one of the projects listed is probably somewhere in my bookmarks.

and AFAIK it still is a real plan but, officially, we are not where we wanted to be material science-wise ... heat, distances and batteries are still somewhat an issue, meaning, not efficient and cheap enough to be a no-brainer (despite already being a no-brainer but, you know, wolfs of the wall street bangers are super cool and smart and who wouldn't be partisan with leBuffets et al???)