Before the Flood

I mean the fossil fuel industry is the biggest industry in the world they have more money and more influence than any other sector so I mean the more that there can be sort of popular Uprising against that the the better but I think the scientific fact of the matter is we are unavoidably headed towards some level of of harm so the sooner we can take action the less harm will result wow holy crap that's a good robot waa what is your Grand Vision for all of this the point of of the gigafactory is to get the cost of batteries down to the point where it's affordable right batteries are critical to a sustainable energy future the sun doesn't shine all the time so got to store it in a battery how is this going to help developing nations that have massive populations

that need to have power so the advantage of solar and batteries is that you can avoid building electricity plants at all so you could be a remote Village and have solar panels that charge a battery pack that then supplies power to the to the whole village without ever having to run thousands of miles of high voltage cable all over the place it's like what happened with uh landline phones versus cellular phones in a lot of developed countries they just didn't do the landline phones they just went straight to cellula and we actually did the calculations say like what would it take to transition the whole world to uh sustainable energy what kind of throughput would you actually need um and you need 100 Giga factories 100 of these 100 of these yes that would

make the United States no the whole world the whole world the whole world all energy that's it yeah that sounds it's manageable that sounds manageable yeah the gig Factory when it's complete it'll have the largest footprint of any building in the world counting multiple levels could be as much as 15 million sare ft so Tesla can't build 100 uh gigafactories the thing that's really going to make difference is if companies that are much bigger than Tesla do the same thing if the big industrial companies in China and the US and and Europe the big car companies if they also do this then collectively we can accelerate the transition to sustainable energy and if Government sets the rules to favor sustainable energy we can get there really quickly but it's really

fundamental unless there's a price put on carbon we're never going to be able to make the transition that we need to in time correct yeah the only way to do that is basically with a carbon tax