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Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free

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

wirelessduck writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:34AM (#477681)

    The current conservative government are completely ineffectual and completely impotent.

    Serious issues are made into political footballs by both sides.

    We need to eliminate the politics. Elon should just fuck off. If he understood anything, he would know 100% of this problem is caused by politicians. Half truths, outright lies. Alternative facts.

    The only thing we absolutely know is the "trumble" government lie all the time.

    If we actually had a single politician with a spine we would be okay.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @07:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @07:47PM (#477840)

    That's the problem; there's not enough independent investment in societal infrastructure.

    These things should be "private", so that bad ideas die, and investments can be made into ideas that prove themselves profitable.