This 28 minute YouTube podcast is a great way to understand how Musk sees the world and his company’s place in it. He even talks a bit about Bitcoin at the end (no, he’s not going to). There is very little about the cars themselves — these interviewers are investors so they are interested in
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This article is from 2016 and things have changed even more. The California duck curve that can be seen in the daily load at caiso.com shows how utility scale solar is generating so much power during the day that the rest of the power plants have to generate less and less. Then as the sunlight
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The last few days/nights have been marked by violence in Kenosha, WI after Jacob Blake was shot by a policeman. Notice he was shot 7 times after failing to obay the orders of police, and has survived but may be paralyzed. This was a single black man shot and the public reaction has been one
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https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/08/audubon-report-south-carolina-increasing-adoption-solar-power/ << “Expanding access to and use of solar energy not only helps protect the clean air and water that birds rely on, it also helps mitigate emissions associated with a changing climate, which Audubon has identified as the number one threat to birds,” said Justin Stokes, executive director of Audubon South Carolina… >> ******************************
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A battery can sell three types of products: resource adequacy (RA), ancillary services , and energy. RA revenue is a function of the capacity market rules (e.g., size of battery and duration), and is generally procured on a monthly or annual basis. As such, RA value is not directly impacted by short term energy and
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Fake news debunked! Lots of lies out there. https://www.pv-magazine.com/magazine-archive/climate-data-to-the-people/
Politics and Big Oil. https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/615433/
The state of journalism and democracy interview of Ted Koppel https://youtu.be/L9XhsAP2gkI
There was widespread criticism of Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary movie when it debuted on YouTube. The complaints were so numerous that YouTube removed the movie. It got so many things wrong and out-of-date that it gave the opposite of what the facts are today. Here’s one viewer’s opinion. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29042020/inside-clean-energy-michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-review This YouTube video
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This YouTube video is a discussion between two Tesla fans. At one time the bald guy was a big Tesla skeptic. At the 30 minute point the other guy says, “Tesla’s goal is to grow at a rate of 50% compounded annually, a year, for the next decade. And I don’t see any reason why
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