Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall

[bananas]

Published on May 1, 2015

Tesla Powerwall Keynote by Elon Musk "The Missing Piece"

[IHateTheGOP]

1. This could save the planet...

And nobody has a comment yet????

[MADem]

7. Well, the presentation is eighteen minutes and two seconds long.

You are posting 14 minutes after the video was put up.

It is a great idea--hope it works well. I'd buy it.

[ffr]

2. I'm happy and sad.

Happy for obvious reasons. Sad that it took one man with an idea, in a world full of special interests fighting him, to devise such a solution. No government, no other corporation or industry are even remotely going down this road. No, they only see 'clean coal' and other dirty industries as solutions. Sick!

Thank you Mr. Musk!! I will be looking into your powerwall technology so that I too can be a part of the solution, instead of a dead-ender using unsustainable dead-end technologies to power my family's lifestyle.

[enlightenment]

3. Thank you.

I missed this yesterday and it is wonderful.

[Cosmic Kitten]

4. Awesome! Elon is doing inspiring work

Forward thinking
and sustainable business

[Owl]

5. Elon is simply amazing!

[Dream Girl]

6. Truly remarkable!

I posted a reference on my Facebook page yesterday and it was just crickets chirping. I think I need new friends...

[Ernest Partridge]

8. Great!! However....

Is there a downside? After all, "there is no free lunch."

To begin:

What materials are required?

What is the environmental cost of their extraction?

What are the environmental impacts of the manufacturing?

Perhaps minimal. I dearly hope so. This could save the planet for human habitation.

But we need to ask these questions -- as we did not when we opted to use fossil fuels.