#Trade# | 📊 #Guangdong#'s foreign trade hits 6.49 trillion yuan in Jan–July 2026, up 20.5% YoY! 🇨🇳💪 Exports: 3.8T 📤 | Imports: 2.69T 📥 | Surplus: 1.11T Top partners: #ASEAN# (1.02T), #HongKong# (990B), #EU#, #US#, #Taiwan#. Tech leads growth: IC exports +58%, lithium batteries +40%, EVs +30%, 3D printers +120%! 🤖🔋 183K companies active (+34.7%), private firms drive 4.37T trade. AI demand fuels IC imports (+48.6%) and computer parts (+77.9%). #Economy# #Exports# #Imports# #TechExports# #EV# #LithiumBattery# #3DPrinting# #AI# #TradeGrowth# #ChinaEconomy#

My new solar panels + lithium battery + bidirectional charger just charged my EV for free in < 1 hour...in Cleveland. The system is basically a micro-power plant that can go off-grid for a while (& gives me free local driving). Our installers - @GoldPathSolar - out of Dublin, OH, did an amazing job. Thanks guys! Seems like Asia's already doing something similar 👇

Tesla is building more of its battery supply chain in 🇺🇸. Austin facility is producing lithium battery cathode material at large scale, supporting domestic 4680 cell production while reducing energy, water use, and emissions. More local production. Less supply chain dependence.

"If a blaze occurs he [the pilot] will have between 15 and 20 minutes to land a plane, and that's not always possible..."⁠ ⁠ Following a high-stakes experiment at a laboratory in Warwick, @Greg_Dickinson tells @SimonCalder why airlines are so terrified of lithium battery fires - and the essential safety rules you need to know before you fly.⁠ ⁠ Listen to the full episode:

All “big four” U.S. airlines now restrict how portable power banks can be stored and used in flight—as Delta Air Lines and United Airlines each report at least three lithium-battery incidents so far in 2026. Read more: Photo: Getty Images

Starlink Mini 2 is finally entering production, with a built-in battery now confirmed. The current hardware revision is mini2_prod1. The new terminal is slightly smaller than the original Starlink Mini. Its panel PCB measures 225 × 273 mm, compared with 236 × 276 mm for Mini 1. Average EIRP is also slightly lower: 27.4 dBW, compared with 27.57 dBW. The transmit duty cycle has been reduced significantly, from 75% to 11%, which will result in lower uplink speeds. This limitation is most likely driven by the terminal’s power budget. The terminal includes a built-in 4S lithium battery managed by a BQ40Z-series BMS. Battery capacity is currently unknown. Charging is provided via a USB-C Power Delivery port, supporting an input range of 11–24 V. The MAC thermal thresholds have been increased to 95°C and 99°C, compared with 79°C and 83°C on Mini 1. The battery thermal shutdown threshold is set to 80°C. GPS - present. Explicitly configured for in-motion use. The SoC is the same "Catapult". #starlink# #starlinkmini2#

Too many idiots have drank Elon koolaid and fail basic physics putting data centers in space is the single worst capital allocation thesis floating around People think launch costs down means compute in orbit is cheap, but space turns your main operational problem—heat—into a nightmare On Earth, data centers cool down by moving air or water over hot chips. Space is a vacuum, so convection does not work Your only option in orbit is radiating heat away through infrared light, which is wildly inefficient at normal chip operating temperatures. To cool a single high-density AI rack consuming a hundred kilowatts, you need hundreds of square meters of deployable radiator panels A modest 10MW orbital array requires a radiator footprint roughly the size of five football fields. That mass of pumps, fluids, and mechanical frames completely destroys the payload savings you got from reusable rockets Silicon reliability is another massive money pit. Earth’s atmosphere shields chips from cosmic rays and high-energy protons, but in orbit, bit-flips and radiation damage destroy hardware at terrifying rates When a GPU dies in a ground facility, a technician swaps it out in five minutes. When a chip fries in Low Earth Orbit, it becomes a permanent multi-million-dollar piece of space junk orbiting around forever Bandwidth bottlenecks make the latency problem even worse for retail and institutional investors banking on real-time AI. Optical laser links between satellites are great in a vacuum, but piercing Earth's atmosphere during heavy cloud cover or rain causes severe signal degradation. You simply cannot push petabytes of training data up to orbit and back down to ground networks fast enough to compete with terrestrial fiber routes. Then look at the eclipse problem. Unless you stay in very specific sun-synchronous orbits, satellites spend over thirty minutes of every hour-long orbit in Earth's shadow. To keep the GPUs running continuously through the dark, you need massive lithium battery banks that degrade rapidly under aggressive thermal cycles. The dead weight of those batteries alone ruins the unit economics of the payload. Elon Musk is pitching massive orbital clusters for SpaceX, but physics does not care about visionary marketing decks or retail idiocy The market will eventually price in these operational failures, leaving early orbital compute investors holding extremely expensive, irradiated metal floating in orbit If you have a space-maxi friend that's larping all day about space datacenters, share this with a fellow investor who needs a reality check or drop your thoughts below, and hit follow for more bloody common sense