Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the International Space Station is like 70 kilowatts.
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And that was very difficult to figure out how how to deploy the radiation to cool that.
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You're gonna have to figure that out with the if you're going for say 100 kilowatts.
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Yeah.
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Positioning it so that one side's always in shade, one time it's always in sunlight will solve some of these issues.
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Um but the long and short of it is that like there's a
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There's a elegance and simplicity to this that I think is underappreciated if all these issues can be solved.
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No, I don't think so.
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Like so the the there is a bit where Elon at his best ends up with very elegant solutions that took astronomical amounts of investment up front to get in place.
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They're like Starlink is an example of this.
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Like like Starlink on airplanes is so obvious.
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Um but to get to this state where of course every airline is going to sign up for it and
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took they had to invent rockets, they had to invent rockets that land.
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They had to do Starlink.
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They had to do other things.
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It's like the so
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There is a complexity in Justin's solution that is an ongoing operational complexity.
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You have to continually figure out what you're gonna do with these GPUs and g getting the natural gas and powering the turbines and maintaining the turbines and all that that is it's complex on an ongoing basis, even if the path to getting there is much easier.
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What Musk usually does is the path to getting there is hilariously difficult in no one
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ever try.
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