tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post5967293769077931049..comments2024-03-27T16:08:30.313-05:00Comments on The Great Change: Inside the Musk Cocoon: Teslarian TomorrowsAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-58752091987897831562015-05-31T18:06:24.780-05:002015-05-31T18:06:24.780-05:00The hubris is just amazing. "It's just so...The hubris is just amazing. "It's just software." <br /><br />Have none of these technokinder read even one science fiction book? dex3703https://www.blogger.com/profile/05045018928899315754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-40138405188122787382015-05-18T09:24:02.746-05:002015-05-18T09:24:02.746-05:00Good piece, Albert. I keep telling anyone who migh...Good piece, Albert. I keep telling anyone who might listen that Nickel Iron Edison cells still represent the best choice for electricity storage for actual people (as opposed to utility companies and the like) wishing to store it. They are green (Lithium isn't despite Musk's promise to recycle these units he's selling). They have a fifty year service life and compare favorably with lithium in their ability to come back from being repeatedly heavily discharged. Not as sexy as a Tesla in your garage, I guess. He's selling the sizzle, not the steak.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02757250545116691670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-88350577939474441122015-05-12T16:49:25.577-05:002015-05-12T16:49:25.577-05:00"Because only manipulating nature is what'..."Because only manipulating nature is what's profitable."<br /><br />Too True.<br /><br />I was listening to Indiginous Voices Radio May 12 '15 and they were making alot more sense. He read from a book called "Sacred Seed". <br /><br />He said, "The trees are just doing their job, making oxygen, for free". How's that for real intelligence"?<br /><br />It made my morning good.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10904549664984991709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-28430485483545557522015-05-12T01:41:12.417-05:002015-05-12T01:41:12.417-05:00When I wrote "Fuck Tesla," I meant the c...When I wrote "Fuck Tesla," I meant the car.Jan Lundberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00820776018221427750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-25043438539193647562015-05-11T16:43:16.246-05:002015-05-11T16:43:16.246-05:00Thanks for the tour de force of recent energy tech...Thanks for the tour de force of recent energy technology news (especially with the Low-Tech link on batteries and Life Cycle Analysis). <br /><br />It's always impressive to read technical reports with sophisticated calculations of industrial import. But this is my point: all this activity to sell more energy and gadgets for the consumer economy is about industrialism, something that more people should question. Good that you draw back the curtain of glitz.<br /><br />The absurdity of the mass techno focus is clear here: "the optimum shape and size for the best cost efficiency for an automotive cell. " So, we need cars? How many millions of them, and how many years or centuries are they supposed to run around? Fuck Tesla -- somebody hit me with a bicycle on a bike path than with a car on a sea of asphalt.<br /><br />The industrial technophiles and their followers have a problem with accepting what nature offers freely. Because only manipulating nature is what's profitable.<br /><br />Thanks for the glimpse of what the Musks and others are trying to do. I don't put a lot of stock into their techno efforts. We still have a problem known as peak (conventional) oil, and there's runaway greenhouse gas emissions. More energy efficiency as a solution is way, way too little and too late.<br /><br />Jan LundbergJan Lundberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00820776018221427750noreply@blogger.com