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https://spectrum.ieee.org/depleted-uranium-battery To claim that these batteries that at present deliver a mere 1.3 volt per cell and a few milliwatts of power could be a "potential alternative to large-capacity lithium-ion batteries" that already deliver megawatts and soon gigawatts of current per installation at well over 3 volts per cell is pure wishful thinking. Like claiming a tortoise (or Alessandro Volta's frog leg batteries) as a performance substitute for a Tesla or a Maserati.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html The magnets are used in DC motors used in drones, many automotive & many strategic applications. If implemented effectively, the damage from this move will be devastating. I recently bought many small Nd magnets at very low cost from China, but doing so in future may become tricky. China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world¡¯s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries. Listen to this article ¡¤ 8:57 min Learn more Share full article A mine for heavy rare earth metals on the outskirts of Longnan, China. The country¡¯s suspension of exports of the metals and magnets is part of its retaliation for President Trump¡¯s sharp increase in tariffs.Credit...Keith Bradsher/The New York Times By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who has covered the rare earth metals industry since 2009, reported from mines and factories in Longnan and Ganzhou, China. April 13, 2025, 1:29 p.m. ET Want to stay updated on what¡¯s happening in China? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we¡¯ll send our latest coverage to your inbox. China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. Shipments of the magnets, essential for assembling everything from cars and drones to robots and missiles, have been halted at many Chinese ports while the Chinese government drafts a new regulatory system. Once in place, the new system could permanently prevent supplies from reaching certain companies, including American military contractors. The official crackdown is part of China¡¯s retaliation for President Trump¡¯s sharp increase in tariffs that started on April 2. On April 4, the Chinese government ordered restrictions on the export of six heavy rare earth metals, which are refined entirely in China, as well as rare earth magnets, 90 percent of which are produced in China. The metals, and special magnets made with them, can now be shipped out of China only with special export licenses. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT But China has barely started setting up a system for issuing the licenses. That has caused consternation among industry executives that the process could drag on and that current supplies of minerals and products outside of China could run low. If factories in Detroit and elsewhere run out of powerful rare earth magnets, that could prevent them from assembling cars and other products with electric motors that require these magnets. Companies vary widely in the size of their emergency stockpiles for such contingencies, so the timing of production disruptions is hard to predict. Image A plant in Changshu, China, where chemicals containing heavy rare earth metals are roasted for use in light-emitting diodes. The metals also go into chemicals for manufacturing jet engines, lasers, car headlights and certain spark plugs.Credit...Ryan Pyle for The New York Times The so-called heavy rare earth metals covered by the export suspension are used in magnets essential for many kinds of electric motors. These motors are crucial components of electric cars, drones, robots, missiles and spacecraft. Gasoline-powered cars also use electric motors with rare earth magnets for critical tasks like steering. The metals also go into the chemicals for manufacturing jet engines, lasers, car headlights and certain spark plugs. And these rare metals are vital ingredients in capacitors, which are electrical components of the computer chips that power artificial intelligence servers and smartphones. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Michael Silver, the chairman and chief executive of American Elements, a chemicals supplier based in Los Angeles, said his company had been told it would take 45 days before export licenses could be issued and exports of rare earth metals and magnets would resume. Mr. Silver said that h

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/motoring/2025-04-09-musk-calls-trumps-top-trade-adviser-a-moron-but-white-house-says-boys-will-be-boys/ Musk calls Trump¡¯s top trade adviser a ¡®moron¡¯, but White House says ¡®boys will be boys¡¯ Press secretary Caroline Leavitt says the spat is evidence of the Trump government¡¯s transparency and his willingness to listen to diverse opinions 09 April 2025 - 13:07 by Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Picture: ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES. After Elon Musk called one of US President Donald Trump¡¯s top economic aides a ¡°moron¡±, the White House declared that ¡°boys will be boys¡±. Musk and long-time Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro have been squabbling publicly over Trump¡¯s decision to impose sweeping tariffs on most of its trading partners. The move has triggered a market sell-off and prompted analysts to wonder if the US is headed into a recession. ADVERTISING ¡°These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs,¡± said White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. ¡°Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue.¡± On CNBC on Monday, Navarro dismissed a push by billionaire and Tesla CEO Musk for ¡°zero tariffs¡± between the US and Europe, calling him a ¡°car assembler¡± reliant on imported parts, and said he wanted the parts to be manufactured in the US. ¡°Navarro is truly a moron. What he says is demonstrably false,¡± Musk said in a post on X in a response to a video clip of Navarro¡¯s interview. ¡°Tesla has the most US-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.¡± Navarro is widely seen as the architect of Trump¡¯s wide-ranging tariff plans. The policy is intended to revive US manufacturing and shore up national security but has hammered markets and thrown global supply chains into uncertainty. Asked about the dust-up between the advisers, Leavitt said the public nature of the spat was evidence of the Trump administration¡¯s transparency and Trump¡¯s willingness to listen to diverse opinions.

The Ministry of Defence has downplayed reports that several F-35B Lightning II jets are currently ¡°unaccounted for¡± on the flight line at a base. The Ministry of Defence is reviewing the status of several F-35B Lightning II aircraft after routine checks at RAF Marham revealed that a number of jets were not immediately locatable. Officials stressed there is no indication of foul play and that the situation is ¡°well understood given the nature of the platform.¡± A defence official familiar with the matter explained: ¡°These are fifth-generation stealth fighters. If anything, this proves they¡¯re working perfectly.¡±

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Subject: Trump¡¯s green energy bargain bin Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:27:22 +0000 From: Bloomberg Green <noreply@...> Reply-To: noreply@... To: Bernhard Scheffler <bernhard@...> Green Daily Green deals in a drill, baby, drill era Today¡¯s newsletter looks at the green bargains investors are finding in US President Donald Trump's "drill, baby, drill" era. You can also read the full version of this story on Bloomberg.com. For unlimited access to climate and energy news, please subscribe. Trump¡¯s green energy bargain bin By Will Mathis and Petra Sorge Private infrastructure investors are snatching up green bargains in what¡¯s emerged as a buyer¡¯s market for wind, solar and battery projects. The moves follow a a slump in clean-energy stocks, as US President Donald Trump¡¯s call for more fossil-fuel power generation has sent a chill through the sector and boosted Big Oil¡¯s plans to pivot back to core business. ¡°We think the fundamentals of renewable power are as strong as they¡¯ve ever been,¡± said Ignacio Paz-Ares, managing partner and deputy chief investment officer in the renewable power and transition group at Brookfield Asset Management. ¡°Whenever we see a dislocation between what the market noise is and the fundamentals, that creates a very good opportunity for us to make acquisitions at very attractive entry prices.¡± Brookfield is among the asset managers betting that rising energy consumption and competitive economics of renewables will continue to drive demand for the sector. In recent months Brookfield has done a series of big green deals, including a $1.7 billion transaction to buy an onshore renewables business from National Grid Plc, a ?1.75 billion ($2.3 billion) stake purchase in UK offshore wind farms from Orsted A/S and a €6.1 billion ($6.6 billion) takeover of French developer Neoen SA, which owns solar, wind and energy storage assets. Paz-Ares said the firm is looking to buy more as it continues to raise money for its second energy transition fund. The acquisition of Neoen was particularly good timing for Brookfield. The alternative asset manager and co-investors first bought a controlling stake in December for €39.85 a share, a third lower than Neoen¡¯s peak in early 2021. A large battery storage facility in Australia. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg With all of these deals, Brookfield took assets from the public market into the private one. They highlight an opportune moment for investors with money to spend on the sector. A stock market bubble for all things green peaked in early 2021 and has now left valuations of publicly-traded clean energy companies around the lowest level in about five years. ¡°Stock prices haven¡¯t done well over last few years, but in the real economy clean is booming,¡± said Aniket Shah, head of sustainability and transition strategy at Jefferies. ¡°When sentiment around something is low, it¡¯s a good time to be a buyer.¡± Vincent Policard, co-head of European infrastructure at KKR & Co., which is looking to raise up to $7 billion for its first Global Climate fund, said the geopolitical factors putting pressure on valuations is ¡°creating a compelling opportunity for long-term investors like us to lean in and support the energy transition.¡± At the same time, the retreat of some of Europe¡¯s biggest energy companies, BP Plc and Shell Plc, from the renewables sector has created opportunities in areas like offshore wind. BP made some of its hugest wind bets off the UK coasts a few years ago, driving up prices for projects. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which recently closed its largest-ever renewables fund with €12 billion, said it¡¯s now starting to re-enter those waters. ¡°We stayed out of the big blood bloodbath in the North Sea,¡± said Jakob Baruel Poulsen, managing partner and co-founder at CIP, but the firm recently bought a 480-megawatt Morecambe project off the western coast of the UK in the Irish Sea at ¡°very attractive terms.¡± CIP said last month it was acquiring full control from its current owners Cobra and Flotation Energy. A press release on the announcement said Flotation E

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64586 These are official US figures based on projects already approved. In 2025, new solar (52%) and battery (29%) will dominate, giving a combined 81% of the total added capacity. Wind (12%) and gas (7%) will make up most of the rest. In absolute terms, new (added) solar power generation capacity will increase from 30 GW added in 2024 to 32.5 GW added in 2025. New battery power capacity will dramatically increase from 10.3 GW added in 2024 to 18.2 GW added in 2025. Battery energy capacities are not given. New wind capacity will increase from a low 5.1 GW added in 2024 to 7.7 GW added in 2025. New natural gas capacity is planned to be 4.4 GW added in 2025. 50% as open cycle gas turbines, 36% to be the more efficient (but also more expensive) combined cycle gas turbines, and the rest replacing coal in steam Rankine cycles.

" The federal government currently pays hundreds of millions of dollars per year for the spent fuel¡¯s temporary storage." Dit klink na ongeveer 'n miljoen dollars per dag. "Eighty-one percent of new power capacity additions last year came from solar." Subject: The Climate Fix: Nuclear waste finds its forever home Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:20:28 +0000 From: The New York Times <nytdirect@...> Reply-To: nytdirect@... To: bernhard@... The Climate Fix: Nuclear waste finds its forever home Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear waste. All Newsletters Read online For subscribers March 14, 2025 Excavating equipment at the site of the Onkalo repository project, the world¡¯s first permanent spent-nuclear-fuel storage facility, deep in granite bedrock in Finland, in 2017. Miikka Pirinen for The New York Times Nuclear waste finds its forever home By Allison Prang Editor¡¯s note: The Climate Fix is our twice-a-month guide to the most important solutions to climate change across the world. Have comments about what we should cover? Email us at Climateforward@.... For decades, the U.S. government has been staring down a growing problem: It doesn¡¯t have a permanent site to dispose of used nuclear fuel. Finland, however, is about to be the first country that does. Posiva Oy, a joint venture owned by two Finnish nuclear power companies, is on the cusp of officially starting operations at what is set to be the world¡¯s first permanent underground disposal site for spent nuclear fuel. The Times reported on their plans in 2017. Posiva has been working on the site, located on the country¡¯s western coast, since 2004, and it hopes to begin permanent disposal in less than a year. ¡°We have a solution,¡± said Pasi Tuohimaa, Posiva¡¯s communications manager. ¡°Final disposal of the spent fuel, it has been the missing part of sustainable use of nuclear energy.¡± Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit over the federal government¡¯s decision to approve a temporary storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Texas. The lawsuit underscored a touchy subject ¡ª plans to store nuclear waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the only permanent storage site in the United States allowed by federal law, have been stalled for years. The World Nuclear Association estimates the amount of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. at the moment would fill up only half of a football field. But, as demand for electricity has risen, the nuclear industry is going through something of a renaissance, with companies investing billions and planning to reopen shuttered plants in the U.S. How Posiva¡¯s storage plan works A copper capsule for spent nuclear fuel during a test in the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository in Eurajoki, Finland, in 2018. Lehtikuva/Reuters The barriers to permanently storing nuclear waste aren¡¯t as much technical as about planning and politics. Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades to study and build. At its disposal site, Posiva has drilled an array of tunnels spanning a collective 10 kilometers, Tuohimaa said. The company¡¯s plan is to insert the used fuel pellets into rods that are contained in iron and copper canisters. The containers are then stored hundreds of meters underground and surrounded by compressed bentonite, a type of clay that swells when it comes into contact with moisture and essentially tightens the area around the containers. The tunnels are then backfilled. ¡°The main thing is to isolate it safely,¡± Tuohimaa said. Right now, spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. can be temporarily stored in special pools or in dry casks at nuclear-reactor sites, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It can also be stored at independent storage sites if authorized by the commission, which is one of the issues at the heart of the case that has made its way to the Supreme Court. Storing it temporarily, however, has a hefty price tag. The federal government currently pays hundreds of millions of dollars per year for the spent fuel¡¯s temporary storage.

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As mens deesdae Google met Daily Friend Energy, dan verskyn onderstaande artikel nie meer nie -- of altans nie meer hoog op die eerste bladsy nie. Die skakel werk egter nog, en aldrie my kommentare wat vroeer as "spam" verwyder is, verskyn daarby. En artikels deur anti-hernubare skrywers soos A Kenny en ? uit die afgelope 12 maande verskyn nie. As ek nou Google met Daily Friend Energy, dan verskynveel meer rasionele artikels soos https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/09/21/whatsacanbe-an-energy-powerhouse/ en https://dailyfriend.co.za/2025/03/01/forget-tax-increases-focus-on-energy-rail-and-ports-to-kick-start-economy/ Eersgenoemde nogal met 'n kommentaar "At the rate Eskom is increasing the price of electricity, my investment in solar might turn out to be the best I ever made" wat normaal sou wees elders, maar vroeer raar op DF. Subject: Daily Friend se vete teen Hernubares Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:38:02 +0200 From: bernhard <bernhard@...> To: pwvanderwalt@... <pwvanderwalt@...>, Wolhuter, Riaan, Dr <wolhuter@...> Waarom publiseer DF sulke volgehoue valse berigte oor hernubare energie. Een van die mees onlangse artikels https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/09/15/free-energy-is-very-expensive-clean-energy-is-filthy/ deur ene ingenieur Andrew Kenny wemel van valshede en verdraaiings. My kommentaar: "Unlike the situation here presented "coal burning China" has actually steadily reduced its (very high) percentage of coal generated electricity from 81% in 2007 to 60% in 2021. Since then it does not quote for generation from coal separately from oil and natural gas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China ? ? "The same China has increased its generation from solar PV from 152 GWh in 2008 to 584 TWh in 2023 -- a more than three thousandfold increase! In 2023, its wind power generation was even higher -- 886 TWh. So much for China's attitude to these "very expensive, filthy" renewables! "China today leads the world in both the production and the use of both solar PV, of wind turbines and of Electric Vehicles (EVs)." is gister summier as "spam" verwerp voordat ek die wikipedia skakel ingevoeg het. Sedertdien verskyn daarby "Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The Daily Friend" sedert gisteraand.

New York Times: Automobiles: German carmakers are losing the Chinese market to rivals that have changed the definition of a high-end car. It now means one that is electric, smart and affordable.

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AI¡¯s Energy Demands Threaten a Nuclear Waste Nightmare | Scientific American Prof Riaan Wolhuter | PhD Pr Eng SMIEEE SMSAIEE Associate Professor Extraordinary: DSP-Telecommunications Electrical- & Electronic Eng Stellenbosch University e: wolhuter@... | t: +27 83 444 5220 | Dept E & E Eng, Banghoek Rd, Stellenbosch, South Africa The and confidentiality of this email are governed by these terms. Disclaimer Die integriteit en vertroulikheid van hierdie e-pos word deur die volgende bepalings bere?l. Vrywaringsklousule

Iets vir Bernhard om te geniet. https://www.ecoticias.com/en/new-type-of-nuclear-fusion-discovered/11013/ Lyk my hulle kom nog by die neutron probleem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/technology/china-deepseek-ai-silicon-valley.html Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believes About A.I. A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress. Listen to this article ¡¤ 9:13 min Learn more Share full article 458 Markets panicked after DeepSeek¡¯s breakthrough on cost challenged the ¡°bigger is better¡± narrative that has driven the A.I. arms race in recent years.Credit...Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Presse ¡ª Getty Images By Kevin Roose Reporting from San Francisco Jan. 28, 2025 Leer en espa?ol The artificial intelligence breakthrough that is sending shock waves through stock markets, spooking Silicon Valley giants, and generating breathless takes about the end of America¡¯s technological dominance arrived with an unassuming, wonky title: ¡°Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.¡± The 22-page paper, released last week by a scrappy Chinese A.I. start-up called DeepSeek, didn¡¯t immediately set off alarm bells. It took a few days for researchers to digest the paper¡¯s claims, and the implications of what it described. The company had created a new A.I. model called DeepSeek-R1, built by a team of researchers who claimed to have used a modest number of second-rate A.I. chips to match the performance of leading American A.I. models at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek said it had done this by using clever engineering to substitute for raw computing horsepower. And it had done it in China, a country many experts thought was in a distant second place in the global A.I. race. Some industry watchers initially reacted to DeepSeek¡¯s breakthrough with disbelief. Surely, they thought, DeepSeek had cheated to achieve R1¡¯s results, or fudged their numbers to make their model look more impressive than it was. Maybe the Chinese government was promoting propaganda to undermine the narrative of American A.I. dominance. Maybe DeepSeek was hiding a stash of illicit Nvidia H100 chips, banned under U.S. export controls, and lying about it. Maybe R1 was actually just a clever re-skinning of American A.I. models that didn¡¯t represent much in the way of real progress. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Eventually, as more people dug into the details of DeepSeek-R1 ¡ª which, unlike most leading A.I. models, was released as open-source software, allowing outsiders to examine its inner workings more closely ¡ª their skepticism morphed into worry. And late last week, when lots of Americans started to use DeepSeek¡¯s models for themselves, and the DeepSeek mobile app hit the number one spot on Apple¡¯s App Store, it tipped into full-blown panic. I¡¯m skeptical of the most dramatic takes I¡¯ve seen over the past few days ¡ª such as the claim, made by one Silicon Valley investor, that DeepSeek is an elaborate plot by the Chinese government to destroy the American tech industry. I also think it¡¯s plausible that the company¡¯s shoestring budget has been badly exaggerated, or that it piggybacked on advancements made by American A.I. firms in ways it hasn¡¯t disclosed. But I do think that DeepSeek¡¯s R1 breakthrough was real. Based on conversations I¡¯ve had with industry insiders, and a week¡¯s worth of experts poking around and testing the paper¡¯s findings for themselves, it appears to be throwing into question several major assumptions the American tech industry has been making. The first is the assumption that in order to build cutting-edge A.I. models, you need to spend huge amounts of money on powerful chips and data centers. Editors¡¯ Picks Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights Walking With Rhinos in Zimbabwe: ¡®Everyone Benefits¡¯ See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT It¡¯s hard to overstate how foundational this dogma has become. Companies like Microsoft, Meta and Google have already spent tens of billions of dollars building out the infrastructure they thought was needed to build and run next-generation A.I. models. They p

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-deepseeks-ai-model-just-became-the-top-rated-app-in-the-u-s/ January 27, 2025 4 min read Why DeepSeek¡¯s AI Model Just Became the Top-Rated App in the U.S. A Chinese start-up has stunned the technology industry¡ªand financial markets¡ªwith a cheaper, lower-tech AI assistant that matches the state of the art By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Artificial Intelligence DeepSeek¡¯s artificial intelligence assistant made big waves on Monday, becoming the top-rated app in Apple¡¯s App Store and sending tech stocks into a downward tumble. What¡¯s all the fuss about? DeepSeek, a Chinese start-up, surprised the tech industry with a new model that rivals the abilities of OpenAI¡¯s most recent one¡ªwith far less investment and reduced-capacity chips. The U.S. bans exports of state-of-the-art computer chips to China and limits sales of chip-making equipment. DeepSeek, based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, reportedly had a stockpile of high-performance Nvidia A100 chips that it had acquired prior to the ban¡ªso its engineers could have used those chips to develop the model. But in a key breakthrough, the start-up says it instead used much lower-powered Nvidia H800 chips to train the new model, dubbed DeepSeek-R1. ¡°We¡¯ve seen, up to now, that the success of large tech companies working in AI was measured in how much money they raised, not necessarily in what the technology actually was,¡± says Ashlesha Nesarikar, CEO of the AI company Plano Intelligence. ¡°I think we¡¯ll be paying a lot more attention to what tech is underpinning these companies¡¯ different products.¡± On common AI tests in mathematics and coding, DeepSeek-R1 matched the scores of Open AI¡¯s o1 model, according to VentureBeat. U.S. companies don¡¯t disclose the cost of training their own large language models (LLMs), the systems that undergird popular chatbots such as ChatGPT. But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023 that training the company¡¯s LLM GPT-4 cost more than $100 million. In contrast, DeepSeek says it made its new model for less than $6 million. DeepSeek-R1 is free for users to download, while the comparable version of ChatGPT costs $200 a month. DeepSeek¡¯s $6-million number doesn¡¯t necessarily reflect how much money would have been needed to build such an LLM from scratch, Nesarikar says. The reported cost of DeepSeek-R1 may represent a fine-tuning of its latest version. Nevertheless, she says, the model¡¯s improved energy efficiency would make AI more accessible to more people in more industries. The increase in efficiency could be good news when it comes to AI¡¯s environmental impact because the computational cost of generating new data with an LLM is four to five times higher than a typical search engine query. Because it requires less computational power, the cost of running DeepSeek-R1 is a tenth of that of similar competitors, says Hancheng Cao, an incoming assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Emory University. ¡°For academic researchers or start-ups, this difference in the cost really means a lot,¡± Cao says. Curated by Our Editors Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ¡®Think¡¯? Lauren Leffer Could Inflicting Pain Test AI for Sentience? Conor Purcell Google Makes a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough Dan Garisto AI Chatbots Will Never Stop Hallucinating Lauren Leffer DeepSeek achieved its model¡¯s efficiency in several ways, says Anil Ananthaswamy, author of Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math behind Modern AI. DeepSeek-R1 has about 670 billion parameters, or variables it learns from during training, making it the largest open-source LLM yet, Ananthaswamy explains. But the model uses an architecture called ¡°mixture of experts¡± so that only a relevant fraction of these parameters¡ªtens of billions instead of hundreds of billions¡ªare activated for any given query. This cuts down on computing costs. The DeepSeek LLM also uses a method called multihead latent attention to boost the efficiency of its i

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/deepseek-ai-trump.html Deur in die VSA EVs en hernubares af te takel, word China bevoordeel. By discounting renewables and EVs in the US, China benefits. Trump Is Going Woke Jan. 28, 2025 Credit...Agence France-Presse ¡ª Getty Images Listen to this article ¡¤ 9:39 min Learn more Share full article 1.6k By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist I understand that Donald Trump was elected to better manage our borders and curb left-wing wokeism. But have no illusions: Trump¡¯s right-wing wokeism ¡ª impugning electric vehicles and renewable energy because they don¡¯t conform to MAGA ideology and aren¡¯t manly enough ¡ª is as devoid of common sense and not remotely in the national interest as any left-wing cultural wokeism. It¡¯s not even in the interest of his own base: The five states with the largest share of wind power in America are red states. They generated at least a third of their power from wind. This is geography, not politics: Rural districts across the middle of America have the most solar and wind energy potential. They know it and are taking advantage of it ¡ª even if they vote Republican. Most important: If Trump¡¯s all-in-on-fossil-fuels, ¡°drill, baby, drill¡± rallying cry ¡ª at the dawn of this era of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, batteries and autonomous cars ¡ª really becomes our strategy, it will not make America great again. But it will definitely help make China great again. Indeed, when Trump declared in his Inaugural Address that he planned to propel Americans to Mars, the first vision that popped into my head was of a U.S. astronaut landing on the red planet and being met there by a Chinese astronaut, asking, ¡°What took you so long?¡± Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Hey, Friedman, why do you keep comparing America and China? It¡¯s certainly not because I¡¯d prefer to live there or have its problems, which are many and deep, particularly in banking. No, it¡¯s because, despite its problems, China still knows how to make big stuff ¡ª often with sheer force from the top down, usually buttressed by massive government support but also often by common-sense planning and, more often than we¡¯d like to believe from an authoritarian system, by creative innovation. China is also not so silly as to treat one form of electricity generation as more conservative, liberal or Maoist than another. In the end, the outputs are all just electrons. They have no politics. All Beijing cares about is which is most abundant, efficient, cheap and clean. I was struck by the ¡°coincidence¡± that on the day of Trump¡¯s inaugural, where he boasted that ¡°America will soon be greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before,¡± the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek unveiled its newest flagship A.I. model, R1, which demonstrated a new level of reasoning power ¡ª power that it was able to achieve with a smarter algorithm and without importing the most advanced U.S. chips that we¡¯ve placed restrictions on China from acquiring. You can get more A.I. juice either by getting a bigger orange (more neural networks and data) or by squeezing a smaller orange tighter with a smarter algorithm. That is what DeepSeek has reportedly done. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox. As an article in Business Insider described it, ¡°DeepSeek says R1 achieves ¡®performance comparable to OpenAI o1 across math, code and reasoning tasks,¡¯¡± and it quoted Theo Browne, a software developer behind a popular YouTube channel, as saying, ¡°The new DeepSeek R1 model is incredible.¡± So what does that have to do with energy policy? Because everything today is connected ¡ª which is exactly what Trump and his right-wing wokesters don¡¯t understand. Editors¡¯ Picks Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights It¡¯s Dumpling Week! We Have 5 Amazing Recipes You Can Make at Home. Why Some of Malaysia¡¯s Best Films Aren¡¯t Shown in Malaysia Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The faster A.

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Materiaal van Bennu https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-latest-asteroid-sample-hints-at-lifes-extraterrestrial-origins/ Prof Riaan Wolhuter | PhD Pr Eng SMIEEE SMSAIEE Associate Professor Extraordinary: DSP-Telecommunications Electrical- & Electronic Eng Stellenbosch University e: wolhuter@... | t: +27 83 444 5220 | Dept E & E Eng, Banghoek Rd, Stellenbosch, South Africa The and confidentiality of this email are governed by these terms. Disclaimer Die integriteit en vertroulikheid van hierdie e-pos word deur die volgende bepalings bere?l. Vrywaringsklousule