I don't like Elon overall but in this context it makes no sense to include him. How is he against solar?
Anyway, I don't think you answered the question you were replying to. 12 is a very specific number. I'm betting it refers to some conspiracy theory in which it is exactly 12 people. "Trump and other powerful people" is different.
This is a solid question and deserves a solid answer from someone like me -- i was once a HUGE fan of his. Wow, my clock got cleaned.
His Tesla car was a way to expand his Tesla charging stations which charge substantially more for electricity (pure profit). Breaking centralized power breaks this investment rapidly.
Solar power (panels) is 80-88% China now. The sodium batteries? Also China. The 'blades' he uses for most of his cars now? China. A ten thousand dollar (BYD 'Seagull') electric car, often an order of magnitude cheaper than what he offers? China.
He is heavily invested in the oil whipping bandwagon now, thanks to his brown-nosing in with Trump. Solar will annihilate this.
He is also one of the investors in data centres / A.I. LLMs (Grok) which cannot run any less than 99.99% reliability. Solar panels + sodium ion batteries are, apparently, less reliable than that (even though they are cheaper to set up and about half the time).
But please, he does put on a great show of loving solar? So there must be many things i am missing.
That's not a contradiction. He can own a company that sells solar while pushing to make it more expensive for regular people to buy and install it. That's pretty much capitalism's favorite way of maximizing profit.
That's completely different. Amazon did that to gain market share and eventually gouge everyone to maximize profits. Elon didn't do anything in either of those industries, he took over Tesla from the creators, and he used government money to privatize chunks of nasa under the guise of reducing the cost to launch by taking designs that had already existed and weren't being used because the government shut down the research to cut NASA's budget.
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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 Sep 13 '26 edited 29d ago
Solar bro, they’re talking about solar. Now enjoy a bunch of bots shitting on solar and the its feasibility
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