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Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking
Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking A peculiar feature of the human condition is that a society in distress will call forth intellectual witch-doctors to put on a colorful show that distracts the supposedly thinking class from the insoluble quandaries that portend serious trouble ahead. This feature is on display these days in the person […]
There Is Just One Thing Preventing Elon Musk’s Vision From Coming True: The Laws Of Physics
There Is Just One Thing Preventing Elon Musk’s Vision From Coming True: The Laws Of Physics When Elon Musk stepped on stage at Tesla’s product-launch event earlier this month, he knew the market’s confidence in Tesla’s brand had sunk to an all-time low since he took over the company a decade ago. So, he resorted […]
Are Electric Cars As Clean As They Seem?
Are Electric Cars As Clean As They Seem? Tesla’s unveiling of its mass market Model 3 sparked a global interest in making electric vehicles the next big thing in automobile manufacturing. But can the category’s green agenda keep up with its metal and recycling needs? The concept of bunking the traditional engine for a non-gas […]
Can Puerto Rico go 100% solar?
Can Puerto Rico go 100% solar? With seasonal variations in output of only around 30% Puerto Rico is at an ideal latitude for solar power, and despite generally low capacity factors (caused by cloudiness) it can be argued that if solar doesn’t work there it won’t work anywhere. And as the results of this post […]
Musktopia Here We Come!
Musktopia Here We Come! It ought to be sign of just how delusional the nation is these days that Elon Musk of Tesla and Space X is taken seriously. Musk continues to dangle his fantasy of travel to Mars before a country that can barely get its shit together on Planet Earth, and the Tesla […]
Blowout Week 167
Blowout Week 167 There are some people you just can’t hold down. One of them is Elon Musk, who has offered to solve South Australia’s grid problems within a hundred days by installing Tesla utility-scale batteries and not to send a bill if the fix doesn’t work, thereby displaying true confidence in the future of […]
Warren Buffett’s Quieter Quest to Kill Solar in the West
Warren Buffett’s Quieter Quest to Kill Solar in the West There are solar battles blazing all across the west right now, as utilities anchored to fossil fuel power plants strain to avoid the inevitable spread of solar across their areas of operation. Not a month goes by without a story of some assault on solar-friendly […]
Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers The really big item in last night’s 60-Minutes newsbreak was that the latest Star Wars movie passed the billion dollar profit gate a week after release. That says just about everything you need to know about our floundering society, including the state of the legacy news media. The cherry on top last week was Elon Musk’s […]
How Sustainable is Stored Sunlight?
How Sustainable is Stored Sunlight? One of the constraints of solar power is that it is not always available: it is dependent on daylight hours and clear skies. In order to fill these gaps, a storage solution or a backup infrastructure of fossil fuel power plants is required — a factor that is often ignored […]
Muskular Magic
Muskular Magic Elon Musk, Silicon Valley’s poster-boy genius replacement for the late Steve Jobs, rolled out his PowerWall battery last week with Star Wars style fanfare, doing his bit to promote and support the delusional thinking that grips a nation unable to escape the toils of techno-grandiosity. The main delusion: that we can “solve” […]
Tesla launches Powerwall home battery with aim to revolutionize energy consumption
Tesla launches Powerwall home battery with aim to revolutionize energy consumption Larger version of battery has been tested in pilot program Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company’s battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power […]
