I read an article on magnetic levitated flywheels in PopSci back in the 1970s.
Do the math on what it would take to store 9 GWh of power. That is 16 hours of output from a small base load nuclear power plant.

If the R&D pays off.
Doesn't really matter, for a company success == profit.
Having enough VC to keep the lights on == surviving.
Tesla is not a successful car company yet.

I bet the victims of the Stasi could put out the difference to you.

Funny but I think Tesla is Rio in this metaphor.

Tesla is not a successful car or battery company yet. It still has not made a profit.

Frankly that makes no sense. The 10KWh battery from Tesla is only good for 50 cycles a year. It is a replacement for a back up generator at best. The 7KWh pack could work for solar storage but frankly they are not cost effective no storage method is cost effective except maybe hydro storage.

Your NUC uses a bga mobile chip in a "desktop". This is a cpu that you can throw onto a motherboard and add the video card of your choice as opposed to you NUC.

Solar and Wind both have a part to play. Solar has some real problems with supply/demand that solar fans like to gloss over but Wind backed by natural gas peaking plants works rather well in many areas. Solar does not compete for base load and can not until a massive breakthrough in storage is made and is in production. Molten salt thermal storage, batteries including Teslas, and pumping water are just not good enough to solve the problem. Nuclear and Hydro are the two lowest carbon output base load methods that work today. And who knows this may all be a none issue if Lockheed's high beta fusion reactor works. I tend to be very skeptical about Fusion but Lockheed has a really good track record at doing the amazing.
 

but the uber nerds are a small % of the people that go to movies. For instance I objected to Gravity being called SciFi because it was no more SciFi the the Poseidon Adventure was. Space stations and orbital space stations are real.

huhhh?
Star Wars is pure fantasy.
Sorry but the majority of people think sci-fi = shiny space ships and fantasy = elves and knights.

Actually I loved Tomarrowland. The extreme left hate it and says it is full of Ayn Rand references and the extreme right says it supports the global climate change hoax that alone makes it worth watching for me. Anything that drives those two groups into a tizzy must be good.
Actually it is a fun movie that is beautiful to look at and the story is pure fantasy. Of course it is hated by a lot of people because it actually attacks the current love of dark depressing "gritty" movies and frankly culture. It was also an ode to Walt Disney's dream of what EPCOT was supposed to be, his gift to mankind and not what it because a place to eat.

Yep
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That being said really? It crashes at 32Gigs? That is a odd bug to not get caught in testing.

but I like dark chocolate.
I also like broccoli as well

The Tesla Powerwall IS not that big of a deal and not the solution for Solar!
The 10kwh Powerwall is only good for 50 cycles a year! It is more of a house size UPS. The 7 will work for daily use but it is more expensive per kwh than the 10 and even Solar City is not going to sell the 7.
The Tesla power wall battery still sucks. It does suck less than other battery packs but only a little. The big improvment is one of packaging and frankly hype.
I know that this is going to go counter to the Church of Tesla's teachings but even the Model S really does not count. It is a 100K car for the very rich. Another fact is the simple truth that the Tesla car company is not successful car company yet. It has yet to make a profit.

No we do not need to move to low voltage wiring in our homes because of the "success" of the Powerwall. The Powerwall is the the solution to the solar production/demand problem. And frankly in most homes the biggest power users are things like AC, Hot water heaters, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, and so on. All of which work just fine on AC and I for one do not want to have to have a bus bar the size of my arm running to my dryer so it can work on 12 volts.

"2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard."
Because trying to read a paper map and drive at the same time is so much safer...
Sure I agree that that playing angry birds while driving is a bad plan but Things like Nav do make driving safer IMHO. For the idiots that follow nav without question and drive into a river.. Well they would have done that sooner or later anyway.

So what changes do you think you would make to the ecosystem of the deep ocean by dumping all that energy rich material in it?
Of course you could also convert it in charcoal and bury that that in desert areas.