Things I learned lately 12 Mar

• Microsoft's campus in Redmond Washington is comprised of over 100 buildings. 50,000 people work on this campus.
• If aluminum-air batteries become viable, the will last 3000 km (assuming the same battery weight as the Tesla Model 3) in an electric car before the aluminum anode cassette needs to be replaced, a process that would take 90 seconds. All this with a predicted running cost of 7 cents per kilometre.
• Aluminum oxide requires a lot of electricity and heat to turn it into a usable metal (separating it from oxygen). Which is why it is a suitable metal to use in air batteries. Recycling aluminum only uses 5% of the amount of energy used to create the metal from the oxide.
  
  
  
• Research published recently in the journal Cell identified more than 140,000 viral species living in the human gut, most of them never seen before.
• Tesla used to have the only mass deployed car charging network. Now we also have Electrify America, with 500 stations and growing. These stations can charge any electric car, regardless of brand and type of connector (Tesla needs an adapter). Courtesy of VW. Electrify Canada, also courtesy of VW, is being developed and is almost ready. 
• It is always possible that a well-known or even well-respected lawyer simple chose cases that were easy to win. It doesn't necessarily allude to their technical skill.