At 22:51 there is a high reach bucket truck that has just arrived (on the right center of the picture). This could be for completing the feed wiring to the transmission tower. Of course they will not make the final connection at this time because of several factors including the fence. The final connection will probably be made by a special team that connects while the line is live, this is common practice. Although the whole boom of these trucks are insulated and all tools are air powered, I would prefer to stay on the ground.
So much digging, laying of pipes big and small, followed by rapid covering of the ground. I think it’s good for the viewers see a picture of the pipe work overlaid on top of the ground and structures for easy understanding!
Looks like roof needs those extensions put on for the part of the wall that is the parapet that sticks up above the roof. So may there for either lower wall panels, or those extensions.
That sheeted area (time stamp 16:58) might be for installation of electrical panels - they won't want those getting wet, and we're some way from dry conditions inside the plant.
Mervyn, I have been watching as they load equipment and have seen many cabinets that appear to have disconnects and motor starters. I think in these plants the equipment is modular with power fed to that module from a central point, possibly near the casting building where they appear to be bringing in the feed. Many have complained about the roof and I am sure that it leaks, but concrete floors are never completely flat and rainwater from the sides could flow to the center of the floor and make the puddles we see, we know that it is low there.
At 5:58 that's where the conduits go under the easement. I'm looking for the vaults they were working on. Have the top halves been put on the vaults and covered with dirt and there is just a manhole lid showing? At 13:20 the footing pits are oddly spaced and seem twisted - maybe optical illusion? At 17:05 on the right look like cabinets with blue plastic on the doors. These are used for housing datacomm / telecom equipment. Maybe they will give a hint as to what will be built in that area. Getting altitude sickness at 20:00 !! At 24:12 bunch of guys standing around a cable vault trying to figure out where to run the conduits? For Tesla Superchargers?? Thanks, Randy, I need a fix of amazing drone shots of Giga Texas!
There are three conduit vaults shown at 6:14 next to the building that are still open. There two more vaults on the east side of the transmission line easement. Sorry, I don't have a timestamp as I'm wrighting this.
Looking at your timestamp @5:58 there is one vault on the eastside visible (near the red excavator) Another vault barely visible at the top of the screen.
At 5:58 junction boxes are still open, at 13:20 the pits do not have to be straight, only the concrete footings have to be correct, they will backfill the excavation. At 17:05 the blue plastic covered items are HVAC duct, plastic keeps out dust. 24:12 Supervisor is probably explaining the job, have to keep 6 feet apart. Probably some superchargers somewhere on the site. 20:00 Suggest that you do not try skydiving.
Randy. Another first for you. 11:50 I don't think any of the quad squad have caught the application of adhesive for the roof membrane. 15:48. Someone needs to to straighten up that wonky track under the roof. 16:50. Curious. It's just scaffold being covered with plastic. Not much room to work under it. 10:33. Ready to start. Even have the bracing wires cut to length and coiled up laying on the columns. 20:00. Centre of screen is a circular pattern of hold down bolts in the floor slab. What could it be for?
20:00 perhaps an exceptionally large robot arm, i.e. having a very long reach, possibly to take a car body and .. flip it upside-down? There are easier ways of flipping things over... so I dunno. Anyway, a long-extension arm with a lot of weight on the end of it would put a lot of torque on the base, and as it moved, a lot of rocking back and forth. One maneuver every minute means almost 500 rocking motions per shift ... after a year, this would start really trashing the foundation, which is why the foundation was so outsized for this thing.
@@LinasVepstas Never entered my mind that it could be for a robot, I was thinking tank, boiler, pressure vessel, round stuff generally. You may well be correct, all the robots I've seen in factory videos are on a circular base. Probably have to wait for the factory tour to see it.
@@DessieDoolan I think the zipper-pit design was driven by similar considerations. Each robot arm .. much smaller, is on a column, on a large heavy base. But that base will rock by a micrometer a thousand times a day, a million times in three years. That big concrete base will work itself out of kilter -- not so bad, cause you can realign the robot, but also it will pump around the mud underneath it. So, recall the slab they poured in the zipper-pit, and then they covered the slab with dirt? I think that slab is to limit the pumping action.
@@DessieDoolan Well, but that is what I'm saying. The consensus at the time seemed to be that the pillars in the zipper-pit were for robot arms. I'm just adding that, as those arms move back and forth, they will rock whatever they're bolted to. (The robots themselves are presumably spot-welders, sticking together stamped body&roof panels coming out of the stamping area, before they move to the paint ship.)
Great job, thanks for keeping us up to date. I would vote for you adding your comments on what we are seeing through out the flight with observations on changes.
Great Video Randy. Please try to overfly the new eastside clearing area. Much more equipment working that area and the old houses will probably come down soon. I could see just a slice of it in the over flight of the parking lot.
Thanks Michael! I'll definitely get more footage of it going forward. The houses in this area are set up as monitoring stations that they retrofitted early in the process of clearing the site so I can doubt they'll be going anywhere any time soon.
One thing I think I saw is that the triangle section of roof that wasn't filled in on the South East corner of the stamping machine area seems like it's filled in now. I couldn't tell for sure, but I think I saw framing around it and the final wall section was put in, which I think they were waiting for until that roof section was filled in.
23:15 Funny how they're doing massive excavation to run subterranean conduit for the factory, meanwhile working around the high tension lines that cut through the site.
So.....off work today so I have time to blab a bit. Was like #421 today....Missed the Elon number by just 1 ;-( When that crew started on the stamping roof with those little squares I though it may be a month or more before they were done -- looks like they will be done before the end of next week. I wonder if they just continue onto the main steel structure from here??? Thanks as always Randy!!!
I'm in the same boat as you and am on record saying something about how tedious it looked and that it'll probably take a while. Once again, the workers prove me wrong and I'll admit it. These guys put in major work and FAST!
Those little squares are really about four feet square, any larger would require two people to handle them, especially in any wind. I believe that they are some type of expanded plastic about 2" thick in 2 layers which would give you about R 20 insulation value. The dark gray cover is for strength and white for sealing out weather. Have you ever laid any type of floor tile ?
@@eltonray2934 Yes -- it's tedious....but I don't do it that often... They are building a new house near me and they began bricking it about a week ago....I said the same thing - that house is pretty big and it's going to take a long while.....One week later, only a small section remains and they will likely finish it today. Never underestimate tradesmen....
Maybe I've seen them offset before to act as a cantilever shifting the weight of something they plan on fitting to it. Maybe when they mount stuff to it we will find out!
Looks like the covered area is aligned to the main power conduits coming from the sub station/switch yard so maybe the power distribution is going there ?
Thanks Garritt! Solar hasn't been "officially" confirmed but I can make a 100% guess that it will in fact be installed on this roof. The real question is will they begin installing it as soon as roof sections have been completed OR will they wait until the entire roof of 100% of the completed factory is done and then begin installing it? I would think the former as they will be able to generate a ridiculous amount of solar power with the current roof footprint that we are seeing and it wouldn't make sense to let it go to waste, given the amount of power the factory will need itself.
@ 11:45 on the stamping press structure, the roof drains to the east, but I don't see any locations for the roof drains to grade. I know they have something I'm just not seeing it. Also, those rectangle notches in the roof I think are for the HVAC rooftop units. May be wrong, but....I'm sticking with it for now.
There's a line of holes been cored through the roof. Line is roughly halfway between the back of the parapet and the rectangular recesses. 2 holes in each bay around 5' 1.5m apart. Presumably they will create fall from the parapet down to these drains using tapered insulation panels, or built up with a lightweight structure like that seen at the metal/concrete roof transition.
In case anyone is interested, IDRA released a 2:46-long time lapse video of the assembly of the same model Giga Press as is installed at Giga Austin. You can see the video at: ua-cam.com/video/B5ffhNdRWFg/v-deo.html
David, you could be right but they still have to supply the melting furnaces for the die casters and possibly the HVAC with natural gas. Also the large gas line they went under for the feed probably goes to the power plant to the south where there are 7 gas turbine generators that supply this plant and are a good backup. The problem during the recent cold spell was as other forms of generation went off line because of the cold the gas generators nearly doubled their output and then started to have gas supply problems. The grid was supplying 150% of it's normal load. I recorded the lowest temp that I have ever seen in Texas, -10 deg. F, probably will not happen again for another 100 years.
@@eltonray2934 Wow, you guys really got cold. I live further north and never got down to - 10 deg. F. What a crappy time for the grid to go down! I never made the connection that the gas line on the transmission easement may be feeding the generators at the powerplant. Though it should have been obvious :) Will the utility even allow them to tap into that line? I would guess that if they are allowed to tap the gas line... The amount of gas they could use is limited.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn David I did not have a problem, when the power went off my lights were out about 1 minute while my 16KVA propane powered generator started automatically. I have a 250 gallon propane tank, dropped about 10%. I would imagine if we ever had these problems again that Elon would shutdown and let everyone heat their homes, his workers would probably also prefer to stay home and take care of their families.
@@eltonray2934 Glad you had the generator! I was stupid and didn't have one. I'm getting a generator now, after I froze my butt off. Not as cold as you guys had it, but the temperature inside the house was 41 degrees! We have two substations and two sets of transmission lines feeding those substations. With each substation connected to both both sets of transmission lines. Both sets of transmission lines were taken out in separate incidents during the ice storm. Cutting power to a city of 15,000 people. Over the entire area, more than 600,000 people lost power. As for Musk... I'm quite sure it won't be left up to his good will. It will most likely be in the contract that both his gas and power can be cut. And there will probably be a remote control valve on the gas line. Since keeping the power grid up is number one priority.
What are the green and white boxes along the N.E.side of the building? Does it have to do with the stringers they are putting up next to the paint shop?
Zac provided the best answer I've seen to date. No one really knows for sure, but I figured some type of foamboard insulation for between the studs or as Zac just mentioned, a fiberglass board to go up on the studs. Hopefully we'll see this week!
At 17:16, the roof top where the gaps remain south of the former gaps (which have the concrete barrier panels protruding): I’m confused by this. It looks like they’ve built beyond the reach of being able to (similarly) drop/stack concrete wall barrier panels down these open gaps (as they did the others) via crane. Any ideas what these are for, aside of being another tweak to my OCD?
There might be walls project above the roof line here, but they will be built in situ. Framed and sheeted walls. Won't be precast panels as there is no footing for them to land on.
Many people have asked about this. If you look at 16:51 above the plastic enclosure you can see the cross bracing of this building section, which is completely separate from the rest of the building, just near it. Could be for vibration, fire protection etc. the section is well braced with a substantial framework for the upper floors. My wild guess is that it has something to do with dipping primer recycle since it is next to the mix room.
@@DessieDoolan Ah ha! I see that now. I went back to Randy’s video of 1/12/21. At 7:12 I can clearly see a footing suitable for surrounding the 3 in-line “square” sections upon which the completed panels rest upon now. There is no footing for the anext four in-line sections south, even though it looks like the steel to be erected there for them will appear to be isolated. Thanks!
Not yet. 6:23 they got a lot of conduit run from the east side of the building (just south of the casting area) to the east side of the power lines. I think that once the large pipe running north/south goes to the north west, they'll be able to complete the remaining portion of the north/south electrical conduit run. Then they can start pulling wire thru the conduit.
@@notvaporlocked5479 Agreed, there is no way they are going to energize any of the equipment at the substation until there is a grounded chain link fence around it. Also, making a connection to the transmission lines is not a simple task. Since those lines will have to be de-energized, or they will have to do extremely dangerous live work.
Hi Randy please do a segment on the different shifts one of the shifts employees leaving and another of them plays arriving and how they stagger them so there's no huge traffic jams many things we love your new AK camera bye bye
This is Texas, no air vents, completely air conditioned, no skylights, would only help top floors, robots don't need too much light, already have too much heat to remove.
Yes, as Elton said, skylights are almost nonexistent in Texas and would be a nightmare when it comes to cooling a home/structure. Our a/c units run 9 or 10 months of the year in some parts of the state, Austin being one of them.
@@TerafactoryTexas wow that makes building the roof way faster then I bet! I wonder if Tesla will be installing any cold weather proofing to guard against another freeze? I think its going to happen again sooner or later.
@@KahnSkins It freezes in most areas of Texas every winter. Way down south near Mexico where they grow our vegetables they seldom freeze. Where I live it freezes every year, Texas is a large state. In Austin they usually get a light freeze every year. But a freeze that gets down to -10deg, F and lasts for 4 days is unheard of. After this freeze I am sure that many will install more protection. In Texas we take care of our own problems.
Around 5pm, I always imagine all those guys going home to their Mummy's for tea, with some of the mothers waiting by the gates for those boys without a truck of their own. (I now realize I am mad.. Must be watching all these drone flights every day.)
Good Progress I really hope they make powerwalls into the LFP chemistry So vehicles can have freed up battery supply battery shortages have only made it harder since you can only get a powerwall if you get tesla solar which is inferior product in the solar market. (not referring to solar roof)
@@kkarllwt LFP in china is in standard range vehicle's, LFP is used in megapacks, In offgrid homes in Northern Canada, LFP can easily be used in garages Companies like Generac, LG, Panasonic, sonnen battery, enphase. Tesla is behind in the solar department because of string inverters, (not micro inverters), inverter efficiency and solar panel efficiency. They are not the only skin in the game. there warranty if you do energy arbitrage is only 10 years. LFP is cheaper, can arbitrage 2x or more depending on the climate, and Powerwalls have the same disadvantage in the cold. The only thing tesla powerwall saves is overall weight but installing requires a 3 man lift requirement since it is a single piece unit compared to the others listed above where it can be assembled on site by one person reducing labor costs.
@@kkarllwt logistically why powerwalls are not being installed without solar anymore because the requirement of a 3 man lift. Since just a Powerwall installment alone is losing them money. But it is a great Product still But LFP is far cheaper and the margins are better.
@@kkarllwt they still work here is a LFP tesla that does not mean it's good. The additional requirement is more precharging conditions. To a subprime tempature. (Leave it in a house or garage) not optimal but can still charge ua-cam.com/video/r97ub4sKwbQ/v-deo.html
At 22:51 there is a high reach bucket truck that has just arrived (on the right center of the picture). This could be for completing the feed wiring to the transmission tower. Of course they will not make the final connection at this time because of several factors including the fence. The final connection will probably be made by a special team that connects while the line is live, this is common practice. Although the whole boom of these trucks are insulated and all tools are air powered, I would prefer to stay on the ground.
Good job Randy and glad the winds cooperated for you this time!
Thanks Joe! Much better and near perfect conditions!
@@TerafactoryTexas 😎👍
185k deliveries in Q1. Letssss GOOOO!
So much digging, laying of pipes big and small, followed by rapid covering of the ground. I think it’s good for the viewers see a picture of the pipe work overlaid on top of the ground and structures for easy understanding!
Great video Randy.
At 5:28 looks the yellow crane is prepared for concrete panel installation.
Looks like roof needs those extensions put on for the part of the wall that is the parapet that sticks up above the roof. So may there for either lower wall panels, or those extensions.
@@tonyvelasco5732 The extensions are on the ground, and the braces are on the roof.
That sheeted area (time stamp 16:58) might be for installation of electrical panels - they won't want those getting wet, and we're some way from dry conditions inside the plant.
Mervyn, I have been watching as they load equipment and have seen many cabinets that appear to have disconnects and motor starters. I think in these plants the equipment is modular with power fed to that module from a central point, possibly near the casting building where they appear to be bringing in the feed. Many have complained about the roof and I am sure that it leaks, but concrete floors are never completely flat and rainwater from the sides could flow to the center of the floor and make the puddles we see, we know that it is low there.
Great meeting you Wednesday and flying with you Thursday. Thanks for the flying tips. Clayton
Always a pleasure Clayton! We'll have to book a tour together, assuming they're offered, the next time you are down!
2:30 show's Tesla's "moat" that other automakers have to cross to catch up... and it looks like it's deep and muddy! haha, awesome videos!
Can't wait to see that wall go up on the NE side. Should finally kick my weekly progress tracker into high gear. :/
Can't wait Brian! That tracker is going to go bonkers!
At 5:58 that's where the conduits go under the easement. I'm looking for the vaults they were working on. Have the top halves been put on the vaults and covered with dirt and there is just a manhole lid showing?
At 13:20 the footing pits are oddly spaced and seem twisted - maybe optical illusion?
At 17:05 on the right look like cabinets with blue plastic on the doors. These are used for housing datacomm / telecom equipment. Maybe they will give a hint as to what will be built in that area.
Getting altitude sickness at 20:00 !!
At 24:12 bunch of guys standing around a cable vault trying to figure out where to run the conduits? For Tesla Superchargers??
Thanks, Randy, I need a fix of amazing drone shots of Giga Texas!
There are three conduit vaults shown at 6:14 next to the building that are still open. There two more vaults on the east side of the transmission line easement. Sorry, I don't have a timestamp as I'm wrighting this.
Looking at your timestamp @5:58 there is one vault on the eastside visible (near the red excavator) Another vault barely visible at the top of the screen.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn What fell over?
@@kkarllwt Didn't say anything fell over.
At 5:58 junction boxes are still open, at 13:20 the pits do not have to be straight, only the concrete footings have to be correct, they will backfill the excavation. At 17:05 the blue plastic covered items are HVAC duct, plastic keeps out dust. 24:12 Supervisor is probably explaining the job, have to keep 6 feet apart. Probably some superchargers somewhere on the site. 20:00 Suggest that you do not try skydiving.
Randy. Another first for you. 11:50 I don't think any of the quad squad have caught the application of adhesive for the roof membrane.
15:48. Someone needs to to straighten up that wonky track under the roof.
16:50. Curious. It's just scaffold being covered with plastic. Not much room to work under it.
10:33. Ready to start. Even have the bracing wires cut to length and coiled up laying on the columns.
20:00. Centre of screen is a circular pattern of hold down bolts in the floor slab. What could it be for?
20:00 perhaps an exceptionally large robot arm, i.e. having a very long reach, possibly to take a car body and .. flip it upside-down? There are easier ways of flipping things over... so I dunno. Anyway, a long-extension arm with a lot of weight on the end of it would put a lot of torque on the base, and as it moved, a lot of rocking back and forth. One maneuver every minute means almost 500 rocking motions per shift ... after a year, this would start really trashing the foundation, which is why the foundation was so outsized for this thing.
@@LinasVepstas Never entered my mind that it could be for a robot, I was thinking tank, boiler, pressure vessel, round stuff generally. You may well be correct, all the robots I've seen in factory videos are on a circular base. Probably have to wait for the factory tour to see it.
@@DessieDoolan I think the zipper-pit design was driven by similar considerations. Each robot arm .. much smaller, is on a column, on a large heavy base. But that base will rock by a micrometer a thousand times a day, a million times in three years. That big concrete base will work itself out of kilter -- not so bad, cause you can realign the robot, but also it will pump around the mud underneath it. So, recall the slab they poured in the zipper-pit, and then they covered the slab with dirt? I think that slab is to limit the pumping action.
@@LinasVepstas Ah the zipper pit. Whatever it was for, it's now buried under a floor slab. I'd love to know what it was all about.
@@DessieDoolan Well, but that is what I'm saying. The consensus at the time seemed to be that the pillars in the zipper-pit were for robot arms. I'm just adding that, as those arms move back and forth, they will rock whatever they're bolted to.
(The robots themselves are presumably spot-welders, sticking together stamped body&roof panels coming out of the stamping area, before they move to the paint ship.)
Great shots looking over the edge from the rooftop!
Excellent Randy! Thanks so much for your skills
Appreciated as usual Randy, thanks.
Great job, thanks for keeping us up to date. I would vote for you adding your comments on what we are seeing through out the flight with observations on changes.
Awesome drone work and video quality, mega thank you.......
You're welcome Marcel!
Great Video Randy. Please try to overfly the new eastside clearing area. Much more equipment working that area and the old houses will probably come down soon. I could see just a slice of it in the over flight of the parking lot.
They are running security out of the house. and the tower is the GPS set point.
Thanks Michael! I'll definitely get more footage of it going forward. The houses in this area are set up as monitoring stations that they retrofitted early in the process of clearing the site so I can doubt they'll be going anywhere any time soon.
One thing I think I saw is that the triangle section of roof that wasn't filled in on the South East corner of the stamping machine area seems like it's filled in now. I couldn't tell for sure, but I think I saw framing around it and the final wall section was put in, which I think they were waiting for until that roof section was filled in.
19:44 I foresee a great deal of new steel framing being erected in the next week.
23:15 Funny how they're doing massive excavation to run subterranean conduit for the factory, meanwhile working around the high tension lines that cut through the site.
This is a huge facility. "Tera" is an understatement...it's more like "ZettaFactory"
So.....off work today so I have time to blab a bit. Was like #421 today....Missed the Elon number by just 1 ;-(
When that crew started on the stamping roof with those little squares I though it may be a month or more before they were done -- looks like they will be done before the end of next week. I wonder if they just continue onto the main steel structure from here???
Thanks as always Randy!!!
I'm in the same boat as you and am on record saying something about how tedious it looked and that it'll probably take a while. Once again, the workers prove me wrong and I'll admit it. These guys put in major work and FAST!
Those little squares are really about four feet square, any larger would require two people to handle them, especially in any wind. I believe that they are some type of expanded plastic about 2" thick in 2 layers which would give you about R 20 insulation value. The dark gray cover is for strength and white for sealing out weather. Have you ever laid any type of floor tile ?
@@eltonray2934 Yes -- it's tedious....but I don't do it that often...
They are building a new house near me and they began bricking it about a week ago....I said the same thing - that house is pretty big and it's going to take a long while.....One week later, only a small section remains and they will likely finish it today. Never underestimate tradesmen....
Damn you have the best soundtrack too!
At 15:48 the white HEA beams on the ceiling still need some alignment, Or someone was drunk. And a big thanks again Randy!
Maybe I've seen them offset before to act as a cantilever shifting the weight of something they plan on fitting to it. Maybe when they mount stuff to it we will find out!
Great job, Randy. Happy Easter to you and yours.
Looks like the covered area is aligned to the main power conduits coming from the sub station/switch yard so maybe the power distribution is going there ?
Nice job again as always, thank you. Randy, do you know if they are installing solar on the roof?
Thanks Garritt! Solar hasn't been "officially" confirmed but I can make a 100% guess that it will in fact be installed on this roof. The real question is will they begin installing it as soon as roof sections have been completed OR will they wait until the entire roof of 100% of the completed factory is done and then begin installing it? I would think the former as they will be able to generate a ridiculous amount of solar power with the current roof footprint that we are seeing and it wouldn't make sense to let it go to waste, given the amount of power the factory will need itself.
@ 11:45 on the stamping press structure, the roof drains to the east, but I don't see any locations for the roof drains to grade. I know they have something I'm just not seeing it. Also, those rectangle notches in the roof I think are for the HVAC rooftop units. May be wrong, but....I'm sticking with it for now.
There's a line of holes been cored through the roof. Line is roughly halfway between the back of the parapet and the rectangular recesses. 2 holes in each bay around 5' 1.5m apart. Presumably they will create fall from the parapet down to these drains using tapered insulation panels, or built up with a lightweight structure like that seen at the metal/concrete roof transition.
@@DessieDoolan Thank you for the update
@@DessieDoolan I think I can see them. They are in pairs, main drain and overflow.
@@gtbproductions1 Yes, same on the casting roof.
Thank you!
In case anyone is interested, IDRA released a 2:46-long time lapse video of the assembly of the same model Giga Press as is installed at Giga Austin. You can see the video at: ua-cam.com/video/B5ffhNdRWFg/v-deo.html
@ 17:00 Looks like the scaffolding they erected may be a protective cover from the leaky roof. Though there's not a lot of room to work in that space.
From the side, those cranes up in the battery plant assembly area look as though they are ready for war and prepping for battle. 😅
They seriously do!
@@TerafactoryTexas 😂😂 It's like a cross between The Day of the Triffids and War of the Worlds but with cranes & no aliens or plants.
Yup, once the steel is delivered that thing is going up like a circus tent.
Hi Randy!
My guess is that the gas line in the trench @ 23:17 may be for back up generators. Though it could have other purposes as well.
David, you could be right but they still have to supply the melting furnaces for the die casters and possibly the HVAC with natural gas. Also the large gas line they went under for the feed probably goes to the power plant to the south where there are 7 gas turbine generators that supply this plant and are a good backup. The problem during the recent cold spell was as other forms of generation went off line because of the cold the gas generators nearly doubled their output and then started to have gas supply problems. The grid was supplying 150% of it's normal load. I recorded the lowest temp that I have ever seen in Texas, -10 deg. F, probably will not happen again for another 100 years.
@@eltonray2934 Wow, you guys really got cold. I live further north and never got down to - 10 deg. F. What a crappy time for the grid to go down! I never made the connection that the gas line on the transmission easement may be feeding the generators at the powerplant. Though it should have been obvious :)
Will the utility even allow them to tap into that line? I would guess that if they are allowed to tap the gas line... The amount of gas they could use is limited.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn David I did not have a problem, when the power went off my lights were out about 1 minute while my 16KVA propane powered generator started automatically. I have a 250 gallon propane tank, dropped about 10%. I would imagine if we ever had these problems again that Elon would shutdown and let everyone heat their homes, his workers would probably also prefer to stay home and take care of their families.
@@eltonray2934 I read that when the pipes came out of the ground, the water in the gas froze and blocked the pipes and valves.
@@eltonray2934 Glad you had the generator! I was stupid and didn't have one.
I'm getting a generator now, after I froze my butt off. Not as cold as you guys had it, but the temperature inside the house was 41 degrees! We have two substations and two sets of transmission lines feeding those substations. With each substation connected to both both sets of transmission lines.
Both sets of transmission lines were taken out in separate incidents during the ice storm. Cutting power to a city of 15,000 people. Over the entire area, more than 600,000 people lost power.
As for Musk...
I'm quite sure it won't be left up to his good will. It will most likely be in the contract that both his gas and power can be cut. And there will probably be a remote control valve on the gas line. Since keeping the power grid up is number one priority.
Is this plant larger than the recently completed Telsa Giga Factory in McCarrran, Nevada ?
Yes, it is.
Wrapping up a lot next week.
What are the green and white boxes along the N.E.side of the building? Does it have to do with the stringers they are putting up next to the paint shop?
I believe that is a fiberglass board that will go up on all of those studs! Similar to sheetrock but waterproof
Zac provided the best answer I've seen to date. No one really knows for sure, but I figured some type of foamboard insulation for between the studs or as Zac just mentioned, a fiberglass board to go up on the studs. Hopefully we'll see this week!
@@TerafactoryTexas TY
At 17:16, the roof top where the gaps remain south of the former gaps (which have the concrete barrier panels protruding): I’m confused by this. It looks like they’ve built beyond the reach of being able to (similarly) drop/stack concrete wall barrier panels down these open gaps (as they did the others) via crane. Any ideas what these are for, aside of being another tweak to my OCD?
There might be walls project above the roof line here, but they will be built in situ. Framed and sheeted walls. Won't be precast panels as there is no footing for them to land on.
Many people have asked about this. If you look at 16:51 above the plastic enclosure you can see the cross bracing of this building section, which is completely separate from the rest of the building, just near it. Could be for vibration, fire protection etc. the section is well braced with a substantial framework for the upper floors. My wild guess is that it has something to do with dipping primer recycle since it is next to the mix room.
@@DessieDoolan Ah ha! I see that now. I went back to Randy’s video of 1/12/21. At 7:12 I can clearly see a footing suitable for surrounding the 3 in-line “square” sections upon which the completed panels rest upon now. There is no footing for the anext four in-line sections south, even though it looks like the steel to be erected there for them will appear to be isolated. Thanks!
Hello, what is happening ( around @13 minutes ) on the other side of the Hwy?
Welcome to tx, the state that doesnt tax you up to your eyeballs
7:38 Is the connection between the building and the power plant fully completed?
Not yet. 6:23 they got a lot of conduit run from the east side of the building (just south of the casting area) to the east side of the power lines. I think that once the large pipe running north/south goes to the north west, they'll be able to complete the remaining portion of the north/south electrical conduit run. Then they can start pulling wire thru the conduit.
the section of electrical conduit that needs to be complete can be see at 23:37
I’m guessing there won’t be any power connected to anything until chain link fence is installed around the switch station.
One thing is wiring other is connection.
@@notvaporlocked5479 Agreed, there is no way they are going to energize any of the equipment at the substation until there is a grounded chain link fence around it. Also, making a connection to the transmission lines is not a simple task. Since those lines will have to be de-energized, or they will have to do extremely dangerous live work.
10:05 The United Front of cranes.
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Solar roof?
Hi Randy please do a segment on the different shifts one of the shifts employees leaving and another of them plays arriving and how they stagger them so there's no huge traffic jams many things we love your new AK camera bye bye
WE ARE ALL WRONG SpaceX is moving in across the highway, going full runaway from California 0.0
Nice video but why the music is so depressing?
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Where are all the air vents and sky lights? this roof is crazy flat! are they venting out the sides?
This is Texas, no air vents, completely air conditioned, no skylights, would only help top floors, robots don't need too much light, already have too much heat to remove.
Yes, as Elton said, skylights are almost nonexistent in Texas and would be a nightmare when it comes to cooling a home/structure. Our a/c units run 9 or 10 months of the year in some parts of the state, Austin being one of them.
@@TerafactoryTexas wow that makes building the roof way faster then I bet!
I wonder if Tesla will be installing any cold weather proofing to guard against another freeze? I think its going to happen again sooner or later.
@@KahnSkins It freezes in most areas of Texas every winter. Way down south near Mexico where they grow our vegetables they seldom freeze. Where I live it freezes every year, Texas is a large state. In Austin they usually get a light freeze every year. But a freeze that gets down to -10deg, F and lasts for 4 days is unheard of. After this freeze I am sure that many will install more protection. In Texas we take care of our own problems.
Around 5pm, I always imagine all those guys going home to their Mummy's for tea, with some of the mothers waiting by the gates for those boys without a truck of their own. (I now realize I am mad.. Must be watching all these drone flights every day.)
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Thanks for the video Randy. Top of the line as always.
Good Progress I really hope they make powerwalls into the LFP chemistry So vehicles can have freed up battery supply battery shortages have only made it harder since you can only get a powerwall if you get tesla solar which is inferior product in the solar market. (not referring to solar roof)
LFP can only be used where it never get below 32 deg F. ( 0 C. )
@@kkarllwt LFP in china is in standard range vehicle's, LFP is used in megapacks, In offgrid homes in Northern Canada, LFP can easily be used in garages Companies like Generac, LG, Panasonic, sonnen battery, enphase. Tesla is behind in the solar department because of string inverters, (not micro inverters), inverter efficiency and solar panel efficiency. They are not the only skin in the game. there warranty if you do energy arbitrage is only 10 years. LFP is cheaper, can arbitrage 2x or more depending on the climate, and Powerwalls have the same disadvantage in the cold. The only thing tesla powerwall saves is overall weight but installing requires a 3 man lift requirement since it is a single piece unit compared to the others listed above where it can be assembled on site by one person reducing labor costs.
@@kkarllwt logistically why powerwalls are not being installed without solar anymore because the requirement of a 3 man lift. Since just a Powerwall installment alone is losing them money. But it is a great Product still But LFP is far cheaper and the margins are better.
@@polarbearigloo You can't charge LFP below 32 degrees.
@@kkarllwt they still work here is a LFP tesla that does not mean it's good. The additional requirement is more precharging conditions. To a subprime tempature. (Leave it in a house or garage) not optimal but can still charge ua-cam.com/video/r97ub4sKwbQ/v-deo.html