© ShutterstockAerial photo of supercharger Tesla station at the Harris Ranch in California.
Perched at the intersection of Interstate 5 and Highway 198 in California's Central Valley, the Harris Ranch station boasts a total of 98 Tesla supercharger modules. For all you Texans out there, it's sort of the EV version of a Buc-ee's, only without the Wal-Mart-sized convenience store with all the cool souvenirs.
But the location does sport a Shell gas station on premises, and, as Kevin details in his story, that gasoline station serves not only to fill up all the ICE cars that come along, but also as camouflage for the source of power generation for all those Tesla chargers.
Here's an excerpt:
Superchargers charge vehicles up to the 80% sweet spot in as little as 20 minutes, but to provide that kind of power for nearly 100 bays takes something solar can't provide — diesel generators.[End]
Investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer discovered that the station was powered by diesel generators hidden behind a Shell station. Reporters at SF Gate tried to find out how much of the station's electricity was from the generators, but couldn't get a response from Tesla.
The station isn't connected to any dedicated solar farms, which means that absent the diesel generators, the station is powered by California's grid.
Oh.
You just can't make this stuff up, folks. Why even try, when reality is so much stranger and more absurd than fiction?
That is all.
Reader Comments
Is there any way that the thinning of the Earth's magnetic field and subsequent influx of cosmic rays could give rise to conditions on that planet where sarcasm immediately becomes prophecy?
Hey. Choose your words carefully when talking about 'superfoods'.
Technology always makes sense.
Much the same as do circular firing squads.
Load up (heavy on the ammunition!), point and shoot.
Even if you miss your target, you'll still wind up killing somebody or something.
And this WILL ensure your survival.
Technology always makes sense.
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I heard someone say part of Agenda 2030 is to force everyone to give up their cars that rely on petroleum. It's not possible unless there's a totalitarian government or a SHTF scenario. But in that scenario, I'll be converting my engine to be able to attach a belt to run a generator or tools.
Of course this all assumes me and mine survive the initial chaos in a SHTF scenario or that whatever that scenario is doesn't destroy everything that conducts electricity.
Ideally, one would have an old enough gasoline car that it's completely mechanical with a carburetor instead of fuel injection. More ideally it would be diesel with mechanical injection because diesel, as I've pointed out, can be distilled from waste plastics fairly simply.
Check out this ex-pat couple who started an industry on an island by accident as a result of dealing with the plastic washing ashore. [Link]
What would you bet that Bezos bug-out shelter in the southern Rockies has a beefy Faraday cage protecting the interior from what may come, either from the sun or nukes? He and Musk both seem to have plans that allow either launching into space or digging deeper into the earth. Bezos has been hollowing out his mountain for a decade already.
I don't think it's tin-foil hat at all. Outside the US it is known that some radio frequencies are more harmful than others. It is, after all, radiation. It's just non-ionizing radiation, so most people don't think about it. But I've also had so many premonitions and synchronicities that I can't imagine all this noise in the atmosphere not having an effect on at minimum, that, but worse, our ability to think on all cylinders.
I have an insulating cloth material and I've been meaning to use it to line a lightweight beanie and do some experiments. Just have to unbury my sewing machine.
I'm still half convinced there will be a spate of upper thigh and ass cancers from people who always have their phone in their pockets who also have all their apps running in the background. My phone is only in my pocket when I'm walking. At home or in the car it's mounted or on a table.
Since then sperm counts and T levels have plummeted, but there are probably several contributors to that scenario (cellphones likely one of them).
I think that's the majority of it, combined with perennially poor dietary guidelines. If I had to guess a percentage that was due to radiation, out-my-ass calculations indicate 20%.
Smoking bans would figure in all of that, as smoking tobacco whacks your T levels up.