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Tesla Motors Announces A New Home Battery; Living Off The Grid Will Soon Be Status Quo | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 63980690  Germany03/25/2015 12:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Magnum44  User ID: 49927210  Canada03/25/2015 12:58 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, Every other week I read of cool and groundbreaking new inventions that should revolutionize humanity, and bring us (theoretically) greater freedom and further from oppressive rule. However everyday it feels quite the opposite and these inventions never see the light of day. Why is that? Magnum44 |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67021701  Australia03/25/2015 01:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it depends. if "grid power" is cheaper then of course many people will keep using it. if battery technology advances enough for cheap batteries, there is no reason why electricity companies can't install batteries themselves to provide people with electricity via the grid. if you buy a battery, it costs a lot and needs maintenance. and like every other energy source, it is dangerous. paying for grid electricity is simple, and then professionals do the maintenance and dangerous stuff. |
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| GodSaveAmerica User ID: 64445026 United States03/25/2015 01:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it depends. if "grid power" is cheaper then of course many people will keep using it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67021701 if battery technology advances enough for cheap batteries, there is no reason why electricity companies can't install batteries themselves to provide people with electricity via the grid. if you buy a battery, it costs a lot and needs maintenance. and like every other energy source, it is dangerous. paying for grid electricity is simple, and then professionals do the maintenance and dangerous stuff. What are you talking about? A battery is an energy storage device. A battery can not produce power. You would still have to charge it, either by the grid or a device like a portable gas or diesel powered generator, wind, or solar. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67021701 Australia03/25/2015 01:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it depends. if "grid power" is cheaper then of course many people will keep using it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67021701 if battery technology advances enough for cheap batteries, there is no reason why electricity companies can't install batteries themselves to provide people with electricity via the grid. if you buy a battery, it costs a lot and needs maintenance. and like every other energy source, it is dangerous. paying for grid electricity is simple, and then professionals do the maintenance and dangerous stuff. What are you talking about? A battery is an energy storage device. A battery can not produce power. You would still have to charge it, either by the grid or a device like a portable gas or diesel powered generator, wind, or solar. yes that's right, the batteries need to be charged. why do you have a problem with that? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 68589186 Norway03/25/2015 02:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WTF is this shit? A "Home Battery"? LMAO. Unless you are living off he grid and this battery is somehow better than the other batteries used for wind/solar storage, then what is the point? Quoting: TeslaWasBetter 31779590 There's millions and millions of recreational cabins in this world. Perhaps a few owners would like to upgrade them to full conveniences, with solar, wind, steam, what have you. And this here battery. And our environmental footprint is too large for this planet, plenty of farms and home owners with access to cheap bio energy. Perhaps Elon want to stay in the forefront and be a visionary entrepreneur. Perhaps that's why you are bickering on the internet, while he realises dreams |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 68611514 United States03/25/2015 02:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, Every other week I read of cool and groundbreaking new inventions that should revolutionize humanity, and bring us (theoretically) greater freedom and further from oppressive rule. However everyday it feels quite the opposite and these inventions never see the light of day. Why is that? Quoting: Magnum44 Simple rule: If it is any good *you* can't have it. Honest advertising slogan: "We suck 3.2 % less than our nearest competetor." |
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| g.r.i.t.s. User ID: 67747954 United States03/25/2015 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WTF is this shit? A "Home Battery"? LMAO. Unless you are living off he grid and this battery is somehow better than the other batteries used for wind/solar storage, then what is the point? Quoting: TeslaWasBetter 31779590 You lack foresight and knowledge or experience of sustained power outages. This will be a great product. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 68667960  Romania03/25/2015 04:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, Every other week I read of cool and groundbreaking new inventions that should revolutionize humanity, and bring us (theoretically) greater freedom and further from oppressive rule. However everyday it feels quite the opposite and these inventions never see the light of day. Why is that? Quoting: Magnum44 Simple rule: If it is any good *you* can't have it. Honest advertising slogan: "We suck 3.2 % less than our nearest competetor." .....^^^^ THIS ^^^^ The only smart comment from all thread. You people are really retarded. HOw do you know how efficient these batteries will be, how long their life spans, HOW SAFE WITH THOSE WILL BE and nonetheless how affordable will be. The batteries still have to be charged, you tards, and from where that energy come from? From another uber-expensive tech, like solar??? Until you are not pounding that the govs to release the hided free energy/zero point energy patents which started to appear at the beginning of 1900's (Tesla & others), until then, everything is a joke and mockery. Can't you realize that?  |
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| KonspiracyKitty User ID: 67058993 United States03/25/2015 04:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the battery had the ability to seriously change anything, I don't think they would allow it. There are so many great, practical technologies that have been invented only to be bought up by huge corporations and locked away never to see the light of day. Experimental cars in the '80s that got over a hundred miles to a gallon, wireless transmission of power, thorium reactors which provide huge amounts of safe power, so many things. But you never see them because they'd bring down the current infrastructure of the big corporations or they know they can make more money maintaining the status quo. If history is a guide, any revolutionary technology that leads to too large an increase in human independence or fundamentally changes the way things are done for the better, it will probably be suppressed. |
| JustChilling User ID: 62093048 United States03/25/2015 04:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Speaking during an earnings conference call on Wednesday, Musk said that the design of the battery is complete, and production would begin in about six months. Although the company did not provide any date for the product's launch, Musk said that he was pleased with the result. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63980690 “We are going to unveil the Tesla home battery, the consumer battery that would be for use in people’s houses or businesses fairly soon,” Bloomberg quoted Musk as saying. During an earnings call last year, Musk had talked about his plans to make a product that would be fitted into consumers’ homes, instead of their cars. He had expressed an interest in the home energy-storage market and predicted enormous demand for battery systems for backup power at both homes and businesses. “We are trying to figure out what would be a cool stationary (battery) pack,” Forbes had quoted Musk as saying at the time. “Some will be like the Model S pack: something flat, 5 inches off the wall, wall mounted, with a beautiful cover, an integrated bi-directional inverter, and plug and play.” “The long-term demand for stationary energy storage is extraordinary,” JB Straubel, Tesla’s chief technical officer, said. “We’ve put in a huge amount of effort there. Video [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] [link to www.offgridquest.com] Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill |
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