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Tesla Buys Ultra Capacitor Biz

Discussion in 'Tesla' started by hill, Feb 4, 2019.

  1. hill

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    Bought for a measly 218 million (stock)
    Now - what could Tesla want w/ such a biz ...
    Tesla Agrees to Acquire Maxwell Technologies for $218M - Tesla Motors Club
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    Maybe it'd be worthwhile to buy a bunch of their stock
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    I did last week and balanced it with gold on Monday:
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    Of course no profits until sold.

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    i made 100k in january. of course, i lost 200k in the recent past.:whistle:
     
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    That sounds like my father when he went to Las Vegas, "I won $100 on the slot machines, well I did put $200 into them. So I broke even!" :LOL:

    Playing market timing in the stock market is a dangerous game. Very high risk. I avoid looking at what $TSLA is doing on any particular day. I am risk averse. Slow and steady is the recipe for success.
     
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    yeah, i'm not in tsla. i was talking overall portfolio. mostly dividend stocks, but even they took a big hit the end of last year.
     
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    That's the way we MAGA, take money from @bisco and transfer it to the 1%. :barefoot:
     
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    Not to mention the cost of the buy and sell of the stocks to re-balance.
     
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    Hopefully they can develop this into a solid state solution in a few years.
     
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    it's a good amount for a capacitor - but (if my math is close) - for most operating temps, & subtracting for voltage drop, leaving wiggle room for usable/terminating voltage ... it'd give you ~ 2½V & 2½Wh turning also on how its load is used & regulated.
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    The cap label shows 3.75 Whr. Modern batt management chips can easily keep the series voltage within very small differences.

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    Jack Rickard videos are long but with a lot of technical content:

    (Reminds me of Mark Twain's Simon Wheeler.) Youtube playback can be sped up but it isn't as entertaining.

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