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Several years ago, I discussed Musk’s anti-fossil-fuel political activism with a close friend his. The man was an excellent engineer, and looked at Musk with pu
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Several years ago, I discussed Musk’s anti-fossil-fuel political activism with a close friend his. The man was an excellent engineer, and looked at Musk with pure technological enthusiasm. “I understand where you’re coming from,” I said. “But here’s the thing. If he has any success whatsoever with his political goals, he will do damage to billions of lives. Someone can perform a lot of great engineering feats and still be a negative force in the world.”
You can't quote yourself as an authority like that to close a piece you are writing. Not unless you are a bit mental anyway.
I would also be very interested to know what the private uptake of solar is among the people why own tesla cars. I would suspect a reasonable amount of them are already being charged off rooftop solar.
- lutusp 13y ago> I would also be very interested to know what the private uptake of solar is among the people why own tesla cars. I would suspect a reasonable amount of them are already being charged off rooftop solar. The article also conveniently overlooks the fact that, even when powered by fossil-fueled power plants, electric cars create substantially less pollution than gas-powered cars.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoThe whole thing with an electric car is that you decouple the car from the fuel, which he acknowledges by calling it a coal fuelled car, he doesn't call it electric fuelled, for instance. So it is an n fuelled car. You could decide to fuel it entirely by setting fire to old socks in the burner of an old steam genset, if you had enough old socks.