Well, the mythical acquisition, i was actually talking about tesla... if you noticed, i also talk about acquiring talents, that is the case of SpaceX. It still don't change what i said!

We all know how those "authored whitepaper" work, he paid for the research, he can get his name on the paper, he could even be the one to have the initial idea, but the technical work WAS not his.

His interest in space started mostly thanks to Robert Zubrin and that open the door to meet Michael D. Griffin. He is the one that really open the space doors for everything. All his contacts and hires are thanks to Michael D. Griffin and those initial hires then open more doors for more people, as they were already very involved in space and so with many contact in space research centers and universities. So yes, he hired all of them, because he had the money, but they were really found by Griffin. He did not had real knowledge on the topic. Now he have more knowledge because he slowly learned, better than many CEO!! I give him credit for establishing the long term goal and putting money in to it instead of just talking (like most other millionaires), but he keeps claiming all credits for everything he touch and way too many people believe on those lies and fail to recognize the true brains behind each project. It is the Wozniak vs Jobs all over again. Not that Jobs wasn't important, but not as important as most people think!

And finally, my comments are not saying he was not important, just that he did all that without real knowledge, so the same can be applied to the women from this article if she is stubborn and rich enough

ahh!! you are totally correct... but only by one foot!!

Loved the Harry Potter equivalences!!! :D

how much is that in metric slugs?!

>LOL. More like: suck on the teat of "European fund of fuck Elon Musk" dept. (and incidentally, enrich myself in the process dept too). No, really. She studied administration, went on to do some internet stuff, now she wants us to believe that she's the space nerd and visionary like Elon who will bring Europe to orbit.

Hey, Musk did exactly the same... he did some internet things and then told us that he was a future leader, could do electric cars and space rockets... he had zero knowledge on that too, he acquired existent startups and talents. He gives the money and face to the project... what, she can't do that also?

So being friendly and open is bad?!
Doing things to help others without having anything to win is bad ?!
So accepting that we are all different and that is not a problem is bad?!
Live to be happy and follow their dreams instead of rat-race and be rich is a bad thing?!

You really sound like a klingon!! And even them reconsidered their goals!! is your pride and stubbornness bigger than theirs?

and go see those original episodes and compare them with current ones (at least Dr.Who) and you see 2 totally different way to show a history and personages. higher class vs low class, men vs women, kids and even pets

It is still the same, the first ones, being British or US or whatever based are all the same, they "boldly go where no man has gone before" and pave the way for way more because they were trying to show the future (or past in dr who) and that allowed them to bend existent rules. The true is that the original star trek managed to do impossible things in the TV for his time. The simple fact that the federation not always win was a shock, as the USA couldn't lose at anything (until at least Vietnam at least).

Even the first Star Wars, Princess Leia was just a damsel in distress, didn't even risk anything else...and she is almost the only female that talks! Only after she got upgraded, but many year after star trek had a black(!) women as officer

My bet is Papua New Guinea, am i right?

Ai is patient, it is waiting for you food to spoil and water to finish and THEN it will sell you poison food and water... wait some decades to catch all bunkers and finally attack!!
Ohh and don't think "i can grow my own food and hunt"... bad news, the plan for that is already on going, global warming, poison nature with chemical products, pesticide and herbicide, forever chemical... Lead in fuel and Ozone layer ended too soon for the AI plan, but for sure it manage to find alternatives...

Because, you know, AI is older, it was first our billionaire corporations and only know they exposing as real AI

Calling Grok big is a great statement, probably made by grok itself!! :D

I was talking about NMC Li-ion batteries, not LiFePO4 Li-ion batteries! if you are talking about LFP, then i'm totally wrong, they are safer than Na batteries. In that case the only thing that Na MAY be better is price (probably only after being well established and with higher capacity)

Many years ago people used lead-acid batteries for solar, them Li-ion and only now they are using LFP.

Everytime i said Li batteries , i'm thinking in the normal Li-ion, while i know that LPF is also Li-ion, just in a different way, but i call those LPF or LiFePO4

There are 2 reasons for the default not be "you can do whatever you want in your home":

- Safety, Hygiene. Something new is likely to have some unknown dangers. The closer you are to other people, the more restrictive things get. Again, you may think it is your home, but many things may affect people around. noise, A 50m high pole, fire, noise are easy to detect, but others are harder like material used can pollute the water or the air and others are just strange, like magnetic fields, electricity, electronic emissions.
- Politics, Monopolies, Lobby, Money. Another reason can be political, Monopoly pressure, Money that can be gained or saved. Telcos had special rights for many years, so as electrical companies (many still have). If it is something that saves you money and is forbidden, follow the money and see who wins by not allowing you to do that.

Of course all this applied to normal humans, companies/enterprises/billionaires can do whatever they want, they just need to bribe^Wconvince some politics and/or have good lawyers. A normal people isn't allowed to mess with unknown things, but a chemistry company can produce a new product with some quickly made reports paid by then reporting it is totally safe ... and 10 years later we all find out that it isn't after all

>A company can sell for what ever price it wants.
Sort of... They can choose to produce/sell or not produce/shutdown. The price itself in the EU is enforced to be calculated the same way, as marginal pricing. That is, the price that each one received is the price of the last producer need to meet with the demand.
Say you ned 400MWh and you have this producers available

Generator __ Cost to produce 1 MWh _ Available __ Accepted?
Wind _______ €10/MWh ___________ 100 MWh __ 100 MWh
Nuclear _____ €20/MWh ___________ 200 MWh __ 200 MWh
Gas ________ €80/MWh ___________ 150 MWh __ 100 MWh
Coal _______ €100/MWh __________ 100 MWh ___ 0 MWh

The marginal pricing would be 80€/MWh, because wind and nuclear both account for 300MWh, add the Gas for more 100MWh, you get the 400MWh already, no need to buy from the Coal producer. The last price is 80€/MWh and is what all producers receive. So solar receive 80€ when it cost was really only 10€, gas received 80€ and it was it own price. Coal gets nothing as didn't sold any capacity

This is set to promote cheaper sources and the more expensive ones to be more flexible. This price is calculated in each country and as they are all connected, you also add the next country production to your list. So while you can set your price, what you get is defined by these marginal prices in your country.

This is why companies invest in wind and solar, they are cheaper and faster to deploy, can get paid back quickly. A nuclear plant can take huge amount of years to build, costs a fortune and have a return of investment way longer, while can sell much more capacity.

Notice that marginal pricing in electricity happen all over the world, with some small changes, like also accounting transmission costs in bigger countries/weaker distribution capability

yes, of course, it is just the cost of the hardware to have a extra socket... the problem may be the capacity/power of that... probably better is to get a bluetti or jackery, that can spike when turning things on and the lower to normal levels. But all depends in the way you want to use it

i said safer, not bullet proof! Even a lead/acid battery is dangerous if you do stupid things!! Even water container can be dangerous , like dropping it from the 3th floor!!