Walter Isaacson got to know Steve Jobs, now he publishes Elon Musk’s biography. I just watched Sunday Morning’s interview of Isaacson and found a few more odd things about Musk. Elon Musk Biography Reveals Internal Tesla Battle Regarding $25,000 Car & Robotaxis Watch More here. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/walter-isaacson-on-the-volatile-elon-musk/
Archive for the ‘Mechanical devices’ Category:
2023-09-02 Swiss Solar Panels In Train Tracks
Switzerland is rolling out solar panels between the rails of the train tracks. That’s a creative use of the otherwise unused space. But I wonder how they hook them up to the grid? Short YouTube video. https://youtube.com/shorts/HInTmC7SxJ8?si=qmFem2K1MFYebUxv
2023-08-13 Tesla Too Big To Fail Even With Elon’s Antics
An Op-Ed; at the end she said: “”It’s another strength that will uphold Tesla in times of Elon’s antics, which may serve, again and again, to be little more than a puerile distraction.”” Op-Ed: Tesla Is Too Established Now To Fail — Even With Elon’s Antics
2023-07-23 I Was Into Rockets When I Was A Kid
I joined the Reaction Research Society when I was a teenager. It’s a rocket club, still going strong: rrs.org. We went out to the Mojave desert to launch homemade rockets. Some went up to a mile high, some exploded on the launch pad. They used a mixture of powdered zinc and sulfur, which burns very
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2023-06-24 Tesla Cyber Rodeo, 9000 Ton Gigapress, Etc.
This is a short tour of the gigafactory Texas during the Cyber Rodeo public event, 15 thousand visitors. Shows robotic arms on the assembly lines. QR codes in a stripe on the floor to guide the autonomous transporters. A few seconds of Arc Attack’s presentation. Very up close shots of the 9000 long tonne Gigapress.
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2022-04-02 Climate Deniers Use Scare Tactics, Lies On Social Media
This article is about the copy and paste of climate change deniers’ boilerplate lies and scare tactics, mostly from Big Oil and fossil fuel shills. Even use of pseudoscience. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/a-cut-and-paste-attack-on-electric-vehicle-batteries-and-renewables-is-spanning-the-globe-but-is-it-right
2022-03-25 Drone Flies Thru Gigafactory Berlin!
Woo-hoo! This 4.4 minute drone video on YouTube flies through seemingly impossible places! Through the stamping presses, through the robotic welders, the paint shop, the assembly lines, everywhere! I had to slow it down to 0.5 speed to see what’s happening! This is what I’ve been waiting for, wanting to see things close up and
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2021-09-18 Land Care Robot Electrifies Tasks
This ad popped up and I had to watch this little workhorse do its jobs. It gave me several thoughts of what it could be used for. It even can work in the dark and in the rain. It said that it’s 64 HP and $14,800.00. When I was a kid, I remember seeing articles
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2021-06-23 Glass Fiber & Concrete Flywheel For Storage
This French company uses glass fiber reinforced flywheels for energy storage instead of steel. Quote: << Gennesseaux went on to say. “We are around 10 grams of CO2 per kWh, while lithium-ion batteries are around 40g CO2/kWh, at the same level as steel flywheels.”>> Initially the flywheel will store 10 kWh. It’s buried underground. Steel
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2021-05-02 Solar Replacing Nuclear, Photo Of Inside GF Texas – Best In Tesla Video
At 14:23 Lars explained that they said in the Tesla quarterly report that the nuclear power plant including the safety zone land around it is big enough to hold a solar plant that will generate the same amount of power. So why not build solar farms instead of nuclear power plants? This brings to mind
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