Subnostr

Oh I didn't realize solarcity was a tesla startup in the past. What is your current relationship with Tesla Group?

I'm not specifically opposed to the tesla factory itself. but after much analysis and reading, I don't think electric cars are actually the future. In fact, the last time we had 1/3rd of the cars on the road, and they were fully electric,. was between 1895-1924. There aren't even that many teslas out there.

I'm an early tester of a similar technology, I owned a 2002 Toyota Prius, brand new, and drove it for 75,000 miles, until it saved my life. I have the photos from that somewhere, but I'll say thank God I took AP physics, I was able to calculate the best case scenario in my head while remembering there was a 2" in diameter titanium beam running starting 16" after the front of the car, all the way to the drivers door jamb. Recalling some stuff about force vectors, I decided to unstick myself from under the 18wheeler truck my car had drifted under after someone cut me off with half a car length in front of me, during 4pm rush hour SF bound traffic, first time it rained all year. Brakes were not happy with me, i drifted into the #2 lane as it was the only space to go, but had to adjust brakes for 2 rapidly closing car lengths, then ended up back in the #3 lane, as the situation in the lane I'd changed into wasn't working... so the car got upset at me in the #3 lane and the 4 wheel drive/continuously variable transmission gave up and or the chain snapped, and I ended up shooting to the right and under a moving 18wheel truck.

it got real dark. the car almost went all the way in, 95% of it was under the truck. I recalled a few things I'd learned while street racing in high school, and got the car unstuck, and went for the physics plan. The hope was in my calculations that if I'd hit the center divider at a 35-45 deg angle the car would at worst slide over to the left about 1.5 feet, and i would have to crawl out the window.

well it worked. i got out the window.. thought i was dead.. one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

but! as far as electric car battery production - it involves child labor:

check out this 9 minute news reel from Gravitas Plus. (yes the Indian one.)

https://www.dailymessenger.is/videos/Built%20With%20Blood%20-%20The%20Dark%20Side%20Of%20Electric%20Cars%20%5BMesFS8IDvjpx%5D.mp4

but as far as the active factory itself, it gives people jobs, nothing against it.

But as far as the technology not being new and 1/3rds of the cars on the road being electric over 100 years ago.. (which may have seemed unsubstantiated and ridiculous, just check this out:

https://www.dailymessenger.is/videos/Old%20World%20Electric%20Vehicles%201895-1925%20%5Bn3IAfu5PoFny%5D.mp4

Okie, open to questions, thats about what I got. Pardon my long tale about one of the weirdest moments of my life, that car crash. Almost died at age 7 (nearly drown), 22(car crash), 22.5 (too much lsd at once), 25 (assault by four random people while trying to go to work at 4.30am) it was a lot, then I moved home and spent 7 years in quiet recollection.

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RAM02 2y ago

That is brutal. thank God you knew the mechanisms behind the vehicle you were operating & some defensive driving. Glad you are here ot live to tell the story.

My relationship with Tesla Group is just a pure support of the company & the privatization of Space Travel. The company encouraged me to study Energy Astrophysics, I'm more into encouraging SpaceX's technology.

I'm on my way to being an Explorer's Club fellow, a network for scientists & I am know for my passion & work to push the preservation of Earth & a sustainable energy Earth.

I have seen many urban visions that incorporate electric-powered on-ground vehicles into the infrastructure. I believe that electric cars are the future & nations should use them more. Greenhouse gasses & Climate Change is very real, this is the current solution to a healthier planet.

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ringo 2y ago

Thank you. As am I, ..very grateful.

I'm entirely intrigued. See the version of you that i see is very similar to the old version of me. Relentless go getter, figures out anything without instructions, and just starts using it or doing it, curious to the point of near insatiability for knowledge. Then I realized at 38.5 that all of these things I'-d been doing, what I was missing was faith in God. So I got that right, and everything is far far far more balanced. But it lead to some interesting realizations.

--Not everything is as it seems.

--The earth is flat. (and we are the last to know about it.)

--There actually is a God, and this disproves the big bang theory, and so many other things.

--numerous other conspiracy theories I'd been researching over the last 20 years, coming true and living through them observing the thing I'd read about years earlier, playing out in my daily life, as it were..

So yeah. I have a ton of data on all of this, and it's entirely diametric to what you said, and it's pretty good proof.. I have scientific presentations about climate change, by scientists that dared say it's not true at all, and happy to send those your way. It's all so very interesting, truly is.

The danger most people face is they co-opt ideologies in their personality (been there done that,) but it's remarkably common.. Most people by the age of 30 are not so much knowledgeable of self, but are largely comprised of their 5 year old self, with a basket full of ideations on what the world should be and how they can help to alter the trajectory of their lives in order to achieve that espoused communal goal.

So yeah. reddit AMA. Here to help. Take your time. Rumminate, come back to it, open offer for sharing of information.

RAM02 2y ago

Thank you for all of your wisdom & knowledge. It is appreciated. It seems that you are self-taught in so many things & should quit doubting yourself. It doesn't matter what age you are - you have potential to change the world (especially you) 🙏🏽 🌟

I am here, learning.

ringo 2y ago

I don't doubt myself... and thank you, that is very kind of you. am doing the best I can to work on what I know in that respect, and there's really nothing as satisfying down here on earth.

Absolutely, and it's *SO* nice to hear that; As I am here observing, and learning.

ringo 2y ago

Oops, in my typical way I forgot to say you're welcome.

So you're welcome, my friend.