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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @12:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @12:01AM (#477890)

    If it wasn't for unions, wages in the USA would be ZERO, because then The Ownership Class would know that they can get away with that.

    Workers in The South continue to vote against their own best interests--against labor unions [counterpunch.org]

    By now, everyone knows that the Deep South--the former Confederate States of America--for a multitude of reasons (not all of which, in truth, are totally reactionary), is hostile to organized labor, and that North and South Carolina remain two of Dixie's most virulent anti-union states. North Carolina has a 3 [percent] union density; South Carolina's is 1.6 [percent].
    [...]
    It's not uncommon for companies who don't want their workers to join a union (usually out of fear that they will, in common [Human Resources] parlance, morph into a bunch of "jailhouse lawyers") to provide these employees with all the union goodies necessary to keep them from joining up. Workers aren't stupid. They realize that the leverage placed at their disposal resembles nothing so much as a form of extortion. ("Here's the bottom line, boss. If you don't pay us close to a union wage, we'll have no choice but to join a union." Ouch.)
    [...]
    without the presence of organized labor, [the workers] would be at the company's mercy. Indeed, given that the words "free market" have become the mating call of lemon-sucking Republicans and masturbatory libertarians, if labor unions vanished altogether, workers would find themselves in economic free-fall. They would go from "real leverage" to "zero leverage".

    .
    Meanwhile, Elon Musk can't even make up his mind where his national loyalty is. [google.com]
    His only loyalty appears to be to personal profit.

    He reminds me of Donnie Tiny Hands who continues to shout U-S-A, U-S-A while hiring [google.com] foreigners [google.com]--illegals, apparently. [google.com]

    Hell, he married someone who violated the terms of her tourist visa [google.com] by working.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]