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by nickik 6y ago
What Elon actually said, if you would listen to him and not just over react to tweets as you seem to do, you would know that what he said was 'Tesla currently doesn't justify that stock price, you have to believe in its future exe
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by nickik 6y ago
Waymo has self driving cars with a tiny amount of paying customers in a tiny are losing 10s of millions of dollars every year. Tesla on the other-hand is MAKING money with self driving technology already. What something is called doesn&#x27
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by nickik 6y ago
Its gone be interesting. Check out the youtube channel, TheLimitingFactor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFn7ONIJHyC-lMnb7Fm_jw He is finishing up a series on Tesla, and he will be doing a series on Solid state aft
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by nickik 6y ago
I think SolidPower is actually more interesting, and they don't have a 25 billion $ valuation and are much less prone to hype up their product to boost the stock price.
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by nickik 6y ago
Lithium is not even remotely the problem. There is gigantic amounts of economical lithium in Western Australia. There are still large untapped lithium in North Catalina. There is untapped potential for lithium in Czech Republic. There are l
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by nickik 6y ago
I have been following Tesla for many years and have heard of lots of story about people getting hurt with Tesla. I have never heard of such a case during everyday operations of a supercharger. Likely somewhere somebody has died during insta
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by nickik 6y ago
There are no downsides 'per se', that is not really the question. The question is more 'what is the upside'. Until these batteries are in mass production, unless Toyota is much, much further along then anybody think, it
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by nickik 6y ago
The terminology is very confusing. Most 'solid state' batteries are lithium-ion batteries, specially all the commercial ones you hear about as being the next big thing. In those batteries rather then having a graphite with some si
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by nickik 6y ago
Its not the amount of money I'm complaining about but the amount of money compared to the services rendered. SpaceX has an amazing track record in terms of that. The pork of the SLS program and the RS-25 program has been well document.
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by nickik 6y ago
The list of things the government could do, even without a huge investment, to make nuclear happen is incredibly long. Sadly non of it is gone happen. In my opinion, humanity should have long been living in the nuclear age and its kind of c
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by nickik 6y ago
So much nonsense, that gets constantly repeated. Its sad how this nonsense gets repeated even by people on HN. His father was made money from being an engineer. With that money he bought a small stake in a mine, making it out that they were
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by nickik 6y ago
Areojet Rocketdyne also gets 100s of million per engine because they live of massive SLS pork. They will produce a very small number of engines. Comparing that to what SpaceX is doing is a bit ridiculous.
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by nickik 6y ago
Unfortunately there are only two ways get a nuclear reactor working, one is for research, the other full on production. In the US regulatory system there is no in-between. That is why all the reactor companies go for a fully functional prod
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by nickik 6y ago
Go look at how much payload by weight was launched by China. Or how many different payloads. > It has a mission to bring lunar rock back to earth for the first time since the 70s. Yes its a fine mission, but its a mission that is not out
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by nickik 6y ago
His factory workers a payed like factory workers, better then most factory workers, less then some, he is not running a charity. And the short-seller meme of Tesla factory being a death trap is just nonsense. In the first couple of years, T
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by nickik 6y ago
He just made a video pointing out how they don't use it. But as a SpaceX fan for 10+ years, green flame is just totally associated with TEA-TEB.
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by nickik 6y ago
The haters create conversation. Smarter people come along and correct them. And most people who read it and the response will take the side of this being a great test.
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by nickik 6y ago
So because he can't fix the climate by himself, fuck him. And his workers are treated pretty well, his companies often rank on top of places people want to work.
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by nickik 6y ago
On every single video about Space these idiots comment this garage. Don't waste your time with reading it.
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by nickik 6y ago
They have tanks for nitrogen thrusters there and maybe some other things. These will eventually be removed and replaced with hot methane gas thrusters that are feed directly from the main fuel tank.
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by nickik 6y ago
Easy to claim. So far China human space program has been very slow. And they have not gone full power into even a Falcon 9 clone. China is in the same space as everybody else outside of the US, with a slow moving bureaucracy leading it, wan
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by nickik 6y ago
> It is obvious in the video as the engine exhaust became bright green at the end, a sign that the engine was restarting by TEB. The Raptor doesn't use TEB. It uses spark ignition. The green is most likely 'engine rich' ex
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by nickik 6y ago
That was the literal bomb. So awesome. Not understanding yet why it was green at the end. Raptor shouldn't really use TEA-TEB. Seems like an engine busted on the way up. Or maybe one of the nitrogen tanks in the skirt. Scott Manley wil
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by nickik 6y ago
'Clearly' here meaning 'in my opinion'. Or do you have any real data on that?
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by nickik 6y ago
They have been trying for many years now. Its a consideration, but a pretty small one in terms of all the things that need to be considered.
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by nickik 6y ago
In what way did California subsidize them? The federal tax credit is for all EV and has not applied to Tesla in 2 years. > All those oil guzzlers would have laughed Elon Musk out of the state. We are talking about global production not s
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by nickik 6y ago
That is literally how the world neoliberalism got created. It has some very limited academic use before then but basically exploded in usage. When center leftists started to embrace free trade and things like that. So basically anybody not
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by nickik 6y ago
This old bullshit anti-Musk propaganda nonsense again. Some people will just do anything to prove that actually there are no special people. Everything is just privilege, we would have 100s of Elon Musk if only not for income inequality. An
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by nickik 6y ago
This program is about giving internet to under-served communities so their children can do remote schoolwork and things like that. What exactly is your problem with that?
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by nickik 6y ago
> SpaceX didn't launch this service as a practical or sensible business model for them, they already get paid to launch other telecommunications equipment into space, they are doing this to keep on the government, the public's

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