Elon Musk’s sustainable energy calculations ‘off by factor of ten’: Alex Epstein

Centre for Industrial Progress President Alex Epstein says Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s calculations for sustainable energy were “off by a factor of ten”.

“Yet we’re supposed to listen to him and sacrifice the world’s economy and spend money that we don’t have and impoverish everyone,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi. Mr Epstein said Mr Musk should not be insisting all energy come from solar and wind, “and then have to build this impossible amount of batteries that would bankrupt us if we tried”.

“If Musk wants to do something good, he needs to start advocating for liberating and decriminalising nuclear.”

ritapanahi Rita ...He just another fringe ranter. For almost 9 years he's been having a go at Musk. He's massive fossil fuel advocate. Apparently he believes in ** 'African countries being 'inferior to the Western world'' ** Climate change is a hoax

I’m ambivalent about Musk TBH, but the idea of quoting Alex Epstein for anything remotely scientific is the journalistic equivalent of picking up one’s own faeces and saying ‘look, poo’

Of course SKY (choke) News would say that.

can sky ever host someone who isn't full of controversy?

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