Automakers cannot even finish building their new 2021 model cars because the chip shortage disabled access to the ECU & other embedded microcontrollers present by the many tens of units & in some modern luxury vehicles there's more than 100 onboard IC chip computers for security system, ADAS, engine control, transmission shifting, airbag system, tire pressure monitoring computer system, infotainment, digital dashboard LED LCD units & wireless smart key systems.
Complex consumer electronics like smartphones utilize state of the art 7nm power optimized SOC or system on a chip computer architectures running the latest version of android or IOS in Apple designed in California devices like iPhone, Apple Watches or iPads & even the new M1 chip in new MacBooks & even the lates colorful anodized aluminum iMacs. Departing from Intel X86 & going to an internal power optimized mobile chip design philosophy, the M1 leverages the innovation in smartphones to make power efficient laptops where a battery of 45WH or greater gives the M1 more TDP or thermal headroom for performance than the tiny 3.7v ~1500-1800 mah lipo battery of an typical iPhone // Grid connected computers able to leverage 850w of 110vac 60hz out of a regular power outlet connected to a utility companies electrical network to a mix of power sources like wind & solar & hydro & natural gas & coal & fuel oil or nuclear reactors where the greatest science applied to energy production.
Nuclear Fission Important
I actively promote nuclear energy on Twitter because 4th Gen. Fuel Breeding Overparity IFR technology can unlock the potential of the Thorium fuel cycle & because nuclear reactors are the core of many aerospace, medical & advances in materials science that enable space vehicle development & ongoing innovations from the expertise gained in nuclear fuel reprocessing. Well refined products like X-energy multi carbon graphite layered spherical pebble fuel utilized in innovative XE100 high temperature gas cooled reactor technology that explemplifiues why new nuclear fission like a Tesla Model 3, much more efficient & better than the 1950's technology of common Gen. 2 reactors around the world today. These old Gen. 2 reactors only make use of about 4% of the fuel rods energy because they are destined for a cooling pool, where so much wasted energy absorbed & dissipated as low grade heat that's hard to feasibly utilize. New reactors make use of 97% of the nuclear fuel element energy & can actually breed fertile elements to a fissile state where those transmuted elements can contribute energy to the nuclear chain reactions making heat for electricity production or greed hydrogen & tritium production or district heating & other amazing uses of the abundant energy when more the fuels energy extracted efficiently. Fuel reprocessing & nuclear radioactive element recycling a complex field needing much ongoing innovation to achieve the kinds of capacity needed to accommodate fuel waste from thousands of SMR & MMR reactors diffused globally as sealed factor made energy units, making heat & electricity in shipping container sized reactors for homes & businesses that's fault tolleratant with 10 year uptime 24/7 electrical & heat output!
Urgent Need for More Electricity
As billions more people industrialize like American consumers, the need for more energy to live a 6kw lifestyle means that 8 billion people x 6kw = a shit ton of energy that we need thousands of new nuclear reactors to make without burning carbon to the tune of emitting billions of tons of polluting greed house climate changing exhaust gases that make toxic air pollution that sickens people who breathe it. We need more nuclear to charge all the new electric vehicles of every different kind from electric kick scooters & cars & SUV's to electric bicycles & motorcycles. In the future the internal combustion engine will be optimized into obsolescence, eventually relegated to a role as a range extender in some liquid piston form or another! We will see a resurgent interest in Stirling cycle engines or external heat engines like the little Chinese model I place onto of my coffee cup for entertainment at times in the morning before work or with caffein free tea in the evening.
To make the world a place where everyone can have a 3D PLA printer, stabile electricity, universal healthcare, peace & security with exciting innovation that constantly changes everything to become cleaner & more efficient, the pursuit of excellence in all ways becoming mainstream once people genetically engineer the flaws out of their children & rewrite nature with creative problem solving by groups of intelligent people working together to make the future better for everyone. Imagine solving all diseases & to have that level of mastery of the arts of surgery & absolute complete comprehensible levels of knowledge about the human body & every organ & tissue & cell & how they all interact with every nutrient from food & drink, water, physical output, healing, repair, sleep, waking cycle control, learning, communication, socialization, interaction with the world. Once we have complete individual mastery of all information by hybridizing quantum computers with human brains directly. Today natural human brains are unable to solve all the looming large scale problems with climate change & diseases of all kinds & all sorts of economic & environmental & social problems with crime & war & corruption. We need to apply innovation & problem solving to every domain of life, even if doing so not immediately profitable. Theres is more to life than just money & profit, there are people & its how people are connected that makes all the difference, just like transistors in integrated circuits, systems of systems of systems interacting endlessly.
Today super computers are needed for the kind of amazing information processing that people will need to each be able to do in the brains to solve all the worlds problems. Think of how computers have shrunk from room sized vacuum tube devices to a hand held super computer smartphone video camera app platform devices over 5G networks & 4G LTE in a bigger way today! As we miniaturize compute more in wearable IoT devices like the smartwatches popular today, we will eventually move to human computer brain interfaces.
As neuro-morphic compute elements increase in smartphones & other computers we will see a radical improvement to compute efficiency needed to make a neural compute implant able to run by redox reactions in the inner cranial fluids making use of glucose like glial cells & neurons, with delicate engineer viral implant connections into the brain in deeply layers networks that enable a seamless interface between the brain information handling IO & implanted neurmorphic compute to give your brain a perfect calendar memory like your phone, able to make texting & email & voice calls & writing & reading, all directly inside the brain to optimize the person to the highest level possible. Hybridizing humans with compute the only way to enable people to stay competitive against soft robots with learning models that exceed human natural cognitive performance in all ways.
We to make everyone vastly more intelligent & the only way to do it is with more deeply integrated compute. It will be a hard road given the way computers have increase social isolation when utilized foolishly as people adapt to holding the internet in the palm of their hands. Artificial light abuse reaching new levels of sleep disturbance & sleep disorders from photo disturbed circadian sleep wake cycles where neuron ganglion in the fovea of the eyes retina register the color & intensity of light levels & regulates the production or suppression of the wakefulness promoting hormone cortisol & the sleep promoting hormone melatonin.
People staring into TV screens & smartphones & bombarded by LED lights of 5K ugly blue light, the intense light suppressing melatonin release & promoting stress hormone cortisol levels to increase. Circadian dysfunctional diseases increasingly common as artificial lighting LED technology undergoes global diffusion to the extent that light pollution already been a public topic & related to some government laws for many decades. There are so many different issues for people to care about. I care the most about information technology & energy since both have positive transformative effects & capacities needed to continue solving problems, especially urgent ones like climate change in Earth's atmosphere & how to solve all diseases to accomplish age reversal & life extension!
It's not just high graphics card prices exacerbated by cryptocurrency mining, I use a 3 GPU rig to random X mine, the waste heat from this 350w computer acts as a space heater in our bedroom. Meg & I enjoy the warmer indoor temperatures anyway, though they make our kitty cat shed more as I recently learned about applying the fulminator to her coat to remove the small fine undercoat hairs that I roll up into small balls for fun! People working from home & students doing school from home & esports, there a lot of factors behinds the global chip shortage. I purchase those GTX1660ti's before the global chip shortage for about $280 each via Amazon Prime.
We need more IC manufacturing & those machine that make computer chips & the factors where they make computer chips are some of the most complicated machines in the world. Lithography used to make an Intel I9 gaming enthusiast CPU nothing short of a modern marvel, a symphony of applied technologies, science, engineering, math, software, firmware, hardware, compute of all different kinds. Internet one of the most special of all & super important to protect so that reverse scammers can punk the scam call centers in India, like Jim Browning on Youtube!
We need better technology to make everything better, human health, education, environment, government, military, everything & everyone benefits from greater applied technology, including being intelligent with nature & waste management & recycling & waste handling & waste technology & metal recovery & nuclear element handling & paper & glass & plastics & compost systems that continually improve, especially improving access to innovating services & products that improve peoples lives & reduce crime & increase transparency. I want a honest fair balance reasonable biodynamic renewable energy sustainable future with greater applied intelligence in all domains of life, society & human civilization on Earth & beyond in the stars & in other galaxies as we endeavor to explore deep reaches of reality & improve our knowledge & science & technology in every way possible!
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