Yeah, that’s great and all, but even important people need to be held accountable.
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For the record, my dislike of Musk has nothing to do with Tesla. Similarly, any claimed benefits of Tesla’s existence have very little effect on my opinion of Musk. (I dispute the actual environmental value of the existence of the company, but that is a different discussion.)
He’s a particularly annoying specimen of Homo Arrogantus, convinced that his success means he’s a brilliant gift to the world, and the US’s culture of wealth-worship reinforces it.
In reality, he’s a douchebag with decent timing, loose ethics and way too much self-appreciation.
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My first opinion of Musk was created when he gave away his designs on the electrical systems et cetera to other automakers to try to induce competition.
That, to me, gave him an incredible amount of room to fuck up and still me think he was trying.
He used the last of that space up when he sold “flame-throwers” i.e. fuel burning tools that he repackaged as fuel burning toys.
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During a massive fire season, no less…
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True, but they’re neither leaders in that segment (Samsung is ahead of them and LG is way ahead of both of them) nor is it very clear how badly needed storage will be to get high penetrations of renewable power. Current utility-scale battery systems are used mainly for services like frequency regulation and not really for bulk storage (key word there being “mainly”). Their primary advantage in bulk storage is that they can replace the small natural gas turbines normally used to meet very short-term peaks. That’s not nothing, but it’s not world-changing either.
Absolutely. He might want to save humankind, but he seems to have little regard for individual humans.
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