[ExI] Power satellites are being developed now

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>> 2) The satellite is able to recoup the costs of construction and of launch in just two or three years.

>...This may be possible, depending on exactly how one finances it...


Ja.  Adrian, there has been a dramatic turn of attitude in just the past two or three years (since ChatGPT appeared?)  There is a new general understanding by the money: we are in a desperate AI arms race.  Advanced processors are the artillery and electric power is the ammo.  We only vaguely know who the front runners are, but we think they are Elon Musk, Nvidia, China, Apple, Israel, Google, US Space Force, Bezos, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and others, but those are some of the front runners in developing human level AI.  They all need power.

The SPEED act is likely to go into effect in the USA soon, which will fast track traditional power generation over the slower cleaner pricier approaches such as satellite, solar, wind and nuclear.  The price of coal and natural gas is down.  We have designs and materials ready to go on both of those.  Atmospheric emissions have recently become nearly irrelevant in light of the short time to singularity.  Carbon burning techniques are so annoyingly low-tech, old school, but... there is an AI arms race, AI needs power, and the old-time way can make that happen faster and cheaper than the cool high-tech trendy spendy high-endy alternatives at this point.

spike