The aliens in UFOs come at night when people are sleeping and transport them into their UFO. The aliens induce deep sleep, then treat their captives’ heads with a radiation beam that makes them only believe warm and cosy LIES. This causes them to turn into Trumplicans who foolishly believe every conspiracy theory. The aliens then transport them back into their beds, where they wake up with only a few strange dreams. Every time anyone makes a rational statement, the alien indoctrination springs into action and overwhelms the person’s common sense and the person parrots the irrational false nonsense that’s bad for everybody.
2021-12-01 TSLA Hits $1000
In November, 2021 Hertz said they had ordered 100,000 model 3s from Tesla. Shortly thereafter TSLA hit $1000 a share. The numbers are mind boggling. At 5000 EVs a week, all of them going to Hertz, that would require 20 weeks to produce. Obviously not all will go to Hertz, so it’s going to take a lot longer than 20 weeks to fill the order. Plus the demand for individual buyers keeps growing. It looks like the demand for the 3 and Y is so great that Tesla may have to build a second assembly line at GF Texas just for model 3. I get the feeling that the Cybertruck is going to take even longer to be produced. 😧😢
But there are only so many drivers in the US so Hertz’s cars will allow some customers to lease a model 3 for a year or two and it will take some pressure off demand for individual buyers. Beside that, the MIC M3s can be (and supposedly will be) imported to USA and that will help relieve pressure.
This morning I parked next to a Model X and I was impressed!! If TSLA keeps ‘rocketing to the moon’ I’ll be able to afford a Model X instead of a Y!!
Update 2021-11-26
TSLA has been around $1100 +- $60 or so. It’s being influenced by Elon Musk’s sale of stock in sizeable blocks.
Update 2021-12-01 TSLA is still around $1150.
2021-12-01 Can Solar Cut It?
<< Using solar panels with an efficiency of 16% to supply the world, we would need to cover an area of 367 by 367 km or 135,000 sq. km.
One USA based study concluded that the land required would be smaller than the current existing footprint of the existing system. >>
Rooftop Solar Makes S. Australia Hit Negative Demand
Rooftop solar makes South Australia the world’s first gigawatt-scale system to hit negative demand.
One thing that angers me is that they said they may have to shut off some rooftop solar to cut back the supply. That “curtailment” should be made illegal. The law should require that all excess renewables generation be used to generate green hydrogen. The hydrogen must be stored and used to replace fossil fuel generation.
Once the renewables generation reaches 3 to 4 times the normal load, there will be enough renewables, storage and green hydrogen to generate all electricity at all times, even during peak maximum demand.
2021-11-30 Elec Transmission Lines Needed Urgently – Oliver
This article emphasizes that electric transmission lines are needed to connect US consumers to zero emission electricity. Adult comedian John Oliver gives us the whole story.
https://www.power-grid.com/td/transmission-to-connect-us-consumers-to-zero-emission-electricity/
2021-11-29 Water Pipe From Eastern To Western US
https://ktla.com/news/california/why-cant-we-just-move-water-to-solve-a-drought/amp/
This article is about building an aqueduct from the Eastern to the Western US where the drought is very bad. The experts say it’s impractical and would cost too much – a trillion dollars or more.
An alternative would be to build desalination plants along the coast and pipe the pure water inland to water the crops. I also thought that it would be good to get rid of coal power plants and instead use the railroads to transport water instead of coal.
Quote from article:
<< “You have to ask the question, what would that be supporting?” adds Hall. “If you look at Southern California, half our water is being used to keep plants on life support that wouldn’t grow here naturally. You’re proposing something that not only is environmentally destructive … but it’s supporting really bad environmental practices locally.” >>
I don’t understand what this is saying, and it’s not what I’ve read. The water in California is used mostly for agriculture – something like 80% or more. This food that we grow is keeping *us* on life support! And by us, I mean somewhere around 40% of the produce that the whole US eats. We cannot eliminate food!
We can conserve a lot of water by stopping eating meat. 43% of the land in the US is used for growing livestock or growing food for livestock. That’s where we should conserve. It takes something like 1600 gallons of water to grow a pound of beef.
2021-11-28 Battery Plant Construction At Giga Texas
From reply on FB group TSLA…
Lee Davies
The building where the cathode materials will be made is nothing but a field with the steel beams in piles waiting to be built into the cathode plant. It will take a year to build it and get it up and running. The building behind Joe is the battery factory. The windows haven’t yet been installed and they’re still installing equipment inside.
It has taken more than a year to get the yield of 4680 cells up from 30% to 70% so nearly one third of the cells still fail testing at the Kato Rd. Plant in Fremont. They still have a way to go to get the processes to the point where the rejects are not causing a lot of excess expense and losses. They can’t produce 4680 cells while losing so much money. So it looks like they will keep on making upgrades to the Kato Rd. Plant until they’re satisfied the “machines that make the batteries” are good enough for duplication and then they’ll make them for both Giga Berlin and Texas.
The process they will be using is no longer the “wet process” and this new way of making the cells is still in development. If you’re interested, you should watch the Battery Day video from last year.
2021-11-28 Challenges Of Green Hydrogen Economy
The challenges in pursuit of a green hydrogen economy.
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydrogen/the-challenges-in-pursuit-of-a-green-hydrogen-economy/
2021-11-27 Electrostatic Machines Website
This website has a huge amount of electrostatic machine projects. Wimshurst, electrophorus, Van De Graaf, and much more.
