Tesla/SpaceX AWES item
began as French April Fool's Joke

   Tesla  and its AWES
CAUTION, THIS ITEM DOES NOT CHECK OUT.

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Tesla/SpaceX AWES item
began as French April Fool's Joke

This story sadly did not check out. Time will tell how many even less plausible claims in AWE prove out-

Its clear here that Makani and its M600 is just being used as an example of AWE R&D, but not the SpaceX/Tesla AWES, which is described as a "kite", which tends to mean a soft kite in the lay press. A groundgen AWES also seems suggested. Its likely someone in Musk's circle has read discussions and agreed with Makani critiques, and is quite unlikely to closely replicate Makani.

For context, Tesla has become the number 1 car company in the world in cash valuation, but not in actual car production. This trove of cash is being sloshed around to fund SpaceX and now AWE R&D. Anything may happen now, like the acquisition of SkySails or other players, or some new architecture, or broadened AWE R&D at an accelerated pace. Secrecy and monopolistic intent are again factors...

Skepticism on Reddit Tesla forum over a Musk AWE move. 

The Musk AWES item, fake or not, is odd. What motive is there for a fake claim of this kind? Anderson's other posts seem rather mundane tech bits. On the other hand, Anderson is mysterious, with no ready contact channel. It would not be too unusual for Musk to announce a idea this way, but perhaps a Musk impersonator account is behind this, giving motive to play it out. That cash-rich Tesla would dabble in AWE R&D is fairly credible, and the Buffalo gigafactory is real. Stay Tuned.

Mystery grows.

Reddit Tesla group seems consistently removing news that Anderson reports, including like his posting of this same news that MSN and others reported-

Digging into Vocal, the social media platform owned by Jerrick Media Holdings of Fort Lee, NJ. Not a fake-news channel as such, nor is it very well established. No human answered its phone number.

An suspicious aspect of Anderson's post, besides long-shot probability Musk himself stooped to announce to Anderson, and no cited Twitter trail provided, is the confused quoting-

"Legendary humility" seems a bit off as well.

Perhaps this a click-bait writer account by some desperate person who invented John Anderson, and is trying to drum up traffic, without seeming too implausible, a mix of real and invented news. Could even be the clever shadowy IDTechX report operators looking to expand their channels. AWE is just one of their tropes, Covid is another, and so on.

Skepticism on Reddit Tesla forum over a Musk AWE move. 

The Musk AWES item, fake or not, is odd. What motive is there for a fake claim of this kind? Anderson's other posts seem rather mundane tech bits. On the other hand, Anderson is mysterious, with no ready contact channel. It would not be too unusual for Musk to announce a idea this way, but perhaps a Musk impersonator account is behind this, giving motive to play it out. That cash-rich Tesla would dabble in AWE R&D is fairly credible, and the Buffalo gigafactory is real. Stay Tuned.

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