@LouisAnslow@prestonjbyrne The bicycle is not self-stabilising. The human riding it does the stabilising. Put a bag of cement on a bike, push it and see how far it goes.
still don’t understand what’s so special about Elon Musk’s money that his $1 trillion dollars would solve every problem on earth, but the $7 trillion dollars the US government spends annually hardly solves the problems in America
@tomhfh@sainsburys I wish we had that in Australia! No more abandoned trolleys everywhere. If you’re too lazy to take it back, some kid will do it to get the buck.
Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet.
The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.
@lifeonautosite Vibecode-level is an insult to vibecoding. We have intl shares on commsec. Tried to get in on the IPO. ‘Need to create intl account.’ Huh? We have one! Spent four(!) hours on the phone. ‘Will take our backend team two business days to reactivate.’ Missed IPO.
Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the least philanthropic billionaires.
Sure, Musk has transferred $8.5 billion of Tesla stock to his charitable foundations (1% of his net worth)—but nearly all of it is still sitting there idle. Only an estimated $500 million, or 0.06% of Musk’s vast fortune, has ever been disbursed to those in need.
His lack of giving raises a question: What would our billionaires ranking look like if the world’s most generous people had never donated a dollar to charity? https://t.co/La3nLACMYa
Imagine if a documentary crew had been embedded with Oppenheimer, Fermi, and other scientists in the 1940s, watching history unfold in real time.
Capturing the awe, the hope, the breakthroughs, and the world-changing decisions as they happened.
We can’t travel back to the first Atomic Age.
But we can be there for the second one.
Right now, a new nuclear renaissance is quietly coming into existence. The technology, the visionaries, the political will, and the existential stakes are all colliding at once… and almost no one is telling the full story.
Until now.
I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m co-creating a multi-year epic documentary series called The Last Renaissance, together with award-winning director @TysonCulver.
We’re gaining unprecedented, real-time access to the brilliant founders, new reactor designs, daring entrepreneurs, and the key players inside government who are rewriting humanity’s energy future.
This is a civilization-level turning point that could reshape climate, geopolitics, prosperity, and even space exploration for the next century.
This is the kind of story that only comes around once in a generation.
I feel profoundly lucky to be in the room where it’s happening. And if you feel the call, if you’re as electrified by this moment as we are, we want you with us.
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The Atomic Age 2.0 is already underway.
Let’s make sure the world doesn’t miss it.
🎉 Very excited to announce our latest product:
➡️ The Aalo Air.
In a bid to increase social acceptance of nuclear energy, we have engineered an entirely new form-factor for nuclear.
That's right: Aalo reactors, disguised as wind turbines.
DETAILS BELOW 👇
💡 It might look just like a wind turbine, but it's actually an Aalo nuclear reactor, providing 9.9 MW of electrical output, and using 0.1 MW to inconspicuously spin the wind turbine.
We expect to deploy millions of these all around the world, even in non-windy locations, in order to power the future of AI Data Centers, improve grid stability, and more.
To achieve this optical camouflage, our engineering team had to solve a highly complex parasitic load optimization problem. To maintain a realistic rotation that precisely mimics local atmospheric conditions, even in a dead calm, our internal variable-frequency drive consumes exactly 100 kW.
We calculate the required motor torque (τ) to overcome the aerodynamic drag of the stationary air against the composite blades. By dynamically modulating the angular velocity (ω) based on local weather APIs, neighbors will simply assume you are blessed with a remarkably consistent breeze.
Beyond the aesthetic stealth, the form factor is surprisingly functional. The 120-meter tubular steel tower acts as an ideal natural-draft dry cooling system. The reactor's thermal gradient naturally drives ambient air upward through the tower, providing passive, pump-free decay heat removal without requiring local water sources.
Furthermore, as the Aalo Air registers visually and dimensionally as a standard Class 3 Wind Energy System, we anticipate it will streamline traditional nuclear zoning hurdles.
Unrelatedly, happy April Fools!