This seems like exactly the sort of problem Elon is good at solving (or more accurately incentivizing engineers to solve).
xAIs cluster buildout (powered by generators while the grid was being ramped up) would’ve had a lot of lessons.
xAIs cluster buildout (powered by generators while the grid was being ramped up) would’ve had a lot of lessons.
He doesn’t get a pass when it comes to time-related criticism of him if he doesn’t also afford the same pass to his employees and the regulators of his businesses.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852160/
Some other reviews state there is evidence, but only on studies for very small time scales. Not saying this definitively states anything, but it is interesting.
In this case, the incentive is there, engineers are working on it, but businesses are hesitant to scale up manufacturing and supply if they can't predict the future demand. Musk might actually be able to help here, if only because his willingness to lose money to get things done.
I think with space, there's a near infinite unrealized market. If you build a lot of cheap rockets, people will come and pay you to put things on them.
If you build cheaper transformers, will anyone buy them? They will buy some, but is there enough market demand to buy 2 or 3 times the number of transformers over a long period?
I realize that SpaceX solved problems that massive companies had been working on for a long time, but electrical transformers are dead ass simple. It’s a bunch of iron/steel and copper/aluminum submersed in oil. The principles of electromagnetism and induction are extremely well understood and have been for a couple hundred years.