Seriously, this town should approach Google or WOW and push to have one of them come in.

NTU is the same university that had a capacitor that would change the world.
And that was 3 years ago.

My bet is that nothing comes from this.

for sometime as well. The problem is that in America, it is only cheaper than Nat Gas in a FEW areas. Otherwise, Nat Gas is actually cheaper than most wind. However, it is expected that Nat Gas will hit 5/MMBTU in the coming year, at which point, Wind is cheaper than nat gas.

What is really needed is CHEAP storage. For example, EOS energy is cheap cheap storage. We utilities to expand this, and at the same time, move to microgrids, rather than 3 large grids in America.

Woz and Allen. Both of those men actually made things. I view musk in the same vein as Allen or any of our previous aviation experts.

Good lord. Between you far left weenies, combined with far right ( who in 1940's would be called NAZIs, correctly ), you are destroying america, if not the west.

You are right. It is not all musk. All of these companies count on top ppl. But, the original design of f9 was musk. Likewise, he is responsible for a number of manufacturing designs and innovations. Likewise, he has surrounded himself by engineers and in general, gotten rid of MBA's, who have become the bane of american businesses.

Actually, it was o that pushed that reg over the objections from the neo-cons/tea*. They were/are opposed to that reg as obamacare.

Noah, All of the major car companies are banding together to do fuel cells that use hydrogen derived from Nat gas.
When gen 3 hits the market in about 3 years, few will want to buy a fuel cell car. As it is, the only reason why leaf and volt outsell model s is not because those owners do not want Tesla. It is simply because they can not afford it. Gen 3 will force all major car companies to switch to electric, rather than loose major shares to Tesla.

You got it MOSTLY right.
The one thing that I will add to this, is with the massive amounts of security break-ins, wired will take on a preference over wireless.

Seriously, it is a lot easier to run cat 6 around a house.
First off, you have to be living in KC. That means that you have a basement. That means that you can run cat 6 into the first floor trivially. The hard part is dealing with the upstairs.
Depending on the builder, you likely have a tunnel that goes from the basement to the attic, or you might have 1-2 2 or 3" conduits going from the basement up to the attic. You can simply run a single line up there and then put in place a switch, while you splay out to the various runs from the attic.
If you do not have the easy access, then hire somebody to run a cat 6 inside of a conduit from the basement to the attic on the outside of the house. Do it in a corner, next to a downspout, etc. Then paint the conduit.

Also do yourself a favor and run a line to the outside. Ideally, it will be trivial to disconnect (or more likely connect). I ran line up from the basement up to the dining area which the deck is outside of. Inside, I put this in a single gang box, with 2 quickports RJ-45s. The bottom one goes to the basement/network switch. The upper jack goes to an outside jack. When I want the outside, I simply plug in a small 4" connector. Otherwise, it leaves me an inside connection (useful for winter).

You are right that no laws were broken. OTOH, it can be considered acts of war when it moves from spying to direct attacks on systems.

Look, if America needs the help, then they should be getting a green card, not a temp visa. As such, we need to solve the illegal issue along with a real deal on visas. We should drop the H1-Bs, and instead, put national needs at the front of the line. That means that if an AMERICAN company is unable to hire somebody local, then THEY can get more green carded legal immigrants.

And no, foreign companies should not be allowed to bring ppl in from overseas to do the work.

These companies do NOT get X dollars / hr. They typically, get % of your hourly. That means that the more that you get paid, the more that they make.
So, what is the driving force here? To drive the technology back to their nation.

This is not about hiring by race. If you are white, but Indian, you will be picked up by infosys, tata, etc.
This is about taking the technology back to your own nation.

Seriously, the right message is to block infosys from working with American companies for at least 10 years.

To be fair, this is not just infosys that does this. So does tata and many many other companies. The reason is simple. They are NOT global in nature. They are all national, and simply want to bring the work back to their nation. The problem is that American Executives that are MBA's are in this for short-term gains. As such, it behooves them to continue to offshore, while also selling off the company bit-by-bit. GE, IBM, Boeing, etc are all good examples of companies being ran by MBAs that are destroying American companies, while screaming that this is about globalism.
After all, if it was TRULY globalism, then American and other western companies would be allowed into nations like China and India with our goods. But that is not the case.