. If this new leap, let's see it's according to Mark Maynard in the Pasadena Star News, the new breakthrough just uses a new kind of material and it uses 10 times less anode material which is a big deal and might cut the cost someday of the battery by a huge amount. Did you know that the cost of the battery in an electric car could be up to 40% of the cost of the car? And that this battery that works in the lab and if it worked in the real world would cut that cost by about half. So 40% of your car cut by half just because the battery. So we're at the point where we're probably one more big battery breakthrough, like one of these many ones that I talk about every day on the show. They're all different but one of them is going to break through. And if it doubles capacity and halves the cost of batteries that's just, that's not just better stuff like if you're thinking oh I'd like to get a few extra miles on my car battery if I have electric car. No we're not talking about that. You'd get that too. What we're talking about is a complete transformation of civilization because it's what makes your robot a good deal. It's what allows you to get off the grid. If you had a real cheap battery that you could put on the side of your house and collect the sun during the day and use it at night you might just get off the grid. You might have electric airplanes. So the major source of CO2 if you're worried about that would be removed because airlines are really, really bad on that. So one more leap, just one more big leap in batteries. I'm not talking about the 10% 20% improvement. I'm talking about the big leap. And there are a bunch of them that are brewing. One more big leap changes all of air travel, travel, our entire transportation would change. It would lower costs to the point where it would make a difference in inflation. It would lower inflation. Transportation would be different. The time you spent charging would go down to minutes instead of hours. It would be really transformational and it's definitely going to happen.

Meanwhile Israel has declared on Tuesday that it's going to start killing the leaders of the Houthis. So the Houthis in Yemen have been shooting rockets into Israel and prior to that they've been putting missiles at shipping boats in the area. So the Houthis are real bad news and they're backed by Iran and Iran is weakened but the Houthis are still active. Now when Israel says we're going to take out your leaders it just tells me we're at a strange point in history. So nobody's talking about taking out Putin in some kind of a decapitation strike because he's got nukes and he's got backup and whoever comes after him isn't necessarily going to be the good guy. And probably the same is true with an American president. If you're Russia or China you're probably not thinking even for one second about a decapitation strike on the United States because we'd still be too strong. Likewise we will not think even for one second about a decapitation strike on China because it would just be destabilizing and it would just ruin everything. So decapitation strikes definitely don't work once a country reaches a certain status. And they also don't work when your little scrappy terrorist cells are so small that you can't even figure out where