How does what Musk does with Twitter impact your
car purchasing decision?

@BDair It's called voting with the wallet.

I sort of doubt Mr. Musk will be tallying your vote
or take notice of it.
You can't swing a cat in these parts without hitting a Tesla,
so I imagine there is a waiting list of eager buyers.

Putting that aside, what other EV's have you considered?

@BDair I don't shop at Hobby Lobby or eat at Chick-fil-a either.

Musk only just recently took over Twitter. Let's see what effect his bonehead policies have on Tesla sales. It's still very early...

@BDair I just heard about one from a German company that has photovoltaic cells embedded in body's outer surfaces. It's something I have been waiting to see. But I think hydrogen will ultimately lead the field.

@Flyingsaucesir hydrogen is nonsense

@Spongebob How so?

@Flyingsaucesir here is a nice explanation

@Spongebob The presenter spends a lot of of time comparing hydrogen to fossil fuels, or discussing generation of hydrogen using fossil fuels. But in the future all hydrogen will be produced with wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, tidal, wave, or nuclear fission or possibly even fusion energy. In any case, fossil fuels have no place in any future where we truly address climate change. So we can just ignore all discussion of fossil fuel use.

The presenter also holds up the tiny fraction of hydrogen tech in our current energy system as somehow indicative of the future. She implies that hydrogen is not widely used now because it simply can't compete. But this is patently false. In fact, we would be much farther along in developing and implementing all green technologies, including hydrogen, were it not for the the extremely successful disinformation campaign waged by the fossil fuels industry over the last few decades. But that is about to change.

The lady does bring up some important limitations to hydrogen, i.e. tank life and rarity of platinum and iridium. The pressure problem in itself is not a big deal; nor is the weight. If weight were really an issue, they wouldn't be using hydrogen fuel cells in space. Relatively rare iridium and platinum may be, but there is enough of these elements on Earth to make many millions of fuel cells. And we may someday find new deposits on Earth, the moon, or even on Mars.

The water effluent freezing in cold climates should not pose an unsurmountable problem. We can always insulate the tailpipe, and direct a small fraction of the energy generated in the fuel cell to heating it if necessary. And remember, we are looking at a much warmer future world. Hell, just look at the European ski resorts with no snow this winter. The future is here.

Finally, no single technology will fullfil all our energy needs. We will always be using a variety of green technologies, the specifics of which will be determined by local conditions and resources. Hydrogen is bound to be one of those.

PS: I own no stock in any hydrogen fuel cell-related companies; I'm just an objective observer.

@Flyingsaucesir I am just not that optimistic about it. I think it is a distraction held up by the fossil fuel industry

@Spongebob You are certainly right to suspect the fossil fuel industry; distraction and misdirection, along with outright lying, are important parts of their playbook. But green hydrogen really does have great potential for storing energy. There are already solar energy arrays that can produce more electricity while the sun shines than they can sell. Electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen is a great way to store that excess energy. And large fuel cells that can run factories, ships, trucks, and trains are actually more efficient than the small ones in cars and pickups.

Other than overseeing an agency that was financing a BSL4 lab
in Wuhan China with US tax dollars that was carrying out Gain of Function research
on Horseshoe bat derived corona viruses that Ralph Baric had tweaked
in his work at UNC Chapel Hill in 2015 to make them more
transmissible to humans. A then perjuring himself in Senate hearings.

@BDair You're living in a dystopian nightmare world of disinformation and conspiracy theory. Wake up, man!

I'm curious. What specifically did he do that was "unethical"? In all seriousness, I want specifics, not some B.S. from an unknown or unreliable source.

@GrooshStar In relation to Musk and Twitter,
he worked with social media and the government
to have all dissenting opinions silenced
and censored.

And they are generally against all vaccines.
Measles can be deadly or life altering.
And can you imagine if Polio or small pox comes back?

@BufftonBeotch I think NY had a smallish up tick in polio earlier this year, which sorta un-nerved a bunch of folks.

@BufftonBeotch If some are more against all vaccines now, more so than in the past, it is partly due to the medical establishment calling flu and covid medicines vaccines. They are not vaccines, people smell bullshit, trust is lost.

Vaccines used to equate immunity eg stop catching and transmitting. They were an easy sell as they were effective and sold themselves. The very small fraction of the people who refused to take...........so be it. No need to mandate.
But now when a new "vaccine" is announced, it could mean anything unfortunately. Seasonal.

It is not a loss of trust in science, it is a loss of trust in medical science. And as a member of the scientific community, the author of this paper needs to define ie be finite ie name the boundaries of exactly what a vaccine is as it seems to me that she considers covid medicines to be vaccines, lumping them together with measles and polio vaccines. People may be stupid, but they are not that stupid mostly. They can tell the difference between covid and polio/ measles medicines.
Covid and flu shots are not vaccines as immunity is not provided for the individual. If individuals are not immune, a herd immunity will not be attained.
Now if establishment scientists admitted this, that if no immunity is provided a medicine cannot be classed as a vaccine, then trust may begin to be restored. Call it an effective pre-emptive medicine for the vulnerable, which it is.

@puff There was practically no flu that fall everyone was wearing masks though.

@BufftonBeotch and isolating and practicing better hygiene.

I denied government and the super rich when doctor told us tobacco was healthy. And marrijana was our society, number one criminal enemy. Here we go again, tobacco still kills annually fives time greater than covid, yet no alarm bells. And marrijana is returning back to the number one medicine. I trust nature's medicines, nature has everything I need for my continued good health.

@Castlepaloma Nature gives not One rat's ass about your health. Everything is fodder for something else (in our case nowadays mostly bacteria/virus/germs and our (and every single thing on the planet's) Only function is to propagate.
Get a grip!