They had near 100% EV market share just a few years back.
Losing half the market in 3-4 years is a huge change for any company, even if some of it was inevitable as rivals caught up and suprassed their offerings.
This is the world's largest thorium reactor. There have been other experimental ideas, but not many operational ones. The next largest operational Thorium reactor I can find is called kamini in India, which is 30kw. For scale, China's reactor is 2000kw.
3Okw is a toy. That would power maybe 10 US homes. 2000kw? That's more like 600 homes. Small, but usable. Fits the SMR niche well, actually. Making 1/1000th of the radioactive waste and basically no weapons grade materials locks in there too.
The article makes it very clear its running continuously, which is what they are celebrating. They have successfully refueled it while operating, which is a huge part of the "continuous."
The article is all of 6 paragraphs. It's not a difficult read.
Yeah, i worked with someone in a complex field that had a very similar personality. Inanely abrasive, very intense person, but not threatening in any way. Instant temper, but not dangerous, would just lose their shit over anything. It was farcical.
They were excellent at the job and adept at their hobbies, but basically insufferable in the same way as Jack.
Your body would have to be entirely or largely immune to the effects of the gravity power to not be crushed by it in general. You certainly wouldn't be able to fly, the basic "wish," if your body was hammered by G forces every time you lifted off.
Since you need some level of immunity, just applying "gravity" to your body then applying your body to other things would excert that force on them.
With full, discrete control of gravity, even if it's just localized to your body, you would become the deadliest person on earth. You would be invulnerable to physical impact. Your touch could crush any object. You would be literally unstoppable.
If the power is wider ranging? Well now. Youre a magneto level threat, or more if you want to get into the "can make blackholes" side of things.
That "less than a single year" was at the beginning of covid, and his malicious and cavalier response to a global plague hitting american shores led to a million dead Americans.
He was way more impactful about what happened with covid then anyone else, from allowing people to fly in unscreened to the states, from refusing to send out masks and tests, to pushing UV/disinfectant/invermeton, for refusing to help blue states early on because "it was good politically," on and on and on.
Using the stock market growth of the last 2 decades of global, neoliberal economic politics to council people to "think long term" about their investments at the start of isolationist, fascist economics policy is maybe not the best idea.
"Look at the past" only works when the past is still relevant. They are ripping up every norm and institution that made those past gains possible.
The existential horror story Lena comes to mind.
It's excellent, but horrible.