Tunnel Thrust Ring & Ramp Removed, Casting Bag House Rises! 24 June 2024 Giga Texas Update (07:00AM)
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Beautiful morning at Giga Texas & busy start to the last week of the 2nd Quarter! Most of the activity is on the south end extension, the east side of the casting machine section of the main factory, the north side of Tesla Road with more electrical conduit trenching underway and the Boring Company Tunneling site, both on the west side of the highway and inside the south main building extension!
Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 3:44
Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:00 to 32:21
In the video introduction, I provide some updates and additional information about the Bag House Filtration Plant on the east side of the Casting Machine section of the main factory. This includes information about what a Bag House plant is for and updates on the screw-type piers installed on the north cleared section, making what appears to be two ramps for reworked receiving Doors, and another section of exterior concrete wall panels getting ready for saw cutting. Also, the steel assembly for the Bag House plant itself continues to rise, now nearly 3/4 the height of the main factory!
On the south end, activity is happening everywhere, from more roof weatherproofing materials, to trenching on the west side near where the Boring Tunnel came in under the perimeter grade beam, and work on the east side with the huge cooling pipes extending from the southeast corner towards the cooling structural platform and plant. I also get great views into the east side of the extension because of excellent early morning sunlight shining directly into the open section of the building.
The Boring Company is making quick work of disassembling the operations on the west side and preparing for the final concrete entrance and ramp structure. The tunnel thrust ring has now been removed along with the temporary steel ramp for the liner trucks, leaving the face end of the tunnel fully exposed. More of the trailers have been removed and other equipment. Rebar shipments have begun, most likely for the front facing structure.
Also, over at the triangular lot, on the southwest side, we see crews further disassembling the Prufrock-3 TBM and gantries. This is necessary for shipment back to their Bastrop, Texas main facility as the tunneling operations are now completed (for the time being) at Giga Texas.
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Drones used are DJI Mini 2, Mavic Air 2 & Air 3.
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Great advertising for the company installing the cooling towers. My hat is off to them for taking advantage of your drone fly overs.
The term 'baghouse' is something you would expect in a Dickens' novel.
8:15 good idea whoever decided to put the ad on top of the cooling fan!
Yes indeed! I bet they got more advertising coverage than any of their other means of getting the word out!
Really cool that ICT put their calling cards on the fans. I got a chuckle out of that.
I often think about why do I watch these videos? It takes quite a lot of my time, but somehow, I think it has a relaxing effect. I love it, without any doubt, but it makes no sense, looking at myself. 🤭Anyone there thinking the same way? 🤔
Thanks Joe
6:33. Robotic Avenue. Security checkpoint operational.
7:42. Southend, east pond. Adding a second layer of liner in Brad’s 22 June video.
Black pipe poking out from under the liner to the right likely a seepage monitoring well.
9:52. Southend, Cooling Tower. Apron. Trench excavations angling away further than the flow and return pipes from the building.
Possibly some equipment to be installed on the pipe run here.
11:00. Southend, south. Won’t be ramps, excavation is flat. Fire escape passages will extend towards the pond.
12:12. Southend, west. Level 2. Top left. Alimaks (construction elevators) located over what may be the pit for a permanent elevator.
Same arrangement at the north end of GA 3 years ago.
12:52. Southend, west. Level 2. View of the temporary pipework laid on bearers on the floor. Stainless steel pipe to the right.
Level 1, Tunnel Project. Concrete legos each side of the tunnel removed.
13:01. Southend, west. Apron. Pair of water storage trailers. Supply/buffer for the flushing of the coolant pipes perhaps.
15:13. Westside, Tunnel Project. Bottom left. Stacks of pipes/conduits.
20:45. Westside, north storage. 10 of the red plate heat exchangers. Similar in silver/grey at Cathode at 30:18.
21:19. GA, Highway berm. Sanitary Sewer Lift Station. 4 water storage trailers, 2 pumps.
21:37. Main Entrance. Stoneglass. 3 edge pieces have dislodged.
23:12. Plastics, apron. Pellet delivery.
24:16. Tesla Road, north. Easement. Ductbank excavations quite shallow.
25:12. Casting, east. Apron. Line of screw-piles corresponds with the track embedded in the floor inside Casting. Track just visible under the steel cover plates.
Left. Red fork-lifts likely electric. No propane tank. Charging stations seen in Joe’s 19 June pic 037.
25:34. Casting, east. Wall was saw-cut and holes drilled for lifting lugs 13 May.
25:42. Casting, east. Apron. Bottom. White sidepanels from a 6000t gigapress.
25:46. Casting, east. Baghouse structure. Going higher as shown by the connection plates for bracing on top of the beams.
27:46. Windtunnel. Cybertruck catching the breeze.
31:02. Die Shop, south. Boarded up window. Broken April 4, and replaced with a different shade of glass.
'Sanitary Sewer Lift Station. 4 water storage trailers, 2 pumps.' Too much **** to deal with?
@@memrjohnno Fundamental design fault with the lift station, and possibly the entire sanitary sewer system. More or less from the first days of the system being live there have been pumps, suction tankers, at various locations around the plant. Jeff's Day 605 (March 2022) I noted a pump truck at the lift station here.
@@DessieDoolan Just a bit North of the 'food truck' area of which Austin is renowned for.
@@memrjohnno They must be used to the 'bouquet'.
My hope is that the 4 rental trucks and 2 city-main-size pump trucks at 21:20 mean that they're transferring their entire sewer system to temporary while they install a new main lift station. Where are the famous "black ops" engineers? Nay, this black water case is too foul for fowl of a fine feather!
Thanks, Joe!
🙋♂️THANKS JOE,FOR MAKING THIS UPDATE 🤗🥶📐📐📐
Joe, I think I spotted your cybertruck parked by itself along the road on the Northeast part of GT. Great job as always... thanks
Joe, in Munro's video on the new 4680 cell, they mentioned that the new can walls are thinner. I'm just guessing but this may be related to all of the scrapped 4680 cans we are seeing.
That's a Elon Way. The biggest computer cooling system ever.
Biggest water cooled 100%.
8:48 that company knows you're flying the drone and they're getting some free advertising!
Thanks Joe
Another Great Video 😎Joe , You’re Appreciated
Thanks Joe!
New power supply to the building:
@ 24:23 Excavator carefully scraping what is likely the tops of the two existing main power duct-banks that now supply power to the building. It will be interesting to see conduit routing here.
Rooftop cable trays:
@ 5:04 (Bottom) Cable trays are being extended across the roof of stamping 2.
@ 5:16 (Bottom right) A lot of cables coming off the cable tray. That is only one cable tray! Speculating that there will be 24 to 36 cables per tray. Corresponding to 8 or 12 three-phase circuits per tray.
Any idea where all this power is coming from? Is it likely to trip the local grid without it being upgraded?
@@memrjohnno That is a good question but not an easy one to answer. First... Though I have some knowledge, I'm not an electrical engineer. But still try to find answers. I've searched Google regarding transmission line capacity and got conflicting results. Had a chat with Google's version of AI, Gemini, and talked to a few people in the comments. There are several factors to consider....
* How much generating capacity is available?
* Transmission line capacity?
* The MVA rating of the transformers in the substation.
* The capacity of the medium voltage (MV) cables that will be pulled through the new duct-banks and over the rooftop cable trays.
130 MW? probably can be done. Assuming there is enough capacity remaining on LCRA's 345 kV lines.
500 MW? From what I've heard so far, LCRA's 345 kV transmission lines may have a capacity of from 400 MW to over 1 GW per circuit, and there are 2 circuits. Though the substation is only connected to one circuit. But here is a problem......
What is the existing load on those circuits? Sorry that I can't give you a definitive answer.
Hopefully others who are experts on this stuff can help us out.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Thank you. The impression I've heard is that of they could but it would be somewhat unwise.
@@memrjohnno I agree. Even if it could be could be done (and I have my doubts), it would be irresponsible to put that much of a load on the grid.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 100% mate. Couple of years back Elon spoke of power and how a single cluster rather than multi-state network would need to be served by a nuclear power plant.
Why do some of the fan tips in the cooling tower tip up and some tips turn down?
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Roof complete!
I'd say another layer above the central southern extension yet.
Merci👍👍👍
just got to thinking where on the earth do you find several people flying drones daily over building construction? Thanks Joe Oh anyone have a clue how much more equipment is going to be needed to finish the build out of the plant? Seems like they get new equipment being delivered every other day
If they finish installing new equipment they have stopped innovating and we will have a value dividend stock. Tesla is full out petal to the metal growth stock, and with Elon at the helm, it will continue to be.
If Boeing can get their act together, then they would have credibility. They've been in a free fall since the McDonnell/Douglas merger.
Maravilha conhecimento e vida mas só prestígio nosso garoto dos foguetes
Poderia fazer documentário da dos foguetes um tuor e quem saber uma entrevista como uma colega conseguiu
Hi Joe. Love your videos. Can you please confirm if you have seen the furnaces being installed in the CAM plant? I’m curious if they are conventional roller hearth furnace or if they are rotary kiln furnace. It would help me figure out what CAM process technology is being used by Tesla at Austin CAM plant.
It takes a lot of tweaking to get a new battery production line to a point where you have a small amount of batteries failing in testing. Having a lot of cells fail as you bring a line online is perfectly normal.
15:17 I wonder what happened to the trailer? big hole in the roof and it looks like it buckled.
Way to go Joe! I just got back from a Vaudeville Show!!
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13:16 that trash shoot is there for so long that it seems they are throwing away way too much recently installed stuff! We can see it but have no clue what is being removed and neither what is it being replaced with. Imho it is related to why there was so few model Ys coming out the building?
The concrete structure they will build around the mouth of the cybertunnel is called a PORTAL.
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Indeed, and very close to the 'portal' to Giga Underworld.
Seeing those 4680 cans each week has me wondering if there is a persistent high scrap rate problem. I wonder what else is being scrapped from that process. Why can't they get a handle on it?
Nah. Think about this. There might be ten thousand cans in the scrap bin. But they make millions of cells a week. So the defect rate is way less than one percent. And that's not a problem.
It’s a waste stream that they are working on to reduce. A small percentage can appear large in high volume manufacturing. I worry no longer about such things since they are self correcting.
Re the scrap 4680’s, they are currently trying to ramp up production. by starting to run all of the equipment faster and faster, eventually things break or start to fail. Then they need to determine the failure cause and correct it. Then they try going faster and faster and faster. To me it shows how hard they are trying to lower cell costs. Don’t think it’s a bad sign personally.
@@acmefixer1 20% Yield I believe.
Can scrap surely related to ramp of the 8 cell lines and some cells that do not pass QA. Cans have a break line like a ring pull. I expect Tesla has a machine that can remove a jelly roll from a cell. Hopefully, another machine that can separate jelly rolls into the anode, cathode and separator for recycling.
So what this Boring Tunnel is for? Is it one short tunnel under the highway or there's more to it? 🧐
It's a short cut for the cybertrucks and potentially Model Ys to get to the end-of-line builing across the freeway. Rumor has it Tesla will also utilize the autopilot function to have each vehicle self drive itself to the last station, freeing up manpower in that part of the factory.
When a pond is lined it is done so that the liquid the pond holds does not seep into the ground and groundwater. You would want to line any pond which will contain toxics.
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Most ponds just drain if not lined. Nothing to do with toxic chemicals.
Will they realign the Tesla solar logo on the roof?
Said they wouldn't some time back. I say put a smile face emoji and give the 'old' roof a good mopping.
What is the bag house plant going to bag and why? I thought they installed smelter furnaces for the aluminum recycling.
It contains air filtration units.
What is the vehicle at 19.22? It came out of the building but looks like a smaller version of the cyber truck. Could that be a Robotaxi?
Just a Model Y in silver.
Is there a reason why we can’t have a video inside the tunnel before it’s operational?
The power demands continue to expand, almost exponentially. The battery pack is good; is it sufficient? Do you see more solar panels, beyond the remainder of the roof installation?
At 5:22 why are the solar panels facing west if this is in the morning, we see the sun either coming up or setting yet the panels are facing the wrong way.
Musk's ego. He wanted to spell "Tesla".
They are in a position to produce the most electricity when prices are the highest.
@@jbbuzzable As I've said all along, it's not about helping the environment... It's all about greed.😊
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn If Musk is looking for cash, he's doing it all wrong.
Those white buses we see running around the site
look like Texas Dept of Correctiuons prison buses.
Is that the contractors labor pool?
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I wouldnt be surprised to see the model2 when they finally restart that project
to make end of line for the 2 exit the east side of the building so the 2s can
trundle over and use the old outbound lot and chargers. IF, they dont rip
the old chargers out of the ground and move them across the hiway to join
the other 64 at the westside outbound lot. ANYTHING could happen.
You just never know about Elon.
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Joe! You should Seriously consider a New Role,(ie)Sleep Aids.Felt Very Sleepy This Time.
Get a decent mic so you don’t have to YELL.
Stop speaking so much, the most of the video it is clear what they are doing...
Quiet, some of us are morons and need it explained.
Mute the video?
I love Joe giving me details. Watch the other videos that tell you nothing !