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endlessmonotony posted:Actual power plants in the desert are much superior, and you can reduce the amount of photovoltaic cells required - even to zero, with concentrated solar plants running a steam turbine instead. They even solved the fried pigeons problem in Mojave Oh for real? What did they do?
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bawfuls posted:I am a mechanical engineer specializing in thermodynamics/heat transfer, and I spent my masters years studying solar power processes. What do you think was the problem with Stirling Energy Systems, it seemed so promising
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Aug 9, 2018 18:41
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Coolness Averted posted:It's also going to be paid for through equity in the company instead of cash. So he's going to increase the value of each share by issuing more shares. keep issuing shares until price is diluted to 210, do a 1-for-2 reverse stock split, take it private badda bing badda boom
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Aug 13, 2018 16:52
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Alioth posted:see that's another thing: people who live in non-california climates know batteries suck in cold weather, and are kind of touchy in hot weather. electric cars just aren't viable for half the country this is why competently engineered electric cars (the ones GM produces, for example) have a liquid heating/cooling loop running through the battery. such cars are perfectly safe / reliable to run in extreme heat/cold (though with a somewhat smaller efficiency advantage than they have in favorable climates)
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Aug 14, 2018 02:27
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WhyteRyce posted:So Musk trying to pull off some freaky three-way resulted in his funding lie getting blown up?? I love 2018 no the other way around, Musk's LSD-fueled funding lie resulted in some freaky three-way he was trying to pull off getting blown up
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Aug 14, 2018 03:05
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FistEnergy posted:Holy shiiiiiit Tesla's lies have a shelf life of MINUTES now holy shiiiiiit
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Aug 14, 2018 03:10
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cumshitter posted:*places hand on blank tesla dashboard* worth noting that the batteries form a "skateboard" over which the rest of the car is built, under the hood is just cargo space so the flames would not be spewing out from the hood, they would be directly under your feet and butt
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Aug 16, 2018 21:32
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Meh, I was just going by what I read in a piece about Midgley years ago - it's possible it was based on old PR/damage limitation by the corporations selling it. bring it back? my man, they never stopped asking that poo poo to the fuel propeller planes run on so think about that the next time one is dragging a banner overhead
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Aug 20, 2018 01:09
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Wheeee posted:good thing everyone has access to charging at home and a local powergrid that can support the mass adoption of EVs using clean energy, not to mention the large up-front cost the percent of the population for whom the power grid is so dirty that an EV would have worse emissions than an ICE vehicle is pretty miniscule actually
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Aug 20, 2018 01:39
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babypolis posted:and that figure would remain the same if there was large scale adoption of EVs im sure gasoline is energy dense but internal combustion engines have poo poo efficiency batteries have poo poo energy density but electric motors are very efficient
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Aug 20, 2018 02:04
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:grimes looks like she smells real bad she just looks like any other dumb teenage girl to me 
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Aug 21, 2018 22:23
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Agronox posted:joke: bumper falls off after driving through a puddle Reminds me of The Last Command
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Aug 23, 2018 19:03
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:it's cool how we killed God but in our existential crisis we created a new one named Tech as an abstract concept to dedicate your life to for promise of future salvation bring back old gbs posted:my son u have sinned. plz download the Sinnr app to receive ur e-blessing for only $1.99 or FREE if u post 20 Hail Muskys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
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Aug 23, 2018 19:49
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Wulfolme posted:no it isn't electromagnetic rail gun space launch system dude
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Aug 24, 2018 18:03
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Krankenstyle posted:tbf the lack of radiation is pretty cool radiation is the only thing that keeps nuclear arms from being used, if rods from god ever get implemented they are absolutely being used to flatten entire cities of brown people
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Aug 24, 2018 21:55
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Nikita Khrushchev posted:lmao Elon circled back to calling the diver a pedo He's gonna win that tournament for sure https://twitter.com/spies_please/status/1034471445412413441
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Aug 28, 2018 20:03
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Aug 28, 2018 20:18
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Bananasaurus Rex posted:Whys trump not an option? Prob cause it'd easily win I guess. I think she said in another tweet that some things like Trump and Star Wars had to be left out for obvious reasons
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Aug 28, 2018 20:26
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the all-time record for pikes peak was broken by an EV at this year's race. it wasn't a tesla tho There have been Teslas that did well too, but they had aftermarket improvements to their battery cooling systems. The point isn't that EVs have bad performance, they in fact can have excellent performance characteristics. The point is that Teslas are poorly engineered, poorly manufactured cars which are priced and marketed as top-tier, high performance luxury vehicles.
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Aug 28, 2018 21:53
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Final Four https://twitter.com/spies_please/status/1034794800774565893
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Aug 29, 2018 15:24
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Well as predicted there is really no point voting in the final round https://twitter.com/spies_please/status/1035213266644082688
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FAUXTON posted:What about hd-dvd then, you even have the weird nexus with people who were probably banned from XBLA in their teens singing its praises in spite of all evidence to the contrary. It's true that HD-DVD was the superior format when it and Blu-Ray were both in their infancy but Blu-Ray adopted all the better features and solved all manufacturing issues, ultimately becoming the (more or less) unquestionably better format, even for annoying pedant nerds such as myself
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Sep 4, 2018 19:21
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univbee posted:I'm still kind-of surprised Blu-ray won since I'm not used to the most powerful format ever winning, those early single-layered MPEG-2 Dolby Digital only discs notwithstanding. ultimately HD-DVD in 2007 was Bernie in 2016 -- defeated by an unstoppable war machine willing to make whatever deal necessary to achieve victory, but the good ideas they pushed are now part of the mainstream consciousness
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Every Tesla Owner: "whated my car and whated what? is that a service the dealership provides?" except eliminating dealerships is a key Tesla innovation
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is the guy who exchanged one share of Berkshire Hathaway for $300,000 of TSLA still holding on for dear life
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rear end cobra posted:Holmes grifted mad dog mattis, henry kissinger, rupert murdoch and crooked hillary and should be given a nobel prize https://twitter.com/elongreen/status/1037174867328684032
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gschmidl posted:My friggin' robot vacuum has lidar and doesn't crash into firetrucks or explode. orcinus posted:Eh. Mine tried to crash into a bookcase, climbed up the lowest shelf, then tried to rear end-hump the books off the shelf somehow thinking they were the charging station. https://twitter.com/romainbousson/status/805408200786923520
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Bushiz posted:I'm earnestly surprised that he hasn't made a car with a center seat driver, given that he bought and wrecked a McLaren f1 with his first bit of cash he did, it's the tesla semi 
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Sep 5, 2018 21:11
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Plank Walker posted:is this an official pic from tesla or a photoshop? It's an official render from tesla I think the viewing angle is weird in that pic, they're dumb but not so dumb to make a cockpit you can't see out of  FCKGW posted:How do you look at your trailer when backing up? You don't need to see with your eyes when your ipads are displaying the output of 26 cameras FCKGW posted:How do you hand documents off at inspections and weigh stations? I dunno, I guess you have to get out of your seat 
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Yoshi Wins posted:Help, I'm confused. Why did they put plastic on the cars? Why is it bad? Is there ever a time when it makes sense for them to be covered in plastic? The cars are so poorly assembled that rain gets in through the door seals https://twitter.com/ShortingIsFun/status/1036614251425787904?s=19 Why is it bad? is left as an exercise for the reader
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GWBBQ posted:There was a paper from last year that I'm pretty sure recently passed peer review showing a low energy way of using a special membrane to crack ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen, allowing pure hydrogen to be generated on site next to refueling sites economically. It looks like it can be scaled up for commercial use as-is. No doubt this exciting technology is only 5-10 years away from commercial viability
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Ford’s new "Mustang-inspired fully-electric performance utility" rumored to be potentially called the ‘Model E’ https://electrek.co/2018/09/06/ford-electric-car-first-image-mustang-inspired-fully-electric-performance-utility-vehicle/
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Lutha Mahtin posted:some good headlines this morning https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/1038072453711491072
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Agrajag posted:that would require me to actually watch JRE's podcast and i refuse to do so oh definitely don't watch the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI "I'm a business magnet" starts at about 9:50 "Is that a joint?" starts at about 2:10:00
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Sep 7, 2018 19:32
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orcinus posted:Heavily dependent on location. The Union of Concerned Scientists released a map that shows how efficient a gasoline-powered car would have to be in order to have better global warming emissions than an EV. 
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yeah I don't see how 38MPG is "bad"
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orcinus posted:This is the average. There are also some other details to consider with the map, for example some states in those regions allow you to pay more to buy electricity generated from wind and solar so you can drive your EV with full smugness even if it's a significant coal-burning power plant region.
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Trabisnikof posted:(Si)licon (C)rystals Close, Silicon Carbide. Silicon Carbide (SiC) is used in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) which in turn are used to control relays, motors and other high current electrical loads. Edit: link for people who want to deep dive https://www.pntpower.com/tesla-model-3-powered-by-st-microelectronics-sic-mosfets/
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As I understand it, it's a similar problem to the shortage of cast nickel alloy blades for jet engines: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-11/buffett-s-bottleneck-on-jet-engine-blades-crimps-boeing-airbus Not that they're produced the same way, but that the production of these things is difficult and slow to ramp up. And if you want to convince them to ramp up, you need a long term contract.
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Strange, I've never had issues with tweets in Awful? I'm using Awful 3.5.2
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