Posted on 05/19/2018 7:47:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
https://www.newconstructs.com/bailing-solarcity-costs-tsla-investors-7-4-billion/
Also, Musk wants a carbon tax
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-just-demanded-a-carbon-tax-in-paris-2015-12
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/elon-musk-says-robust-carbon-tax-would-speed-global-clean-energy-transition
Musk also wholeheartedly believes in global warming.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/870369915894546432
No comment needed on this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6
So, you would stifle his intellect because of his politics?
The Model S is definitely a badass car. Anybody who says otherwise hasn’t driven one.
I would rather that businesses not be at the taxpayer money trough.
Why put the financial risk on the taxpayer at all?
Hmmmm. I made two assumptions that gave the same result, half the distance (a guess) and double the time, link up plus link down...
Thank God Kelly Johnson never took tax money or people would be excoriating him for that!
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So he can get a man to Mars, but not to the 18th green?
I think the Pinto got a bad rap.
I watched as the dealership installed the mandated fix to my Pinto: a plastic sheet with the outer dimensions of a keyboard. I'd want to know the speed/circumstances wrt that photo. There is a lot of plastic (to burn) in modern cars.
I think he’s much like a lot of other big businessmen, Trump included- if the government dollars are available, he’s going to avail himself of them since the competition is going to. It obviously would be better if big brother didn’t choose winners and losers. At least he’s doing intersting things. FYI, I’m NO ONE’S acolyte, I just loath the kind of writers who criticize people who actually DO things.
Exactly. Trump has declared bankruptcy how many times?
Tesla worked with George Westinghouse to develop the multi-phase powerhouse facility at Niagara Falls, the HV transformers and transmission line which delivered the power initially to Buffalo, and eventually supplied New York City upon project completion.
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_niagara.html
Why?
did they WRECK first?
ANYone can escape a burning car if all kit does is catch fire.
‘Tis only about 45,000 miles round trip.
About .25 second
Other than transmission of power by AC; what other Tesla inventions do we use today?
That would be a mighty big storage facility!
And the POWER flowing into it would be ENORMUS!
How close together were pony express stations? Where a rider could get freshly fueled HORSEPOWER.
Anyone ever stop to think what might not have been invented if nobody had dreams that “overreached?
Are you under the impression that Tesla isn't publicly traded? It is.
SpaceX is not so far, but is edging towards profitability. Musk has also invested large sums of his own money in the company.
The government money that Musk has secured for his various ventures has mostly been in the form of guaranteed loans, which he has largely already paid back as I understand it.
He's providing a lot of value for the investment, as opposed to Solyndra and various other boondoggles where the government wastes money.
“I’d love to see Tesla’s wireless power, but it didn’t ever happen.
Yet.”
It won’t, due to the simple physics of its inefficiency.
Distributed solar power is fine, but I’m still waiting for distributed high-density power in the form of LENR or fusion. ;-)
Flying cars for everyone!
Well, not one reply addressing the much more important issue I hinted at...
:-(
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