FB group TSLA… answer to wild speculation after TSLA stock rocketed past $1000 today. Other than pipe dream speculation, I see only a single word that has truth to it: disrupt. Due to its bleeding edge technology, there is no telling with certainty where the future will lie. Disruptive innovation goes along with high risk;
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Climate Change will bring global tension, US intelligence report says. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59004088
This 1 hour podcast discusses lawsuits, antitrust against SRP – Salt River Project, among others. This was originally by Solar Cities which was bought by Tesla. Tesla and SRP settled out of court, so sadly the court never got to make a legal decision. This has to do with an electric utility making it difficult
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There is a need for lighting in the workplace but to save energy the amounts should be monitored and turned off if no one is occupying workstations. The workstations could be monitored by activity. But another way would be to fly a sensor equipped drone around the workplace and determine what and where activity is
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This is a … min YouTube video https://youtu.be/g32BLZssoNo
This is shameful. 60% of the 44 gas wells ware leaking methane into the air. This Diversified Energy owns tens of thousands of dying wells that are polluting the environment and spewing greenhouse gases. And they’re still trying to acquire more. 15 min. video. https://youtu.be/6c-WCg2Y7sE
According to the EIA, renewables will be the leading source of US electricity by 2030. The EIA says 42%, but they have been too conservative in their estimates in the past. We (the whole world) must be much farther away from fossil fuels by 2030, especially coal. Coal power plants must be gone as soon
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The raising of beef takes 43% of the land but contributes only 3% of the calories. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/08/133806/giving-up-just-half-your-hamburgers-can-really-help-the-climate/
I was thinking about a design for floats to assemble together to make a floating solar PV array. These floats would be connected together to make a long carrier for multiple PV panels. The floats would have a channel to carry cabling and cable splices. There would be holes to loop ropes through to tie
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Seven Reasons why nuclear power is not the answer https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-answer-solve-climate-change Quote: << Nuclear advocates claim nuclear is still needed because renewables are intermittent and need natural gas for backup. However, nuclear itself never matches power demand so it needs backup. Even in France with one of the most advanced nuclear energy programs, the maximum ramp
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