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posted by janrinok on Friday March 10 2017, @09:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/elon-musk-i-can-fix-south-australia-power-network-in-100-days-or-its-free

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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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:22AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:22AM (#477653) Journal

    Actually - the illegal aliens have been cut by a lot more than 40%. Every article I've read indicates that the numbers of border hoppers has INCREASED every year at this time. Border hopping has NOT increased this year, instead, decreasing. Let's wait until the end of the year, and compare the annual numbers to the past 20 years. I suspect that the cut will be closer to 75% than to 40%.

    Of course, any decrease is a good thing, with larger decreases being better.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @10:22AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @10:22AM (#477707)

    Every article I've read indicates that the numbers of border hoppers has INCREASED every year at this time

    You REALLY should give up on Breitbart.

    Mexico-US illegal migration has been at zero for 8 years, and other eye-opening facts [boingboing.net]

    Illegal migration ended eight years ago and has been zero or negative since 2008, because migration is a young person's game. If you don't migrate between the ages of 15 and 30, you don't migrate at all, and the average age in Mexico is now 28 years old.

    IOW, more are headed south than north.

    .
    This one doesn't bear on the revelation of your ignorance in this (meta)thread, but I'm sure if you haven't already spouted some related ignorance, you soon will.

    Immigrants, in general, and immigrant neighborhoods, in particular, have very low rates of crime, much lower than native-born people. The US counties along the Mexico-US border are among the safest and most crime-free counties in the United States.

    Same deal here.

    Immigrants, in general, are very uninvolved in the welfare system. In fact, legal immigrants are banned for five years from receiving these federally-subsidized services. Undocumented migrants are banned from Obamacare, of course, the Affordable Care Act.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:35PM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:35PM (#477760) Journal

      Wow - you know how to load a manure spreader!! I suspect you have a New Holland parked on your property - http://www.ironsearch.com/Manure-Spreader/New-Holland/185/2914933/Detail.aspx?SK=MS-NH [ironsearch.com]

      No crime in Latino neighborhoods - despite the fact that many of them BROKE THE LAWS to get here? Oh - sorry - you don't count border hopping as a crime, because - uhhh - whatever. I mean, it's agains the law, but it doesn't count as a crime, and - uhhhh - it's racist to point out that breaking laws are ILLEGAL!!

      Migration has been at zero? Really? Zero, you say. For eight years, right? Hmmm - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unaccompanied-minors-immigrants-central-america_us_581c99b4e4b0d9ce6fbb3dba [huffingtonpost.com] Alright, those aren't all Mexicans - BUT THEY CAME THROUGH MEXICO!!

      http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/08/517561046/how-americas-idea-of-illegal-immigration-doesnt-always-match-reality [npr.org]
          "That is to say, Mexican immigrants are a shrinking majority of the population living in the country through illegal immigration.
      Of people living in the U.S. illegally, more than half are from Mexico. The population from that one country far outnumbers the population from entire continents.

      You can see the trend lines clearly if you look just at people arriving in the U.S. illegally, instead of the millions who live here. The percentage arriving from Mexico has dropped markedly, while more immigrants are coming from Africa, Central America and Asia."

      More on that 8 year nonsense: http://cis.org/New-Data-Immigration-Surged-in-2014-and-2015 [cis.org]

      Now, if you're attempting to say that fewer illegals have been apprehended during the O'Bummer years, this helps to explain that - http://cis.org/ICE-Illegal-Immigrant-Deportations [cis.org]

      Oh - let me apologize. You didn't make that manure up all by yourself. Cory Doctorow? Blogger, journalist, and Sci-Fi author? He knows illegal aliens, how? Oh - his daddy is an Azerbaijanni, making Cory a second gen immigrant. In Canada, mind you. And THEN, Cory immigrated to England. He probably has some sense of kinship to immigrants, because he are one. "I'm an immigrant, and I can tell you, IMMIGRANTS ARE GOOD!"

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow [wikipedia.org]

      Got any more citations?

      • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday March 11 2017, @08:03PM (1 child)

        by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Saturday March 11 2017, @08:03PM (#477846)

        BROOKE GLADSTONE: So let us go back even further, to the 1965 US Immigration Act that unintentionally created this flood of undocumented immigration, in the first place, because, as you've written, prior to the mid-60s illegal immigration from Mexico really didn't happen because the US was legally admitting about 50,000 Mexicans a year. So what happened in 1965?

        PROF. DOUG MASSEY: Two things happened in 1965. First, Congress amended the Immigration and Nationality Act, and they did it for good reason. They wanted to get rid of the racist provisions that been put in place in the 19th century and the early 20th century, policies that discriminated against Asians and Africans and Southern and Eastern Europeans. They scrapped the old system and tried to replace it with a, a neutral system that didn't favor any particular country. And they did this by creating a new system where every country got 20,000 visas per year. The quota for legal immigration from Mexico is the same as the quota for Botswana or Nepal. And, of course, Mexico is 130 million people. It’s our second largest trading partner. We share a 2,000-mile border. And it's treated like some of the most distant nations in the world.

        - Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Migration Edition (At Home) [wnyc.org]

        I suppose you think NPR is biased as well, but that is the source Cory cited.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 12 2017, @05:37AM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 12 2017, @05:37AM (#477948) Journal

          Biased? Of course - they are all biased. But NPR is still a fairly decent source. Indivicuals at NPR may be more or less left-minded, but overall, their reporting is less "deplorable" than some of the other news sources.

          And, that does bring me back to my oft-repeated refrain. Every president, and every congress, for the past fifty years has FAILED TO ADDRESS IMMIGRATION!! They have a crappy, broken system that is proven not to work, but only a very small handful of individuals have really worked to fix the system. Politics get in the way, and the broken system remains.

          If any one congress had actually rolled up their sleeves, and got to work on the issue, me might have any number of variations on a "just" law. But, we don't have anything that can even claim to be a "just" law.

          For instance - that anchor baby thing. Bear with me, alright?

          I insist that the amendment had a very specific purpose, and was intended for a specific group of people, that being freed slaves, and the children of former slaves. Any black person born in America automatically became a citizen when freed from slavery, and all of his/her descendants were also citizens.

          Today, we see foreigners using that loophole to bestow US citizenship upon their children, and getting around any and all naturalization requirements. The Chinese are doing it, the Mexicans are doing it, and everyone else is doing it to far lesser degrees.

          Congress has never addressed the issue. It would be so very simple for them to pass a law, amend the law, strengthen the law, or whatever.

          IF CONGRESS were to flat out state that congress approves of the current practice of dropping an anchor baby to secure permanent residency in the US, and the President signed off on it, then it would be the "law of the land". I wouldn't like it, but it would be the law, and it would deprive me of my stance that it is illegal. I could still argue that it was "wrong", but it would obviously be "legal".

          If, on the other hand, congress clearly stated that it was never the intent to bestow citizenship upon every baby accidentally (or otherwise) born on US soil - then the practice would stop. Congress could clearly state that a Chinese citizen woman naturally gives birth to a Chinese citizen woman, and a Mexican citizen woman gives birth to a Mexican citizen baby - and it doesn't matter where they give birth.

          All in all, our government has failed to govern. And, that is my biggest single complaint. All my other arguments regarding immigration, citizenship, and related issues would become moot, if only congress would do it's job.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 11 2017, @01:28PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 11 2017, @01:28PM (#477737) Journal

    Border hopping has NOT increased this year, instead, decreasing.

    So maybe many illegal aliens cancelled their visits to home, for fearing they could not return? That certainly would reduce border hopping.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.