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Big cars, big roads, big parking lots. Sure he is a visionary. An interesting point of view from a dedicated cyclist. Big fibs also seem to be the way of the future, everyone is into it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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You realise that Elon isn't actually about the cars?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was responding to you lauding his creation of big powerful electric cars. He is both a visionary and a fascinating character. It seems the li battery in South Australia is set to be a success and if the economics allowed it I'd be keen to have a Powerwall. I hope he holds it together.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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his cars are great (except a bit cheap and rattly inside) but it's more his pushing the market to be better that I admire. In this world of design by committee we need people willing to take the risks he's taking.
Don't get me wrong - he's full nutbag - but I admire his bravery and foolishness in equal amounts.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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pwasser wrote: . It seems the li battery in South Australia is set to be a success
It's off to a very promising start; but is making most of it's money from frequency response services not as long term storage.
Frequency response is tweaking the amount of power put on the grid very rapidly to keep it equal to what's being demanded by users. When the two get out of sync the giant turbines that conventional power plants use speed up/slow down slightly like the giant fly wheels that they are and the frequency of the AC they produce shifts away from its nominal 50 or 60hz.
This is very much the lowest hanging fruit for grid scale batteries because they can respond in a fraction of a second, while the fast ramping gas turbines that have traditionally been used need a few seconds to change speed and need to be kept idling to handle spikes (consuming some fuel well below their optimum fuel efficiency point and putting wear on their mechanical parts continuously). We're still a long way off from big batteries being competitive in regular large charge/discharge cycles except in places where power is stupidly expensive for some reason. (Eg small islands because everything is more expensive shipped on smaller boats.) shrug It's still very early days for grid scale storage though; we're not far from when wind/solar were only economical if you'd be looking at otherwise spending a smalllarge fortune to run wires to connect to the grid as an alternative. And if the 10%/year battery tech is providing is much less exciting than the 100% every 18 months that Moore's law gave we're not at the wall for exponential growth yet either.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You are correct in all you say however the incident that triggered the building of this battery was a complete loss of the grid not just frequency fluctuations. This was due to part being taken out by lightning and the rest overloading to the degree that the overload cutouts on interstate feeders tripped. It then took a long time to bring the grid back up. The battery has already (apparently) aided in preventing a recurrence of a similar event in a very cost effective way. It provides additional short term base load capacity that can be switched in very quickly.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Chris Maunder wrote: And frankly I hope it doesn't. He's full nutbag crazy but he's pushing the industry above and beyond what they would have done by themselves.
Agreed.
While I appreciate Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, etc... spending their spare billions fighting malaria and AIDS - I like to see the occasional super-rich entrepreneur push the envelope. Between Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company Musk is changing the future.
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It was the evil AI that's out to get him.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Good riddance to bad rubbish!
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The SEC is taking credit that he is the founder and mastermind of Tesla.
Elon Musk has communicated yesterday that the SEC is the "Shortseller Enrichment Commission". I guess that this will have severe consequences.
It is reckless to gamble with the future of Tesla. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called the Bandwidth Alliance, which intends to waive or greatly discount the fees cloud customers pay for outbound networking services. Cheap? Fast? Good!
"With one notable exception." Nice
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cheap Fast Good
pick two...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Roughly estimating, more than 20% of GitHub repositories that implement an attack tool / exploit PoC are written in Python. Script kiddies like scripting languages
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In a study published by the Advanced Energy Materials journal, scientists from Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) detail an innovative solution for powering the next generation of electronic devices by using Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs). "The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into batteries."
I wonder why they never created a sequel to that movie?
No. There. was. no. sequel.
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Here’s a familiar scenario: You’re up to your ears in projects. Despite this, your boss comes up with a new initiative and is asking you to spearhead it, knowing full well you’re already overloaded. You somehow ignore the internal screaming inside your head and, to your own disbelief, you hear yourself saying yes to this request. Why? No? No!
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Another hint to Robot Chris?
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no 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: no
Ok.. you have passed your first test. Let's go to the second one.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What do these words have in common? Ginger, Space Monkey, Coltrane, Longhorn. "Then I see you coming out of nowhere"
Sorry, it's just my favourite example of a great code name leading to a really bad product name (no extra points if you guess the company responsible)
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I just had a flashback. The Izenda site renders correctly in Edge and Internet Explorer, and is unreadable garbage in Chrome.
Someone call the 90's, we've got another one... 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: The Izenda site renders correctly in Edge and Internet Explorer, and is unreadable garbage in Chrome
That's a weird site, with a homegrown web tool I got the error:
Quote: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
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you mean here[^]???
seems to be ok to me...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Works fine in Chrome for me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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They apparently fixed it shortly after I posted my observation.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ah, Longhorn... Vista by any other name, how I love thee. Not.
/ravi
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