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The saudi rulers are Elon's friends. There is nothing there for him to learn from.
I don't see how this won't inevitably lead to a civil war. Maybe not this decade, but the seeds are being set.
Why the quotation marks?
Eh, that's very subjective. A ton of people (me included) mute the music and have something else in the background (with exceptions, of course).
Likely because trump got a cult of personality formed around him somehow
But no, yeah, it's very much not based in logic.
These will be our weather patterns for forever. It's not going to get better unless we literally start removing carbon from the air.
The 20-25 year thing is referring to that the effects of carbon will continue to activate for that time (ie stuff getting worse). There's roughly that amount of delay from emitting carbon pollution to when it affects the global temperature in full.
But these weather patterns are the new normal. And it will continue to get worse the more we pollute.
You'd also need to also include our computer architecture, as well as a C compiler, together with its source code.
And then how to reliably store it for hundreds of thousands of years.
Though, we would probably be able to fit it, and a ton of other code, considering our data storage capabilities. The big question would just be the reliability, and redundancy for error correction.
With some high voltage long-range transmission lines you could viably do it pretty much everywhere. Just requires some cooperation.
Yes it will slightly reduce efficiency over very long distances, but it's not unreasonable amounts.
Don't underestimate the battery potential of gravity!
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity#:~:text=The%20round%2Dtrip%20energy%20efficiency,sources%20claiming%20up%20to%2087%25. The round-trip efficiency of pumped storage is 70-80%, that's pretty darn good for cheap mass-storage. There's not much more to gain there.
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