Elon Musk Enterprises Has Nearly No Cleantech Information These Days

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I’ve numerous sources for monitoring and following cleantech information. Day by day, I’m going via quite a few feeds and web sites and information alerts to attempt to discover out what’s occurring and spot the most important tales to cowl. I very seldom see something notable cleantech-wise from Tesla or different Elon Musk firms today. So, yesterday, I made a decision to undergo two weeks of tales from an enormous Elon Musk superfan web site. I figured I have to be lacking stuff and that is the place I’d undoubtedly discover it.

Effectively … it appears there’s been virtually no cleantech-related information from Musk Enterprises in latest weeks (or months). There’s tons of stuff about SpaceX, Starlink, Elon Musk firms getting contracts from the Division of Conflict, and Elon Musk massively funding Republican political campaigns. Oligarchs gonna oligarch … and revenue from warfare.

Frankly, contemplating that Tesla was once 100% targeted on accelerating the transition to wash, sustainable vitality, and Elon Musk was once pouring his time into Tesla, it’s massively disappointing to see how issues have modified. Even additional, there’s sturdy suspicion Musk is weighing closely on the aspect of oil/fossil fuels (past supporting anti–clear vitality Republican politicians). And there could also be some odd enterprise behind all of this.

Donald Trump lately stated, “We advised Zelensky, ‘You are able to do no matter you wish to Russia, however don’t hit the refineries as a result of that’s a world downside.’ And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel gasoline. He higher rattling nicely cease.” Now, large information at the moment is that Ukraine’s Starlink connections should not working so nicely, interfering with missions, and Ukrainian officers and their allies assume this comes from SpaceX and the US retaliating for Ukraine hitting Russian oil refineries. Notably, Poland Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski referenced a Kyiv Unbiased report on Twitter and wrote: “Hey, @elonmusk, large man, are you enjoying politics together with your merchandise once more? As your European clients, we’re watching you.” Musk responded: “be quiet, small man.”

Plainly SpaceX is limiting the pace of Starlink connections Ukraine depends on for drone actions, and with out warning, completely messing up reside missions.

“In line with Zelenskyy, the Kremlin launched “wave after wave of drone assaults all through the day and evening at the moment” on Oct. 14, simply days after President Donald Trump and Putin introduced a deal to convey Russian diesel gasoline to the US. Critics, together with some Republicans, have slammed the deal as a lift to Putin’s warfare effort with little payoff for People on the pump,” USA TODAY experiences. “Zelenskyy known as Trump’s take care of Putin a ‘betrayal.’”

Curiously, Musk has additionally apparently been harm by Ukraine’s actions. On Monday, President Zelensky highlighted that the nation had efficiently struck three Yandex’s knowledge facilities. Yandex is a serious Russian tech firm. Reportedly, these assaults have led to an enormous drop in Russian bot exercise on social media (or delinquent media as Steve Hanley calls it). “It immediately turned a bit simpler to breathe on many social media platforms,” Zelensky famous. “Lots of people seen it, and there was much less hate, much less division and fewer provocations as a result of there have been fewer bots,” he added. “And it’s fairly clear the place these bots had been coming from.”

How is Musk himself being hit by this? That’s the place it will get much more attention-grabbing. “The phenomenon could even be hitting near house for sure billionaires. On Elon Musk’s Twitter-turned-X, customers rapidly seen that the variety of interactions the positioning’s proprietor was getting on his posts appeared to plummet within the wake of the strikes,” Futurism notes. “‘Woah, Elon Musk out right here getting lower than 5k likes on his tweets after the bot farm obtained exploded,’ YouTuber Zack ‘Jerry Rig All the things’ Nelson tweeted. A screenshot appended to the put up exhibits Musk receiving 4,900 likes after responding ‘Wow’ to a racist conspiracy concept that claims Brussels, Belgium, is ‘solely 10.5 % white.’” That doesn’t inform us a lot or show something, proper? However Futurism dug in a bit:

“On its face, the speculation sounds fairly far-fetched. Might the destruction of some Russian knowledge facilities actually be tanking Musk’s engagement on his personal platform?

“However wanting on the common variety of likes his posts have been receiving does elevate eyebrows. All through October, his posts garnered a mean of between 17,000 and 81,000 likes per day — till the previous two days, the averages slid to a dismal 11,000 and eight,000, respectively.

“We actually can’t decide a causal relationship, however the numbers are hanging. And specialists are paying consideration.”

Keep in mind, Russia did work to assist the election of Donald Trump. (As if this wasn’t apparent sufficient to those that appeared on the proof, Trump admin finally unintentionally redacted paperwork displaying that that is precisely what occurred.) Extra lately, Musk was the #1 supporter of Trump within the final election and is now pouring cash into Republican campaigns. Are oil cash and corrupt alliances weaving a tangled net of lies and nonsense on social media, interfering with Ukrainian efforts to repel Russia, and simply general messing up the world? It certain seems prefer it. You aren’t profitable from this. I’m not profitable from this. Plainly only a few tremendous wealthy oligarchs and their political puppets are.

John McCain was a blended bag, it doesn’t matter what aspect of the aisle (and democracy) you sit on, however he brilliantly stated Russia was a “fuel station masquerading as a rustic.” It’s additionally been known as a “large fuel station” and a “fuel station with nukes” by leaders on the left. Now Elon Musk is strongly linked with and siding with that enormous fuel station of a rustic? In the meantime, Trump’s crimson line in every thing is that Ukraine can’t hit Russian oil infrastructure (which is the way you truly harm Russia), and he’s wanting to open up oil commerce with Russia once more? In the meantime, the Strait of Hormuz continues to be closed as a result of Donald Trump determined to bomb Iran (one other mission from an oil state that was speculated to be accomplished in a couple of day). A minimum of he’s inadvertently and ignorantly elevating the value of fuel and inspiring a transition to electrical autos.

Now, all of this stuff should not instantly linked. Nevertheless it’s an actual disgrace that there’s so little cleantech information and pleasure from Elon Musk and Tesla, and as a substitute there’s all of these items.