Quote: (05-17-2017 02:23 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
Skepticism about Musk and solar from an engineer:
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.orlov.94...nref=story
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Elon Musk is annoying. We knew that, but here's why: he is trying to turn a commodity product (electricity) into a designer product: Wall, racy little cars, roofs that produce (expensive) electricity and other crap. And here's an article that spells it out, finally. Point is, if you want a roof to generate electricity (when the sun is shining in the right direction) then put up an asphalt shingle roof (cheapest option) and put up solar panels on top of it (cheapest option). And if you want to fart around with Musk's nonsense, combine the two at several times the cost. And if you want an electric car, get yourself a golf cart. It's a mature technology.
He links to a pretty comprehensive article from Forbes article about the nuts and bolts of solar, regular roofs, and whether or not Musk's roof will actually save you money.
Their summing up isn't pretty:
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Everyone needs electricity. Everyone needs a roof. Everyone does not need the Tesla Solar Roof.
In fact, the Tesla Solar Roof is the gold Apple Watch Edition of the energy industry.
https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.or...-roof/amp/
Great links.
This article is very much related:
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I’m off out the door to ship some gaskets I cut to a business 130 road miles away, London is closer to them than I am, and yet I get the work, that should not be fucking possible in a healthy economy, they should have a choice of suppliers within 50 miles.
*I* had to go 100 miles in the OPPOSITE direction of this customer to get the actual gasket material, from someone who *only* does gasket material (so they know their shit) *and* carries stock…
Also worth considering is the degeneration of the Alt Right: an acquaintance of mine recently went to a Spencer meet up, and all of his fashy internet friends whom he met there started making fun of him for being opposed to pornography.
What does all of this have in common? Consider this quote from the author of the Forbes piece in another article, where he was describing Flex, a legacy company in the push for solar power:
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While Tesla’s solar shingles and Powerwall reflected their aspirational luxury brand, Flex’s pitch was about your real life. It was about connectivity and intelligence. About the challenge of balancing comfort, convenience, cost and conservation.
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Instead of telling their own story, they told the customer’s story. And they gave their partners a roadmap for the customer journey.
People are buying a lifestyle: they're cosplaying at being someone else.
Roosh has started selling a shirt
with the RoK logo on it. This shirt tells your story; even the comedic ad copy reflects your journey as a Red Pill man, increasing your bench press and testosterone levels. Contrast to the alt right personalities who've begun selling t-shirts with
their own face on it. This is the height of cucky behaviour, giving tacit permission to your girlfriend to sleep with the man whom your worship, and yet we're supposed to believe that the Alt Right is anti-cuck.
Flex is selling solar power solutions. Tesla is selling an environmentally friendly dildo. Us old thinkers on the alt right were selling a way to revitalize Western Civilization through erudition and self-actualization; the new leaders are selling fashy haircuts. Wimminz mentions a publishing business which went defunct because their hardware was pathetically out of date; they were pretending to be old school publishers, instead of running an actual business.
People are so incredibly empty inside that the only source of identity they can find is by cosplaying as someone else; whether it's thirty year old nerds dressing up like Ironman at Comicon, or 1488ers pretending to be Brown Shirts in their mother's basement, or iDildo fanboys pretending that they're living in Star Trek because they bought a shitty phone in fancy plastic, or environmentalists who pay for an environmentally-destructive battery in their car instead of being frugal and driving a small commuter - people are paying for identity, not for the product.
Today's big winners aren't going to be the ones who offer the best product, it's going to be those who allow their customers to create an identity for themselves by 'wearing' the product. This is true of industry, politics, you name it.
There is a great culling coming, and I, for one, can't wait.