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whole bunch of public land, because there's tons of public land that's empty, and using it for solar projects so that it wouldn't cost much of anything to slap those solar panels on it. Now of course there's all the pollution problems and other problems you're going to complain about, but I like this. I like the idea of using all that extra land and putting some solar panels on there. And if space…
← Previous segment →each other, all on the same topic of batteries but different projects, all just today. There is something going on in the battery research and development area that's crazy. Now it makes sense because if there are robots everywhere, whoever makes the best battery is going to be making so much money you can't even believe it. They're going to be making more money than the Tesla-making robots probably.
Here's an idea. MIT has a study. They're going to use a partially disordered rock salt cathode. But here's the thing. They want to integrate it with their polyanionic, which as you know are dubbed the disordered rock salt polyanionic or as I like to call them the DRX PS. And as you know that delivers the high energy density or high voltage with significantly improved cycle stability. And I think we all want that.
Now that's one study, but there's also another one. Well this is exciting. According to Yahoo Tech, there's a big game-changing approach and they're going to use homogeneous cathode. What? Yeah, they're going to tinker with the cathode until they can get a solid state battery life cycles and other things I don't understand. Something coming out of a Chinese research. But then according to Tech Explorer, there's another solid state electrolyte advance. Oh wow. And they're going to use polymers to make a strong yet springy thin film. And you have these durable sheets of solid state electrolytes. Wow, wow.
So you don't have to understand any of that. Just understand that the battery technology world is going crazy right now. Crazy.
All right. I finally understand what's the big deal about this Telegram app and why the CEO got picked up. Now remember I told you we will never understand the real reason behind anything. But there's at least one that's obvious. At least now. It wasn't obvious until someone told me. So apparently if you're in a battle
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like a war, like let's say Ukraine against Russia, one of the things that would be really important to winning the war, especially a long ongoing kind of affair, is how well your team can communicate without getting intercepted. So you want to be able to quickly talk to your own team if you're in war, but you don't want the other team to be able to intercept your stuff. Well it turns out that the…
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