Depends on what you mean by eating Tesla's lunch, considering Tesla shipped greater than 10x GM in that same quarter, (469,796 vehicles) I think it might be better defined as eating Tesla's table scraps out back by the dumpster where no one is looking.

Rather than creating one large magnetic field why not hundreds of thousands of small ones, arranged so the individual magnetic fields align like shingles? As I understand it, the Earths magnetic shield is only 0.00006 tesla at it's strongest point, which is very weak compared to what we can generate (1,200 tesla), the challenge is the volume is immense. So, thousands of small, cheap, easily replaceable solar powered shields may be a much easier solution in terms of reliability, manufacturing and cost.

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1 billion per plant is 2.9 mil per MW, Wind is currently 1.3 mil per MW, Solar is 1 Mil per MW, not to mention ongoing manpower, maintenance, safety and cleanup costs are vastly higher than wind. Add some batteries to the wind farm and it's still cheaper. Maybe in a few specific areas where wind or solar are just totally unfeasible to match demand, but it's not going to be hundreds of these reactors around the world, nor would they make sense as storage.

I first became interested in computers after watching the movie "Hackers". I believe the main point here is to get people interested enough to have a look into the career, and then they can figure out their own reasons for staying. Stating things like "To be clear, you should learn to code if you love writing and debugging and refining and documenting and supporting code." is a bit ridiculous, since it's hard to know if I like to write & debug code if I haven't even tried to write it in the first place.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, KING RICHARD III, FOUND MURDERED IN PARKING LOT, POLICE DECLINE TO INVESTIGATE!! CONSPIRACY??!! - Leave out one key piece of information and it takes on a life of it's own, but there is nothing untrue about the above. Conspiracies seem to live on the interpretation that those who believe them have a better understanding of the issue at hand than those in charge, or that they have all the relevant information, when they don't.