loophole needs to be stated more accurately - It should be clearly defined to be higher or lower of 30 % of the value of shipment under $800 OR $25 per shipment and not either. If either then the De Minimis loophole will be continue to be used at $25 per shipment. Source : https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

The De Minimis loophole is highly significant with 4 Million packages per day (What ?). The clause to address this loophole needs to be stated more accurately - It should clearly define it to be higher / lower of 30 % of value of shipment under $800 or $25 per shipment and not either

Source :https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr....

There is sufficient scholarly published work but the script lacks the equivalent of a Rosetta stone. A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle.

1) EVs are not significantly heavier https://thedriven.io/2024/05/03/are-evs-really-much-heavier-...

2) One must also factor in the vast surface fleet that moves Gas and crude oil around : https://www.americangeosciences.org/geoscience-currents/tran...

3) Tyre manufacturers have taken notice and are working on this problem.

Not necessarily in this scenario - if net manufacturing and battery costs were to fall - given the IC engine requires so many parts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/china-s-e...

Every EV that is used to replace personal transport of individuals with long (necessary), regular commutes each day will help in alleviating global warming : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/china-s-e...

Could Elon pay the 10 % of his staff by taking a personal paycut from 56 Billion to One Billion USD ?

Incredible. If all governments are serious about global warming, they would move all public transport buses to this battery (and hook it up to Solar farms directly, when parked in terminals between break shifts). Public transport buses are the ones that would clock 1.5 million kms. (200 km / day x 300 days = 60,000 kms per year, considering 2 month downtime per bus). One can quickly wean off caveman oil.

If planting two billion trees has so many challenges in a sparsely populated country (considering Canada's land area) - how is the One Trillion trees project supported by the likes of Marc Benioff (Salesforce) even possible ? For the record : I'm all for more greenery and forests.

It is because you are using your dominant hand. Try switching the mouse with your non-dominant hand.

Data would not get automatically contributed to research unless you explicitly gave informed consent for research studies. All researchers now require to maintain official records of informed consent given by patients or research participants. You could anonymize your data via DICOM anonymizer tools and offer them to UCSF or Memorial Sloan Kettering [or] you could host them on a website and offer to sign informed consent documents for researchers.

So be it, if Germans want to continue to be dependent on dictators and kings for their energy.

If people can connect small scale renewable power grids (think solar powered grids of a few acres) present alongside highways to charging facilities the revolution would truly happen especially in sunny places (think Texas, Africa, South Asia etc.) !

You could request your city council to attach a magnet to the ends of their sweep trucks. This would remove all nails and sharp ferromagnetic debris from the bike paths at no additional cost. They do this in certain countries to avoid flats in public buses.

I will be interested in results of a control group which did 90 minutes of weight training and cardio under similar conditions.

I'm perplexed how come the larger CA reservoirs are nowhere close to their storage capacity : https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

Question : Are there any technical challenges in building 100 acre x 300 feet deep concrete storage tanks to store the water run-off ?

Generally speaking the average annual wage of corporate workers (mostly engineers) will be in the six figures. Hourly wage workers take home (on average) median US annual wages. So laying of 10000 engineers (in terms of immediate $ costs) is the equivalent of laying of approximately 30000 to 50000 hourly wage workers.

Does someone have a better sense of economics of charging $8/Month ?

At best assuming approximately the 420,000 [see Ref.1] folks currently on twitter will pay $8/Month - which gives about $40 Million in annual revenue.

Will the economics work if the advertisers stay out ?

Also, why charge $8 in the first place if the number is too low ( < $40 Million), given as Mr.Musk puts it, twitter is losing $4 Million a day !

Source : [1] https://www.statista.com/chart/28633/verified-users-on-tw

Does someone have a better sense of economics of charging $8/Month ?

At best assuming approximately the 420,000 [see Ref.1] folks currently on twitter will pay $8/Month - which gives about $40 Million in *annual* revenue.

Will the economics work if the advertisers stay out ?

Also, why charge in the first place if the number is too low ( < $40 Million).

Source : [1] https://www.statista.com/chart/28633/verified-users-on-twitt...

Does anyone know how fast does M1 Max perform on Deep Learning training tasks compared to NVIDIA 3080Ti ?

Does anyone have a handle on how the new M1X is expected to perform on Deep Learning training runs vs a NVIDIA 1080Ti / 2080Ti. I think the 400 Gbps bandwidth and 64 GB unified memory will help - but can anyone extrapolate based on the M1 ?

Does anyone have a handle on how the new M1X is expected to perform on Deep Learning training runs vs a NVIDIA 1080Ti / 2080Ti. I think the 400 Gbps bandwidth and 64 GB unified memory will help - but can anyone extrapolate based on the M1 ?

I can't imagine why so many people keep swapping out for the latest phones even when their older models are perfectly functional - granted it could perhaps use a newer battery.

Many consumers fuel this demand by sheer convenience. I personally know of many PC users who order a new laptop/machine, when all they require is a SSD upgrade to their hard-drive. Unfortunately they are not tech-savvy to do a reinstall of the OS. For them it is simply more convenient to order a newer machine. In some extreme cases, all they need is an external drive to store their data and to physically wipe down of their computer to remove the dirt/crumbs/grime from 2 years of usage.