This article discusses the reasons behind the author’s opinion. He says Ford has factories worldwide. He also believes the Ford heirs would not allow it. I think that Tesla would benefit from a deal with Ford for distributing Tesla cars. The author talks about acquiring Ford’s manufacturing facilities. But Tesla is already manufacturing cars in
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Here is a video of houses being built with a giant 3D printer. Building prefab concrete houses was done by Thos. Edison over a hundred years ago. But this is a 3D printer driven by software. https://www.facebook.com/111926455614/posts/10164381464620615/?app=fbl
Skip ahead to the 2 minute point for the sunrise. Joe gives us a drone’s view of Sunrise and a tour of the construction site. The Tesla Texas GigaFactory construction is going full speed with three shifts working. There is a huge amount of concrete being poured, steel beams being erected and all sorts of
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The Purdue Pharma Co. will have to have to become a PBC (public benefit company) as part of its settlement over the federal opioid lawsuit. There are billion dollar fines too. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/opioid-manufacturer-purdue-pharma-pleads-guilty-fraud-and-kickback-conspiracies
So the more hits a Facebook post gets, the less good for the world it is, according to the researchers. Less good or more bad means more attention from viewers, which is what Facebook needs. When the tweaks to its algorithm caused bad for the world posts to be demoted, they lost viewers. Facebook couldn’t
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The congressional hearings where the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook appeared virtually were happening earlier this week. But this has been going on for some time. There has been talk in the news about asking that Facebook be broken up and IG and Whatsapp separated. This all remains to be seen. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN27Z37U Here is another
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Seems like people should do more traveling virtually, especially now with the surge in the pandemic. https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-cause-global-aviation-emissions-study-covid-19
Researchers have come up with a redox flow battery that uses organic chemicals in place of toxic and expensive vanadium. They cost less than half as much, too. https://youtu.be/YyzQsVzKylE We need to have millions of these made and deployed over the whole world to solve the intermittent renewables problem. Chinese Anti-capitalist economics The capitalist way
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Quote from end of Vox article >> In the end, the conversation about responsibility leads where all climate conversations lead: The only hope of avoiding catastrophic damage is most every country decarbonizing as rapidly as they are capable, regardless of their histories and rivalries. Electricity must be rapidly decarbonized to get rid of coal; heating
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Well, this article wants the Flunked Clown College to let DRM be one of the choices. It doesn’t matter to me because I don’t plan on spending anything on getting a device that will decode HD radio, FM or AM. Even if the next car I buy has it, I will still not be using
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