Elon Musk

The power plant makers.

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Yes.

You can drill down to a level further.

It's the vanes and blades in the turbines that are the limiting factor, because the casting, it's like a very specialized process to cast the blades and vanes in the turbines, if you're using gas power.

It's very difficult to scale other forms of power.

You can scale potentially solar, but the tariffs currently for importing solar in the US are gigantic, and the domestic solar production is pitiful.

Okay.

Great.

Both SpaceX and Tesla are voting towards 100 gigawatts a year of solar cell production.

I think you've got to do the whole thing from raw materials to finish the cell.

Now, if it's going to space, it's actually, it costs less and it's easier to make solar cells that go to space because they don't need glass or they don't need much glass and they don't need heavy framing because they don't have to survive weather events.

There's no weather in space.

So it's actually a cheaper solar cell that goes to space than the one on the ground.

Solar cells are already very cheap.

They're like farcically cheap.

And if you say...

You know, I think like solar cells in China are around like 25, 30 cents a watt or something like that.

It's absurdly cheap.

And when you take into account, now put it in space and it's five times cheaper because it's five times.