Not to pick a winner, but Musk’s protests remind me of Edison’s against AC power. Let the market decide what’s best.
Great analogy.
[ Not to pick a winner, but Musk’s protests remind me of Edison’s against AC power. Let the market decide what’s best. ]
One of the things that annoys me about Musk is his Grubermint cronyist tendancies...
Spot on! Once we master fusion, we can cheaply disassociate water into hydrogen and oxygen use it over and over again with nothing lost, the ultimate in sustainable energy!
Not to pick a winner, but Musk’s protests remind me of Edison’s against AC power. Let the market decide what’s best.
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Absolutely, but Musk is an engineer and seems to make very good decisions in these matters.
Edison:Tesla::Carrot Top:George Carlin
DC electricity has certain advantages, but one huge drawback - it cannot be transmitted over any wire for more than a relatively short distance from the point of generation to the point of consumption, before the losses due to electrical resistance become too great to transmit meaningful amounts of power.
All the battery power in the world cannot hold a sufficient charge to get past the relatively short period at which electricity may be discharged, and the relatively long time to restore that charge to the batteries. Way too much is lost as resistance, which is degraded into heat.
The market has already voted “NO”. That is why these scams are being given subsidies.
On the issue of electricity, the best solution is AC to the location and DC within the location, but that has not happened yet (and may not ever).
Sometimes, we need outside the box thinking.