Elon Musk

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Elon should find out what that Jared Fogle fellow is up to these days

I mean obviously the glaring problem is that it’s a craven, manipulative billionaire weirdo punching wayyyyy down to a literal hero who rescues children from cave death, but if the tables were turned we do have to admit that “this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus)” is kind of a good zing

do we tho is my question

Twitter as a force of seeing into dark celebrity souls

“this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus)” is kind of a good zing

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 18, 2018 9:19 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see and if he had just stuck with that he wldve been in the clear but he had to go and spell it out and now hes gonna have to give that guy a million dollars

hard to believe this story could get any better but just lmao @ "he suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub"

'he shuggests you fuck your subsh, you shuggest he fucksh kidsh'

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TORPEDOOOOO MUSSSK!!!!!!!!!

what if everyone involved in the rescue operation outside of the thai government actually were pedos

if we agree to leave aside "punching down" (and remember we dont) would it even apply to interaction on twitter (not in any way that would leave it meaning anything (and remember it doesnt))

xp u joke but it happened the bbc

Now that the kids have been rescued he can move on to teh future problem of thai kids stuck on mars

how to rescue Whitey on the Moon

Good to see Musk learned something from this, oh wait (from his likes!)

Dear Elon Musk: Feel the love, respect, and peace flowing to you from those of us who look up to you and respect you. ❤🙏✌@elonmusk https://t.co/d0b1vFHtwv

— Johnna💎 (@JohnnaSabri) July 17, 2018

If you understand this joke I recommend taking a few days off from the internet

i make-a the bitcoin scam yes

— italian elom tusk ☭ (@muslimbanned) July 19, 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-18/musk-enlisted-sierra-club-to-deflect-flak-over-donation-to-gop

wish I'd kept up my tweet about how Musk buys into the "donate money and then they have to do what you say" model because he apparently really did call the Sierra Club and say "I give you money please tell everyone I'm a good guy"

In keeping with the spirit of the thread, may I present this amazing article about the "solar roof" vaporware

money quotes:

"...the company instructed some employees to avoid fielding Solar Roof inquiries due its limited availability."

and this:

"One user said Tesla has been unable to given even a rough estimate of when their systems will be delivered."

here's the full article:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-solar-and-storage-delays-and-deliveries#gs.L3Kul6s

Theory - Tesla cars will remain the unreachable luxury items never be the next consumer - everyday car

xp I think the red flag there was when SolarCity was supposedly its own thing and "not the same company" but run by Elon's cousin, followed by them giving up and folding it into Tesla

oh totally, I'm just enjoying the ensuing clusterfuck

I never asked my friend about it but the impression I got was that coordinating panel installation as a front for selling the home batteries wasn't working great, and then the actual home batteries aren't a great business either

the Powerwalls are mostly useless IMO, the LG Chem batteries seamlessly integrate with Solar Edge inverters. LG is now sold out until August/September, indicating that there is high demand for a product that doesn't depend on "authorized dealers"

I would think powerwall would appeal to island dwellers and wilderness buffs only - or rich people who want to be green

it's useless without the power grid, not designed for off-grid systems

The Powerwall 2 is probably the best home battery you can buy today but far from the best there could be and they are not without issues. Price/performance is really good. None of this really matters because they are almost unobtainable.

LGChem comprehensively outsell them in Australia because they have stock available where Tesla don’t. In Germany Sonnen beats Tesla as do a number of other brands partly because germans buy German, are prepared to pay a premium for quality and partly because Sonnen offer a longer performance warranty.

The SolarEdge LG combo is okay, especially if you go DC coupled and need an optimiser solution. It’s somewhat let down by a somewhat elderly control system which doesn’t react particular quickly to changes in load which wastes a bit of energy. The LGChem battery is tricky to site outdoors as it is passive cooled and doesn’t like sunshine, much better in a garage or cellar.

Huawei have an interesting inverter that works with the LGChem packs but I have had a chance to test one yet.

great info Ed, thanks!

there is talk in my town of replacing a power substation with batteries - I dont know much about such things but I imagine a warehouse of powerwalls to supplement the grid

Replacing a substation with batteries doesn’t seem credible but using them to defer or displace a capital upgrade, eg. a new transmission line or transformer is credible. Tesla’s powerpack commercial battery is a pretty good piece of engineering. The liquid cooling allows them to creat a flexible, modular system that consists of inverter and battery blocks that are the size of an oversized telephone kiosk.

Most other manufacturers aircool and use computer racking, often mounted in shipping containers to hold racks of batteries like servers, with separate containers for inverters etc.

Whose batteries are better depends on the application, duty cycle and how badly Elon wants to do the project.

Fun fact Tesla uses Samsung cells in powerwalls and power packs when they can’t make enough of their own.

I think Latham is referring to using storage to decommission natural gas peakers, in Oxnard specifically:

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/ugc/articles/2018/07/17/declining-battery-storage-costs-raise-questions-about-the-role-of-natural-gas.html

probably should take this to the energy thread but w/e

I’m seeing a lot of RFPs from public agencies interested in deferring capital investments or decomissioning peaker plants by using some combo of batteries and distributed generation resources. Dunno how viable any of the solutions are but there’s def a big demand for this stuff, and tons of people are rushing to fill it. Ed’s info seems good as far as I understand this stuff.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/18/south-portland-residents-balk-at-cmp-substation-expansion-plan/

extremely good ceo has a normal one

One of Tesla’s biggest anonymous trolls/shorts has been doxxed as an investment manager heavily invested in the oil industry.

He has now deleted his Twitter account, which he used to promote his blog posts about Tesla and attack anyone saying anything that could be perceived as positive on Tesla, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly called his boss to complain about his behavior.

We are talking about ‘Montana Skeptic’ who has been using Seeking Alpha, a financial blog aggregator, and Twitter to push the bear case on Tesla for the past 3 years.

https://electrek.co/2018/07/24/tesla-troll-short-doxxed-oil-industry-musk-calls-boss/

Highlighted the wrong part imo.

what, the 'heavily involved in the oil industry' part?

Last night I dreamt that Elon Musk was in charge of mitigating, via his supposed technological wizardry, the end of the world, which was occurring via a great flow of lava across the entire earth's surface, but he kept messing it all up with self-aggrandizing schemes akin to the Thai cave rescue submarine fiasco, as humanity gradually succumbed to the molten rock.

'heavily involved in the oil Energon industry'

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/elon-musk-meets-with-his-pr-team

extremely good social media company has a normal one

Twitter has implemented a new method for combating cryptocurrency scammers: it now automatically locks unverified accounts that change their display name to Elon Musk. If you have a non-verified account that is not associated with a phone number, changing your display name to that of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO will result in an immediate lock out. Twitter will then ask you to pass a CAPTCHA test, as well as provide a phone number, to regain access.

“As part of our continuing efforts to combat spam and malicious activity on our service, we’re testing new measures to challenge accounts that use terms commonly associated with spam campaigns. We are continually refining these detections based on changes in spammy activity,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement given to The Verge. The company declined to comment on whether the measure has been put in place for any other public figure’s Twitter account.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17610348/twitter-elon-musk-display-name-change-lock-account-crypto-scams?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Everyone with that name is a scammer tbf

tru

all is well with the world again

https://www.stereogum.com/2007418/elon-musk-ends-farting-unicorn-feud-with-lisa-pranks-dad/news/

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ok lol, missed this yesterday.

Update 6:13 p.m.: Tesla spokesperson Dave Arnold sent along a statement, seemingly confirming some of the situation and, using Skeptic’s real name, said Skeptic’s employer “is a longtime Tesla supporter and was one of the first to purchase a Model S.”

https://jalopnik.com/get-a-load-of-this-ridiculous-story-about-how-elon-musk-1827842961

today in burlington stink

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/tesla-s-phantom-shooter-the-strange-story-of-a-debunked-threat

Just posted a $717 million net quarterly loss.

how the hell can they be losing money with great ideas like these

If you’re into video game development, consider applying to Tesla. We want to make super fun games that integrate the center touch screen, phone & car irl.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2018

Like Pokemon Go! But with people swerving across motorways....

The future is fucking stupid.