Is he driving a Tesla? Is he flying on his rocket? Is he using Google incognito?
It’s called gradiosity, imo. There is a lot of it going around in liberal and moderate circles.
Why not fight global hunger? Why not fight global disease?
No, he has other missions.
Some would say he is just part of a new wave of inventors, envelope-edge pushers, risk takers, .. considering his ventures, I would tend to agree that using any of them carries risk.
as for your wish for a cleaner environment, keep dreaming.
Man is a transient on this planet, not its master. not even of its climate.
...Some would say he is just part of a new wave of inventors, envelope-edge pushers, risk takers...
In some ways he reminds me of Bill Lear who invented the car radio, airplane radio-compass and autopilot, and the eight-track tape player. His most famous invention being the Learjet, which became the world's first supplier of corporate jets. Yet for every brilliant, world changing idea he developed, he'd go haring off on some new interest which would consume his personal fortune along with any investors he could attract. His last project being steam powered Buses (don't see any of them around either!).
Until someone figures out how to store electricity w/out a battery (super cool the electrons and store them in a thermos bottle? call it a "juice jug") and develops a way to produce thrust without conventional motors (magnetic levitation, linear accelerators, plasma thrusters?), electric airplanes are the stuff of science fiction. The potential thrust to drag ratio is enough to keep them grounded. As for VTOL capability you might as well ask for "anti-gravity". I'd hate to guess how you could even start on something like that (lighter than air is a good approximation but unlikely to hit MACH speeds!)
Regards,
GtG
PS Bill Lear was presented with a screw driver with the blade mounted to the handle using ball bearings. The "tool" was presented to Mr Lear by his chief engineer who told him "Now you can screw around with the design without destroying it!"
PPS Nickola Tesla was a man so far ahead of his time as to be freightening. It may be said that he "invented" the world we live in.
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." Nikola Tesla
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." Nikola Tesla