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So the premise of the article is that the author has decided that Tesla is using technologies that won't work, and hence it would be a bad use of public incenti
by lutorm 18y ago
So the premise of the article is that the author has decided that Tesla is using technologies that won't work, and hence it would be a bad use of public incentives. What makes him think he knows any more about whether it will work than the people who have thought enough about it to put hundreds of millions into it?
This is exactly what technology development incentives should be used for, having money to work on stuff that is not obviously profitable in the short term, but would be big breakthroughs over the long term if it worked. If it's profitable right now, you don't need incentives...
- newsycaccount 18y agoThen shouldn't the government just invest in fundamental battery tech, not car-implementation that will never go anywhere without improvements in that tech?
- twopoint718 18y agoSometimes the best way to get a working technology is as a spin-off from a practical implementation. I'm thinking about how building a superconducting particle accelerator led to great advances in the production of superconducting titanium-niobium. It was because these components were going to be used, that the effective technology emerged.
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