Musk will take this money and throw it into a hole in the ground...
But break off a nice chunk for himself before he covers it up. All while extolling the virtues of all things electric made by his companies and why the taxpayer should fund more of his research and production.
Face it, his PowerWall, is nothing but battery backups. He uses fancy lithium-ion batteries, as opposed to good old fashioned, deep cycle marine batteries that are a helluva lot cheaper. Either way, it’s just solar power with battery storage, nothing more.
NO, HE WON’T, HE’LL TAKE IT AND LAUNCH THE SATELLITE WITH THE VERY REAL AND REUSABLE FALCON HEAVY ROCKET FOR LESS THAN HALF THE COST OF THE EXPENDABLE DELTA IV HEAVY ROCKET!