Enron is a good nickname. How can you make it stick?
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This and the use of car batteries are both things. But there are significant problems to solve still. And Tesla isnāt in a better position than anyone else to solve them.
Unfortunately the biggest challenge to solve is that people donāt want to do it.
Thereās this well known dynamic where energy nerds (like me) come up with these amazing products that are obviously good for the grid, good for the world, good for the company, and good for the customer.
And customers are just like
āNah. I donāt want itā
If ever I make the stupid step of doing a PHD, it might be on this topic.
Yeah Iām very happy weāre moving away from selling behavioral changes to actual DR management. Trying to get people to change their usage patterns is hard enough but then trying to prove you did it is just a nightmare. Much better to be able to say āwe can flip this switch and reduce the usage curve by x kWā and then show it in the usage data from those homes.
Even then. People are reluctant.
āIāve just spent 10 to 15 on a battery. Itās for me not you. I donāt care about a few hundred bucks because I donāt trust you.ā
And
āThis is my car. Why would I let you discharge the battery. What if I need itā
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Iāve heard people saying this all my life, but I donāt get it. It is pretty much always easier for me to go in front first than back out than it is to do it the other way around.
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The contracts with the utilities in California changed about a year ago so customers donāt get energy credit for energy they send to the grid and consequently residential energy storage is just about a given with solar now. And most customers are interested in configuring their system to save the most money.
So, the utility can very easily affect what many customers do with their stored energy by designing their rates and creditsā¦and they do. Many people use their stored energy when rates are higher. If the utilities here went a step further and gave people decent credits for selling energy during peak times, theyād get people doing just that.
Are you bad at parallel parking?
Iām fine at it I think. I donāt even use my cars automatic feature for that (a large part is that Iām too lazy to figure out how it works).
If the space is not more than a foot longer than my car Iāll pass. I know plenty of people are OK with gently tapping the adjacent cars when parking, but I donāt do that, which is why I pass on really tight spaces.
The US showing off its big open spaces privilige.
Canāt explain it but there are spots here where itās absolutely true. In & out are possible backing in but not vice versa.
If you are backing into the space, all you need to do is look at your side mirrors and make sure that you are in between the lines/cars. If you are parking forward facing, it is harder to line up and when you back out you can hit the cars next to you when you start turning.
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Lol bruhsā¦just find a pull-through space, ez game. I never have to back in or out of a space. Often this means I have to walk a little extra, but I like walking, hate backing in and especially hate backing out blind in my sedan between two fat-fuck SUVās.
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Iāve never had this difficulty in my life.
Iāve been told this is not an efficient way to manage system load. Large scale battery systems are a better option. Iām working on a couple projects right now that use Teslaās commercial system called mega pack to do this. They involve 30 MW+ of these battery systems installed in sequence to manage and arbitrage power. I think thatās the more efficient solution although Iām not an electrical engineer obviously.
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Itās geometrically easier to back a car into a tight space and drive out than the other way around. Cars arenāt symmetrical. When you turn going forward, the car rotates around the center of the rear axle, not the center of the car. This means that the rear wheels donāt follow the same path as the front wheels, which means that in a tight space, thereās a limit to how sharply you can turn without clipping the cars on either side.
It works differently in reverse. When youāre backing into the space, the turn pivots the front of the car away from the cars on either side, so thereās no risk of clipping once you have the rear end in.
Itās the opposite when you pull out, but itās not critical when youāre leaving a confined area because your path is less constrained.
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Itās much easier to park centred on the parking spot line. Gives extra space when pulling in and out and you donāt have to worry about silly things like clipping other cars or them clipping you.
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Big truck Trump flag douchebags always back in therefore I oppose it
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yea and they (and honestly most backup parkers) completely disregard the flow of traffic in a busy parking lot, often will not signal at all, so when they blow past the spot and then stop to reverse, will look at you irritated or gesture if you inevitably didnt give them room (because they didnt signal and most of us are not mind readers), then you cant really do anything because there are now cars behind you (also getting frustrated)
dumb way to park in any kind of crowded lot. leaving spots in reverse is so god damn easy with modern camera and lidar tech. and my car is basically impossible to see out of.
Luckily we will have fully autonomous robo taxis in a few months so youāll never need to park forwards or backwards. Just let your car go off and earn you money. Remember that hilarious muskism?
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Continuing the discussion from Elon Musk: The Reichest Man Alive:
update on this, xAI said that āmostā of the turbines were just idle and not running so they were technically in compliance with whatever regulation, of course that turned out to be an easily disprovable lie (someone apparently just flew a drone over)
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