Welcome to 1995.

Might as well spread the joy around developing challengers (not like that!). It's not like the prime mover in New Space is going to need any part of NASA's whopping $40b annual budget.

Selling your body scans as a VR skin. AI enhanced, naturally.

We're going to Mars. This is unstoppable money now. They raised three years of NASA budget in one day, becoming worth more as a company than the accumulated total budget of NASA since inception, adjusted for inflation.

Yes coal has slightly gone up in 2025, but it's dropped so much from the peak usage in 2007 that current usage is comparable to the early 1970s.

From the chart U.S. electricity generation by major energy source, 1950-2025 on Electricity generation, capacity, and sales in the United States:

1971 = 713 Billion kWh
1972 = 771 Billion kWh
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2007 = 2016 Billion kWh - peak usage
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2024 = 652 Billion kWh
2025 = 737 Billion kWh - lower than 1972

Note: use Click to enlarge below the chart to get a larger view, then mouse over the chart to see detailed numbers for each year.

Also, frist psot. Been a long time since the last one..

Super El Niño, AMOC shutting down. Mauna Loa CO2 shutting down reporting 432 PPM before we shut them up. The mighty Colorado river died. We drank it up. India has been over 95F for months, and parts are becoming uninhabitable reaching 114F.

Dinosaurs had 165 million years. Sea turtles 260 million. Genus Homo, 2 million. Sentience may be self defeating, which solves the Fermi Paradox.

If they had some super powerful analysis and synthesis computer that solves problems for them, would it be able to sort this out?

So the plans may not be worth it if you cannot shift usage. I was on a free-nights plan in 2018 and was able to drop my bill by 20% vs the regular rate plan by having my Model 3 charge in the middle of the night and by using the delayed start feature on my washer and dishwasher.

I moved off the free-nights plan in 2019 after installing solar and switched to a net-metering plan, which was awesome.

The net metering plan's now gone. My current plan has time-of-use rates of $0.127/kWh from 6pm-9pm, $0.09/kWh all other times, and I get paid market rates for excess solar. Market rates aren't worth as much as net-metering, so I charge up a Powerwall during the day and run the house with it from 6pm-9pm. I also have my Model 3 configured to charge only on excess solar, which works well for me because I work from home.

Operation Spiderweb

when you married her.

In Texas Wind Power peaks at night, resulting in us having numerous free-nights electric plans to chose from. These work great with for EV owners.

Texas Solar Power has grown enough that we're now getting free-days electric plans such as from Chariot Energy and Direct Energy

How and why a nuclear reactor shut down in Texas cold snap when energy was needed most

One of two reactors shut down at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station an hour southwest of Houston, knocking out about half of its 2,700 megawatts of generating capacity.

This is a threat of referral to criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution is a government, not personal or corporate activity. What I say here is that such threats are empty.

People do get that wrong a lot though. Apparently even Microsoft, the FBI and US Attorneys these days.

There's a lot of speculation about life as we don't know it. And that's what it is: speculation. While there are microbes that don't rely on oxygen, and one animal, they are utterly dependent on environments that do require oxygen. So no abiotic life origins here.

Without knowing for sure what to look for in a chlorine based life form even with it live in front of us, performing the forensic search with the body cold billions of years is all but impossible. We will get there some day but people are looking for signs unambiguous, and that means life as we know it.