Projection.

Note that while Trump want's to go Mars, US is pulling the plug on most planned robotic missions.

faster than used Tesla batteries.

We collectively got over-focused on deporting gardeners and letting brain-worms set child vaccination policy.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

Wage-slave salaries stay flat while rich get richer, and protecting the rich's tax cuts is a Holy Endeavor.

...wacky ideas, so if it keeps his orange nose out of pressing issues, I deem it good.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

Correction: kaboom

potential hurdles include ensuring that the methods used for startup, operation and shutdown avoid instabilities

"Instabilities" = that giant boom that Marvin the Martian always wanted to hear.

Don Q-uixote

"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."

When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.

I once worked for an environmental cleanup organization. Then we merged with a conglomerate full of polluters. In the gallows we joked that we were being paid to clean up our own messes.