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https://electrek.co/2024/10/10/tesla-unveils-cybercab-electric-robotaxi/

$30K by 2026. Using Elon math, that means maybe we'll see it for $50K in 2029, if ever.

Oh we will definitely see it. We’ve seen everything Elon has said he’s going to do. It’ll just take a few extra years and be more expensive than the price that was announced initially, and then eventually the price will fall after a couple years. And if you were being fair/honest about what he said he said the price long term would be that. Meaning…the company needs to recoup all the R&D spent to actually build the fucking thing on the first iteration of the product and the company needs to then scale the product to get production costs down. 

But anyway…imagine trying to criticize a guy who shoots for the fucking moon every time out and winds up accomplishing massive things before anyone else? Who fucking cares if he’s a few years late and the price tag winds up being a tad bit higher? He always winds up delivering at least the end of the day.

Imagine trying to criticize someone who has achieved the things Elon Musk has. Lmao. It could take everyone on every internet message board 10,000 lifetimes combined and they wouldn’t be able sniff Musk’s jockstrap. 

Co-founded/Co-CEO of PayPal, the first payments/backing over the internet platform in history? Check. 

Founded SpaceX, by far the most important and successful aerospace contractor in the US. Building re-usable rockets that land on drone ships in the middle of the ocean. Launching thousands of satellites to create StarLink, the first and only high speed low latency satellite internet service in the entire fucking world. Homeboy is trying to build space ships to bring human beings to fucking Mars. Other aerospace contractors like Boeing can’t even get astronauts to and from a space station. Lol.

Co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Tesla, the only successful American automobile manufacturer in like oh A HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS. And the most important, significant auto maker in the global EV market. Electric cars would be nowhere near where or what they are today without…Elon Musk.

Co-founded and provided all the seed money for OpenAI- the leading entity in AI? Check.  

The fucking guy is the hands down the most significant, most important human being alive on planet earth right now and one of the most important figures in recorded world history of mankind. But yeah let’s bitch about the ground breaking never before seen product his companies create don’t always arrive on time and at the projected cost. Lol. I swear to fucking god I’d love to see rando internet dweebs and useless journo fucks who criticize him non stop try to do one fucking thing that guy has done. Would be funny. 

some folks gonna git paid to build space ships

I'd guess you can buy some.
Perhaps slightly used

Whatever happened to those solar roof tiles he promised?

I priced them out. Too expensive. Would not pay off in my lifetime.

I think to get hydrogen one needs a lot of electricity, or power in some form.

We didn't use electricity to split H2O if that's what you mean.  We used a catalyst to separate the H2 from other hydrocarbons.  We did use a lot of power to run machinery in the plant.  

In many processes, the H2 is considered a waste gas. Lots of h2 heavy streams are actually sent into the off-gas header, to be used as fuel for cracking furnaces or other heating needs. Off gas was typically comprised of differing levels of H2, methane, and small amounts of various hydrocarbons. NOT ethylene or propylene, burning these make large amounts of pollutants ( HR VOC) and wastes product. Not to mention the fouling. 

That side of the unit was not my responsibility, so some of the details are fuzzy. What I do know is that we burned a lot of our H2 (as opposed to methane) in our furnaces, but eventually we added a header as part of a project to export the h2. I think it actually ended up going to an industrial gas maker, who would then refine it even more to high purity. 

As I stated, I worked in a dehydrogenation plant, where our job was literally to remove the hydrogen from hydrocarbons.