Elon Musk

China, just in solar, just in solar like that,

can provide steady-state power and batteries, can do half of the U.S.

electricity output per year just with solar.

Solar is by far the biggest source of energy.

And actually, when you look beyond, even on Earth, but certainly beyond Earth, the sun rounds up to 100% of all energy.

This is important.

thing to consider So the Sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system Jupiter is about 0.1 percent and everything else is miscellaneous now even if you were to

burned Jupiter in a thermonuclear reactor, the amount of energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100% because Jupiter is only 0.1%.

If you teleported three more Jupiters into our solar system and burned three more Jupiters and everything else in the solar system, the sun's energy would still round up to 100%.

So it's really all about the sun.

And that's why one of the things we'll be doing with SpaceX within a few years is launching solar-powered AI satellites.

Because the space is really the source of immense power, and then you don't need to take up any room on Earth.

There's so much room in space.

And you can scale to enormous... I mean, you can scale to...

I think ultimately hundreds of terawatts a year.

And then let me ask the question, why aren't we doing it?

Yeah, so I guess a rough way to think about it is 100 miles by 100 miles, we'll call it 160 kilometers by 160 kilometers of solar is enough to power the entire United States.

So 100 mile by 100 mile area is, I mean, you could take basically a small corner of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico.

Obviously, you wouldn't want it all in one place, but it is a very small percentage of the area of the U.S.

to generate all of the electricity that the U.S.