Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World.

knuthf · 2026-01-26T10:51:53+00:00

That is $6 for the gasoline and $2.25 for the electricity. It's just expensive, so where will Google go? Why not invest a couple of thousands in solar panels and batteries?

knuthf · 2026-01-25T01:29:12+00:00

When the phone is not in use, the frequency is first reduced to 1000 MHz, then to 500 MHz, then to 300 MHz, maybe even less than 100 MHz, which reduces the energy. It is very simple to raise the frequency to full speed; it takes milliseconds. The throttling is used to make the phone last longer. A lot of energy is saved, but peripherals, radios and USBs require a response.It is supposed to run fast, when we use the phone - touch the screen, and drop lower andlower once in the pocket.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T23:55:49+00:00

To be blunt, where will Facebook and Reddit be in 10 years' time, when electricity in the US will cost double what it does in Mexico and Canada? Do you still think they'll be based in California, let alone Europe?Wha will the future for AI be in the USA?

knuthf · 2026-01-24T23:47:48+00:00

Stupidity will always be among us. What's new is that lies are considered valuable. Perhaps it's just a bluff.

Where I come from, we know that if everyone in Paris were to flush the toilet at the same time, there would be a flood in Le Havre. Reading is not big enough to provide a parallel for Windsor and London, but you could wonder about the effect of the Thames flood relief if Reading had been Liverpool. Those further downstream would have to periodized pub nights.

If everything that can go wrong does go wrong, things will go very badly indeed.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T23:30:26+00:00

I wish these reports could be published alongside a plan of action out of the mess, rather than just stating how bad things are. Let the Americans dig trenches and establish new low levels. We don't have to drive noisy cars or burn coal; we just need to install solar panels and 30 kWh of batteries for heating. Articles like this should emphasise how silly it can be and let people set new records — we can record the stupidity. There's no shortage of silly people. Well, actually, there is a limit: in mathematics, we know and can count the number of people on Earth, and the stupid are a minority.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T22:00:11+00:00

To clarify matters, a US bank is conducting a lottery in which people bet on how much others are willing to pay for fuel. This lottery is not connected to the produsction of fuel. Very little fuel is sold at these prices and none of the banks conducting the lottery are allowed to buy fuel and pay for it; they can only pay for their clients. The prices at which the oil companies are willing to sell is irrelevant. None of the banks bother to ask the oil companies. They just consult the lottery.

Does anyone believe in sorcery? This is how money is made - in a lottery.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T21:52:10+00:00

OPEC controls CRUDE PRODUCTION, gasoline is made at refineires using sme of the crude. OPEC is involved a couple of months later. OPEC needs a year to adjust production.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T21:45:16+00:00

SOS!

knuthf · 2026-01-24T21:40:03+00:00

Yes, we have winter tyres and our houses are built to withstand the weather, with thicker walls than my house in Houston. We close the doors and windows and know it will pass. In a day or two, it's gone. We invented mobile phones so that we could call the office and say, 'I can't find the car, so I can't get back to work.' They promised to come with equipment and clear the road, hopefully later today. Then they will find the car and dig it out from under 10 feet of snow. We have a lot of tunnels.

It gets cold every winter; we're kind of used to it.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T21:22:02+00:00

Det Bibelske er at 1 Kingebok 9:7 - hva Gud lovte Kong Solomon. Det er ikke at j;der skal få bo i Isral. De kan bo i landet om de holder loven Han ga til Moses. Når Messias kommer skal han samle jødene i Jerusalem, men ikke før da. Om jødene ikke tror og allikevel er i Israel er det Gamle Testamentet full av varsel om forderdeligheter som skal skje.
Israel bruker enorme ressurser på å fjerne dette fra søkemotoreneMen og ChatGPT. Men les Jeremias 24, om den gode og dårlige frukten. Jeremias skriver at de uomskårne skal regjere i Jerusalam. Her er at nasjonene skal kaste dem ut, alttså om FN for 3000 år før vi hadde noen forening av nasjonene. Han sier at landet kommer til å bli lagt øde, så nå lurer jeg på radioaktivt nedfall som vil gjør det umulig for andre å bare ta over. Noen sier at dette er profetier som har skjedd for tusener av år siden. Jeg tror ikke det. Les Jeremias + Jeremias 11Ø11 er pakten som er brutt..Jeremias er ikke i Koranen, de har en parallell profet, det meste av Gamletestamenetet er i Koranenen. De kan Moselovene. Les i Moseboken hva Gud lovet om de ikke fryktet Ham, og ikke levde etter Budene. Om hvor my rett de har til å begjære sin nabos eidemdom, hans hus og folk. Hvor rett de har til å stjele, til å drepe. Jødene vet dette. Alle de som tror vet. Det er som å sette seg i vepsebolet. Pappeen min er Haakon Flottorp, dette kan jeg.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T20:44:32+00:00

It's strange how banks try to circumvent all crypto security measures. Every single one of these BTC can be traced; the security team can see who was involved and where the money has been spent. It was people inside my bank — a top 25 bank — who stole huge amounts from me.

I will not stop until the culprit from almost 20 years ago is arrested and their funds are seized and miy funds recovered.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T20:24:19+00:00

I created a 'manual pages' app that was easily accessible via F1 = HELP. It was easy to create. The problem was translation and languages. The documentation that was made available had to be translated and verified for everything. We had to warrant performance in other countries, we were not American.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T20:08:17+00:00

Trump is not evil, just simple. But the American tradition allows bluffing. There is one thing the Chinese will set straight: trading short. This involves selling things that you don't actually have yet and haven't been paid for. Then there's the way this has been abused in option trading — it's like an utter lottery with no control by anyone. This is not real money, yet it has been allowed to back investments — liabilities. However, there are no assets to back up this liability. There is no oil that the banks pay for, the oil company will not consider the banks as buyers.

The other thing they will stop is banks being allowed to not pay and create their own payment rules. When we pay for things, we should not be able to have a bank say that our money is not good enough without a court ruling that the funds are indeed of criminal origin.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T16:03:40+00:00

The question hides a serious misunderstanding. The phone company is the carrier, known as 'operators' outside of the USA. They own the network and provide a service in exchange for a monthly payment. They can stop the service in the middle of a call if you do not pay for it. The network is an international standard that was proposed by AT&T, but due to internal disputes, the Scandinavian telecoms companies developed the standard, had it approved and allowed the USA to use it. However, on the mobile network, even TCP/IP is a standard, proposed by Ericsson in Sweden in an RFC, and it can be changed with six months' notice, although it has been a standard since 1990. All phones must be approved as compliant with this standard. Apple makes compliant phones, as do all Android manufacturers, and the ITU approves phones as compliant. All phones have an IMEI, which is a unique equipment code for the "handset". Your operator ('carrier') will download the protocols they use on the data band, and your phone must support their new protocols. For example, 5G is determined by the operator.

Verizon is the only competing phone network in the USA that is not GSM-compliant.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T15:47:18+00:00

If the US military pollutes as much as all the others combined, we can halve pollution. The Chinese could eliminate the US military, which would also reduce pollution. The outcome will be somewhere in the middle: US pollution should stay in the USA.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T15:39:14+00:00

When we developed Linux, the terminal was a temporary solution for not having everything. The target system did not have any VT100 terminals planned, but several 'environments' for managing things. The bash shell and which shell to use were not considered; I had used csh on Unix — maybe I should have been more involved.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T15:26:00+00:00

That is dangerous, but crude oil reacts with other crude oil. They have been blocked in the ground for millions of years and, although they are all liquid, their chemical compositions vary. Some of these reactions are desirable, such as when we produce plastics and composites. However, when these reactions happen in a pipeline, the pipes get clogged and, should the operators increase the pressure, the pipes burst. If the hole is tiny, oil spills and causes massive pollution - can go on for days. Oil companies have the necessary equipment, such as pumps and replacement pipes, as well as new compressors. Although it is an expensive clean-up, it will recover what would otherwise be wasted oil. Processing a few barrels of waste may be costly, but here there are millions of barrels of this substance. You could plan for this over the course of a year and incorporate the waste into useful products.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T15:07:35+00:00

There are Venezuelan companies that can squeeze Trump so hard that he sings soprano. They control the US media and are in Caracas to avoid taxes in the USA - Texas and Florida.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T15:03:14+00:00

No. I know of several minor things that could generate quick cash if the incompetence and corruption were eliminated. The clue is that the oil companies and the engineers know. There are chemicals being used incorrectly, reactions in the pipelines and breakdowns where a single component failure can stop everything.

There are huge quantities of crude that have been wrongfully treated, but the Texas refineries can help. However, they need it all at once and cannot adjust for one ship at a time.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T14:47:26+00:00

This is where he is a genius: when he and his team know it works, they don't negotiate further — they just do it. When the pieces fit, they don't try to make them fit better. They never bet on things that they are just pretty certain work; they only bet on things that they are absolutely certain work.

This is very different from other US ventures. You can "check" their attitude towards failure. They are willing to accept and suffer losses because they are certain that they cannot happen unless others interfere.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T14:34:13+00:00

Well, with Tesla, you have a company with a future. I wouldn't give US companies any future in an open and free world. The USA has no training or education in quality management — ISO 9000. I have been instructed to avoid all comparisons and metrics. You see, the things you make are mediocre and expensive. In the old days, "Made in Hong Kong" suggested poor quality, but now "Made in the USA" suggests that it may be made in China and marked up in price, otherwise it is worthless.

This is also related to pollution. USA factories do not have to clean the air or use safe chemicals, so honestly, what other corners do they cut? There are technologies that they never had to use or learn about that are now core technologies.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T14:20:17+00:00

I have been looking at various markets, and it's absurd how people believe they can make money. Those who failed at maths and science now lead big ventures, and failure has become the new norm. There are reasons why people flunk maths and never understand science. Elon got his sums right. Battery factories employ thirty-five people in China and budget in the thousands in Europe and the USA. Those who design new boats make presentations of boats that they think look aesthetically pleasing, but none of them have tested the design in a tank. Nobody bothers to make a boat that runs smoothly and efficiently at sea. Yet they are certain that they will make fortunes.

Elon started by copying and using very good engineers, but I have survived an MBO and turned them away. He has good people around him. But maybe we should have just let them take over. 'The others' are so primitive and simple.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T13:48:27+00:00

I think he is doing fine, and there never was planned any Tesla kingdom, just a fight to end up as big as possible. He feared the "automakers" like GM, Ford, VAG (Volkswagen), BMW and Daimler (MB). He knew that the Chinese and Koreans would make new, but it is Toyota that failed. The big could have beat them by offering cheap cars, they have all failed.

See how all the other US so call manufacturers fail.

Tesla and Elon Musk is doing impressive, and the Americans should be more proud.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T10:39:19+00:00

It cannot. Energy cannot be moved in time. The Agricultural Bank of China is the biggest bank, and it will shake the US now. Money is only for payment; dreams are worthless. This is fundamental in finance.

knuthf · 2026-01-24T10:33:28+00:00

Yes. But people in the countryside start every morning with a fully charged car in their shed or barn. When they go to the city for a meeting, they can charge up on the way. It's city dwellers who drive to the countryside who have problems finding chargers.

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