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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Hello Gentle People:
Everybody needs a small garden. I have one Tomato plant growing fast and furious next to my steps in the worst weed patch known to mankind. This interesting event leads me to believe I can plant more Tomato's around and next to my old house next Spring, as long as I mix plenty of fertilizer and black earth in the hole under the roots of my plants.
Now that I am facing success with that one Tomato, I am dreaming of Green Peppers and Carrots.
planted in a small Four by Four by One foot deep Black Earth and Sheep Shit fertilized garden. The garden has to be so close to my house and steps that I will literally step into it when climbing up to my apartment. This guarantees I will remember to take care of the vegetable plants before I do anything else!
Wonderful! A garden saves money and the veggies taste great! Bye for now!
Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a conference at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.
If Elon Musk gets his way and his electric car company succeeds in buying the solar company SolarCity, Tesla will not just mean fancy electric vehicles (EVs). It will mean energy. Home battery storage. Solar panels on your roof. A wider variety of affordable Tesla vehicles driving the streets, increasingly without drivers — including a forthcoming Tesla Semi.
This corporate pivot was not wholly unexpected. On Tuesday, Reutersreported that Tesla had changed the name of its official corporate website from teslamotors.com to tesla.com — potentially signaling a shift in direction from an auto company to to an energy company that also makes vehicles.
Musk tweeted first on Tuesday that heplanned to “pull an all-nighter and complete the master product plan” and also that it seemed “appropriate” that he was listening to the soundtrack from the film The Great Gatsby.
Late Wednesday night, Musk tweeted a link to Tesla’s “Master Plan, Part Deux.”
Musk starts out reminding readers that the initial Master Plan, written 10 years ago, included “providing solar power,” after a ladder-like series of goals focused on electric vehicle production, innovation, and revolution. Tesla first wanted to get good at producing a fancy, amazing EV, and then using those profits to produce more and more EVs that might be less expensive and fancy but still were better than the competition.
The plan then gets to the part where Musk explains what this has really been all about:
However, the main reason was to explain how our actions fit into a larger picture, so that they would seem less random. The point of all this was, and remains, accelerating the advent of sustainable energy, so that we can imagine far into the future and life is still good. That’s what “sustainable” means. It’s not some silly, hippy thing — it matters for everyone.
By definition, we must at some point achieve a sustainable energy economy or we will run out of fossil fuels to burn and civilization will collapse. Given that we must get off fossil fuels anyway and that virtually all scientists agree that dramatically increasing atmospheric and oceanic carbon levels is insane, the faster we achieve sustainability, the better.
In the past, Musk has called for a carbon tax, and a “revolt” against the fossil fuel industry because of his concerns about climate change. He’s called uncapped greenhouse gas emissions “the dumbest experiment in history.”
So it’s not surprising that Musk feels this way, but to so clearly state the goals behind Tesla’s master plan as a sustainable world and cutting carbon emissions is notable.
Musk then proceeds to explain in the plan “what we plan to do to make that day come sooner.”
The first goal is to “integrate energy generation and storage” by allowing an individual to become their own utility. Using SolarCity’s pv panel technology and installation capabilities, he envisions a “smoothly integrated and beautiful solar-roof-with-battery product that just works.” This would be easy to order through a phone app. Last year, Tesla unveiled the Powerwall home battery system, which aimed “to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy” by making it easier to adopt widespread renewable energy. Storage is the only currently feasible way to dramatically scale up the use of renewable energy, which does not always provide a steady source of power, and maintain reliability.
Last month, Musk made it clear Tesla was going to try to buy SolarCity for about $2.5 billion, and this week told the Wall Street Journal he expected shareholders to strongly approve of the merger.
Musk explains in the plan that it never made sense for the two companies to be separate in the first place. "Now that Tesla is ready to scale Powerwall and SolarCity is ready to provide highly differentiated solar, the time has come to bring them together," he concludes.
If SolarCity can expand its market share in enough states to become a serious player in the utility and power sector, the goal, it seems, would be to integrate their solar systems into the networks of Tesla owners with their very own home Powerwalls. Far enough down the road it's possible to see a functioning vertically-integrated energy infrastructure provided by Tesla.
Practically speaking, this would mean you drive your Tesla electric vehicle and charge it up on your home battery, which is fueled by your SolarCity panels. Your home is also powered by the Powerwall home battery, making each homeowner into their own utility.
Beyond the energy infrastructure revolution Musk envisions, the master plan also details more about their planned vehicle fleet expansions, or in Musk's words, how Tesla will "Expand to Cover the Major Forms of Terrestrial Transport." This means a Tesla pickup truck, compact SUV, semi truck, and passenger bus, manufactured in an efficient factory redesigned by Tesla.
"We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport, while increasing safety and making it really fun to operate," Musk said.
Beyond this, Tesla is doubling down on their quest to make vehicles entirely autonomous -- primarily, Musk argues, for safety reasons. Getting this right is crucial for Tesla, after the first person was killed driving a Tesla with autopilot engaged late last month. If they can get this right, and actual self-driving is legal, Musk can then turn Tesla toward the final goal of the master plan: sharing.
He envisions a future where someone can go to their phone and summon a Tesla — like an Uber but without a driver — from anywhere in the neighborhood. Tesla owners who include their vehicles in the sharing program would "have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and at times potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost."
All of these goals put together mean that the new plan is to:
Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage
Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments
Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning
Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it.
Tesla shipped 50,580 vehicles last year, and plans to ship 79,000 this year.
On some days I am not sure what to think of the government in
Washington!
How can it be possible that hand guns and assault rifles are legally
allowed in the hands of almost every person within the United States? If the
second amendment is the problem, hold a referendum by Television and
Telephone and ask the question, should we amend the second amendment to limit
assault rifles and hand guns? I believe the second amendment was
created to protect American ancestors from invasion by the British. it was not
intended to create an armed camp today where children and babies are murdered on
a regular basis by psychopathic maniacs!. What human being with any
sense of moral and ethical judgement wants to see innocent children slaughtered
like Cattle? What fools in the U.S. federal government want to allow this kind
of mayhem to continue?
My next question is what is happening with the new Medicare and Medicaid
systems? Is the U.S. government winning or losing ground? Are U.S. citizens
getting the help they need from hospitals and clinics?
Are multi-national profit oriented corporations and special interest
groups continuing to dictate terms to Washington members of Congress? If so who
are these dangerous organizations and why are they not exposed in the
Media?
How can so many members of the Republican party be so ignorant about the
fact of global warming? There is pictorial evidence from NASA that Arctic ice
has melted more within the last ten years than any other time in recorded history! Ozone holes
are a reality and they are created by man made pollution. Arctic ice is coated
with dirt and dust and soot from around the world, making the ice melt faster!
Fresh water has become a commodity for sale in plastic bottles and clean water
is no longer free for everybody!
Why are Television commercials filled with internal combustion engine
cars, the main source of world pollution, when alternatives are now available?
Carbon Monoxide is a deadly gas and it should be out-lawed and certainly not
pumped into the air we all breath! What is happening with the U.S. national
Electric Grid and alternative energy sources? Has that been allowed to fail? If
so I would suggest the Democrats get out of the political kitchen because the
heat has become too hot for them!
T.V. should be regulated and violence reduced. Educational channels
should proliferate as opposed to so-called reality channels where millions of
T.V. viwers are now forced to sit and passively watch a parade of low
intelligence people acting like fools simply to attract attention towards spot
advertising! These waste of time programs have one sole purpose and that is to
sell useless products to people with low incomes and low
intelligence.
Millions of North American viewers are being brain-washed and trained
from childhood to watch violence on television. Repeated exposure to violence
often desensitizes the human capacity for generosity and
compassion.
Adults brought up by violence in their Media are desensitized to the
violence in real life and this allows the gun merchants to continue
proliferating wars and making obscene profits.
Television has become a corporate controlled vehicle for selling gas
burning vehicles to men. They also sell salt laden and chemical polluting hair
products to women. I suggest science based facts replace commercials on television. If
companies put up a fight they can take credit for any honest science based facts
they present. For example, this two minutes of education is brought to you by
Tesla, the anti- pollution Electric Car company.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Ex/Dir: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
More information on Arctic sea ice and climate change
Take a look at the other materials at the National Snow and Ice Data Center website: http://nsidc.org/
Check out NASA's Global Climate Change Vital Signs of the Planet website with lots of information on global climate change: http://climate.nasa.gov/
Image credit: Chunks of sea ice, melt ponds and open water are all seen in this image captured at an altitude of 1,500 feet by the NASA's Digital Mapping System instrument during an Operation IceBridge flight over the Chukchi Sea (https://goo.gl/Tca3RO) on Saturday, July 16, 2016. NASA/Goddard/Operation IceBridge
Since taking office, President Obama has sought to define "global development" as more than mere charity, but as a comprehensive investment in initiatives, and people, that will create real outcomes for communities around the globe. As he said to the United Nations in 2010, "In our global economy, progress in even the poorest countries can advance the prosperity and security of people far beyond their borders, including my fellow Americans."
Over the last eight years, the Obama Administration has confronted some of the most daunting development and humanitarian challenges in modern history. The President has helped reshape the U.S. approach to development by partnering with countries, global coalitions and the engines of American innovation: corporations, foundations, universities, NGOs, and faith-based communities. From Feed the Future to the Open Government Partnership, the Obama Administration's signature initiatives and development partnerships have dramatically reduced poverty, malnutrition, and infant and maternal mortality, while spurring entrepreneurship and economic growth, increasing the number of adolescent girls in school, and helping to build more stable, accountable, and inclusive societies.
Even as we celebrate these gains and reflect on shared progress, we are reminded that billions of our fellow human beings still face poverty, violence, and disease every day. Despite the advances we’ve made, the circumstances in developing nations around the world demand creative and sustained global action.
On July 20, President Obama is joining entrepreneurs, diplomats, civil society members, public and private sector financing partners, and development leaders at the White House Summit on Global Development to mark our global progress and find ways to catalyze further development efforts that will improve real lives and deliver real outcomes in six key areas: energy, food security, global health, governance, partnership, and youth.
Offshore wind can produce 4 times the electricity America uses today. The U.S. is way behind Northern Europe which has 90% of the offshore wind Turbines existing on this planet. The total Offshore Wind Potential of America is over 4000 GW. (Atlantic 1256 GW, Great lakes 734 GW, Pacific 930 GW, Hawaii 634 GW, Gulf 594 GW) :) Imagine: offshore wind alone can generate 4 times more electricity than America needs and that's true for other nations as well. Dozens of countries are near the Atlantic or Pacific or Indian oceans. For more details see...http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/45889.pdf
In 1990, the electric company shut off my power for the first time. They did it because I simply couldn't afford to pay my electrical bill.
After working as a bus driver for over a decade, I had suffered an accident that put me on a partial disability pension -- and without a regular income. I sometimes had to make the tough choice between feeding my family, paying the mortgage, and paying the electric company.
You can probably guess which option I picked. But this meant that I've frequently lived in a house without power. That's all changed now.
Last week, a team of people installed a set of brand new solar panels on my roof -- panels that cost next-to-nothing upfront. Panels that I will be able to pay off, over time, through savings on my monthly energy bill.
Now, I wake up every day and I just can't stop smiling. My home looks good. A major, monthly expense no longer keeps me up at night. That frees me up to be thinking about my kids and their futures -- about the future of my whole community.
Because, while I'm proud to be the first person on my block to have solar panels installed, I won't be the last. I know I am not the only one who has struggled to afford my electric bill.
But I also know that, thanks to steps that President Obama has taken in the past eight years, solar panels are now within reach for millions of people in this country. That's very exciting. Watch my story -- and find out what you can do for your home -- here.
Join me. Be a solar pioneer in your community.
Thanks,
Ida Rhyne
