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Tokomak is uncharted territory. It’s hundreds of PhDs trying to solve problems literally no one knows how to solve. A lot of what Tesla has been doing is low h
by erikpukinskis 9y ago
Tokomak is uncharted territory. It’s hundreds of PhDs trying to solve problems literally no one knows how to solve.
A lot of what Tesla has been doing is low hanging fruit. Supply chain optimization. Industrial design. Roboticization. These things aren’t science, they’re engineering. They’re applying known principles to the litany of problems an electric car entails.
There’s not much new science in a Tesla. Most of it could have been done years ago. There is some iteration required of course, but that’s why starting earlier would’ve made a difference.
- philwelch 9y agoThe whole reason Tesla can exist in the first place, and was founded in 2003 and not 1993 or 1983, is because of advances in battery technology that have already been driven by the consumer electronics industry. They're not solving hard problems now because the hard problems have already been solved by dozens of companies trying to make laptops and cell phones and other battery-operated devices. If they started way back when, they would have to solve those hard problems themselves.