What bothers me is that the analyst pundits completely ignore a major part of Tesla’s business: the battery energy storage segment. Elon said that the energy business may outgrow the automotive business, and it is growing rapidly. But it’s treated as if it doesn’t exist! See following article. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/02/tesla-tsla-q2-2023-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html
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2023-06-29 Less Than 99% Grid Availability: Utilities Must Change To Residential BESSes
This is my comment to this article. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/28/solar-will-reach-dominance-as-cheapest-source-of-electricity-in-world-dnv/ What the utilities failed to consider is the extremes in the variability of renewables. The utilities are unwilling to build a sizeable reserve into the system. They refuse to overbuild by a factor of 3 to 6 times, so that the valleys in the supply will be
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2023-04-01 The Truth About Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The fossil fuels industries received over a Trillion dollars in direct subsidies in 2022, and possibly $6 Trillion when others are factored in. This is insane! This 14 min. JHAT video delves deeper into this subject.
2022-05-30 Robert Reich & Tax Cuts, Stock Buybacks
A 2 min. video about Trump era tax cuts, and broken promises of tax cuts for the wealthy benefitting the middle class with more jobs and better pay. <<Tax cuts do not contribute to productivity. There is no “trickle down” from a stock buyback. >> – Robert Reich https://youtu.be/I3jBG3_tp_E
2022-05-25 AQMD Pays $250 For Home Charger
The So. California AQMD will pay up to $250 for a level 2 charger (similar to a dryer outlet) to homeowners. Also more or less $, refer to the link for more information. http://www.aqmd.gov/home/programs/community/community-detail?title=ev-charging-incentive
2022-05-01 EOS Gets $200M Financing For Zinc Battery
Nice to hear. EOSE https://www.energy-storage.news/eos-gets-investors-us200-million-financing-commitment-for-zinc-battery-storage/
2022-04-20 Are You Paying For A Worthless Gas Plant?
Every consumer should understand this very important article about the economic reality of building a gas fired power plant. The term Stranded Asset should be explained. The electric power producers are not making decisions that are in the best interests of their customers and shareholders. The banks should be required to finance new fossil fuel
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2022-04-13 Ford Dealer Markups Article
Those $5000 (in this case Ford) dealer markups are just fine – they force their prospective customers to vote with their feet and move to buying a Tesla. Just one more nail in the coffin of dealerships – they don’t have many years left before they will be gone. Also, if the dealer doesn’t advertise
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2022-04-04 Exxon Is Mining Bitcoin Using Flare Gas
This doesn’t look good. https://ark-invest.com/newsletters/issue-310/
2022-03-30 End $6T Fossil Fuel Bailouts
Tony Seba talks about the fastest way to get to Net Zero – by ending the $6 Trillion/yr fossil fuel bailouts. https://rethinkdisruption.com/carbon-tax-fossil-fuel-bailout/
