Tesla has their own anode free tech and patents but two Tesla alumni are also on the QS board JB Straubel and Brad Buss. But why should Gates be on the board? Saying that the QS people were foolish enough to take money from him isn't an answer. Since leaving the MS and Berkshire boards he may have more time. He may want to rub elbows with the VW guy on the board as MS has been courting VW. But the main thing is QS tech seems like its been delayed be a decade just like happened with Gate's Terra power.
To me Gates isn't just a green washer he is anti green. He scuttles green things including green companies, tech and policies and is pretty overt in his outright support of fossil fuels. Recently when he was again saying that the Tesla Semi wasn't plausible it was timed to give fossil fuel foot dragger GM a boost on its game with the Nikola scam. Buffet and Berkshire are in GM (Buffet and Birkshire do token green e.g. after they got involved with BYD the solar panels came off the BYD buss roofs- they were running EV busses all day on the roof top panels.)
Remember where GM was on CARB. The Nikola thing is interesting as GM based on performance and obvious intent can't access
capital markets or debt on acceptable terms.
And Nikola seems to be a shell play. GM could never make a FCV Chevy Colorado seem viable- because it isn't (and the Nikola Badger sure as hell doesn't- its a short in the pants small truck with some led light and a varmint name) but it could fluff up a shell company with a bunch of Enron style mark to market can kicking claimes and then pretend to partner with obvious later acquisition intent (scrape out the hyped stock value) and follow by scamming the BEV vehicle tax credits that it ran out of on its compliance vehicles like the outsourced Bolt. With this shell game it can try to take more public money but still be a compliance foot dragger on its kicking the can to its next bankruptcy- this also makes this place holder company look like its doing something.
But GM will still be bringing its way out of date tech which won't get them anywhere and Nikola has nothing except the semi truck body shell which some say may have been pilfered from Walmart- and a render of a Chevy Colorado in aftermarket trinkets with vermin label not worth much.
Nikola's vaporware promotions and GMs battery day and GM's Lyric "where's the beef" presentation and its constant projections of no advatage for Tesla through people like Lutz remind so much of Enron and its "mark to market" scam and then its kick the can acquisition of PG&E. But this is what you always get with the natural gas rent seeker ponzi culture, lie, lie, lie...
They think natural gas will continue to be allowed to be part of the energy mix- it won't. It won't continued to existence as it is not compatible with Paris and there is no tech that could ever fix it. Plus the pozi is a massive rip off and society is paying massively inflated prices for it. It can't survive at current prices and it needs energy prices to keep going up without limit when they must fall for reasons (technical) political and economical. But idiotically they think they will be able to lie their way to successfully implementimg a scam much bigger than diesel gate- a scam bigger than 911 and Iraq WMD and Libya and Afrganistan combined would be required and one that flipped the will of the people of the world and of EU and China to sell 3x as much natural gas in hydrogen as would be needed to replace gasoline with natural gas and they are supposed to be able to be allowed to do this because 100 years from now a closed loop system might finally not add polution and might compete on price. And they think they will be allowed until 2050 to slowly roll this scam out when they don't even have a year to perpetrate it and their scams have more exposure than ever. No, these are lying idiot arguments.
No, much easier to zero out these people's foolish investments they were never entitled to a return and they have already been paid off countless times over.
To me Gates isn't just a green washer he is anti green. He scuttles green things including green companies, tech and policies and is pretty overt in his outright support of fossil fuels. Recently when he was again saying that the Tesla Semi wasn't plausible it was timed to give fossil fuel foot dragger GM a boost on its game with the Nikola scam. Buffet and Berkshire are in GM (Buffet and Birkshire do token green e.g. after they got involved with BYD the solar panels came off the BYD buss roofs- they were running EV busses all day on the roof top panels.)
Remember where GM was on CARB. The Nikola thing is interesting as GM based on performance and obvious intent can't access
capital markets or debt on acceptable terms.
And Nikola seems to be a shell play. GM could never make a FCV Chevy Colorado seem viable- because it isn't (and the Nikola Badger sure as hell doesn't- its a short in the pants small truck with some led light and a varmint name) but it could fluff up a shell company with a bunch of Enron style mark to market can kicking claimes and then pretend to partner with obvious later acquisition intent (scrape out the hyped stock value) and follow by scamming the BEV vehicle tax credits that it ran out of on its compliance vehicles like the outsourced Bolt. With this shell game it can try to take more public money but still be a compliance foot dragger on its kicking the can to its next bankruptcy- this also makes this place holder company look like its doing something.
But GM will still be bringing its way out of date tech which won't get them anywhere and Nikola has nothing except the semi truck body shell which some say may have been pilfered from Walmart- and a render of a Chevy Colorado in aftermarket trinkets with vermin label not worth much.
Nikola's vaporware promotions and GMs battery day and GM's Lyric "where's the beef" presentation and its constant projections of no advatage for Tesla through people like Lutz remind so much of Enron and its "mark to market" scam and then its kick the can acquisition of PG&E. But this is what you always get with the natural gas rent seeker ponzi culture, lie, lie, lie...
They think natural gas will continue to be allowed to be part of the energy mix- it won't. It won't continued to existence as it is not compatible with Paris and there is no tech that could ever fix it. Plus the pozi is a massive rip off and society is paying massively inflated prices for it. It can't survive at current prices and it needs energy prices to keep going up without limit when they must fall for reasons (technical) political and economical. But idiotically they think they will be able to lie their way to successfully implementimg a scam much bigger than diesel gate- a scam bigger than 911 and Iraq WMD and Libya and Afrganistan combined would be required and one that flipped the will of the people of the world and of EU and China to sell 3x as much natural gas in hydrogen as would be needed to replace gasoline with natural gas and they are supposed to be able to be allowed to do this because 100 years from now a closed loop system might finally not add polution and might compete on price. And they think they will be allowed until 2050 to slowly roll this scam out when they don't even have a year to perpetrate it and their scams have more exposure than ever. No, these are lying idiot arguments.
No, much easier to zero out these people's foolish investments they were never entitled to a return and they have already been paid off countless times over.
