That pie chart is Ontario's installed capacity. The natural gas plants are all peakers and don't run very often at all. Very low capacity factor in the parlance. Ontario runs about 95% annual clean electricity. Very good place to run EVs. If only the provincial government thought so....
Hmmm, I like autonomously hauling containers through tunnels as an application for Tesla.
* Could this application use battery chemistries unsuitable for other transportation applications?
In most cases and areas underground, temperatures are stable and relatively benign (there are exceptions) so a narrower operating temperature range might be acceptable. The distances are probably mostly short and weight may be less of a factor, so the energy density requirements might be lower. Rapid acceleration and highish speeds might make power density the more desirable characteristic.
* Could it create an early entry point for the Tesla Network? It’d be a good way to encourage citizens and regulators to get warmed up to the idea of autonomy. Probably no or minimal regulatory approval needed — it is presumably a private way. Of course, the Boring Company could also run the vehicles.
* Tunnels are protected from the elements, so minimal protection is needed on the transporter. Perhaps just a skateboard as this suggests. This opens up lots of possibilities for utilizing volume for components (other than current rate limiting battery supplies) and possibly sharing lines while not taking up a lot of design cycles and logistics bandwidth.
All in all a nice application especially if other battery technology or capacity can be used.
They are going to be floored when they finally type “oil” into Wikipedia.Sorry, I translated the article. It didn’t have anything to do with the cars, just about Musk and ethical cobalt
“This mainly has to do with issues surrounding management and operational management,” says Marugg. “In 2018, CEO Elon Musk received stock options worth $ 2.3 billion. This created an enormous liability risk and limited the participation of smaller shareholders. By comparison, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda earns approximately $ 1.8 million. ”
The US Securities Exchange Commission also accused Musk of sharing non-public information through social media, which negatively impacted Tesla's stock price. In addition, the carmaker was accused of intimidating workers who wanted to form a union and working conditions in Tesla's car factories were said to be very bad. Triodos IM also identified a tricky issue in Tesla's supply chain: Tesla buys cobalt from Congolese cobalt mines, which are known for child labor.
Just saw that. They didn’t say SpaceX but it was the uniform I recognized right away.
Hmmm, I like autonomously hauling containers through tunnels as an application for Tesla.
* Could this application use battery chemistries unsuitable for other transportation applications?
In most cases and areas underground, temperatures are stable and relatively benign (there are exceptions
* Could it create an early entry point for the Tesla Network? It’d be a good way to encourage citizens and regulators to get warmed up to the idea of autonomy. Probably no or minimal regulatory approval needed — it is presumably a private way. Of course, the Boring Company could also run the vehicles.
* Tunnels are protected from the elements, so minimal protection is needed on the transporter. Perhaps just a skateboard as this suggests. This opens up lots of possibilities for utilizing volume for components (other than current rate limiting battery supplies) and possibly sharing lines while not taking up a lot of design cycles and logistics bandwidth.
All in all a nice application especially if other battery technology or capacity can be used.
The short answer is no. The MCU might be slightly less bad at mining, but still far from being worth it. There might be a possibility of designing a new cryptocurrency with a mining algorithm tailored for HW3, but why bother...
It would be StarCoin or Xcoin.
