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> t also required just the right combination of natural resources (coal) and economic conditionsL deforestation This argument is repeated often, but I don't think it's really true.…

It’s difficult to cmp diamond is the issue I’d assume

Yay for fracking! Yay for natural gas!

New hardware could greatly reduce inference and training costs and solve that issue

Yes but one of the reasons that coal is being replaced by gas is because of the capex of the steam turbine

Oh my bad, you’re right Re: Nat gas, agreed, it’s not solar though, storage is much more expensive Thermal energy still needs to drive a turbine to generate electricity

Sure, but conventional DRAM endurance is 10^15 or more

$3/GJ is $108/MWH which any large scale fission buildout would easily beat for thermal energy costs

10^11 cycles is not “practically unlimited endurance”, that’s less than a second of use at 1 GHz

Thermal storage has very poor discharge rates unfortunately (usually slower than a day), as well as surprisingly high cost once you factor in inefficiencies and turbine cost

MCF has a bunch of challenges, eg no good pigtail connector, need for rotational alignment, inability to radix (MCF is great for point to point, less good if you want to fan out fr…

They do have higher energy density, it’s just a low power density

This is a lot of words to say “solar + battery lcoe is $70/MWH and gas is $40/MWH, but most places outside the U.S. don’t have access to tons of cheap gas so it’s more expensive th…

FEC latency is >> propagation delays at these distances, so that's probably the dominant factor in most cases

Hyperspectral camera?

We need to move zoning to the federal level like Japan We must decide whether we’ll be a civilization that bows to NIMBYism and stays stuck in squalor or allow building the future.…

Once again nonsense, productivity has been increasing in America over the last 20 years but real wages have not. As always, don’t confuse textbook theory with real life!

Nonsense. “Free trade” here refers to inter-country globalized trade across borders, not free markets within a confine. There’s a much stronger case to be made that industrial poli…

You can actually make curved dies already- there’s a company doing that for image sensors, if you thin silicon down it becomes flexible

No, there’s a class system for laser safety The rating is for you to stick your eyes right up to it for a long period of time and still be fine

The SNR for flash Lidar is really low because you spread the beam out over such a large area. Most automotive Lidar already operate in a “photon starved regime”, ~200-300 photons p…

I enjoy how people are dunking on this by saying “omg this is what happens when engineers dare to have thoughts on other topics” when this is very similar to the theory for CBT in …

Nah, nat gas is cheaper The problem is that not all parts of the world have access to cheap nat gas

There are new dielectric refrigerants that aren’t as polluting, but they’re more expensive