2nd paragraph, doesn't take away from the facts that every elon musk/tesla article on TS gets a crazy amount of hate.
Not a crazy amount, an appropriate amount.
No they get charged by solar & the grid running at reduced capacity, like I said.
Well OK, so you're saying we need solar tech to charge the batteries, right?
Well then, Musk should be huckstering this crap as a package.
Here's why, charging a battery always requires more current than the battery's capacity. However small that differential might, it doesn't fall to the benefit of the consumer. Here's the Wiki page on that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
Batteries also self discharge, which further wastes electricity.
That means your little scheme, to go to battery power during peak hours, can't possibly save money, unless the power companies drop the rates on off peak hours.
Then too, you can't use DC current directly. Which is why we have "inverters", to power our AC devices from DC batteries. Oh. wait a minute, inverter circuits aren't 100% efficient either.
Oh, and BTW, you can't transmit DC power across power lines for any great distance. Nikolai Tesla found that out himself the hard way, about a hundred years ago.
Then there's the Musk BS factor.. Every time Musk announces one of his big "innovations", all of a sudden there is such a big influx of orders, Tesla can't possibly fill them until "xxxx" date in the future..
So, in order to fulfill your grandiose dreams, in your happy little fantasy world of the future, your going to need a big backyard, with a windmill, and a big house, with a big roof covered with solar collectors, before you can hang up the, "no trespassing" sign, and start thumbing your nose at the electric companies.
What percentage of the population will be able to afford one of those, let alone get a mortgage for it?
Natural gas is multiple times less dangerous than hydrogen, natural gas is easy to detect and most houses already have detectors.
Natural gas can easily be laced with a stinky additive, not so sure that would work well in fuel cells.
Still doesn't help with the fact the fuel cells are very slow and expensive to "charge" and batteries are better for now. We need a fix NOW not in 5 or 10 years - once again look at the stinkin video for the facts.
If I do any video watching today, it won't be a Musk propaganda film.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Nazi propaganda films, leading up to, and through, the Second World War. Those should be entertaining, and wildly so.
Elon Musk's big idea "blockbusters", sound like "box office bombs" to me.
When he's not out begging for money from private investors, he's pandering to the government.for energy saving tax credits..
And of course, (I believe last year, or maybe the year before), Tesla once again failed to turn a profit. Musk justified this by claiming, "the company had capital expenditures for equipment, yadda, yadda, yadda.
And of course, the big car companies are still picking on poor, little, Elon