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Dingus McGee

Social climber
Where Safety trumps Leaving No Trace
Jan 22, 2017 - 04:04am PT
What amazes me is how you lazy fukers entertain using the electric world that could exist when Musk gets his class act together? There are some useful electric toys around here NOW! Stop using yer gasser.



Yes, 20 Whrs per mile at 20 mph. Far better energy savings than the Tesla World of big $$ and saving little energy. talk talk talk

Or is that Congested California World too unsafe to ride an [E] Bike? Air Bags Now
Cragar

climber
MSLA - MT
Jan 22, 2017 - 06:10am PT
Good tire choice Dingus!
Dingus McGee

Social climber
Where Safety trumps Leaving No Trace
Jan 22, 2017 - 07:07am PT

Musk is another F*#king Capitalist Pig in a green suit

Corporate American [Demsters or re-Pubes] will not get the job done.

Transitions begin with what you bring thru the door, park on your driveway or build -- suffocate corporate america by welding you wallet -- no more gas guzzling junk.... and other shite.

couchmaster

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 08:25am PT


^^Rub it in what a worthless shithole the energy dept is going to become under Trump TGT:-)^^ I have some hope and change about the future, but suspect it will turn into "change back" soon. In this instance regarding the energy dept changes, it already has, 15 min after the election.

rick sumner

Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
Jan 22, 2017 - 10:11am PT
Elon is highly adaptive as well as being a visionary. Godspeed on his journey to t h e future, Mars and beyond.
ecdh

climber
the east
Jan 22, 2017 - 02:37pm PT
as a businessman hes not qualified for president, he hasnt done a reality tv show yet.
couchmaster

climber
Jan 25, 2017 - 12:46pm PT


Once Musk gets a couple of tunnels drilled under LA (todays news) he should be ready for that:-) http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/25/elon-musk-the-boring-company-tunnels/97030778/

"Exciting progress on the tunnel front," Musk tweeted. "Plan to start digging in a month or so."............"Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging," he tweeted at the time, adding, "it shall be called 'The Boring Company.'"
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 25, 2017 - 02:13pm PT
Alan Cocconi and Dave Sivertsen, my friends who were at Cal Tech together, started AC Propulsion, Rippel was the business guy. They created much if the technology used by Toyota, Volkswagon, in addition to Tesla. I told them for years that they were giving it away, but they didn't listen to me.

Alan also almost single-handedly invented drones in the 80's and gave that technology to his friend Paul MacCready, of Gossamer Albatross fame.
couchmaster

climber
Jan 29, 2017 - 08:09pm PT

Looks like he broke ground! Off to the races goes Elon, Wow. http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2066335/billionaire-tesla-boss-serious-about-digging-tunnel

Partial quote:
"Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has broken ground on an underground tunnel he plans to burrow beneath the city of Los Angeles to spare himself from having to sit in traffic.

He’s also about to purchase a large earth drilling machine to continue the tunnel, which was started on his companies’ properties in Hawthorne, CA, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Elon Musk is chief executive of the space transportation company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Motors, which are located on sprawling adjacent properties in Hawthorne......."
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 29, 2017 - 08:47pm PT
Hey, Moosie, whaddya think of yer boy now that he's hooked up with The Trumpinator?
Not long ago he was bad mouthing him and now he's bromancing him! Woot!
I know, it's just business, right? Just like Vinny would say before pulling the trigger.
couchmaster

climber
Jan 31, 2017 - 11:10am PT

Here's the followup and it might be a game changer. Musk isn't talking about digging a tunnel. He's talking about trying to speed up the digging of them. Imagine if they could get a 500% speed increase in digging a tunnel. Holy smiokes!

Game Changer Er.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/excited-elon-musk-says-he-can-dig-holes-1000-more-quickly-currently-possible-1603813?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous&yptr=yahoo

"Improving tunneling speed while maintaining safety is Musk's ambition with this project. Speaking at the Hyperloop competition, he said: "We're just trying to figure out what it takes to improve tunneling speed. Somewhere between 500 and 1,000% is I think possible. If you apply a limit-of-physics approach we'll see how far we can get."

But the project is in the very early stages of development. Musk added: "We're just sort of muddling along, we've no idea what we are doing, we want to be clear about that... [but] I'm actually quite optimistic that tunneling can be improved by at least fivefold, maybe tenfold, and that's really key to a lot of technologies: road tunnels, Hyperloop tunnels, train tunnels."...
kunlun_shan

Mountain climber
SF, CA
Jan 31, 2017 - 11:25am PT
Read this interesting story yesterday that claims Musk sees Trump, and especially Tillerson, as "an opportunity" to implement a carbon tax:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-elon-musk-is-changing-position-on-trump-2017-1

With Tillerson, Musk has clearly found a person who can pressure Trump on a carbon tax, something that Musk called for in late 2015, during a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris.

"We have to fix the unpriced externality," he said, pointing out that pollution is classic negative externality in economic terms that causes harm to all, but cost to none. He called it a "hidden carbon subsidy of $5.3 trillion per year."

Tillerson supported a revenue-neutral carbon tax when he was at ExxonMobil as the best way to de-incentivize carbon generation. Economist and policymakers often agree, but some also think a carbon market would be a more effective means to halting global warming.

So with Musk, in the first order, we have a connect-the-dots between his reversal of sorts on Trump and his enthusiasm for Tillerson.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 31, 2017 - 11:32am PT
couch, Musk thinks he's smarter than the Swiss, the passed masters of tunneling? They
just brought in that mammoth Gotthard Tunnel on schedule and under budget. You know,
when they're not making tunneling machines they're making watches.
Spiny Norman

Social climber
Boring, Oregon
Feb 1, 2017 - 02:30pm PT
Exactly, Reilly.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 10, 2017 - 09:20am PT
What, he's gonna change the weather? Whoa!

Is it just me or does anybody else think that boy has too many irons in the fire?
brotherbbock

climber
Alta Loma, CA
Mar 10, 2017 - 09:26am PT
Elon Musk is the man!

His gigafactories are insane! Check it out:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-gigafactory-facts-2016-9
WBraun

climber
Mar 28, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
So ,,, I'm right again.

The stoopid gross materialists want to turn Americans into stoopid robots.

You all will soon be drooling oil .......
WBraun

climber
Mar 28, 2017 - 05:18pm PT
Yep ... unbelievably stoopid people thinking the advancement of technology is so everything ....
dhayan

climber
culver city, ca
Mar 28, 2017 - 06:48pm PT
You guys keep drinking the koolaid...Musk is dangerous.
Fossil climber

Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
Mar 28, 2017 - 07:40pm PT
Musk has a nice vision, but I doubt we will last that long.
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