@ 2:49 NEW INFORMATION: (Upper right) Stormwater pipes and river outlets..... Credit goes to Bob Callahan for bringing information in the new site plans to my attention... This is where a massive new "Splitter box" 37' x 69' will be constructed. To manage and divert some stormwater to a new south pond. It will work something like this... 1) All three main stormwater pipes... Eastside, central, and westside will converge near the road where the river outlet pipes are. 2) A fourth pipe will collect water from the road embankment and converge were river outlet pipes are. 3) At that convergence point a massive splitter box will divert water through two new 8' diameter pipes to a new south pond under normal conditions. But... In an extreme down pour, or extended heavy rain... The new pond fills and water flows straight through splitter box to the river outlets. The existing north pond will be filled in.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

As part of this project there will also be an outlet structure constructed at the river. It will have energy dissipaters to break up the water flow as it goes into the river.

@ 2:20 the strange pieces of steel that you're referring to are called bayonet columns, basically 2 columns tied together, one being to support the structure and the other for bridge crane rail beams.

@ 14:28 (Central alley) Columns to support bridge crane rails. @ 14:33 Looks like they are ready to begin replacing the central stormwater drain. Or maybe for now... A point where they can pump out water.

Joe arrives at daybreak, when conditions are still bearable. Jeff shows up like clockwork around noon, and does his standard route and some always awesome bonus clips - I hope from the AC comfort of vehicle as should someone approaching their golden years. Then, at the end of the day as temperatures peak in the triple digits, Randy gets to work - work much appreciated from my comfortable clime.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, triple digits ain't nuthin. Real Texans live for quadruple-digit weather!

@The_DuMont_Network

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinasVepstas Alas, I'll probably end up shoveling burning brimstone while being supervised by a gentleman in a red suit with a forked tail. I will happily settle for high two and low three digit temps for the nonce...

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_DuMont_Network I'm hoping to get my consciousness transferred to silicon, whereupon I will embark on an exploration of the sun!

@18:27 According to the new site plans, there will be a retaining wall here. Allowing for three 12' lanes around the corner. Two southbound and one northbound lane. All will be on Tesla property.

@ 2:31 Large diameter concrete pipe. This is what should have been placed under the factory floor, and under what will be the factory floor during future expansion. Rather than that galvanized steel pipe. Which can corrode over time.

@Terafactory Texas The company that I work for is going to be doing Vac and Paint work with washing Down the inside. From what I have seen this is the last steep,after concrete is pored. So I would give the building about 2-3 more years before fully finished.

@ 15:20 Work on reconstruction of a new south pond. It will be triangular shaped and have a couple of retaining walls, according to the new site plans. This pond will receive water through two 8' pipes from a massive new "splitter box" to be constructed.

Great video, thanks Randy! 6:29 all that dirt/dust blowin' in the wind. No wonder anything that sits in one place very long turns brown.

At 14:32 there's a shored up trench with the drain pipe in it. They must be installing, or reinstalling the drain pipe along there. Thanks, Randy for the great video.

Not gonna lie, waiting for the steel to resume is driving me batty. ;)

@77chickox

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they have the components in place. Cranes and steel. Is the holdup availability of crews or waiting for the footings to cure? Same for completing the casting and space frame roofs? Personnel or curing?

@richmargin6082

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they are waiting for that wall to be completed first. The one at the north end of the corridor

@sammyk874

2 жыл бұрын

It was the same situation with the steel just north of this area. They staged everything and then waited a bit.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

It's driving me batty that you haven't come up with a snappy comeback to the earlier remark that "its not a drive, its a putt."

@The_DuMont_Network

2 жыл бұрын

With me that is s short putt, not a drive...

Thanks Randy.

Fantastic!!

Thank you Randy. Great progress at the site. Have a good weekend!

Thanks Randy - great coverage. Have a great weekend!

cant wait to see the development of the green hydro gas plant !

My guess is that they will start paving a road on the east side to connect all the concrete sections once they are done on the west side.

You could hide three different mini factories inside the main building and mange shift changes, entrances etc. in such a way that nobody but the people working in each one even knew it was there. Navigating around inside there when its finished is going to be a significant challenge.

@Nphen

2 жыл бұрын

There *are* going to be (at least) 3 different factories within the main structure. The Cybertruck assembly, Model Y body shop, and Model Y assembly. People living near a lot of auto factories (grew up Metro Detroit; UAW family) knows a body shop is a different factory than an assembly plant. You are correct about interior navigation being insane. But it's not likely to be necessary by anyone other than executives and tour groups; each factory will be self-contained.

@larrybuzbee7344

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nphen I'm aware of the three units you mention. I'm simply pointing out that, given multiple floors and firewalls, even the three known units leave plenty of room to set up other plants and processes we currently are unaware of.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

@@larrybuzbee7344 Maybe they'll have top-secret skunkworks for manufacturing UFO's. 😊😊😊 Anyway, here's a nice factory tour of a bygone era: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ipVksqOgZ6nMfc4.html - Ford's River Rouge, circa 1930. Impress as heck.

@larrybuzbee7344

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinasVepstas Thanks for that. I'm thinking there will be a robot shop. I visited Gary in '75 and saw RR then. Not a pretty sight. I'm also well aware of it's pivotal role in the development of mass manufacturing as well as being one of the keys to our success in WWII. Austin is today's RR.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

@@larrybuzbee7344 Can't imagine what you mean by "robot shop". I see no advantage of putting in some skunkworks project in the middle of that place.

TY for your videos

Thank you!

Robot area parking. They may be getting ready to continue the drainage through the existing parking areas.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are right. I am also curious about the stormwater system for the east parking lots. The new site plan covers the stormwater system for the main building and surrounding roads in great detail, but shows nothing about the parking lots to the east. So we are left to guess... Is the current pond temporary? Will there be a new pond located closer to the river? What about river outlets? There has to be a way of dealing with overflow.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

While were on the subject of stormwater east of the building... According to the updated site plan, the pond @ 12:29 will end up being permanent, with modifications. * A new headwall will be built for the two stormwater drains discharging into the pond. * A new outfall structure with a weir will be built on the south end of the pond. * A new outfall channel (no drainage pipes) will be cut across road and continue in a southeast direction.

What's the point of walling up the southern end if they're extending South so soon

Do they also build escape stairs on the outside like at giga berlin?

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

No, they are all inside.

Think they announce start of production at the shareholder meeting next week?

17:46 I wonder why have they put parking places in front of the loading docks?

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

this side of the factory isn't going to be up and running for another 6 months. That AND they probably changed the footprint of the factory around again... and again and again. The cybertruck production is waiting on a steel mill to be built about an hour away

Is it just me or are there smaller pieces mixed in with the larger pieces of window? Looks like there’s possibly some of the angled glass on the same trailer as the super tall panes.

Thanks for the focus on the casting area...fascinating. Do you think there will be just the one row of IDRA casting machines or is there going to be a second parallel row (columns/space seems to be laid out a little differently)? Thanks Randy. Nice intro/highlights too.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

There will be a second row. IRDA can't make them fast enough.

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a second row. As Linas said, IDRA can't make and ship them fast enough. It literally takes over month just to ship one after it's packaged up!

@optimagroup11

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinasVepstas Thank you!

@optimagroup11

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas Thanks Randy. Always enjoy you episodes.

17:36 On the second floor, below the tall windows there is a yellow fenced off area. Throughout the construction we have seen other areas fenced off using yellow fencing. What is the significance of the yellow fencing?

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

My monitor isn't very clear but the fence may be around a large opening in the floor?

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Not below. But maybe above, to avoid exposure to things falling. Or just making sure the place stays free for some planned use.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

That particular one seems much more formal than earlier ones, so it has me confused. The earlier ones were drop-off pens -- smaller deliveries would be placed there, where both the delivery guy and you could find them, and no one would run over it with a cart or kick it to one side. Safe area for drop-offs.

#1253 😁👍

Glad to see the latest progress. Thank you for the videos! It seems as if you're capturing the sift change every video I see. Lots of cars leaving & entering, very little work being done. Machines are all resting. Is that at the request of the management? Or just when you happen to go down there every day?

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

It mainly depends on the time I get there. I've been getting there later due to coaching my kids flag football teams and fitting practices in, so if I'm able to make it over to the site after practice, it's much later and most of the outside updates have been done for the day, unless it is concrete being poured or asphalt being paved. I'm still working out the kinks in my new schedule, but it should only be off from my norm until maybe the first week of November when the season ends.

Merci👍👍👍

ATTENTION ALL READERS OF THIS SITE: When I logged on this morning I saw that there had been 3377 people before me, yet, there had been only 672 "Thumbs Up" or Likes. I think most of us here agree that Randy is doing a good job for us so we owe it to him to be sure we give him credit where credit is due. Let's try harder to give him the "Thumbs Up" when we come here. Thanks for reading.

@The_DuMont_Network

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I also use the thumbs up" as markers that I have seen the video. And Randy gets a little zetz for it, that's a bonus.

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying this Jeff!

You think they would underground the existing power line by now. It just seems out of place.

@FutureAZA

2 жыл бұрын

If you mean the high voltage lines that run along the east side of the factory, they considered that early on but Elon said it was too expensive and logistically challenging.

@demultiplexdfunc177

2 жыл бұрын

@@FutureAZA Thanks for responding, Brian.

@The_DuMont_Network

2 жыл бұрын

Wooo... That would be some pretty high voltage for underground service. Been a while since I was involved in that sort of thing but I betcha the big ones are 500KV or thereabouts. I thought at one time they might have considered relocating them, but in a low volume traffic area with the appropriate guardrails and green space, they will be fine. We have similar lines running down the huge warehouse area including AMAZON here in Coppell, there is a green space underneath, and no issues except to amateur radio on 80 meter AM, the Senior Citizens' Band...

@FutureAZA

2 жыл бұрын

@@demultiplexdfunc177 Happy to help when I'm able. Can't expect everyone to follow these things as obsessively as me. :/

@dan_w3st

2 жыл бұрын

@@FutureAZA It's always good to find a knowledgeable voice with a positive outlook in the comments. Thank you Brian.

I wonder if the irony of seeing all those gas lines going into the plant will engage the minds of the "end fossil fuels" crowd?

@daveachuk

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, an interesting point. Fossil fuels are actually an amazing resource, but they are limited in supply, and should only be used only where it makes sense. Burning them in an ICE where only 25% of their energy is being used for useful work is an example of a bad use (or as little as 10% efficiency if you take into account the energy that goes into collecting, refining and transporting those fuels from oil field to gas pump). But, using fossil fuels for thermal industrial processes (eg melting ingots for casting) is actually much better than using it to generate electricity: a natural gas power plant is between 40-50% efficient in converting fuel to electricity, plus you have grid losses. But you can get close to 100% efficient with converting fuel to heat (though there is definitely still some of that heat that doesn't do useful work). Given the electricity mix of the Texas grid (46% natural gas, 17% coal, the rest is low-carbon wind/nuclear/solar) it's entirely possible that natural gas -> heat is better than grid electricity -> heat in terms of net CO2. Of course if that grid went to a high percentage of renewables, or Tesla generated its own electricity on-site, then it'd be more CO2-friendly to use electric heating for thermal processes, but for now, surprisingly, Tesla may be making the most environmentally-sound choice by using natural gas for heat. One of the big talking points against EVs is the higher CO2 needed for manufacture (in reality, this is usually made up for by less burned fuel within a few months of driving). Tesla in its environmental reports have made a point of the effort they are going through to try to reduce that so that the up-front/embodied CO2 emissions of their cars are similar to a conventional ICE car, so I suspect they keep track of all these CO2 outputs and have done the math on this. Also it seems like it would be cheaper to just increase the capacity of the electrical switchyard they're putting in anyway to allow for electrical heating, rather than installing a new natural gas pipeline, so I think if using the grid electricity were better for net CO2 they'd probably be taking that option.

@davidharris7249

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for long comment. This may change when they build the final electrical substation.

@michelangelobuonarroti916

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe. The end fossil fuels crowd is opposed to dumping high taxes on their grandkids to pay for costly flooding. They have a point.

@mrschuyler

2 жыл бұрын

The real issue here is how much CO2 IN TOTAL is required to build and maintain this plant plus produce this product compared to an ICE plant. This includes emissions from the life cycle of the cars themselves. My Tesla Weekend has done some calculations that suggest the break-even point for CO2 emissions is a matter of DAYS of production (not weeks, months, or years) It's really invalid to pick on a small part of production and claim that as a negative when they are light years ahead when considering the whole issue.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidharris7249 From my understanding, the existing substation is the final substation. Though there is an option for expansion and adding capacity.