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Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Guardian: Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of electric car giant Tesla, has thrown down a challenge to the South Australian and federal governments, saying he can solve the state's energy woes within 100 days -- or he'll deliver the 100MW battery storage system for free. On Thursday, Lyndon Rive, Tesla's vice-president for energy products, told the AFR the company could install the 100-300 megawatt hours of battery storage that would be required to prevent the power shortages that have been causing price spikes and blackouts in the state. Thanks to stepped-up production out of Tesla's new Gigafactory in Nevada, he said it could be achieved within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian co-founder of Silicon Valley startup Atlassian, on Friday tweeted Elon Musk, asking if Tesla was serious about being able to install the capacity. Musk replied that the company could do it in 100 days of the contract being signed, or else provide it free, adding: "That serious enough for you?"
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They'll be delivered by a suborbital flight made by a Falcon rocket, of course. ;)
The only logical solution is a hyperloop between Nevada and Australia. It wouldn't take long at the 600 mph, plus in a low-pressure environment the resulting fire from a mishap wouldn't spread quickly. :-)
End to end land + boat transportation should take less than 20 days from Nevada to the South Africa location with the best shippers.
And then another 20 days to get back to South Australia.
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Drop bears are attracted to batteries. I can't see the battery storage solution surviving the first drop bear attack.
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If they can perform enough of the "installation" work prior to actually having the batteries present, then I'd make -j 1000000 that thing.
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I think the fastest route would be a Falcon rocket going through a tunnel bored straight from Nevada to Australia.
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> Presume it takes 20 days to transport the batteries and maybe another 30-40 to build them all (probably optimistic), they would be left with maybe a month to design, install and test the whole thing.
So you would build it and deliver it, THEN start designing it? A Scrum advocate I'm guessing.
You need to get with the program. In the post-literate era, words mean what the writer wants them to mean, not what you are accustomed to knowing they mean. Looser can be the opposite of winner, not the opposite of tighter. Your might mean you are. It's does not have to be possessive, because apostrophes are just decorative. Begs the question means raises the question. The writer is too ignorant or too much in a hurry to be accurate, so stop whining and do your best to pick it up from context.