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Comment Re:Needs a new direction (Score 1) 222

People rarely use the "phone". It just happens to be a more convenient size for viewing the apps that people really use their phone with that either a big tablet or a little phone.

You can make "phone calls" and send/receive messages without a "phone".

People don't want to cart a tablet around with them

Comment Re:Like cars? (Score 1) 222

Buying a new car and sending it to the crusher after 3 years because you want one could be wasteful and environmentally irresponsible.

But most people sell their cars to someone else so there is no waste or additional impact on the environment.

In the case of other stuff, it is wasteful and environmentally irresponsible to NOT discard your perfectly good incandescent light bulbs, your 1970's gas guzzler and your old tube TV/monitor. So I guess it depends on what you mean by "perfectly good".

Comment Re: your full of base load (Score 3, Informative) 399

Nice, compare the range on a small, lightweight roadster with a Model S. Even nicer that you couldn't bother to look up the range of the Model S. It's 315 miles for the 100D and about the same for the smaller, lighter Model 3 with a battery that is 20% smaller.

Current growth rate in the US is 25%. Project that out 20 years. Growth rate is likely to accelerate as prices decline and range and performance increase. but even 20 years at 25% growth rate completely replaces gas cars.

Worldwide, growth rate is even higher.

Strange that you would say an additional 2.5GW of power coming online "won't help with additional load". Power to recharge EVs is pretty low, roughly the same as three 100W light bulbs kept on 24/7.

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