Artificial light is already used for earth farming in some cases. But, to make use of the summary's "Solar" typo, I wonder if plants could also grow under the 28-day day cycle of the moon. If they could grow on 14 days of continuous light (artificial or not) and 14 days of darkness, then it would be easier to provide light for such a farm, either with natural sunlight, or via PV, without needing batteries or long power transmission cables.

There is a similar, but more informative article about growing Chickpeas on 75% moon soil.

These articles bring up interesting questions about circular farming. What would it take to build a closed ecosystem on the moon that does not require continuously shipping nutrients from earth?

Your computation assumes that you are storing 1 GW produced continuously for 24 hours. Solar power plants produce their nominal power only for a few hours each day. A good rule of thumb is 4 hours of nominal power per day. Therefore you need to divide your computed cost by about 6. If you also consider that a large portion of the power is consumed during the time that it is produced, the storage requirement is even lower. On the other hand, you may want more than overnight storage, for cloudy days. We recently read news about iron oxide batteries with 100 hours charge/discharge cycle, that may be more economical for several days worth of storage.

It says here, that "the spacecraft has used its remaining propellant to keep its solar panels pointed at the Sun and is now out of fuel." Why wasn't it using electric motors instead of propellant to orient the solar panels?

The day you turn 18, the apps will know that you just switched age brackets, which is equivalent to knowing your DOB.

I just tried searching for "Rolling Stones" and found fakes of the real thing. How does this protect artists? They could at least include the year that the band was created or joined Bandcamp.

Writing helps us process information that we've gathered. A better writer is a better thinker. We've already lost much of our physical ability by having machines do the work for us (driving, instead of walking or biking). Now we're starting to delegate mental skills to machines.

On the other hand, ancient civilizations, like that of classical Greece, achieved a high level of culture with much less writing as we have available today (because writing materials were so much more expensive). But they used a lot of oral communication, which is faster and probably more effective than written communication.

A better approach then would be for the reporter to converse with the AI orally, before the AI writes the article. Then the reporter could process information by talking to the AI on the way to/from interviews and meetings. How far along are oral chatbots?

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Shouldn't everything be decided by democracy, including the financial system (whatever that means), and corporate reform? Do they have anything to propose about how to improve "deliberative democracy"? That alone would be a good start.

Trade secrets don't need to be copyrighted or copyrightable. If they don't publish their code, you can't read it.

Will HP charge me a Non-Gaming fee, if I use their gaming laptops for something other than playing games?

You've never heard that GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), are often repurposed for AI workloads?

There is a precedence for this line of thinking: NVIDIA Limits RTX 3060 Crypto Speeds As it Introduces Mining Cards . So yes, you have a point.

I wonder if you are allowed to replace the operating system on a rented laptop.

Every tool is a hammer, except for the screwdriver, which is also a chisel.

How does renting a laptop with a GPU compare to renting a server with a GPU?

Hetzner offers a server with a Nvidia RTX 4000 GPU and 64GB RAM + 20GB vRAM for $205/mo + $312 setup fee. If I want to rent one for a month, to experiment running LLMs, it will cost me $517. I can rent an HP laptop with a comparable GPU (but with less memory) for just $50. If I want to rent one indefinitely, the laptop is 4 times cheaper than the server.

Using his boring company, of course, which he should first sell to SpaceX, for an astronomical price, so he can pay for this all.

Yes, he should be talking about building a vehilcle assembly line on the moon, to build moon trucks, so he can excavate moon caves and build datacenters in the caves. That would solve the radiation problem. He can also use the excavated lunar regolith as raw material to build solar panels and GPUs. He could use Tesla robots to build and operate all these factories.

He's just not visionary enough. I suppose he went too far with his Mars plans, and toned it down too much.