Elon is looking long term.. C02+H2+energy => CH4+H20.. ie rocket fuel... debug the process on Earth, deliver the results to Mars. Get the energy from a LFTR.. makes for nearly free and limitless fuel.
better wires on a chip won’t help power consumption. The first contributor to chip power is switching power. Its the power is used every time you switch a net and most of the power is consumed in the transistors. High end CPUS run from 3 Ghz to 5 Ghz. That’s 5,000,000,000 switches per second.
the second contributor to power is leakage current. The insulators are getting so thin, they also conduct measurable amounts of current. One of the manufacturing tests is to power up the chip and measure this current. If the number is too high, the part is discarded.
Show me the numbers.. The real numbers, not the ones the “environmentalist” make up. The wholesale price of electricity in TX does go WAY down when the wind blows because there isn’t enough demand at 2 AM.
The Greenies never tell you about the Nat Gas turbines they had to build to back up the wind farms when the wind stops blowing.
North America is now energy independent, and will soon loose all interest what happens in the middle east. The only thing to keep us in the middle east is our alliance with Japan. ie protect Japan’s oil supply.
It also explains why the Saudi’s are playing nice. If we leave the middle east, Iran and the Saudi’s are be going to war....
It also explains why the Russians are so aggressive. Russia’s population is aging quickly, and the Russian army could shrink by 1/2 in the next 5 to 10 years.