Yeah, that’s the advantage of scale. We probably have more solar PV deployment in an hour (~85 MW) than advanced geothermal comes online each year, and that ratio won’t change that much over time.
Still niches for adv geothermal to in electricity, as w H2 in transport.

Musk’s battery swap fraud vs FC’s is scam vs less-efficient option. Energy ecosystems will still contain some less-efficient options (eg e-bikes vs BEVs lol).

Real life battery swap vs FCs is more-efficient vs less-efficient option.

How about this analogy.
Hyperloop vs airplanes is like a scam vs less-efficient option.
HSR vs airplanes is more-efficient vs less efficient. Still some roles for airplanes.

Oh way more. Batteries have awesome scale! I must have been unclear.
Musk’s battery swap promise (behind a curtain, literally) was a scam. They built 1. It was manual, not automated. Never ran. It was a bad faith gimmick to soak up credits from naive regulators.

Nah, battery swap vs fuel cells is like hyperloop vs airplanes. Scam versus energy intensive alternative.

Good point. Structurally different process if you need 80% success rates with finite upside, versus 1% success rate with seemingly-infinite upside.

And there were others before that - battery swapping station scam (for more ZEV credits) goes back to 2013-2015 or so.

I can’t find it now but I thought we had tablets describing [joint stock trading expeditions] from Sumeria, don’t we? Or maybe it was financial insurance arrangements in event the ships didn’t return… 🤔

McKinsey quality for a fraction of McKinsey cost...! 😏
thewalrus.ca/shadow-gover...

When I was a kid there was a saying to the effect that “today’s wars are fought over oil, tomorrow’s wars will be fought over water” 😞

Great on you Cristina!! 💪
Will it be shown at other festivals, or available online?
FYI $TSLAQ

6/ Now, I am very belated on owing someone a very long hydrogen related thread... 😔

5/ The two biggest auto producers in Canada last year? None of the Big Three. It was our "Japan Two" -- companies whose cheap imports we once worried about.
Toyota 530k
Honda 420k

Together they were 73% of Canadian car production. All the more reason to invite Chinese OEMs in. 😊

4/ Canada's auto production has fallen a lot in ten years -- from 2.4 MM/y in 2014 down to 1.3 MM/y in 2024. It's been a rough decade.

h/t autoleap.com/blog/how-is-...

3/ Dropping tariffs on [less-expensive] Chinese EVs would really help car buyers but worry auto workers in vote-rich Ontario.
Our 1980s experience with Japanese OEMs points a path forward: import limits + encouragement to localize production. 🤝

2b/ I made this chart ... six years ago while at a non-profit administering an EV infrastructure program. (That's why the targets are now out of date.)
There were always going to be speedbumps, you might as well plan for them.
tinyurl.com/pluginbc-aug2019

2/ ZEV rebates shrinking/disappearing is a big part. At the start of 2024 the federal rebate was $5000, with BC up to $4000 and Quebec up to $7000. Quebec maintains more modest rebates which will phase out in 2027.
Trump-induced economic uncertainty won't have helped either.