Andy Halliday

The largest quantum chips at the moment have about 1,000 qubits, and you'd have to get to 500,000 based on this analysis.

But we're going to get there, right?

That's going to happen eventually.

Um, so, uh, that's their, uh, their great news for us is that you better start thinking about this.

And by the way, Google has already migrated its encryption systems to this quantum resistant design so that it's not subject to those kinds of exploits, but eventually, uh,

You know, and they did this.

They published this paper yesterday so that everyone could read it.

But they were very responsible about it.

And they advised the U.S.

government in advance of publication that they were going to be releasing this and letting people know that, you know, the people who are working on quantum things are moving forward.

forward steadily towards this imagined day when things that are heavily encrypted today, including military communications, everything else, could be pierced by these quantum systems.

And on another, not directly related, bit of quantum news, I read something very interesting about quantum batteries.

Now, this has relevance because

Batteries and their ability to recharge quickly is very important to the electrification of all kinds of things.

And, you know, this morning there's incredible news about just how dramatically increasing the price of diesel fuel is.

And.

You know, along with that, urea, the main component of fertilizers that are necessary for crop production around the world.

And this war that's been started has has caused all of that to become problematic.

And so there's increased interest in battery powered vehicles of a sudden.

Oh, I thought we just got rid of those in the United States and all the companies are shutting down their production EVs.