If you're someone as brilliant as Steve Wozniak, you'll probably succeed with or without a degree. He quietly went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree years later under an assumed name.
But the vast majority of people not only are nowhere near as brilliant but have no clue what they actually want to do in life! College is a great place to figure that out.
The majority of the 10 richest people in the world graduated from college and many of them have master's degrees.
It's not "all."
Elon Musk - University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Larry Page - University of Michigan (BSE) Stanford University (MS)
Bernard Arnault - École polytechnique
Sergey Brin - University of Maryland, College Park (BS) Stanford University (MS)
Jeff Bezos - Princeton University (BSE)
Steve Ballmer - Harvard University (BA)
Warren Buffett - University of Pennsylvania University of Nebraska (BS) Columbia University (MS)
Jensen Huang - Oregon State University (BS) Stanford University (MS)
There is an old clip of George Lucas talking about how when the people feel government can't get anything done, they'll elect a dictator who can get things done.
This is in the context of his Star Wars films, but it applies really well to today because that is exactly what is happening.
The previous criminal President we had was Nixon but it was Republicans who told him resign or we'll kick you out of office, and then both parties came together and passed a series of safeguards to prevent the next Nixon from happening.
Back then, there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans unlike today when it's totally polarized thanks to decades of media further polarizing voters and now thanks to social media that has been put on steroids.
You have the President saying he hates his opposition, meaning the voters who do not support him, and he would not say that if that was not an extremely popular thing to say with his supporters.
It feels like we're in a Kubrick movie, with the half the country dehumanizing the other half.
RFK Jr. obviously.
Just as a Very Stable Genius assumes power again and plans to install anti vaccine nut job and brain worm host RJK Jr. to be in charge of the nation's health and "go wild" (verbatim quote).
Our future's so bright we gotta wear shades.
the capacity of a battery doesn't produce any power and therefore can't equated to what a power station produces
If a set of batteries is supplying 500MW of power to the grid that's not electricity that can be used in the same manner as, say, a 500MW coal plant?
And nuclear powerplants hardly EVER spontaneously burst into flames, consuming the building they're in.
But when they do it's a doozy!
Nuclear doesn't run out.
Tell that to France in 2022 - their nuclear capacity dipped to 55%.
gas, coal, etc doesn't run out.
The sun won't run out (for at least 1 billion years) and therefore wind won't run out.
Wind power is one of forms of power generation that effects birds the least. I'm not sure what forms of electricity you want to switch to that is 100% benign.
Except if they had said 50GWh you would have no idea how many nuclear reactors it could displace on the grid. Is that 10 GW for 5 hours or 1 GW for 50 hours?
Since the purpose (at least in California which is the #1 state for these batteries) is to soak up excess renewable power during the middle of the day and release it later, the assumption is the batteries are large enough to be able to accomplish that.
A 1 GW nuclear generates 1GW for 24 h a day
Not a French one in 2022 - their nuclear reactors had a whopping 55% capacity factor that year.
When comparing it to another source of power generation GW makes sense. As long as it has enough capacity to soak up excess solar from during the day.
Battery prices are expected to plunge 50% by 2026 so this buildout will accelerate.
New cheaper chemistries are coming out quickly. Natron Energy claims 50,000 charge cycles for their Sodium-Ion batteries which means their batteries could last many decades.
I still remember being told 2 decades ago no power grid could have more than 30% wind + solar on it or it would fail.
Batteries will get us to 100% if we want to.
The plural of anecdote is not data, but I rented a Hyundai Ioniq 5 for a weekend to drive San Francisco -> Reno -> San Francisco drive and the charging experience at Electrify America was unsatisfactory to say the least.
At my first stop in Sacramento, out of 11 charging stations only ONE was working, according to someone else there. Since I tried a few before I got one to work I have no reason to doubt that was not the case.
Coming back in Truckee, out of 4 chargers 2 were unoccupied and I was unable to charge on those 2. Finally someone left and I got it working there on the third attempt. It took me far longer to get to the point of charging than to charge. Once it starts charging the car charges quickly.
It could have been worse. A guy in a Chevy Bolt tried to use the same charger I first tried and couldn't get it to unlock the charger cable. He was on the phone with Electrify America for over 20 minutes trying to get his car back.
My father has a Tesla model 3 and takes frequent long trips and says the Tesla chargers just work.
At least I don't live in a MAGA bubble and make wild claims like " a set of charges that no one in the history of the country has ever been charged with?"
Only someone who only listens to MAGA [social] media would make a ridiculous, and easily disproved claim like that, and then turnaround and call me an idiot because I discovered Judge Aileen Cannon also donates to political causes.
How would you feel when another Republican judge in that 95% Republican district, hand selected by Donald Trump, then said "nah, it's OK!"
That has already happened. Judge Aileen Cannon donated $100 to governor Ron DeSantis in 2018.
Doing the math that is nearly 3X what judge Merchan donated.
I haven't heard ANYONE - I MEAN ANYONE bring this donation up nor have I seen any mention in the MSM.
The donation doesn't bother me. The problem is that she is totally incompetent and/or biased is what bothers me.
then came up with a set of charges that no one in the history of the country has ever been charged with?
His own CFO, Allen Weisselberg pled guilty to the same exact charge previously! This is verbatim from the indictment:
The defendants, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about April 11, 2016, with the intent to defraud, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement 2015, and defendants' intent to defraud included an intent to commit another crime and to aid and conceal the commission thereof.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
