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Tesla’s 3rd-largest individual shareholder suggests clever strategy for TSLA buyback

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The third largest individual Tesla shareholder, KoGuan Leo, advised the company to buy back TSLA shares with its free cash flow. KoGuan believes that Tesla can buy back its undervalued stocks while investing in FSD, the Optimus, and more gigafactories. So Tesla can buy back cheap stocks now. . “We

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SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal

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SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. Just dawned on me that this is a much bigger deal than it might seem.

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Mad Power thoughts

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Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Then came the shale gas revolution, pioneered in Texas.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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In one corner stood the defending champion, Texas Instruments. and Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas, Texas. And Polaroid wanted to buy this exposure controller for US $5.75. Since we were making our own battery [designed concurrently], we couldn’t tell them what the battery supply would be,” said Carcia. “I

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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At that time, MOS was supplying equipment to Atari Inc. We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said.

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Gas War: Biden Admin Decides Against Refilling Dwindling Oil Reserves, Citing High Prices

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The Biden administration has decided against purchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after promising to refill the nation’s emergency energy supply after it reached a 40-year low. Much of this hovers around the fact that oil companies were following suit and that a significant portion of the supply was sold to China.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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The supply of metals like cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel needed for batteries is already shaky , and soaring demand for the hundreds of millions of batteries in the coming decades is likely to trigger shortage and high prices. China processes about 80 percent of battery raw materials, creating a chokehold on global supplies.

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