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by panick21 5y ago
Its really a catch-22 type thing. You increase renewables, destroying the viability of base load. That forces more short term power producers into the market, that then inefficiently burn gas to produce when renewables are off. The gas plan
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by panick21 5y ago
> But I've never heard that batteries are not "scalable," when they are actually one of the most incredibly scalable technologies out there. Want a few watt hours? No problem. Want 10GWh? No problem. Want to distribute a M
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by panick21 5y ago
There is really no question what so ever that nuclear is a far, far faster way to scale clean energy. Compare the countries that had real phases where they build a lot of nuclear and it easily beats any renewables. If Germany had gone all o
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by panick21 5y ago
No, absolutely not.
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by panick21 5y ago
If everything changes it is very hard to say who benefits and who loses and how much. In some places there will be more, in others less. Some places will have more droughts in others less. On avg no country is better placed for overall warm
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by panick21 5y ago
Its sadder everyday that somehow humanity has failed to become a nuclear society. All our problems could have been solved decades ago but we are still nowhere near a solution.
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RISC-V Vector Extension 1.0, frozen for public review(github.com)
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by panick21 5y ago
Maybe it is lower then I thought. I can't seem to find Swiss data, 28% could be in line with Switzerland. Not sure where my number come from, honestly the last time I was interest in this was when I was in school. The OECD, I don'
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by panick21 5y ago
Germany actually has a very high % of people going to Gymnasium. In Switzerland, a far lower % of people are going to the Gymnasium. I think in German its almost 80% of people, in Switzerland its below 30%. At least these are the numbers I
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by panick21 5y ago
To win in electric battle you actually need electric cars. Magical new battery technology will not suddenly mean that you end up winning. Their claims about solid state have been repeatably delayed and a commercial product isn't close,
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by panick21 5y ago
> Hydrogen needed a Tesla-like company to strip away everything that made a car a car, and rip away all the legacy at once. That would not have worked. Because a startup could never finance a hydrogen infrastructure like Tesla did for ch
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by panick21 5y ago
Falcon Heavy actually already has a bunch of launches planned.
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by panick21 5y ago
Vaporware? What are you talking about? Do you know know what that word means? Common Sense Skeptic has found a niche exploiting the Elon Musk hate and is profiting from it. There are many people making incredible content on yt but he isn&#x
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by panick21 5y ago
Tesla was shit on for 'limp mode' with the original Model S but they have corrected this to a great extent. The Model 3 is already quite amazing and can do much more then most competitors. I have not seen tests but I assume the Pl
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by panick21 5y ago
No, Tesla is actually not using Composite Nano particles. They are using micro particles that are coated with a polymer and then mixed with graphite and a binder. This is quite different. In that version you contain the silicon expansion no
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by panick21 5y ago
Tesla (and likely others) uses Si in their anodes but its not Si anode. Its a graphite anode with 2-10% silicon oxide.
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by panick21 5y ago
What matters is how good your batteries are compared to price and at what scale. What combination of silicon/graphite or other materials is used doesn't really matter. I for one am more exited about Tesla mixing metallic silicon w
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by panick21 5y ago
Not sure what that has to do with anything. They built a plant for mostly research but its enough to sell for wearables. As they increase scaling they will start do phones and then cars. Its about scaling, but that is totally outside if the
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by panick21 5y ago
Its not pure silicon. Its a silicon composite particle. The difference between other commercial silicons (like that in every Tesla) is that you not combining silicon (silicon oxide usually) with graphite. The problem is we don't actual
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by panick21 5y ago
Not sure what your point is, you said something that was simply wrong. Like, literally a factual error and I pointed that out. Not sure what counterpoint you are trying to make. And btw, this is also wrong, Tesla 2021 Model 3 uses different
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by panick21 5y ago
> A Prius' battery consists of 28 Panasonic nickel-metal hydride modules. Toyota is not producing its own batteries anyway. And the battery manufacturing plant is not actually the biggest difficulty. The problem is that every batter
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by panick21 5y ago
In some market, specially high tech rich markets, the adoption is already far, far higher. The car industry is not the same as the internet. Its not new industry, its a technology shift inside the existing industry. And plans have to be mad
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by panick21 5y ago
Its not a lot for a car company of that size. Its less then pretty much every other car company of any size has announced. Some have announced more then that up to 2025.
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by panick21 5y ago
Why? Hydrogen combustion engines are about the worst combination of fuel and engine. Convert the hydrogen to methanol and just use that if you really want to use ICE.
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by panick21 5y ago
Toyota is behind GM, Ford, VW, Hyundai and everybody else.
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by panick21 5y ago
Nothing. They are doing the exact minimum needed not to complete fall behind.
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by panick21 5y ago
> One potential advantage Toyota might have is their use of modular platforms Literally everybody does that.
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by panick21 5y ago
> Toyota is going to respond to actual sales You can't respond to sales if you don't have a product that you can sell. > Assuming they produce a desirable EV they could still ramp up production well past that by 2030. Sure
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by panick21 5y ago
Cars are the overwhelming majority of batteries produced. Supercharging doesn't need batteries. I don't have exact number but my guess is that of all Tesla consumed batteries 80-90% is far cars. So even if you take a much more abs
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by panick21 5y ago
In fact there is quite a bit of research on 'John Smith' just as people are interested in the engineers at SpaceX (multiple books, podcasts, talks and so on). What is bothersome is that some people that do not like Musk have come

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