Elon Musk of Tesla, with headquarters on his native planet of Vulcan, has announced what every techie outfit craves and hires p.r. people to crow they've got: a potential "game-changer."
No, not the electric car. Old news. Not even Space-X. The announcement today concerned the alternative energy holy grail: a battery capable of storing solar energy. And he's got a fleet of them.
And Tesla isn't the only company going in this direction. When energy storage via battery gets cheap, big and reliable enough, it becomes the missing link in clean energy, further enabling everybody--from individuals to individual households on up--to liberate themselves from dirty grids and fossil fuel billionaires--and even future clean energy megacompanies and billionaires.
First Half Pirates, Vals and Fever
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It's just past the All-Star break in both Major League Baseball and the
WNBA. For me what's most notable in baseball is that at the halfway point
the ...
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