This is why 70,000 Texans are without power after the freeze this week. Nice to know that Gov. Abbot is sacrificing Texans for money. https://youtube.com/shorts/qPxLCioEhao More about the (un)reliability of the Texas natural gas supply and why it’s not as cheap as renewables plus storage. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-hidden-costs-of-keeping-gas-plants-online-in-texas-beyond/
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Texas Anti-abortion Law Is Suspended
A judge ordered the Texas Anti-abortion law suspended. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/09/greg-abbott/texas-gov-abbott-wrong-about-pregnancy-abortion-ti/
2021-08-27 Mayor ++ Gets Court To Stop Texas Anti-mask Mandate
The mayor of San Antonio and others have taken Gov. Abbot to court and received a decision that blocks the governor’s anti-mask mandate order. After the mandate went into effect some school districts went ahead and made masks mandatory and the governor threatened to take them to court. That goes against common sense – masks
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2021-04-08 California Is The Best – Better Than Texas
From FB comment What part of Texas? It’s huge! The eastern part is like Louisiana: hot and humid. But western Texas is like the plain states and Oklahoma: windy and drier, with weather extremes like tornadoes. And the coast gets hurricanes. Right now Tesla is building the new Gigafactory near Austin and is hiring for
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2021-01-29 Gigafactory Texas Timelines & Map
From Joe’s video of Jan 29. https://youtu.be/Ww54M6XRrO8
2021-01-23 Tesla Giga Texas Construction Map
From Joe’s video on this date. More diagrams here: https://youtu.be/l13PWbTacEM Tesla’s video on 4680 battery https://vimeo.com/494452559 https://tesla.com/battery-jobs The above drawing is from the south looking north. The following screenshot is from the north looking south.
2020-12-09 Sunrise Over Austin, TX, Tesla GigaFactory Construction
Skip ahead to the 2 minute point for the sunrise. Joe gives us a drone’s view of Sunrise and a tour of the construction site. The Tesla Texas GigaFactory construction is going full speed with three shifts working. There is a huge amount of concrete being poured, steel beams being erected and all sorts of
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