Tesla investor day

Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, but no new cars (msn.com)

"Master Plan 3 includes adding renewable power to the existing grid, producing more electric vehicles, installing heat pumps in homes and buildings, using high-temperature heat delivery and hydrogen for industrial applications, and building sustainably fueled planes and boats. Musk’s plan is to create “a sustainable energy civilization.”

There is that doggone word again that keeps popping up.

 

Witnessing once in a lifetime genius, I feel lucky to be alive

 

Don't ignore the three words following it. We use a lot of hydrogen without it ever going into a truck, let alone a car. Needing green hydrogen doesn't mean needing fuel cells.

 

I watched the whole presentation from 20 minute delay to the final not answered question. Aspirational. Backward looking. Details of future plans lacking asside from the Mexico announcement that was perhaps what delayed to start.

Re hydrogen I recall the examples of its potential use being steel making and perhaps cement making.

 

Those are potential new uses of hydrogen to reduce green house gas emissions. There are a lot of things hydrogen is already being used for where it is derived from from fossil fuels though.

One of the big ones is for ammonia. https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-ammonia-production-emits-CO2/97/i24 Putting fuel cells in cars isn't going to help much if we are still making ammonia from natural gas.