breaking news Elon Musk just slams this energy source Elon Musk dismisses Fusion claims wind
and solar will be the future of energy according to musk the huge Fusion reactor in the sky still
exists Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is not convinced of the long-term prospects of
Fusion Energy the long-awaited fantasy of fusing atoms together under extreme conditions as a way
to produce green electricity however the world's richest man is put off by the logistics and cost
despite how wonderful that sounds wanna know more well let's find out hello everyone and
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and let's begin musk claimed in a tweet on Thursday that Fusion would be a costly form
of energy due to the difficulty in sourcing and exporting Source fuel as well as maintaining the
actor much better to use the Sun a thermonuclear reactor that requires no maintenance or refueling
not all of those criticisms are unfounded either despite Decades of research scientists have not
yet solved the mystery of fusion as the energy needed to start up today's reactors is still
much more than what they can produce in musk's opinion a far Greener future is already Within
Reach and a follow-up he said solar and wind with batteries for times when the sun isn't
shining or the wind isn't blowing integrated with conventional high voltage lines is the
key approach to a sustainable energy future we don't need any mysterious Technologies it goes
without saying that musk's vehicle company Tesla has a significant investment in solar energy and
battery storage Technologies so his remarks aren't exactly shocking he is correct that a renewable
grid is a worthwhile objective whether or not there is a financial incentive Fusion isn't fully
off the table for the billionaire but he seems to believe that there are already better alternatives
he tweeted last year after a group of MIT researchers said their tiny Fusion reactor
was extremely likely to function saying it's cool and for sure k n should be done however
he went on to say at the time I predict its best case would be more expensive than wind and solar
AKA gigantic Fusion reactor in Sky other billionaires such as Jeff Bezos the creator
of Amazon and a well-known musk adversary do Envision a future where Fusion reactors will
power A Greener World bezos's investment in the Canadian Fusion Energy firm General Fusion was
made public last year furthermore investing in Fusion technology are Richard Branson CEO of
Virgin and Bill Gates creator of Microsoft Fusion Energy's viability is still very much in question
Fusion is a goal of creating a completely safe and renewable source of energy that scientists
claimed they are getting closer to every year but up to this point reality has been far from ideal
musk seems to think that creating technology for renewable energy and battery storage is a better
use of our resources than any other person on the other hand Elon Musk is an Innovative
concept to redesign the electricity grid that could guard against blackouts the company solar
panels and batteries can cooperate to act as a big distributed utility according to Tesla CEO Elon
Musk who spoke about this during the company's first quarter 2021 earnings call the panels would
gather energy and refuel batteries at a single residence unlike a conventional grid that supplied
electricity to hundreds of homes via large power plants it would then be possible to transfer
that energy to other residences and feed it back into the grid thus turning those homes into many
power plants musk stated I don't know how many people will actually get this but this is very
profound and essential given that people are turning to electric vehicles in the future world
we are headed toward musk highlighted a number of reasons why houses would need to take immediate
action increased use of electric vehicles if all Transportation switches to Electric according to
musk the grid will require roughly twice as much electricity widespread adoption of renewable
energy musk asserted that in order to completely power the Clean Energy Future the world would
require almost three times as much electricity overall if heating were to also move to renewable
sources extreme weather occurrences are becoming more common according to musk it's a formula for
disaster I tell you musk stated the alternative would be the construction of new power plants
as well as longer and more numerous electricity lines the advantages of solar energy combined
with batteries have previously been praised by mosque when he displayed a home of the future in
October 2016. he showcased how a Tesla powerwall battery a slightly modified version of the battery
and Tesla cars could partner with Tesla's solar roof tiles to gather electricity while the sun
is shining and store it in the battery because of this configuration the home has constant access
to clean energy this is elevated to a new level by a virtual power plant a power wall battery
is used to feed electricity back to the Grid at predetermined times rather than giving energy to
a single home as needed Tesla's already taken some steps in this direction it has implemented virtual
power plants in South Australia Massachusetts Rhode Island and other places in order to fill
the energy shortfall during a heat wave in July 2018 a Tesla virtual power plant in Vermont was
able to use 500 power wall batteries in November 2019 Tesla and the Energy company octopus energy
launched the Tesla energy plane in the UK Richard Hawks an architect at one of the program's early
supporters sold in a report that he agreed to give up management of his power wall battery
as part of the arrangement the price of hawks electricity bills is reduced in exchange for the
loss of his ability to select parameters like how much electricity should be stored forward
to guard against a power outage in the same month that Tesla announced a significant modifications
to a sustainable energy products musk makes these remarks the company has adjusted its Tesla solar
roof price such that it now takes roof complexity into account despite the fact that customers had
already signed contracts prices for them increased by around 30 percent as a result of the adjustment
we did discover that in terms of determining the difficulty of various roofs we essentially made
some serious mistakes musk stated Tesla also declared that it would stop selling powerwall
batteries and solar panels separately musk defended the action by single would make installs
simpler recently Tesla discreetly built a virtual power plant in Japan Japan's the new home to the
most recent Tesla virtual power plant and the firm said that it has been quietly installing its
powerwall batteries at residences on the island of miyakujima since 2021 and has now installed over
300 of them according to the statement it's the biggest commercial virtual power plant in Japan
solar panels and batteries found in individual residences are used as virtual power plants
if you have one of those installations you may join up to transmit Surplus power back to your
local electrical system which can help it out when there's a chance of a blackout instead of
utilizing the gas-fired power plants that are generally used when the electricity Supply is
constrained the grid can utilize that energy the model for the virtual power plant is a free solar
panel in storage battery installation program run by the local energy provider miyakojima
Mirai Energy company Tesla's trying to launch a virtual power plant in Texas where it sees an
opportunity to contribute a new source of power to a grid that is notoriously unreliable Tesla
currently has virtual power planes functioning in California and Australia when the grid is
stressed out during emergencies or times of heavy demand Californians who have power walls
installed in their home can receive two dollars for each kilowatt hour they feed back into the
system typhoons frequently cause power outages for those who live on miyakujima and the power
walls keep the lights on in certain residences in a video produced by Tesla a powerwall customer
noted lights are available during typhoons freezers are used as usual we'll eventually
witness a major expansion of those systems in their economics will only get better and Tesla's
already demonstrated that this is operating effectively on a sizable scale we wouldn't
be shocked if Tesla had thousands of power walls installed on vpps before the end of the year and
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