It always sucks when you get laid off. But this is why you don't get committed to a job, especially a tech job, especially in the first few years.

Or you can just buy a Tesla where they're not trying to play that game (and all the other shitty stealership games) and they don't have to be coerced into compliance. It's like a whole other way to buy a car where you don't have to pack a lunch and deal with exploitive mind games all day to get out of there with the car you intended to buy at MSRP.

The site of the Ebola Reston outbreak in Virginia became a daycare.

I too get pedantic sometimes.

"Solar Plant" can include RV applications where the direct current is used... Directly. Without telling anybody. Like a nasty off grid Mad Max rebel.

Moving day again. Sigh.

Here's the key problem with all of these "new nuclear" plans:

They cost a boatload of money up front, which they can't finance unless they get purchase commitments from utilities for sale of their output at above current rates. Because in the best hypothetical marketing case (pre-overruns) they are still the most costly way to generate electricity known to Man.

Consumers are already aware they can generate their own energy cheaper than their utility's current generation and transport with rooftop solar+battery, and those costs go only down. The savings is more than enough to pay for the interest on the financing too.

If utilities keep buying the most expensive generation available they will soon find they have nobody to sell it to because their customers already solved that problem for themselves and don't need them anymore.

The problem here is that the technology development and engineering required to stand up a solar plant is:

Step one. Throw the panel on the ground.

Step two. Power comes out.

There is no search war. 19 years after the Microsoft CEO swore to kill Google, their efforts to compete are still a rounding error. The billions spent on the attempt could have solved world hunger, polio, Guinea Worm and built a human colony on Mars.

Distributed virtual power plants are a thing now, and will only grow. As with anything else, as the units go up the price per comes down.

The iron flow batteries are on the way. Much longer duration, higher cycles and way lower cost. Consumes some of the energy though.

In addition to the cost, and that nuclear promises have always been false, those new reactors use fuel made only in Russia.

And ethanol fuel production we will no longer need.

Now check the cat. Is she ignoring you again?

How many CEOs could it take to shrink wrap one CD to a pallet?

The hate machine doesn't like this.

I use them for buying from random online stores and sending money.

It doesn't sound like it's lying in the road somewhere. Four mounting bolts and all screws also missing? Somebody took it.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40191903/ford-clarifies-ceo-jim-farleys-comments-on-digital-sales/

Fun story: Tesla can lower the price to the consumer because Tesla sells the car to the consumer. GM and Ford can't even get their dealers to sell their cars at MSRP.

It can actually be grass roots hate.

A lot of people make their living in all of the industries that touch fossil fuels. Electricity doesn't need dispatchers to schedule fleets of electricity delivery trucks.

You've underestimated the weight of "Advanced" in "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency". Those megabrains are way out there on the speculative defense benefits.

The stuff you're speculating about them funding someday went operational in the 90's. And a whole lot more you never imagined. The stuff they're funding now is way further out there.

https://www.google.com/search?q=all+our+patent+are+belong+to+you

They genuinely don't care about the rewards in the traditional sense of monopolistic control and exploitation of that leverage. They will win, of course, in the fiscal sense. They're not crazy. They owe that to the investors who helped them and stiffing the long term investors isn't in their moral compass. But how they do it will be by creating a wave they are first surfer on. It's Jiu Jitsu. Kung Fu. "The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm." - Confucius

Mars is only close enough to visit every second year. And the window is only a few weeks.

With production optimizations the margins were getting a bit fluffy. The point isn't really to sell cars. It's to change the world by killing the internal combustion engine, the carbon fueled electric generator. They have to make a profit to serve shareholders but if they can do that in a way that also serves their social goals then more power (sic) to them.

Any Elon/SpaceX/Tesla story may be posted here because of the blacklist controversy.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/21melq/anything_related_to_tesla_has_been_secretly/

It turned into a global media shitstorm.