Lol you’re completely right of course but when you start adding all this it is less relatable to someone who is not familiar with it already

Power is water throughput in a pipe, energy is water filling a bucket. Simplest way I’ve found to explain it in my 15 years in the energy space.

risking guaranteeing

Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that

Lmao I hope Elon hates that Altman called it Twitter not X

Lmao “Twitter”

Yes you are understanding that correctly. For producing EVs, they get credits from the federal government. I don’t know the exchange rate – e.g., how many EVs per credit.

Then, Tesla turns around and sells these credits to buyers, usually other companies. Companies buy these credits from Tesla to comply with regulations requiring certain environmental outcomes, and credits count towards these outcomes.

In theory this type of program incentivizes and rewards companies who invest in the technology(is) tied to these credits, in this case EVs. In practice it’s a way for other companies to comply with renewables regulations without actually doing anything to meaningfully reduce their impact and footprint (other than buying credits)

There will just be a new (US based) TikTok copycat that springs up, or many. Banning one social media cancer doesn’t stop the others

See, this is how you do it. Pass laws with teeth in big markets, as the EU has done for years now. The almighty dollar is what Apple and the rest care about it, if you want them to change you have to threaten that. It’s their only language

Much less in German

(Unless he speaks German?? I’ve never heard him speak German)

Yeah no shit, and you do think I have a single goddamn bit of influence over my corporation’s choice of email client??