hat technology and operationalize it. But Interesting Engineering is talking about a new battery breakthrough, a Serbian company. So they've got this battery that you can get an 80% charge in 12 minutes and it will last 310,000 miles. I mean that's the lifespan of the battery and it can charge that 80% in just 12 minutes. 12 minutes. That's pretty impressive. Anyway, so the battery stuff is what those breakthroughs are what make your e-bikes work and your electric cars and your underwater jetpacks and very soon your aircraft. So I'm pretty sure aircraft will all be electric at some point. Seems impossible because aircraft require a, well not jets, I don't think you'd be able to replace jets but you'd probably be able to replace a lot of local short-haul aircraft.

There's a story that says China and the US are meeting on Monday in London to talk about a rare earth deal. Now, how does that fit with the news we were already told, which is that Trump said that he made a deal with Xi for rare earth minerals? What was that about? Because at the time I thought to myself, well not really. There's not really any chance that the two of them hashed out a mineral deal. Or was there some particular sticking point that Trump removed that allowed them to have serious negotiations? But what we don't have is any kind of a mineral deal with China. And I don't really understand why there would be unless they also felt like they could make deals on all the other stuff because the mineral deal, the rare earth stuff, that feels like where they've really got us by the gonads if you know what I mean, like more so than anything else that they do. So why would they give that up first? In what world would you negotiate by giving up your main leverage before you even talked about your other stuff? So there's something going on here with this story that I don't understand. It doesn't make sense with what I know about negotiations or people or Trump or President Xi or China. It doesn't make sense. So if somebody can figure out what i