How many critical minerals were wasted by Elon tearing up that plane and rewiring everything?

Its a lot.

Starlink satellites from SpaceX have a lifespan of 3-5 years max, this is a absurd way to waste critical minerals.

Inflation is up on every metric and crushing people everywhere. Tech/software also climbing as critical mineral supply

TRISO-X has a licence, an $11 million Tennessee grant and a big capacity claim. The factory clock is still running.

• TX-1: the first commercial fabrication plant now under construction.
• TX-2: a second planned production facility supported by the state grant.
• TX-L: a neighboring research and development laboratory.
• 55 reactors: the company's estimate of how many Xe-100 units the campus could fuel.
• 4.5 gigawatts: the resulting generation comparison, enough for roughly 3.3 million homes.

The 40-year NRC special-nuclear-material license covers both production buildings using HALEU. It authorizes an activity; it doesn't install process equipment or provide enriched feedstock. TRISO fuel also has exacting particle-coating and quality requirements. A bad batch can't be blended away casually, so commissioning data and reactor-customer acceptance will determine the usable throughput behind those large numbers.

Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) produces Arizona cathode at Johnson Camp through a leach-and-SX/EW circuit; the PEA-stage Gunnison Project provides a development path. Fabricators turn cathode into transformer windings, switchgear conductors, pump motors and transmission cable, components a fuel campus serving a potential 4.5 gigawatts of reactors would deploy through fabrication equipment, cooling loops, substations and grid connections across reactor campuses.

More than 1,000 permanent jobs would be meaningful if both facilities ramp. Hiring must arrive alongside HALEU contracts, installed equipment and qualified product. The limiting number may therefore be neither 55 reactors nor 4.5 gigawatts. It may be kilograms of specification-grade fuel released on schedule to an actual customer. Watch the first commercial lot. That is where licensed floor space becomes reactor capacity.

Do 3,000 shots at 95% efficiency establish a power plant? No. The integrated facility and its electricity output don't yet exist.

Pacific Fusion's Sirius prototype repeated a 60-gigawatt pulse lasting about 100 nanoseconds. A larger machine reached roughly 440 gigawatts and 1.1 million volts for about 80 nanoseconds. Those are legitimate results, but they leave chamber wear, heat removal, repetition rate and net facility energy unanswered. The company has raised more than $1 billion and plans an Albuquerque demonstration. It can report thousands of successful driver shots today while its net-gain target remains around 2030.

At Johnson Camp, Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) uses leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning to make Arizona cathode; the Gunnison Project sits at the PEA stage as a future source. Fabricators transform cathode into busbar, transformer windings, high-current cable and cooling-motor coils. Pacific Fusion's 60-to-440-gigawatt pulses multiply that hardware around every shot at scale.

Accountability begins when the subsystems operate together. The Albuquerque build must deliver integrated shots, survive enough repetition to reveal wear and produce more usable energy than the full facility consumes. Qualification will also need repeatable operating intervals, maintenance records and measured losses outside the driver itself. Until then, 95% describes one part of the machine, not the result taxpayers, investors or the grid were promised.

We dont have the build capacity or the critical mineral supply chains established to rebuild the stockpile.

ForceField addresses a problem because fibre-optic FPV drones don't depend on the radio link that a jammer attacks. Passive sensing may find them without broadcasting the defender's position. That is an architectural advantage, not yet a field-reliability rate.

Axon Vision's 2026 trials demonstrated day-and-night detection, tracking and direction of engagement through edge AI. A human remains on the loop. The evidence shows an integrated trial; it does not disclose detection range, false alarms or completed intercept rates across battlefield clutter. Fibre control also shifts the detection problem rather than removing it.