/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8251967
Hes a great entrepreneur who deserves 100x more respect then these ""tech"" CEOs who make a dank app then disappear

He is achieving great things with SpaceX, and the model S was a landmark car.

but I think he is completely delusional about distributed solar photo-voltaic being a feasible and economically desirable alternative to other bulk dispatchable low CO2 sources

I'm worried about Tesla, he is blowing through capital like a lunatic and acquiring this retarded government subsidy rent seeking company solar city is not helping the balance sheet. The model X is pointless and kind of ugly, the model 3 better be really good or else other car makers are going to catch up and they aren't wasting money on Elons Utopian fanticies

>>7977242
electrolysis is very inefficient, but hydrogen production at night when solid fueled reactors can't ramp down makes sense


The world should be building late generation II PWR reactors as fast as we can, Westinghouse 4-loop, CANDU-6, CPR-1000, VVER-xxx, all work amazingly well and have an incredible track record with many reactor-centuries of heritage

EPR is a waste of money, jury is out on AP-1000, depends how cheap the Chinese can do it, APR-1400 is amazing so far, very cheap for gen III, high power, could be very promising for export

ESBWR could be very cool if it ever gets built, although ABWR has had a really rough start