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by Test0129 1400 days ago
One might wonder where Elon gets his ideas from. Perhaps he's standing on the shoulders of thousands of man-years of research and development paid for by the American people. You may be surprised to learn how much R&D technology that takes telescopic photographs of chorizo ends up in your pocket as your phone, smartwatch, etc. Elon fetishism has no place in this argument. He's an end user of the system. I am not even sure how it can compare.
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> One might wonder where Elon gets his ideas from.

Looking at Lithium Ion batteries it looks like the tech was developed at NASA and Exxon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery