Consider that it is evangelism. Saying "We did this, we're a big investment bank" implies "It's OK, and you should do it too". I've heard people refer to arguing a vendor to lower a price as "jew them down". Enough with that.

Sophie Wilson, the architect of the first ARM processor, was inspired by the engineers working on the successor to the 6502 at the Western Design Center. They proved that a small team can build a simple microprocessor which is competitive with a microprocessor (like the x86 processors) built by an army of H-1B-visa engineers with a budget of billions of dollars.

So, Wilson and the other 2 engineers (Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser) on her team designed, built, and tested the first ARM processor. Its simplicity gave it 2 additional characteristics: low power consumption and ease of testing. These 2 characteristics would, decades later, pave the way for ARM to enter the market for laptops, desktops, and supercomputers.

ARM will appear in Apple laptops and desktops in late 2020.

As of today, Fugaku, a supercomputer built by Fujitsu, is powered by ARM processors and is the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Wilson and her 2 British colleagues, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser, deserve the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering. This prize is the engineering equivalent of the Nobel Prize. These engineers have done for computing systems what Claude Shannon did for communication systems.

In an opinion piece published by the New York Times, an economics professor at Yamanashi Gakuin University (in Japan) confirms what American intelligence officers already know. Specifically, the Chinese habitually conceal the truth.

The professor explains how behavior which is endemic in Chinese culture facilitated the coronavirus' spreading beyond the borders of China. He wrote, "As far as the current outbreak goes, two cultural factors help explain how the natural occurrence of a single virus infecting a single mammal could have cascaded into a global health crisis. And now for the controversial aspect of this argument: Both of those factors are quintessentially, though not uniquely, Chinese.

The first is China's long, long history of punishing the messenger [who warns of danger or government corruption]."

There is a typo in the title of the comment. The title should be changed from "Chinese Culture is the Catalyst fo the Coronavirus".to "Chinese Culture is the Catalyst for the Coronavirus".

Beijing should subsidize the development of the home-testing kits because Chinese culture is the catalyst for spreading the coronavirus.

In an opinion piece published by the New York Times, an economics professor at Yamanashi Gakuin University (in Japan) explains how behavior which is endemic in Chinese culture facilitated the new coronavirus' spreading beyond the borders of China. He wrote, "As far as the current outbreak goes, two cultural factors help explain how the natural occurrence of a single virus infecting a single mammal could have cascaded into a global health crisis. And now for the controversial aspect of this argument: Both of those factors are quintessentially, though not uniquely, Chinese.

The first is China's long, long history of punishing the messenger [who warns of danger or government corruption]. ...

A second cultural factor behind the epidemic are traditional Chinese beliefs about the powers of certain foods, which have encouraged some hazardous habits [that facilitate a virus' hopping from a wild animal to a human host]. ..."

We will know if GM built a bettter car battery in 8 years or so. I am sort of dubious, because it's more like your cell phone battery than a lithium car battery. It uses cobalt. GM brags that their EV battery uses less cobalt "than other EV batteries", but Tesla uses none. We know that Tesla batteries last. It will take a while to know that about GM batteries.

Musk is great. He took a lot of things that everyone knew about and nobody would dare to do, and made them work from a business perspective. We need lots more people like that.

Interesting reference:

Blast wind: At the explosion site, a vacuum is created by the rapid outward movement of the blast. This vacuum will almost immediately refill itself with the surrounding atmosphere. This creates a very strong pull on any nearby person or structural surface after the initial push effect of the blast has been delivered. As this void is refilled, it creates a high-intensity wind that causes fragmented objects, glass and debris to be drawn back in toward the source of the explosion.

Here. I found several on the web with a single search.

The problem is getting people to build it exactly as the computer models it :-)

I would think that welds are quite chaotic in nature. The heat changes the crystal structure of the steel, the welds are not uniform, etc.

Steel is really complicated stuff. It's a matrix of iron alloy and hard nonmetallic crystals like carbides. The iron alloy can have five different crystal structures, and can transition between them through heating - which welding does. There is also thermal stress from welding, which you can relax by annealing, but annealing the entire vehicle is not practical.

The cryogenic nitrogen used in the test is very cold, as you can see by the frost on the vehicle. Atmospheric pressure is only 14 pounds, so if you pressurize to 14 pounds greater than you intend in space, you get equivalent stress on the vehicle. The final test is to actually send it to space.

Cryogenic nitrogen. The force of it rushing out creates a vacuum.

The explosion is seen to start in the side of the vehicle. The lower arrow is where it starts.

A blowout on the remains may correspond to this.

I only searched the web for 10 seconds and came up with this.

Obviously, we need storage for conventional power uses. But desalination that runs on sporadic power? That would be fine.

Let's not kid ourselves that fossil fuel exploration and production doesn't also have tremendous tax credits and subsidies, and that nuclear did not also have this when the plants were being constructed. If you want to take away one, you have to take away the other too. I'm also not at all clear that California municipalities are forced to contract with a specific indeprndent solar provider like Alta power.

And backups are not an issue for desalinization. You only need to desalinate when there is power