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It’s one form of risk to potentially allow your adversary to cut your undersea communication channel which has an over the air transmission backup, quite another to allow an adversary to cut your energy channel used by all homes hospitals and businesses, and with even less of a backup.

To get a billionaire interested you can’t position this tech as a global solution; it’s a nonstarter. However you could get a billionaire interested if you identify an economic arbitrage opportunity it enables that isn’t easily eroded.