FT is inefficient and expensive. Horrible idea.
Instead, it is far more efficient and cheaper to do Great Point Energy. In addition, it produces clean CO2, along with a very concentrated set of elements that can be separated out and used.
Most of these are going in as chap 11. IOW, they are simply dropping their debt and then being allowed to go back to mining coal. Yet, the real issue is that the coal burning plants are closing left, right, and sideways. Last year, Coal accounted for around 30% of America's electricity. And at this rate of dropping, coal will account for about 15-20% in another 2 years (they expect about 1/2 of the plants to close over the next 2 years).
So, unless these companies are jumping on other mining ventures, OR they are developing uses for coal, then these will be bankrupt in another 3-5 years. So, society is being stuck with these loses over and over.
That deal with CHina is just up the road with conservatives. Basically, he wanted to push the soviets to the sideline and make china become a more normal nation. Nothing liberal in that.
Mostly agree about Nixon's economics. Oddly, it is the conservatives that speak out against controls, while regularly putting them on. For example, after the conservatives caused the great depression, they were the ones that also pushed for many of the remedies that gave us 50 years of decent economy and kept us out of trouble. Sherman anti-trust laws was from GOP. Heck, it was Lincoln that really pushed taxes, along with the gov helping railroads and coal companies. All of which today would be seen as liberal.
lol. Why would somebody plunk down money for an M3? Because if there IS a problem, Tesla fixes them. FAST.
Other car companies have to be forced into it. And look at all the idiots that bought VW, BMW, Audi, Porsche, etc with their diesels. What are those cars worth? A fraction of what was paid. And what are those companies doing to make right their criminal behavior? They fired some programmers blaming this on them, even though it was obviously ordered from the top down. But what about the car value? What will they do to make things right? NOTHING.
The fools that bought those cars are out 30-50% of their car values.
I will take a tesla because they fix their problems. They even fix the problems when it is a 3rd parties fault. In particular, ALL of the recalls have been to replace 3rd party parts that did not perform as they were supposed to.
Nope. The drive unit failures were only from the first 2 years and that is pretty much gone. Nearly all of the changes have occurred during service calls and are relatively inexpensive.
Look at the Roadster. It took them 5 years to build 2400 of them. Basically, that was about getting the drive train and some of their coding figured out.
Then came the model S. It has been in production for 5 years. It took them until last year to get up to 50K cars / year.
Now, the MX started in Sept. and in 6 months, now produce at the same rate as MS was just 5 months ago. THey are expected to be at a rate of 100K cars / year by end of 2016.
Now, why was MX able to scale up like that? Because Tesla has not only learned a great deal, but they have scaled up all of their equipment. Their paint shop can handle.5-1 m cars / year. They now have new stampers for their aluminum which enables them to produce parts for about.5-1 m cars / years as well. Their MS line had 50 robots and is now up to 150. Their MX line is some 300-400 robots.
M3 is expected to be the lowest labor involved car of all time. As such, with in a short period of time, it will scale up quickly. As to recalls on it, to date, all recalls have involved 3rd party parts in which the company would cheat on their contracts (stupid). So, Tesla simply brings it in-house. M3 is expected to be the most American made car going. As in some 90-95% American made.
Do you have 50 new 1GW coal plants going up in Europe EACH YEAR? Hell, does the entire west COMBINED have 50 new 1GW coal plants going up each year? NOPE.
For that matter,
Does your coal plant have active pollution control, BUT TURNED OFF, on it? IOW, do you have a brown cloud that surrounds your house at all times and prevents you from seeing even.1-.5 km in front of you?
Now the Chinese gov is under fire for their HORRIBLE pollution. It is the worst that the world has EVER seen. Yet, they drive gas/diesel cars that have full pollution control on them . So, that brown cloud does not come from the vehicles. So, where does it come from? It comes from the coal plants that have pollution controls but their gov does not require them to turn it on. In fact, the gov will tax you heavy if you do. They stop their subsidies. So, why is China doing that?
And BTW, if you really want to see emissions, look at what OCO2 shows. OCO3 will be coming on-line later this year and Japan's new carbon monitoring sats fires up later this year, or early next. Between the 4 sats, you will see that Europe actually emits slightly more than what it is considered to, BUT china will be almost DOUBLE what the idiots in 350 consider it to be.
Whittington is a failed programmer, who then became a failed author, who then became a failed journalist, but is now, a political hack for the GOP. The guy is all over the place without a single bit of logic in his writing.
Because we have fools like Mark Whittington that are pushing things like this. Basically, they are trying to turn a positive into a negative.
ME? We alerady own an MS, and they fix anything that goes wrong and is tesla's fault. I have to say that I wish that dealers were like Tesla. If so, they would not be losing their dealerships.
The big difference between Tesla and all of the other car makers, is that Tesla/Musk will not only solve the problem, but go back and fix the broken ones, WITHOUT the feds telling them to.
OTOH, MB, VW, Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, etc work hard to cheat at everything.
NASA, and esp W, did NOT save SpaceX.
Dr. Griffen talked congress into backing COTS, which is what was invested into SpaceX.
Prior to this, SpaceX (and Tesla) was running out of money. But Musk had already made arrangements to sell to the google boys.
So, no, SpaceX (and Tesla) were not headed into financial ruin. However, COTS (and not CRS), allowed Musk to keep HIS %.
Sadly, Whittington is a joke in that he does not understand space, nor really cares. He is a POLITICIAN who is pushing his agenda to help the GOP.
NASA, and esp. W, did not save SpaceX from financial ruin. Musk had already lined Google boys up to buy it form him.
What NASA, namely Dr. Griffen, did was save Musk from having to sell his portion.
Sadly, whittington is a political hack, who has no decent idea of what space is about, except in terms of politics.
They are in a war with the west and are not only continuing to emit loads of pollution, but are still building out new coal plants.
As such, those coal plants, along with their industrial companies, will dump into the air and water.
I would pay the 300 to have a 1 mb drop at all times, and still pay for the GB speeds. The reason is that when we sell the house, we still have a live phone and most of all, a security system while we are not there.
Actually, the MS that have hit 150K, are showing that they have in the high 80s.
BUT, you are 100% correct about the rest. It really is a matter of how often you charge and how controlled the temp is. Thankfully, Tesla has small cells and keeps them in decent HVAC system.
Based on the Model X as well as the massive changes that they made to the factory for it, I suspect that 3 will start in less than 1 year, and will scale up very quickly.
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FT is inefficient and expensive. Horrible idea.
Instead, it is far more efficient and cheaper to do Great Point Energy. In addition, it produces clean CO2, along with a very concentrated set of elements that can be separated out and used.
Most of these are going in as chap 11. IOW, they are simply dropping their debt and then being allowed to go back to mining coal. Yet, the real issue is that the coal burning plants are closing left, right, and sideways. Last year, Coal accounted for around 30% of America's electricity. And at this rate of dropping, coal will account for about 15-20% in another 2 years (they expect about 1/2 of the plants to close over the next 2 years).
So, unless these companies are jumping on other mining ventures, OR they are developing uses for coal, then these will be bankrupt in another 3-5 years. So, society is being stuck with these loses over and over.
The fact is, that the European companies hide as much or more taxes, and yet, the Europeans scream about Americans.
Just too funny.
That deal with CHina is just up the road with conservatives. Basically, he wanted to push the soviets to the sideline and make china become a more normal nation. Nothing liberal in that.
Mostly agree about Nixon's economics. Oddly, it is the conservatives that speak out against controls, while regularly putting them on. For example, after the conservatives caused the great depression, they were the ones that also pushed for many of the remedies that gave us 50 years of decent economy and kept us out of trouble. Sherman anti-trust laws was from GOP. Heck, it was Lincoln that really pushed taxes, along with the gov helping railroads and coal companies. All of which today would be seen as liberal.
Toyota's REAL problem was that they tried hard to not take responsibility for their product.
I doubt they will get unionized. I suspect that many of them work for kock bros or for some of the major car makers.
lol. Why would somebody plunk down money for an M3? Because if there IS a problem, Tesla fixes them. FAST.
Other car companies have to be forced into it. And look at all the idiots that bought VW, BMW, Audi, Porsche, etc with their diesels. What are those cars worth? A fraction of what was paid. And what are those companies doing to make right their criminal behavior? They fired some programmers blaming this on them, even though it was obviously ordered from the top down. But what about the car value? What will they do to make things right? NOTHING.
The fools that bought those cars are out 30-50% of their car values.
I will take a tesla because they fix their problems. They even fix the problems when it is a 3rd parties fault. In particular, ALL of the recalls have been to replace 3rd party parts that did not perform as they were supposed to.
Nope. The drive unit failures were only from the first 2 years and that is pretty much gone. Nearly all of the changes have occurred during service calls and are relatively inexpensive.
Look at the Roadster. It took them 5 years to build 2400 of them. Basically, that was about getting the drive train and some of their coding figured out. .5-1 m cars / year. They now have new stampers for their aluminum which enables them to produce parts for about .5-1 m cars / years as well. Their MS line had 50 robots and is now up to 150. Their MX line is some 300-400 robots.
Then came the model S. It has been in production for 5 years. It took them until last year to get up to 50K cars / year.
Now, the MX started in Sept. and in 6 months, now produce at the same rate as MS was just 5 months ago. THey are expected to be at a rate of 100K cars / year by end of 2016.
Now, why was MX able to scale up like that? Because Tesla has not only learned a great deal, but they have scaled up all of their equipment. Their paint shop can handle
M3 is expected to be the lowest labor involved car of all time. As such, with in a short period of time, it will scale up quickly. As to recalls on it, to date, all recalls have involved 3rd party parts in which the company would cheat on their contracts (stupid). So, Tesla simply brings it in-house. M3 is expected to be the most American made car going. As in some 90-95% American made.
Do you have 50 new 1GW coal plants going up in Europe EACH YEAR? Hell, does the entire west COMBINED have 50 new 1GW coal plants going up each year? .1-.5 km in front of you?
NOPE. For that matter, Does your coal plant have active pollution control, BUT TURNED OFF, on it? IOW, do you have a brown cloud that surrounds your house at all times and prevents you from seeing even
Now the Chinese gov is under fire for their HORRIBLE pollution. It is the worst that the world has EVER seen. Yet, they drive gas/diesel cars that have full pollution control on them . So, that brown cloud does not come from the vehicles. So, where does it come from? It comes from the coal plants that have pollution controls but their gov does not require them to turn it on. In fact, the gov will tax you heavy if you do. They stop their subsidies. So, why is China doing that?
And BTW, if you really want to see emissions, look at what OCO2 shows. OCO3 will be coming on-line later this year and Japan's new carbon monitoring sats fires up later this year, or early next. Between the 4 sats, you will see that Europe actually emits slightly more than what it is considered to, BUT china will be almost DOUBLE what the idiots in 350 consider it to be.
Whittington is a failed programmer, who then became a failed author, who then became a failed journalist, but is now, a political hack for the GOP. The guy is all over the place without a single bit of logic in his writing.
Because we have fools like Mark Whittington that are pushing things like this. Basically, they are trying to turn a positive into a negative.
ME? We alerady own an MS, and they fix anything that goes wrong and is tesla's fault. I have to say that I wish that dealers were like Tesla. If so, they would not be losing their dealerships.
Please short Tesla with everything that you have. Stand up and be a man. Oh, wait, you are an AC.
The big difference between Tesla and all of the other car makers, is that Tesla/Musk will not only solve the problem, but go back and fix the broken ones, WITHOUT the feds telling them to.
OTOH, MB, VW, Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, etc work hard to cheat at everything.
Whittington gets so many things wrong. In particular, CSR was, and continues to be, a major savings for NASA.
Prior to SpaceX, it would have costs NASA 300M to have the same cargo delivered by ULA.
WIth SpaceX, it brought the price down to 140M.
And shortly, SpaceX will bring the price down further with first stage and dragon re-use.
Regardless, Whittington always attempts to credit ppl like W, when in fact, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with W, and everything with Dr. Griffin.
NASA, and esp W, did NOT save SpaceX. Dr. Griffen talked congress into backing COTS, which is what was invested into SpaceX.
Prior to this, SpaceX (and Tesla) was running out of money. But Musk had already made arrangements to sell to the google boys.
So, no, SpaceX (and Tesla) were not headed into financial ruin. However, COTS (and not CRS), allowed Musk to keep HIS %.
Sadly, Whittington is a joke in that he does not understand space, nor really cares. He is a POLITICIAN who is pushing his agenda to help the GOP.
NASA, and esp. W, did not save SpaceX from financial ruin. Musk had already lined Google boys up to buy it form him.
What NASA, namely Dr. Griffen, did was save Musk from having to sell his portion.
Sadly, whittington is a political hack, who has no decent idea of what space is about, except in terms of politics.
Nope. He went public on Tesla and Solar City and now hate answering to shareholders.
In addition, he was ready to sell it to the Google boys.
Wrong Meaning.
Nixon would not be considered even close to moderate or liberal. Get your facts right
They are in a war with the west and are not only continuing to emit loads of pollution, but are still building out new coal plants. As such, those coal plants, along with their industrial companies, will dump into the air and water.
I would pay the 300 to have a 1 mb drop at all times, and still pay for the GB speeds. The reason is that when we sell the house, we still have a live phone and most of all, a security system while we are not there.
No, he said that it would be in 2017 and COULD be at the end. He left it open as to when the line would start.
Actually, the MS that have hit 150K, are showing that they have in the high 80s.
BUT, you are 100% correct about the rest. It really is a matter of how often you charge and how controlled the temp is. Thankfully, Tesla has small cells and keeps them in decent HVAC system.
Based on the Model X as well as the massive changes that they made to the factory for it, I suspect that 3 will start in less than 1 year, and will scale up very quickly.