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I'm puzzled as to how Tesla managed to get a patent (granted) on this. Maybe it's for a very specific implementation of the extraction process using table salt,

I'm puzzled as to how Tesla managed to get a patent (granted) on this. Maybe it's for a very specific implementation of the extraction process using table salt, but I'd swear this is not a new phenomenon. Nor can phenomenons themselves patented, only specific implementations (which can get practically hairy very quickly, hence the mess the patent system currently is). Sounds to me like yet another attempt, with enough spin to turn a planet, to again try "prove" how Tesla will be a game changer, by presenting something that's rather mediocre and mundane (at best) on closer inspection. Simply put, in all these years (ever since his PayPal days) I have not seen a single thing come from Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud, business trickery, or downright deception on closer inspection. But apparently a substantial part of today's (global) society just loves to be fooled, rather than pay attention and actually understand things. I guess it's similar to what they say about governments .. we all get the ones we (collectively) deserve.

DennisP 5y ago
Weird. I test-drove a Tesla a couple years ago and it seemed pretty real to me. Can you point to a previous implementation of lithium extraction using table salt?
rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
>I have not seen a single thing come from Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud, business trickery, or downright deception on closer inspection. https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-vehicle-deliveries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awarded_global_commercial_launch_by_market_share.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awarded_global_comme...
nickik 5y ago
> but I'd swear this is not a new phenomenon. Consider actually reading it, this is pointed out in the text. > by presenting something that's rather mediocre and mundane 0% of global lithium is produced from clay extraction. But I guess its so mediore and mundane that you could easily do it. > Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud Like when they delivered Astronauts to the Spacestation. Everybody know that that is actually filmed in a desert in Nevada. > But apparently a substantial part of today's (global) society just loves to be fooled Or you know, maybe you are not as smart as you think you are. I know witch one is more likely.
- qeternity 5y ago
  > Or you know, maybe you are not as smart as you think you are. I know witch one is more likely. *which
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DennisP 5y ago

Weird. I test-drove a Tesla a couple years ago and it seemed pretty real to me. Can you point to a previous implementation of lithium extraction using table salt?

rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago

>I have not seen a single thing come from Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud, business trickery, or downright deception on closer inspection. https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-vehicle-deliveries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awarded_global_commercial_launch_by_market_share.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awarded_global_comme...

nickik 5y ago

> but I'd swear this is not a new phenomenon. Consider actually reading it, this is pointed out in the text. > by presenting something that's rather mediocre and mundane 0% of global lithium is produced from clay extraction. But I guess its so mediore and mundane that you could easily do it. > Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud Like when they delivered Astronauts to the Spacestation. Everybody know that that is actually filmed in a desert in Nevada. > But apparently a substantial part of today's (global) society just loves to be fooled Or you know, maybe you are not as smart as you think you are. I know witch one is more likely.

qeternity 5y ago
> Or you know, maybe you are not as smart as you think you are. I know witch one is more likely. *which

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