What Andy's Been Watching
- Scott Manley has a good overview of datacenters in space, where we both are in agreement that the notion of 4km long solar panels up there is insane, and he proffers that using Starlink Satellite platforms as a base for AI computing making sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCto6UkBJoI
- Speaking of Elon Musk's contraptions, "Thunderfoot" does his (quarterly?) teardown of the latest promises from the Master of Hype in this Youtube episode, this time about the recent reveal that Tesla's "Optimus" robots are indeed teleoperated. For an interesting read, note that I put forward why and how Starlink plays into Musk's scary army of humanoid and vehicle 'bots, in my writeup a year ago, here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgfiuRZzBwU
- Ferrari seems to have come up with some advances in traction motor design, but apparently is ignoring the hard-learned market experiences of Dodge in making goofy motor sounds in an EV. I, for one, had glasspacks on my car as a teen and now bask in the total propulsive silence as I listen to my EV's Bose Premium Sound system on my way up to visit my 10 year old minion and her family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJu9x5lfXG4
- Imogen Bogal has a graduate degree in engineering from Cambridge (iirc) and spent some time at UK startup, Arrival. Now part of the Fully Charged team of video journalists, she brings us some of the advances under way in the UK as far as battery technology goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rOl9_eUM8s
