Before the Flood 27 octobre 2016 Musk fait visiter la Gigafactory à Leonardo DiCaprio et explique comment les énergies renouvelables et le stockage peuvent remplacer les combustibles fossiles.
Musk fait visiter la Gigafactory à Leonardo DiCaprio et explique comment les énergies renouvelables et le stockage peuvent remplacer les combustibles fossiles.
Transcription Elon Musk
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 better. But I think the scientific fact of the matter is we are unavoidably headed towards some level of harm. So the sooner we can take action, the less harm will result.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Wow. Holy crap, that's a good robot. Whoa. What is your grand vision for all of this?
Elon Musk
The point of the Gigafactory is to get the cost of batteries down to the point where it's affordable.
Elon Musk
Batteries are critical to a sustainable energy future. The sun doesn't shine all the time, so got to store it in a battery.
Leonardo DiCaprio
How is this going to help developing nations that have massive populations that need to have power?
Elon Musk
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 whole village without ever having to run thousands of miles of high voltage cable all over the place. It's like what happened with landline phones versus cellular phones in a lot of developed countries. They just didn't do the landline phones, they just went straight to cellulose. We actually did the calculation to say, like, what would it take to transition the whole world to its sustainable energy? What kind of throughput would you actually need? And you need 100 gigafactories.
Leonardo DiCaprio
A hundred of these?
Elon Musk
100 of these, yes.
Leonardo DiCaprio
That would make the United States.
Elon Musk
No, the whole world.
Leonardo DiCaprio
The whole world.
Elon Musk
The whole world. All energy.
Leonardo DiCaprio
That's it.
Leonardo DiCaprio
That sounds knowledgeable. That sounds manageable.
Elon Musk
Yeah. The Gigafactory, when it's complete, I'll have the largest footprint of any building in the world. Counting multiple levels, it could be as much as 15 million square feet. So Tesla can't build 100 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 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,
Leonardo DiCaprio
we're never going to be able to make the transition that we need to in time. Correct? Yeah.
Elon Musk
And the only way to do that is basically with a carbon tax.