They will supply each satellite with an ice pack to dump waste heat into. SpaceX will launch regular resupply missions with fresh ice, as necessary.

OTOH the nice thing about software is that it's easy to update, so anyone is free to replace their slow/inefficient software with a faster/efficient version as soon as they obtain it, at which point their fast hardware should run the efficient software very quickly. Nothing (except possibly bad management decisions?) is preventing anyone from creating efficient software, either.

Defies the thermal limits, probably.

I assume they mean a 10x jump is outpacing Moore's law.

I would bet though that it'll take long enough to commercialize that it will fall right in place with Moore's law.

I drive to Chicago about once every 3 weeks - about 440 miles each way
I drive to a lake cabin about every other weekend on average (more in summer, less in winter) - 149mi each way.
You tell me if my "range anxiety" is rational, then? The run to Chicago is about 7 hours assuming I can align around traffic. No, I don't want to add 1.5 hours fucking around at chargers esp as ABRP shows at least 2 of the required stops are at chargers with 3 or fewer points - ie likely to be in use.

My work is 5 mi away, would have been perfect for a PHEV except for:
Common low temps by my home: -30f/-35c Dec-Feb; about every 3rd winter we hit -40 for a few days. Yes, I keep my car in a garage but there is no indoor parking at my work. No charging at work, either.
And what would my Chicago run take at -30F?

Audi PHEV has "30 mi" range on electric (supposedly) but the sales person admitted that this could drop to FIFTEEN miles in very cold weather.

They're also a fantastically wealthy petro state with a highly-educated population and a persistent culture of high conformity, collectivism, ecological responsibility, and social welfare most of which are features which have been famously hard to export to ... anywhere.

And they are nearly entirely white making it extra ironic that their culture is so frequently touted as exemplary by leftists who simultaneously insist "white culture" is the source of everything wrong with the world.

The racial distribution of Norway population - surprisingly hard to find as they themselves attempt to hide it by using terms like "Norwegian" but then lumping in immigrants etc: are in fact 99.18% are white and 0.82% are multiracial.
https://www.neilsberg.com/insi...

So... are these the "good whites" then? Are they "surprisingly articulate" too? Or is it just that they conveniently drive EVs?

Shall we compare some numbers?
Miles per year: 8000 NO vs 16000 US
Norway average trip per US is even shorter in proportion.
Average Norwegian road speeds are much less (far fewer major trunk highways, basically)

Sorry, Thorsten Veblen was the one who wrote the book Conspicuous Consumption (where consumers make rational choices but it's about displaying things not efficiency with their money).

Not sure there was an ELI5 way to say that for anyone bothering to read it.

Let me guess, you're the same bot farm

Oregon isn't Nigeria. All of the worker creature comforts aren't being flown in at great expense because local infrastructure and services are shit. Houses and restaurants are being built. Stores are being built. That means employing the locals for the most part, raising their wages and improving their infrastructure.

There are downsides to big companies coming into small towns. I live in one, and the increased traffic and general hassle of more people annoys the fuck out of me. But our standard of living has most definitely gone up, not down.

Well, we're talking about Coke on slashdot so depending on their metrics, it's a success.

I strongly considered a phev for my last purchased car in dec 24, the math didn't math.
I expect eventually I will get an ev, but I still think they're a Veblenseque luxury* rather than a rationally good choice for most American drivers.

Rsilvergun: "we don't need plumbers any more because we aren't building cities"

Jesus Christ of all the colossally stupid shit you say, I'm impressed you managed to find something even dumber.

I know a c-student guy who just got his master electrician cert (training & cert paid for by his company) making about $110k comfortably with minimal overtime.

If you think kids come out of college with "critical thinking" skills, I'm not sure you've been near a college campus in 30 years.

Not disputing anything you wrote but I'm curious how long ago you went to college and (if you care to share) your approximate family income at the time?

We put 4 kids through college 2011-2020 and found that FAFSA was basically just an on ramp to easy loan money (and saw a lot of our kids' peers get themselves unreasonably into debt thereby, going to colleges that were CLEARLY outside their income bracket).
Afaik the "grants" part of fafsa is only fully available to (today) a *family* income of $60k which is really quite poor.

Was there ever a ban, or just tarrifs high enough to price Chinese vehicles out of the market? Since Waymo isn't selling vehicles, perhaps that isn't an obstacle for them.