Is there any scientist that interests you from history?

[Anonymous]

This is Robert Oppenheimer. He is known as the father of the atomic bomb. There are a few interviews about him and he seems not sad or proud of his accomplishment but as if his soul was dead. He was a very bright kid by the time he was 12, his talent in physics was becoming Obvious. He made the bombs that killed close to 200k people during world war 2.

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https://youtu.be/lb13ynu3Iac

[KayMay]

Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating electrical current. Thomas Edison was pissed off about it, because he was all about direct current. There was a battle between the two. In order to prove his point that alternating current was dangerous, Tom hooked up "Topsy" the elephant to alternating current, and killed her.

Nik won the battle, and AC is what we all have in our homes. Many of us would be freezing without it, because DC can't be transmitted for long distances. (we don't all have a hydro dam on our block)

[Asker]

Reminded me of this

https://youtu.be/NmWtFx_n3I0

[KayMay]

Wow, the chimp must have got loose and climbed up there. Chimps are very dangerous.
There was a story in America where a lady had a chimp for a boyfriend. (I don't know how she got it)
They had meals together and shared wine. The lady next door came over to borrow some sugar or something, and the chimp ripped her hands off. The cops came out, and the smart cop lured the chimp into his cop car. He did that because he was afraid of how many people the chimp might kill.
He then shot the chimp through the window of the car.

[Bricealan]

Ironic, in that TESLA vehicles are powered by DC, but Tesla was a brilliant scientist

[KayMay]

@Bricealan
Powered by DC, but charged with an AC source. I talked to a guy who sells them. The best one they have is $175, 000. He said that if you take it out and punch it, you better have your head against the headrest, because it does 0 to 60 in 2 seconds. And I just read yesterday that people didn't believe Elon when he said a Tesla can beat a Porsche off the line. He's right.

[Bricealan]

I have a Model S, so I know how right he was/is. My car will run away from a Porsche 911. and stay ahead. I charge from my Solar, and also have a Tesla storage battery on the wall to store power in case of a power outage.

[KayMay]

@Bricealan
I'm all for electric cars, but I don't think we're ready for them. You have to dig up 500,000 pounds of the Earth's crust to make just one car battery. We need a completely new battery technology. A battery that can be charged in 15 minutes. And we need millions of charging stations, and a new electric grid that can support these stations.
Last summer the governor of California was telling people what hours they could charge their cars, and only small percentage of their cars are electric.

[KayMay]

Thanks for the MHO

[Bricealan]

I read a similar report about one here locally that people had as a "pet". How insane, The damn thing got loose and attacked a neighbor and bit off most of his fingers and part of his hands. The police shot that damned thing too. (After it had mutilated their neighbor) What a nightmare.

[KayMay]

@Bricealan
Some critters shouldn't be pets.

[Bricealan]

The 500,000 lbs. of earth crust to produce one battery was ran by me some time ago by an alleged friend. I disagreed with her, vehemently, and she no longer talks to me. . This is NOT a valid assertion of what it takes for one battery. If that were true, the cost of the car would be $1,000,000 and no one could afford that. Take the 500,000 figure times the number of Tesla cars and tell me what that amount of excavation would cost and amount to.

Additionally, I charge at home with Solar electric, and a Tesla storage battery on the wall.

[KayMay]

@Bricealan

How much lithium does an EV need? A lithium-ion battery pack for a single electric car contains about 8 kilograms (kg) of lithium, according to figures from US Department of Energy science and engineering research centre Argonne National Laboratory. Jul 20, 2022

Electric vehicle demand – has the world got enough lithium? https://www. weforum. org › agenda › 2022/07 › electric...
Search for: How much lithium does it take to make a car battery?
How much lithium does it take to make a Tesla battery?
Conversation. To manufacture each EV battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, 25,000 pounds of ore for copper Diging up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust For just - one - battery. Mar 14, 2022

That's what I got off the web.

And I'm talking a national solution. In 12 years, 17 states are banning the sale of new gas cars.
How will people in high rises charge their cars with solar?

[AviatorTom]

I've always been fascinated with Michael Farraday, how he made so many discoveries about electricity with such archaic equipment.

[SnowedIn]

Charles Algernon Parsons. Invented the steam turbine as we know it.

[ArrowheadSW]

Oh yes. The one who I've read the most about is Albert Einstein. I also like reading about the earlier ones like Galileo and Newton.

[Anonymous]

Does Tesla count?

[Asker]

Lol why wouldn’t he