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Yet, "In order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer." Jose Ortega y Gasset.

No profession has a monopoly on competence.




He made a monstrously inaccurate statement about the area of a solar panel and the power output of an area equivalent with the surface area of a nuclear power plant. I thought he was well versed in how utilities and energy work, but this made me see him in a different light.

https://youtu.be/UKT2tKmVk6g?t=16m52s

I at one time thought Elon Musk was monstrously good engineer, but I found out he was a physicist recently.


> but I found out he was a physicist recently

The horror.


I get upvoted for being an engineer, but downvoted for pointing out an actual inaccuracy. Go figure.




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