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@Timmy While there's lots of #nickel out there, the rate of scaling up battery-grade nickel production is believed to be slower than the capability to scale up #LFP production, hence the expected shift to LFP in the coming years.
So we've now covered the #anode and #cathode. The next greatest bulk comes from the casing (#steel) and the #electrolyte (mainly organic carbonates - a #petrochemical product). After this comes the #alumium and #copper current collector foils, then the...
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@Timmy (2) #cobalt is already used in a wide variety of things, even #oil refining itself.
#Nickel is the bulk of the long-range #cathode.s, and indeed, its limiting mineral. Most of it today goes towards making #StainlessSteel, where it's a major alloying agent (alongside #chromium). Globally, #Indonesia is the biggest producer; in #NorthAmerica, #Canada is the biggest, thanks to the #Sudbury bolide deposit. #Australia has the largest resources.
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@Timmy Of course, pointing out that #liion #batteries are only 1-3% #lithium automatically raises the question, "Okay, then what are they made out of?" And there's two major groupings at present. Shorter-range #EVs tend to use #LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) while longer-range EVs tend to use #NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) or #NCA (Nickel Cobalt Alumium). These terms describe the #cathode - the anode in each case is #graphite (either natural or synthetic)
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@[email protected] Ah, you were thinking of home scale #BatteryStorage, while I was thinking of utility-scale #GridStorage. :)
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Further work on my #Tesla voting spreadsheet to find how extreme the votes would need to break for #Musk to get or not get the new compensation package. The numbers look a lot worse for Musk now
A breakdown.
1) Known entities, such as Leo Koguan, #ARK, #CALPERS, & the protest letter senders are in.
2) #Vanguard voted AGAINST in 2018. I can't imagine that they'd vote FOR now. Not as sure how their mutual funds will vote, or what %.
#stock #investment #Business #markets #stockmarket #ESG #elon
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@cnishina You do realize that in the #US a #car catches fire *every three minutes*, right?
Per mile driven, #EVs are an order of magnitude less likely to catch #fire. Because they're not sitting on a tank of highly flammable liquid with no #FireSuppression systems at all , plumbed up to a hot #engine block and past an #exhaust hot enough to ignite dry #grass and surrounded by friction sources.
Also, see that "tslaq of the world"? $TSLAQ is a short-seller group.
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Today I learned: that Gary Black has gone bearish on $TSLA finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-... (Long-time $TSLA bull and - at least was - a very well respected person in the Tesla community. He was the first "major Wall Street person" to jump on the $TSLA train. Looks like he's hopped off it.)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7qwkxkh4lz2unhehubhbhpt5/post/3mgsaiadmpf25
Tesla's 20% Crash May Be Just ... -
@[email protected] @Aznorth @stux This is based on:
* Obviously, colour (#jasper is just "any red #chalcedony", chalcedony being semiprecious #flint/#chert - that is, cryptocrystaline #quartz)
* Availability in large sizes
* #Conchoidal fracture
* Brittle
Obviously I can't do any more tests than that from here!
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8. "What #mineral, produced by #subglacial #eruptions and spread via #aeolian distribution, is a problem for farmers in #Iceland, and why?"
#ChatGPT3 #GPT3 failed this (admittedly difficult) question (the answer is allophane, which binds phosphorus and other minerals, water, and reduces soil cohesion).
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@mcfellaface Oh man, I forgot all about the #Demoscene! Haven't watched a #demo since the mid/late 1990s - #FutureCrew and all of them. What people managed to fit into a couple dozen K (or even just a few K) was staggering, and simultaneously (A) inspirational and (B) giving a sense that I'll never be that good at coding ;)
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A #LFP #battery is a #steel can containing primarily (A) #graphite (synthetic or natural), and (B) #iron #phosphate (which is basically fertilizer). The next largest component is #electrolyte, primarily organic carbonates (a #petrochemical #solvent - on the lower toxicity end as far as solvents go). Next most common are the metal foils (#alumium and #copper). Next is the (#plastic) separator membrane.
In tiny quantities at the bottom of the list? Electrolyte additives and the #lithium itself.
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@Timmy ... (#plastic) separator membrane. Beyond all this, there's a variety of minor additives, as well as the small amount of #lithium itself.
The main limiting factor in scaleup however is none of this; it's plant capacity. And in particular, film synthesis for the jelly rolls. Traditionally this is done with a wet-phase process, but this requires #VacuumOven.s the length of a football pitch for each line to extract the #solvent.
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@starkmiriam #Musk ended up mortgaging everything he had to save the company that #Eberhard nearly ran into the ground. And thankfully, it worked (mainly due to an investment by #Daimler to build an electric Smart car - if it had come a week later, paychecks would have bounced).
#ElonMusk kept resisting becoming the CEO because he was busy with #SpaceX; after the company's third CEO left, he finally accepted (becoming the fourth) it in late 2008.
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@filmcritic Also, the fact that you think that #Tesla fans aren't familiar with #Eberhard... I mean, where to even start? That's like saying, "#Apple fans don't know that there was this guy named #Wozniak...."
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@[email protected] @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@[email protected] @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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CW: Elon Musk
@[email protected] @davetroy @Tnicholsmd And to be explicit, #Tesla wasn't "bought out". Tesla was a shell company. It had no tech to its name - it was all ACP's. It didn't even own the trademark to its own name. No money changed hands. And - key point - ***#Eberhard was independently wealthy***. He had recently sold his compan NuvoMedia to #Gemstar for $187M.
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CW: Elon Musk
@[email protected] @davetroy @Tnicholsmd Sorry, but this is revisionist history.
Both of #Musk's' early companies were mergers between pairs of startups, but he was *absolutely* working on them on his own at the time of the merger. #Paypal Inc was the merger of Musk's X.com and #Thiel's Confinity. And when Elon and #Eberhard merged their forces, #Elon was already working on a converted #Noble with ACP's powertrain (while Eberhard was working on a #Lotus with ACP's powertrain).
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Unblocking Hormuz requires not military escorts, but a radical hermeneutic shift in how we interpret the meaning of a dry gas pump. #CriticalGeography
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CW: COVID, again. How screwed am I?
@ZebraOnWheels There's a degree of separation in there with #COVID, so even without masks, there's no guarantee of "screwed". Masks lower the odds, though the degree depends on the type of #mask. If you're really worried, get yourself a #P100 #elastomeric mask, such as a #GVSElipse, and fit test it (you only need a portable #nebulizer and a bottle of #bitrex, or even #SweetAndLow)
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@tomstoreboe @elonmusk The average #EV contains 5-10kg of lithium, the vast majority of which is recycled at the end of its life.
The average #ICE vehicle burns its *entire weight in oil* every single year of its ~20 year lifespan. No recovery.
#Lithium is produced from sun-dried saltwater (#salar) or from super-concentrated ore mainly in a single mine in Australia (#spodumene / #Greenbushes). #Oil is one of the most polluting things humans produce.
Luddites are the problem, not the solution.
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Dalahraun #eruption.
Photo credit: Igor Koroliov
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Work on continues building up the L3 barrier as lava nears its top, by adding more material straight atop the crusted-over active flow. (photo: Stefán Jón Ingvarsson).
If this thing keeps on going for years (shield-forming eruptions), the #BlueLagoon and #Svartsengi are going to look like a crater..
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The #BlueLagoon's emergency communication to guests seems to be... subpar.
(Silica Hotel is at the Blue Lagoon)
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They're apparently aiming to reopen the #BlueLagoon a week from now. How? I have no bloody idea...
I mean, first off, are they scheduling the end of the #eruption? I mean, one eruption lasted 54 days. Active lava flows block the route from the north. Are they planning to come in through #Grindavik