BINGO. Mass consolidation of auto companies is on the horizon. Im picturing Blade Runner in my head with all the marketing now that you said that. 

Correct. Im still wondering how this shift to EV doesnt bankrupt all these companies. Their business model is typically based on volume and service right? With an electrified vehicle market you also get autonomous driving and ride sharing, inherently reducing your volumes while increasing your costs and reducing your…

“What’s new is that Buttigieg was confirmed this week and we might see some more serious action on it.”

Cool story. But again, the most effective battery storage system for this large scale application is pumped storage.

BINGO. Solar and wind need battery backup to supply the grid consistently, and the most effective battery currently would be in the form of pumped storage, but again, good luck getting through the environmental regs.

My comment wasnt specific to nuclear, but all power generation facilities. If they defer the maintenance, they do so at a huge risk to their pocket book. 

This is a bad take. They can only fit so much maintenance into outage scope (i used to be a nuclear field engineer doing the maintenance you speak about) based on human resources and power demand in the spring and fall. The site takes the risk to defer maintenance which could cause unplanned outages which cost…

My background is in commercial nuclear power and its refreshing to hear someone bring this up. You are 100% correct. People do not consider that fact you pointed out and its mainly due to the fact people have short attention spans and do not want to try to learn anything about nuclear power. This industry really needs…

Bingo. Historically natural gas has been very volatile in price, and its starting to go up again currently. Putting all our eggs into the natural gas basket and “renewables” is not sustainable. In Michigan we have had to curtail twice in the last 6 years during the coldest times of the year due to compressor station…

The ridgeline is about all most people need. They sell pretty well too. 

I read that too. Dont fully understand it, why not just use the Atlas platform and make it alongside the Atlas in TN? Avoid the chicken tax and minimize the development of a new platform. 

Still a huge waste of money, which is why you see so much intermingling of OEMs with this technology. Until the electrical grid is updated and made smarter (including more diverse energy production) the widespread implementation of electric cars isnt really that realistic (ask California). Add to that, self-driving…

2 things, the Hunter comment was a joke (based in fact). And Two, having an education and being educated are two vastly different things (the premise behind the arts degree comment). Polling a population of people and determining that college “educated” people have a propensity to vote Democrat does not necessarily…

That line of attack is really petty and dishonest. Guess im an outlier though since those statistics are so accurate (sarcasm). And I got my bachelors degree in science, not arts which is basically an overpriced hobby.

And a peanut farmer before that. Whats your point?

Surprise paternity test? I highly doubt Hunter Biden will be in attendance. 

3rd gear: Can attest to this issue. Got 2 expedition max rentals due to my work truck being hit by my wife while pulling into the garage. Hers has 9K miles, mine 27K miles. Just as I was starting to sing the praises of this truck and it changing my mind of Ford products, it went all Ford on me and the backup camera…

What a logical take. Im sure you will get dragged for it. 

Its not just the materials IN China. They own MINES all over the world.

Possibly. But Lithium is just one piece of the puzzle. China still owns or mines something like over 90% of the rare earth metals which go into electric motors, etc.