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Great post. Love your work. I thought I might just note, as perhaps a late footnote, that Tesla actually results more than marginally from the land down under. The biannual World Solar Challenge -- run through the red hot belly of the beast -- was apparently the key proving ground for what would become the first Tesla engineering team: https://electrek.co/2016/05/12/tesla-motors-stanford-solar-car-project-key/. Indeed, others argue that both Tesla and Google were borne from that experience, along with other companies whose total market capitalisation exceedds $2.5B: https://worldsolarchallenge.org/blogs/2023/10/21/why_solar_challenges_theyre_in_the_dna_of_tesla_google_for_starters

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This is very cool.

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Great article Alex, as always amusing and accurate.

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