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Consumer and grid-scale battery storage Solar And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as

Consumer and grid-scale battery storage Solar And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as the H. Lastly, afaik they went camera-only in their cheap cars (3/Y) and still use fancy stuff in the S/X. They gave fsd customers new computers once. What’s to stop them from going back to vision+lidar or whatever once the parts are available and retrofitting as needed? The whole ‘vision-only is better’ gag seemed like an obvious ploy to keep being able to ship cars from the beginning of supply chain problems. And yeah, Elon does not appear to be a good person.

saurik 4y ago
https://insideevs.com/news/570053/tesla-models-modelx-no-radar/ https://insideevs.com/news/570053/tesla-models-modelx-no-rad... > Tesla has just confirmed that it has removed radar from the Model S and Model X as of mid-February 2022, moving its entire lineup to what it calls ‘Tesla Vision,’ which is an array of cameras that Tesla says negates the need for radar. The manufacturer did the same for the Model 3 and Model Y in May of last year and even though this prompted some questions from the IIHS, the institute is now fine with it after testing.
rsynnott 4y ago
> And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as the H. That doesn't sound... particularly clever. Crypto miners are essentially disposable, with a useful economic lifetime of a couple of years, typically. And they are 100% thermally efficient. Which sounds quite good, until you consider that an air source heat pump is typically around 300% thermally efficient, rising to up to 500% for ground source. So, once your crypto miner is no longer really making anything (a couple of years), you're left with a really inefficient heating system.

saurik 4y ago

https://insideevs.com/news/570053/tesla-models-modelx-no-radar/ https://insideevs.com/news/570053/tesla-models-modelx-no-rad... > Tesla has just confirmed that it has removed radar from the Model S and Model X as of mid-February 2022, moving its entire lineup to what it calls ‘Tesla Vision,’ which is an array of cameras that Tesla says negates the need for radar. The manufacturer did the same for the Model 3 and Model Y in May of last year and even though this prompted some questions from the IIHS, the institute is now fine with it after testing.

rsynnott 4y ago

> And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as the H. That doesn't sound... particularly clever. Crypto miners are essentially disposable, with a useful economic lifetime of a couple of years, typically. And they are 100% thermally efficient. Which sounds quite good, until you consider that an air source heat pump is typically around 300% thermally efficient, rising to up to 500% for ground source. So, once your crypto miner is no longer really making anything (a couple of years), you're left with a really inefficient heating system.