Thanks Joe *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* 4:51. New Switchyard/Substation. 3rd transformer footing. Initial slab concrete placed. Shuttering for the main footing pad, not the catch basin. To the right, red marked locations for drilled pile shafts. Bottom right. Assembling a ground beam rebar cage. Might be a different design to the initial pair of transformer footings. See Joe’s 2 November 2022 video at 19.33. 11:09. Southend, east. Centre. Excavator behind the stair loading the dump truck. 12:03. River Road south. Electrical vaults open further west. Might finally be the completion of the powerline underground relocation project. Another 2 year project. I made an almost identical comment in October 2022. 12:22. Southend, south. East and Centre Fire Escape Passage. Layer of earth over the roof may provide a buffer between the gravel road substrate and the waterprrof membrane. Or it’s simply more economical fill. 16:50. Westside, triangular storage. Stacks of beams………no columns. Even a wildly speculative covered parking lot with solar panels needs columns. 17:48. EOL, north pond. Bottom left. Flow spreader structure. Placing a layer of rip-rap on the outfall side. 19:33. EOL, north pond. Bottom left. Outflow weir. Backfilled around on 3 sides. 21:42. New Switchyard/Substation. Centre. Stack of pile rebar cages against the fence. 22:04. New Switchyard/Substation. Constructing the main footing. Catch basin will be around the perimeter. 24:35. Casting, Baghouse. Upper left. Much larger diameter pipe installed. 24:52. Casting, Baghouse. Box like delivery. May fit on top of one of the speculative heat-exhangers at bottom centre. 6 stubby columns there to support 2 square items. 27:44. Battery, roof. Bottom right. Crates of aluminum/aluminium damper assemblies. 29:05. Tesla Road. White and teal coloured production equipment. Hopper, cyclonic separator, duct, cabinets.
12:03 I wish you were right. It would be nice to place those lines undergrounds. But.... Notice the 6 new power poles laying on the ground? And the pole drill rig? Seems like things are going in the wrong direction.
12:03. I'm not sure. That has sure been a long time coming. I thought those telephone pole power lines were to be removed. (Ha, Joe never liked those, I recall.) But maybe they are putting even more in.
@@WarrenLacefield 12:03. I'm not sure either. The vaults are open though. The works would be by Bluebonnet, and there may be some sequence of works that isn't obvious yet.
6:42 - Joe, great flight on Friday! Starting the video providing a rare perspective and a great view of the natural features while forcing me to reorient myself. The later flight time really illuminated the scene and seemed to make the view of everything clearer. Today's flight was a masterstroke.
I read all those comments on flags and not surprised so many had it wrong. I had to teach a teacher in TX that there was nothing unique to TX about their flag at the same level as US flag, all states can do that. Just culture that floats around. The flag set looks nice btw.
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i was curious about the order of the flags. i am not one who is going to lose sleep over what the "rules" are or if they are being followed. but i was curious. thank you for going over it.
With all of the additional electrical conduit installation work being added to the so-called 'temporary' kitchen, one has to wonder if the plans to create a permanent catering kitchen inside the main building has either been shelved altogether or at the very least, been put on hold for an indeterminate amount of time.
With all of the talk about how much power the data center uses, I’m surprised that they don’t cover all of the parking lots with solar panels and provide shade for the cars and more power for the factory. Seems like a lot of real estate that could be used for power.
Hi Joe, thanks for the flag clarification. Is it a job interview you've got with Aalo? If so, good luck and what do they want you to do? Also, as I watch the development of the south end facility, I can’t help seeing what I think is a lost opportunity. Let me explain: Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Their new computer complex will use a prodigious amount of energy resulting in a great amount of heat that will need to be dispersed by a huge, expensive cooling system. That heat will thus go to waste. A short distance across the river is a power station that uses energy to heat water to produce steam to power turbines which generate electricity. What a pity there isn’t a closed loop system in which hot water from Tesla could be sent by underground insulated pipes to the power station. Even if the water arrived only measuring, say, 132F (50C) the energy needed to heat it further would be much less. The condensed steam could then be sent back to Tesla by above ground pipes to arrive at a cool, usable temperature to start the process all over again. This could possibly have done away with the power station needing to burn more natural gas brought in via that new pipeline. Win win? Just a thought.
Actually, you have a very good thought here. In Russia (Moscow, I think) otherwise to-be-wasted hot waters are piped to pubic and private buildings for winter heating. Same with many factories, universities, etc. in the US and elsewhere. But it appears to me that Tesla's focus is mostly on efficient storage and utilization of electrical power. Other than for solar, its facilities simply plug into existing grids like almost any other plant, building, or residential development. But data centers, as we know them now, are exceptional both in power demand and waste heat. Ideas like yours, I think, are receiving much more attention.
@@ThomasLeimberger earlier videos explained that. There are a set of filters that look like cloth bags hanging inside the enclosures which trap the dust that goes into the enclosure.
For filtering the furnace flue gas seems most likely. Do a search for 'foundry melthouse baghouse ' for further clues. Baghouse manufacturer is Nederman MikroPul
No, because there are no Robotaxis built, at least not pre production ones. The 10/10 event is for the display of prototypes. The engineering of Tesla vehicles is being done in California, not at Giga Texas.
Why would people bother you with their concerns about flag positions?? Shame on them. Anyone can go to Grok and find out the federal flag laws in a jiffy.
Welcome to the Internet where people complain, argue, and troll... instead of just using the exact same tool already in front of their eyes to just look up the answers themselves.
Joe, love your channel. Minor correction, that isn’t THE Colorado river, it is A Colorado river. THE Colorado river flows through the Grand Canyon. All the best from Denver Colorado. 🇺🇸
I’ve wrote specifications for a 1 million, 200,000 and 100,000 sq ft building and for emergency vehicles there is a building code that requires fire department access roads to be within 50 ft of a building's exterior door and within 150 ft of all exterior first-story portions. This is outlined in the NFPA 1, Fire Code, Chapter 18. If the building is sprinklered, the 150 ft distance increases to 450 ft. And there needs to be an emergency exit man door. A typical maximum distance would be 150 to 200 feet per NFPA 101 (which OSHA has incorporated), depending on whether the facility has overhead sprinklers. However, the distance could be as short as 75 feet where flammable materials are stored, such as combustible liquids stored according to NFPA 30. So let me see, how many violations do we see in this video?
Joe, we might be citing the owner (Elon) for lack of exterior emergency exits which would require exterior stair wells to be installed both to the 2nd and 3rd floors.
@@evilroyslade2491 As a growing company, Tesla is constantly making changes, improvements, and additions. Budgets and intelligent money management are always important. However, based on my own (limited) understanding of the annual financial reports, Tesla is extremely profitable and easily sells enough to pay for all of its infrastructures and operating costs. (And has been for years.) It now has about $36 billion in reserve after all of that, I think.
The Aalo operation will be great. Unleashing more nuclear power which is safe will be a much better source for clean energy than windmills or solar for energy going forward.
What the hell is going to go on inside the new extension that 3 escape tunnels are required? The rest of the building does not have any escape tunnels. Most strange. !
The rest of the building has exit doors. For architectural reasons they chose not to put doors in their exterior glass curtain wall. Therefore to meet code they need the tunnels.
Thanks Joe! Substation expansion: @ 21:49 (Bottom) Substation east bay.... Dismantling of the existing 345 kV busbar structure. Note the 3 empty concrete bases. The 345 kV switches to the left (south) are also open. Joe... If possible can we get a view a little further north? My guess is there will be more open switches and more of the structure being taken apart. @ 21:58 Circles marked in red indicate drill points for concrete piles. And of course, the work on the transformer pad.
@@DessieDoolan Thanks! It was something I was looking for. If you notice, that is the spot they will likely pour a concrete pad for a set of 345 kV circuit breakers, like the ones just to the west. That may be the rebar for the pad in the corner by the fence?
@@WarrenLacefield 21:49 Just wanted to mention that the likely point where the new transformer will tap into the 345 kV bus is just off screen, bottom right. Another view is @ 21:44 bottom left. Where they will likely place another A-frame tower. Why get power from the middle of the substation via the overhead lines? @ 21:49 Notice the 3 busbars running east/west? There is another set of east/west busbars at the north end of the substation. Tapping in in the middle allows them to get power from either set of busbars, thus providing redundancy. For anyone who has a copy of the interconnection agreement.... See the one line diagram on page 48.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Really good discussion of what is going on. Thanks. I think I saw a footing or two (or scratches in the gravel) for the A-frames north of the new transformer concrete pad and further north three small pads are already in place (for VHV breakers & bus? Not sure what all the parts are called). One thing I didn't understand is why Joe mentioned they would need a second control room building? First, I would think all the control wiring should already be in place in the covered underground raceways for this expansion. But if not, wouldn't that just be added? Is there not enough room for another bay (or whatever) in the existing control room? I do not have that diagram.
An odd question: Why do we never see anything material moving out of (and going into, as well) the Cathode Building? Occasionally we do see dies or die rigs around the Die Shop. Along the same line, we don't see lithium or aluminum going into the Battery area, like we do see aluminum ingots for the Casting area. Maybe those materials are just transported by regular semi-trucks to docking bays?
Maybe the cathode building isn't in production yet, and still in the piloting stage? Maybe the lithium and cans for the batteries are delivered overnight?
@@alanrivaldo-h The cans come in as rolls of flat sheet. There's a canning line/s inside. There is also a series of internal loading docks on the west side of Battery that we rarely see into. 8 or more at 27:11.
@@alanrivaldo-h Yes, something to watch for. As Dessie Doolan remarked, the canning lines work with flat sheets. We do see occasional truck loads of discarded cans, but with battery production ramping up toward the millions so fast, that waste recycling is very minor. (They might just melt that down for castings or something else.)
@@WarrenLacefield Did a search of my notes. Schuler is the canning line manufacturer. They also did some of the stamping presses. Cans are stainless steel according to The Limiting Factor. See 'Part 1: Tesla 4680 Teardown // Cell Disassembly // 4 hours in 1 hour' at 7.00.
To your original Cathode question, other than the 3 trailers evidently permanently parked at the Cathode north loading docks, there is very little movement of trailers. Only once in the last month have I noted a trailer being moved. There's a US Filter trailer parked on the southwest, with hoses run into the building. Been there since April. The 2 new mobile chillers and generators at the plant platform. Not particularly indicative of a facility ready for production!
America Flag must only be taller if there is a flag of another country beside it. For Instance Im Irish, when we have Parades etc the color guard member carrying the American Flag must have it slightly higher than the American flag as a show of respect by the Immigrant.
I think the 10/10 event is just a prototype reveal. If so, the Model 2 / Robotaxi is still a year or two away from production. Plenty of time for the site to look quite different... yet again.
😅while on the subject of the flag code: One of the biggest no nos is to deface the flag with someone's name or photo, as a certain self agrandizing politician has been known to do. But the rules don't apply to him because he thinks he's special.
As a lifelong residence of SoCal, (Northern San Diego County) I am glad to see another company leave this horrible tax heavy state for greener pastures. I wish more would stick it to loser newsom and leave.
RE flags: you could have said that the American flagpole is set so the American flag is one inch higher than the others. No one would question it and everyone would be happy.
Dessie has a keen eye so he would notice that they were the same height, and then prove he was right by measuring them from the video. 😂 He's also impartial because he's not from the States.
I appreciate your consistent podcasts. As a retired ASNT iii QA Conformance/Compliance engineer, I am curious about the two types of externally stacking the castings. Is it possible those not in stacking frames may have failed their NDT examination and are destined for recycling? Are you aware of the giga presses unsuccessful visual inspection rate, (ie rejected without need for NDT) and the NDT sucessful NDT inspection rate?
If the castings had failed inspection, they would be just piled up, and not placed so neatly in rows to avoid touching one another. The castings are being staged for use in production.
@@MrVaticanRag I've been watching the videos long enough where I, and everyone else, would have seen piles of scrapped castings that were eventually hauled away or going back into the factory for recycling. Why would the folks who are moving the castings go to such great lengths to find nooks and crannies all over the site to place so many rejected parts in such an orderly fashion if they were just going to be melted down?
@@alanrivaldo-h Why would they stack rejects neatly? To prevent contamination of the recycling product maybe? So what's more the point, what's your estimated rejection rate or is this kept secret?
@@MrVaticanRagSo to avoid contamination of the rejected parts they put them on the dirt, exposed to the elements, so that when it rains they'll get muddy? They're obviously not rejected parts! 🙄
The SFO employees were moved to existing Twitter buildings in other parts of the state (CA). I think the ones in Bastrop will be new hires and low level employees, at least at first.
Thanks for clearing this up regarding the flags. 👍
The 3 flags should be at subordinate heights. IMO
Thanks Joe
*Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible*
4:51. New Switchyard/Substation. 3rd transformer footing. Initial slab concrete placed. Shuttering for the main footing pad, not the catch basin.
To the right, red marked locations for drilled pile shafts.
Bottom right. Assembling a ground beam rebar cage. Might be a different design to the initial pair of transformer footings. See Joe’s 2 November 2022 video at 19.33.
11:09. Southend, east. Centre. Excavator behind the stair loading the dump truck.
12:03. River Road south. Electrical vaults open further west. Might finally be the completion of the powerline underground relocation project. Another 2 year project. I made an almost identical comment in October 2022.
12:22. Southend, south. East and Centre Fire Escape Passage. Layer of earth over the roof may provide a buffer between the gravel road substrate and the waterprrof membrane. Or it’s simply more economical fill.
16:50. Westside, triangular storage. Stacks of beams………no columns. Even a wildly speculative covered parking lot with solar panels needs columns.
17:48. EOL, north pond. Bottom left. Flow spreader structure. Placing a layer of rip-rap on the outfall side.
19:33. EOL, north pond. Bottom left. Outflow weir. Backfilled around on 3 sides.
21:42. New Switchyard/Substation. Centre. Stack of pile rebar cages against the fence.
22:04. New Switchyard/Substation. Constructing the main footing. Catch basin will be around the perimeter.
24:35. Casting, Baghouse. Upper left. Much larger diameter pipe installed.
24:52. Casting, Baghouse. Box like delivery. May fit on top of one of the speculative heat-exhangers at bottom centre. 6 stubby columns there to support 2 square items.
27:44. Battery, roof. Bottom right. Crates of aluminum/aluminium damper assemblies.
29:05. Tesla Road. White and teal coloured production equipment. Hopper, cyclonic separator, duct, cabinets.
12:03 I wish you were right. It would be nice to place those lines undergrounds. But.... Notice the 6 new power poles laying on the ground? And the pole drill rig? Seems like things are going in the wrong direction.
Thank you
@@CJ-mg7kt You're welcome.
12:03. I'm not sure. That has sure been a long time coming. I thought those telephone pole power lines were to be removed. (Ha, Joe never liked those, I recall.) But maybe they are putting even more in.
@@WarrenLacefield 12:03. I'm not sure either. The vaults are open though.
The works would be by Bluebonnet, and there may be some sequence of works that isn't obvious yet.
This build site (to say nothing of the cars it produces) has been exciting pretty much every day since day 1
Thank you, Joe for the clarification about the flags!😊
Just a small note; there are actually 84 transformers in the material storage lot across from the outbound lot.
6:42 - Joe, great flight on Friday! Starting the video providing a rare perspective and a great view of the natural features while forcing me to reorient myself. The later flight time really illuminated the scene and seemed to make the view of everything clearer. Today's flight was a masterstroke.
Those flags are downright awe inspiring.😊
I read all those comments on flags and not surprised so many had it wrong. I had to teach a teacher in TX that there was nothing unique to TX about their flag at the same level as US flag, all states can do that. Just culture that floats around. The flag set looks nice btw.
Yep. Tribalism.
The furore a few years back about picking bluebonnets was as good an example as any of how an 'old wives' tale' becomes accepted as fact.
Flags look awesome
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HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT WEEKEND 🤗
Thank you for sharing
Excellent as always
Thanks Joe
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Elons companies are often called “The Muskconomy” 😂👍😬
Ty Sir.
i was curious about the order of the flags. i am not one who is going to lose sleep over what the "rules" are or if they are being followed. but i was curious. thank you for going over it.
In this building the most American-made car is made. No need to understand the right order to see the flags: America comes first.
With all of the additional electrical conduit installation work being added to the so-called 'temporary' kitchen, one has to wonder if the plans to create a permanent catering kitchen inside the main building has either been shelved altogether or at the very least, been put on hold for an indeterminate amount of time.
Cheeeeeeeers mate.
6 * 14 = 84. There are 84 of those new transformers.
nice T-shirt 😀
Are there any new or unique items or processes of the cooling plant/equipment?
❤
With all of the talk about how much power the data center uses, I’m surprised that they don’t cover all of the parking lots with solar panels and provide shade for the cars and more power for the factory. Seems like a lot of real estate that could be used for power.
Hi Joe, thanks for the flag clarification. Is it a job interview you've got with Aalo? If so, good luck and what do they want you to do? Also, as I watch the development of the south end facility, I can’t help seeing what I think is a lost opportunity. Let me explain: Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Their new computer complex will use a prodigious amount of energy resulting in a great amount of heat that will need to be dispersed by a huge, expensive cooling system. That heat will thus go to waste. A short distance across the river is a power station that uses energy to heat water to produce steam to power turbines which generate electricity. What a pity there isn’t a closed loop system in which hot water from Tesla could be sent by underground insulated pipes to the power station. Even if the water arrived only measuring, say, 132F (50C) the energy needed to heat it further would be much less. The condensed steam could then be sent back to Tesla by above ground pipes to arrive at a cool, usable temperature to start the process all over again. This could possibly have done away with the power station needing to burn more natural gas brought in via that new pipeline. Win win? Just a thought.
Actually, you have a very good thought here. In Russia (Moscow, I think) otherwise to-be-wasted hot waters are piped to pubic and private buildings for winter heating. Same with many factories, universities, etc. in the US and elsewhere. But it appears to me that Tesla's focus is mostly on efficient storage and utilization of electrical power. Other than for solar, its facilities simply plug into existing grids like almost any other plant, building, or residential development. But data centers, as we know them now, are exceptional both in power demand and waste heat. Ideas like yours, I think, are receiving much more attention.
Parking garage privacy screen = 10/10 taxi event prep?
Oorah!
Is there a video today?
what is a "bag house" filtration plant?
@@ThomasLeimberger earlier videos explained that. There are a set of filters that look like cloth bags hanging inside the enclosures which trap the dust that goes into the enclosure.
For filtering the furnace flue gas seems most likely. Do a search for 'foundry melthouse baghouse ' for further clues.
Baghouse manufacturer is Nederman MikroPul
What's the dimensions of the flags❓️
35' x 65' is my measure.
Is it possible that RoboTaxis produced are parked on the lower, cordoned-off level of the parking garage?
No, because there are no Robotaxis built, at least not pre production ones. The 10/10 event is for the display of prototypes. The engineering of Tesla vehicles is being done in California, not at Giga Texas.
Why would people bother you with their concerns about flag positions?? Shame on them.
Anyone can go to Grok and find out the federal flag laws in a jiffy.
Welcome to the Internet where people complain, argue, and troll... instead of just using the exact same tool already in front of their eyes to just look up the answers themselves.
Sorry, but 6 x 14 transformers make 84 not 82
Joe, love your channel.
Minor correction, that isn’t THE Colorado river, it is A Colorado river.
THE Colorado river flows through the Grand Canyon.
All the best from Denver Colorado. 🇺🇸
It's THE Colorado River, because it's not like two rivers are mobile and could ever visit one another. 😂
@@alanrivaldo-h 😂
It's THE Colorado River, because it's in Texas and Texans don't care what happens elsewhere...
I’ve wrote specifications for a 1 million, 200,000 and 100,000 sq ft building and for emergency vehicles there is a building code that requires fire department access roads to be within 50 ft of a building's exterior door and within 150 ft of all exterior first-story portions. This is outlined in the NFPA 1, Fire Code, Chapter 18. If the building is sprinklered, the 150 ft distance increases to 450 ft. And there needs to be an emergency exit man door. A typical maximum distance would be 150 to 200 feet per NFPA 101 (which OSHA has incorporated), depending on whether the facility has overhead sprinklers. However, the distance could be as short as 75 feet where flammable materials are stored, such as combustible liquids stored according to NFPA 30. So let me see, how many violations do we see in this video?
@@tweetybird7668 written
Joe, we might be citing the owner (Elon) for lack of exterior emergency exits which would require exterior stair wells to be installed both to the 2nd and 3rd floors.
@@JoeTegtmeyerwrote, I’m an Engineer
@@tweetybird7668 Stairwells are located at the north end of the 3 passages. Building is sprinklered.
I assume all the construction at Giga Texas was built on credit; how many years before it becomes profitable?
The "Cost of Goods Sold" (COGS) in financial statements includes the fixed costs of the facilities and tools used to build the vehicles.
@@alanrivaldo-h Tesla is not selling enough to pay off the building and operating cost.
@@evilroyslade2491 As a growing company, Tesla is constantly making changes, improvements, and additions. Budgets and intelligent money management are always important. However, based on my own (limited) understanding of the annual financial reports, Tesla is extremely profitable and easily sells enough to pay for all of its infrastructures and operating costs. (And has been for years.) It now has about $36 billion in reserve after all of that, I think.
The Aalo operation will be great. Unleashing more nuclear power which is safe will be a much better source for clean energy than windmills or solar for energy going forward.
What the hell is going to go on inside the new extension that 3 escape tunnels are required?
The rest of the building does not have any escape tunnels.
Most strange.
!
The rest of the building has exit doors. For architectural reasons they chose not to put doors in their exterior glass curtain wall. Therefore to meet code they need the tunnels.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nngood to know, I thought it was because when the Cortex becomes self-aware, the people need to leave quick 🙄
I wonder if Tosca and Kimball putting their business there
Thanks Joe!
Substation expansion:
@ 21:49 (Bottom) Substation east bay.... Dismantling of the existing 345 kV busbar structure. Note the 3 empty concrete bases. The 345 kV switches to the left (south) are also open.
Joe... If possible can we get a view a little further north? My guess is there will be more open switches and more of the structure being taken apart.
@ 21:58 Circles marked in red indicate drill points for concrete piles.
And of course, the work on the transformer pad.
21:49. Good spot.
@@DessieDoolan Thanks! It was something I was looking for. If you notice, that is the spot they will likely pour a concrete pad for a set of 345 kV circuit breakers, like the ones just to the west. That may be the rebar for the pad in the corner by the fence?
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Yes, I saw that too. Exciting ... well, literally electrifying!
@@WarrenLacefield 21:49 Just wanted to mention that the likely point where the new transformer will tap into the 345 kV bus is just off screen, bottom right. Another view is @ 21:44 bottom left. Where they will likely place another A-frame tower. Why get power from the middle of the substation via the overhead lines? @ 21:49 Notice the 3 busbars running east/west? There is another set of east/west busbars at the north end of the substation. Tapping in in the middle allows them to get power from either set of busbars, thus providing redundancy. For anyone who has a copy of the interconnection agreement.... See the one line diagram on page 48.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Really good discussion of what is going on. Thanks. I think I saw a footing or two (or scratches in the gravel) for the A-frames north of the new transformer concrete pad and further north three small pads are already in place (for VHV breakers & bus? Not sure what all the parts are called). One thing I didn't understand is why Joe mentioned they would need a second control room building? First, I would think all the control wiring should already be in place in the covered underground raceways for this expansion. But if not, wouldn't that just be added? Is there not enough room for another bay (or whatever) in the existing control room? I do not have that diagram.
An odd question: Why do we never see anything material moving out of (and going into, as well) the Cathode Building? Occasionally we do see dies or die rigs around the Die Shop. Along the same line, we don't see lithium or aluminum going into the Battery area, like we do see aluminum ingots for the Casting area. Maybe those materials are just transported by regular semi-trucks to docking bays?
Maybe the cathode building isn't in production yet, and still in the piloting stage? Maybe the lithium and cans for the batteries are delivered overnight?
@@alanrivaldo-h The cans come in as rolls of flat sheet. There's a canning line/s inside.
There is also a series of internal loading docks on the west side of Battery that we rarely see into. 8 or more at 27:11.
@@alanrivaldo-h Yes, something to watch for. As Dessie Doolan remarked, the canning lines work with flat sheets. We do see occasional truck loads of discarded cans, but with battery production ramping up toward the millions so fast, that waste recycling is very minor. (They might just melt that down for castings or something else.)
@@WarrenLacefield Did a search of my notes. Schuler is the canning line manufacturer. They also did some of the stamping presses.
Cans are stainless steel according to The Limiting Factor. See 'Part 1: Tesla 4680 Teardown // Cell Disassembly // 4 hours in 1 hour' at 7.00.
To your original Cathode question, other than the 3 trailers evidently permanently parked at the Cathode north loading docks, there is very little movement of trailers. Only once in the last month have I noted a trailer being moved.
There's a US Filter trailer parked on the southwest, with hoses run into the building. Been there since April.
The 2 new mobile chillers and generators at the plant platform.
Not particularly indicative of a facility ready for production!
America Flag must only be taller if there is a flag of another country beside it. For Instance Im Irish, when we have Parades etc the color guard member carrying the American Flag must have it slightly higher than the American flag as a show of respect by the Immigrant.
when did the rooftop solar panels get laid flat?
Castings for model 2,where are going to put them?
I think the 10/10 event is just a prototype reveal. If so, the Model 2 / Robotaxi is still a year or two away from production. Plenty of time for the site to look quite different... yet again.
😅while on the subject of the flag code: One of the biggest no nos is to deface the flag with someone's name or photo, as a certain self agrandizing politician has been known to do. But the rules don't apply to him because he thinks he's special.
@@seekerstan Well, doesn't hugging and kissing the US flag make up for that? 😂
As a lifelong residence of SoCal, (Northern San Diego County) I am glad to see another company leave this horrible tax heavy state for greener pastures. I wish more would stick it to loser newsom and leave.
Maybe you could take the drone inside the far east section of the parking garage and get a scoop on the upcoming 10/10 reveal.
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Hey Joe Have you had a chance to test out the floatability of your Cyber truck yet?
Not recommended.
Pride goeth before a fall.
RE flags: you could have said that the American flagpole is set so the American flag is one inch higher than the others. No one would question it and everyone would be happy.
Dessie has a keen eye so he would notice that they were the same height, and then prove he was right by measuring them from the video. 😂 He's also impartial because he's not from the States.
I appreciate your consistent podcasts.
As a retired ASNT iii QA Conformance/Compliance engineer, I am curious about the two types of externally stacking the castings.
Is it possible those not in stacking frames may have failed their NDT examination and are destined for recycling?
Are you aware of the giga presses unsuccessful visual inspection rate, (ie rejected without need for NDT) and the NDT sucessful NDT inspection rate?
If the castings had failed inspection, they would be just piled up, and not placed so neatly in rows to avoid touching one another. The castings are being staged for use in production.
@@alanrivaldo-h How sure can you be, of your dishonest statement? Can you also confirm successful NDT rates?
@@MrVaticanRag I've been watching the videos long enough where I, and everyone else, would have seen piles of scrapped castings that were eventually hauled away or going back into the factory for recycling. Why would the folks who are moving the castings go to such great lengths to find nooks and crannies all over the site to place so many rejected parts in such an orderly fashion if they were just going to be melted down?
@@alanrivaldo-h Why would they stack rejects neatly? To prevent contamination of the recycling product maybe?
So what's more the point, what's your estimated rejection rate or is this kept secret?
@@MrVaticanRagSo to avoid contamination of the rejected parts they put them on the dirt, exposed to the elements, so that when it rains they'll get muddy? They're obviously not rejected parts! 🙄
@ 2:30 I wonder how many of the Twitter employees will be interested in moving from modern building in San Francisco to the middle of nowhere? 😊
The SFO employees were moved to existing Twitter buildings in other parts of the state (CA). I think the ones in Bastrop will be new hires and low level employees, at least at first.
@@alanrivaldo-h Well if correct, that is good to hear.