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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I went by the non-Musk charging station four times today. The usual scattering: three or four Teslas, an IC or two, nobody buying power. I have been by there about 20 times and have yet to see anyone connected and buying power. Failure of that business is imminent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>That gives me in idear however. (Idears are better than ideas, for they make money if they work, which is near and DEAR to my heart.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I am confident that in the next decade, that charging station will never fill every port. He has 28 ports, twelve high speeds and sixteen regular ports. High end processors use about a KW (single digit estimates are good enough for what I am doing) so a regular charger could run 15 of those. We set up 15 high end processors in IC truck, rig up some sincere air-handling for cooling purposes, adapt the charger interface to an inverter (because the power coming out of the charging station is DC) plug in, run your 15 processors at a cost of about 6 bucks an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Or for the very ambitious, run 50 of the high end processors for about 20 bucks an hour on the high speed chargers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Granted it seems engineeringly wrong to take utility company-supplied AC, the charger station steps it down and rectifies it to DC, then we pay for that signal conditioning only to undo it with our own inverter, paying for the losses associated with that step. But this is something a prole like me could build at home with my modest mechanical skills (hey, false modesty is a type of modesty (kinda sorta (or does that count as negative modesty?))) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If I started with a junky old van, that wouldn’t cost much, the internet signal could be supplied by 15 StarLinks, I would need to figure out how to rig up a very capable fan to draw in cooling air. I think I could do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Better Idear: wait for the prole who built that charging station to go bust, buy it from him for a song, take out the rectifier circuitry, step the voltage to 120 AC and sell power to other proles who want to build Singularitymobiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Second alternative: motherboards run on low voltage DC current. Never mind supplying AC, just supply 12 volt DC or AC power at enormous capacity so that it can run the processors directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>