JB Straubel is interviewed by Daniel Yergin at CERAweek 2022 about his time founding and scaling Tesla and why he’s now focused on building a domestic battery supply chain at Redwood Materials.
I love that JB can be sustainable, innovative and thoughtful without having a huge ego. I know he is from Iowa and I think he's got a lot of the best values from that state combined with a lot of the innovation we see in California.
Straubl if you happen to see this, please allow us small investors to get involved as early as possible in redwood materials. I tried locating a bit of shares on the private market sites but nobody ever responds to my requests to buy shares. 😢
Is it better to pick a part of the batteries before grinding them up and then recycling or is better to just grind the whole battery and the electronic device and take that soup and refine it into battery materials after?
😄🥰😍🤩😘That was FANTASTIC! The Team and I are submitting a DA to a Lismore council on North Coast NSW today, 2nd Dec 2022. 1. 250 prefabricated XLam as CLT & SIPform passive house-certified homes. On the roofs of buildings, the Tractile, the excess electricity will be stored in the 28.8MW Tesla Batteries Farm. 2. The PV in total 934,370m2 - Tractile tiles 45,000m2 and Arctech Solar Tracking - Tesla PV panel 887,400m2 3. Bi-Charging of BEV two per house
Love the mission of the company…It’s like watching Standard Oil Company, Inc. in It’s early innings, exept for providing “energy loop” in other words, cricular energy economy for many generations to come. It will empower the GDP growth while being sustainable at the same time, preventing the enviromental disaster. I share the same vision and would like to provide support to Redwood. Personally, It would be inspiring to have the opportunity to talk to Redwood staff and get further insight.
Does Redwood Materials need our old tech devices to recycle? If I knew they were genuinely recycling the materials and not just refurbishing and reselling…Maybe if they allow the person who paid $600 or $800 or $1500 for the device to benefit a bit it might help? Lots of old tech for sale online cheap to the unaware. Maybe credits toward an EV or Tesla? Or #Dogecoin?
Moonshine (ethanol) in combustion engines has 44%less carbon emissions than gasoline. EV Batteries will help carbon emissions temporarily but they really are not sustainable once their life is spent. The resources for ethanol would have to be lab-grown to fight the argument about land processing contributing to carbon emissions but I still think combustion engine is the way to go.