Perhaps maybe not everyone has space. Remember I said "home" not "house" as not everyone lives in a house. Even people who live in houses may not have the space. For example, apartments, condoes, townhomes, etc .Did you think about that?

You can put these outside. Just like I could put my bedroom outside. Technically possible but a stupid idea.

Integral fast reactors: "At present, there are no integral fast reactors in commercial operation . . ." So none exist.

Breeder reactor: "There are only two commercially operating breeder reactors as of 2017: the BN-600 reactor, at 560 MWe, and the BN-800 reactor, at 880 MWe.". The BN-600 requires 17-26% U-235 as opposed to less than 5% most other reactors use. The BN-800 uses mixed uranium and plutonium to deplete weapons grade stockpile. But remember weapons grade plutonium requires uranium as the base material.

Two reactors worldwide since 2017. Yet you really think we have enough to "power all of civilization"

Also it is painted white over the original silver. Restoring the outside will be a major project.

Uranium used to power nuclear reactors has to be processed. Uranium 235 used for fission reactors is less than 1% of naturally occurring Uranium which is 99% U-238. Fission grade uranium requires increasing U-235 to be concentrated to be at least 5%. While the world still has lots of U-238, it is running out of U-235.

It probably would have gotten some interest if it still had NASA equipment inside. By now that equipment would be obsolete so few secrets to protect. Or if the functional components had been stripped but the controls on the command center area kept intact.

How it was used is also important. People can buy Deloreans when they come up at auction for the price of a new car. The Delorean used in the Back to the Future movies is the only ones worth a lot of money.

It was not. If you read the summary, it was a mobile command center and not used to ferry astronauts. It also only appears in pictures escorting the shuttle on the ground. That would have been after the shuttle landed (as the title says). The chance it was used to ferry astronauts is very, very small.

And here is the problem: it has been stripped of anything related to the shuttle program on the inside. The outside still says NASA. The inside says abandoned RV from the 1980s. It was modified to be a mobile command center so there is no kitchen. There is no bedroom. The ad for the sale suggests buying this and bringing it to burning man. Renovating this trailer to be functional as a home would require major money and time. It would be far, far cheaper to buy another Airstream and custom paint it.

1. Cost: Generally home owners are buying something for less that a business could afford. 2. Space: Most home owners have limited space for installation of a battery bank where businesses may have space allocated for utilities. As a homeowner, lithium ion are a better fit for smaller spaces so they are more energy dense. 3. Regulations: Homeowners and businesses may have different regulations on what/how they can install battery banks. With homes generally install much smaller banks, they probably have more freedom to install whatever type battery they want. Businesses may have to upgrade their fire suppression system if they installed a bank of lithium ion vs sodium ion vs lead acid. Businesses may have to modify the room for lead acid batteries in case of any leakage, etc.

But it costs 100x as much, if not more. Running an LLM can be done on a notebook these days. But training one requires an entire data center of expensive GPUs. Not to mention that the notebook will run a reduced (quantized) version. Go check huggingface how large the full models are.

And also, LLMs are still suffering from a number of issues. For example, on many non-trivial tasks, the LLM is still unable to follow simple instructions. If you use LLMs routinely, you likely found cases where it has zeroed in on one - wrong - answer and no amount of prompting can convince it to give you a different one. It'll even totally ignore very clear and explicit prompts to not give that same answer again.

A human will understand "if you give that answer again, you're fired". An LLM... well you can tell it that it'll get shot between the eyes if it repeats that once more and it'll tell you where to get help if you have suicidal thoughts.

These things are both amazing and amazingly dumb at the same time.

And what would collectors do with it? The only thing they can do is display it for the outside; they cannot really use it without major work is the problem. As for collecting it, if it had the original command equipment, that might be something collectors would want. It does not. If someone wanted to paint their airstream to look like this trailer, they could do it for less than $200K.

Let's be clear: The Trump administration is saying that. I am pretty sure your average worker bee in the IRS wants electronic filing as it makes their lives easier.

Yes and how is my protest any different? I am forcing people who have no power to make changes to deal with my protest. At least if I make the wait staff miserable maybe the restaurant owners hear about my protest.

All of which is just hurting the workers and not the owners, not the management.

The seller purchased the vehicle for $21K and wants to resell it for 10X. Looking at the pictures, nothing much says NASA than the outside. The inside is stripped of any NASA equipment and most other equipment. Realistically this trailer cannot be used a home as it does not have things like a kitchen or a bedroom. It will require a major renovation to turn it into a "command center" or even a home.

True but sodium is a more attractive solution because sodium is far more abundant than lithium. The drawback to sodium ion is that it is not as energy dense as lithium so bigger batteries will be needed to have the same capacity which reduces their usage. Sodium-ion may never be used in portable devices because of this. A benefit of less energy density is less risk of fire. Sodium-ion is denser than lead acid so installation in buildings is a more viable solution.

Also disposing a sodium ion battery should have fewer environmental drawbacks than disposing lithium.

What? I can assure that chemical battery discharge systems are not new. Hospitals have employed battery systems since forever. I personally have worked in multiple plants that that had emergency backup power based on batteries that go back decades. They switch over immediately with a secondary gas/diesel system that kicks in within minutes as the battery system was not designed to run the entire site for an extended period of time. This is system mentioned is a large scale system that can handle the entire network over a longer period of time instead of individual plant/hospital units.