cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72601186
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It's as empty as musk promises
Plastic caps being attached to bottles has nothing to do with carbon footprint, it's to reduce plastic waste in the environment.
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Fun fact, the EVs normally have a set of fuses which blow when rolled over. These had to be removed for the demo.
EDIT: someone else posted a photo of the demo car itself not even having the high voltage battery installed; in other terms it does not drive.
I wish we could organize to ignore those idiotic product show-offs from billionaire's playgrounds. No talking, no commenting, no sharing, living as if it ever happened. This would make those products be abandoned by investors and fade into the nothingness they deserve, along with their ego and all the invested money.
One can dream...
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SpaceX and Xai merger started with the complete fraud that datancenters in space are an economically viable proposition, when even in the US, solar and batteries on leased Nebraska farmland, is over 5x cheaper, even with most optimistic launch cost assumptions.
Adding jump thrusters to cars is an unrealistic/impractical fraud to justify a spacex tesla merger.
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Those thrusters use compressed air.
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Why the fuck am I seeing bottle caps getting compared to some billionaire's vanity project everywhere?
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What caps are attached to bottles? I don't think I have seen that.
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For me the bigger problem is the plastic bottle attached to the cap.
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It uses conpressed air not c02
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The Roadster FV uses cold gas thrusters, IE compressed air. There's no carbon footprint apart from the energy used to run the compressor.
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Well yes, you get the golden cup of shit for the dumbest take on the subject, like, ever.
βHitler committed genocide, so what's eo bad about my little murder?β - OP (allegedly)
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