Elon Musk's Tesla to build world's biggest lithium ion battery to secure power for South Australia (SA)

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Our real life Tony Stark is back to improve the world, even at the risk of him loosing $50 million. This is a big step to bringing stable energy to areas that have been experiencing power problems, which can even translate to smaller scale batteries to bring power to developing countries. The 100 day guarantee by Mr. Musk doesn't seem like just him being cocky but more like he already has something in the works and he is confident that it will deliver.

 

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Key points:

• A 100-megawatt (129 megawatt hour) battery is to be in place before summer
• It will provide energy stability for SA and also be emergency back-up for shortfalls
• Elon Musk is sticking by a "100 days or free" promise for SA taxpayers

Source:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/sa-to-get-worlds-biggest-lithium-ion-battery/8687268

 

Edited July 7, 2017 by Dissitesuxba11s
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[Lord Nicoll]

*sarcastically rolls eyes* 

 

[Julian5]

I'm glad he's so confident about his products.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Elon Musk is Tony Stark^{[citation needed]}

[Lurick]

Next up he'll sell them at a BOGO price!

[Prysin]

all fun and games, until someone crosses the poles... Have fun stopping the worlds biggest chemical fire

[manikyath]

my first thought: the biggest lithium chain reaction if that thing decides to go thermonuclear X number of years down the line

[ADM-Ntek]

how is that news? he has already said that in march. 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/14879246/elon-musk-tesla-battery-farm-australia-blackouts

[manikyath]

Just now, Prysin said:

all fun and games, until someone crosses the poles... Have fun stopping the worlds biggest chemical fire

li-ions are surprisingly resilliant to that stuff, and i'm sure he's clever enough to build in protections.

[MorganO]

18 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Elon Musk is Tony Stark^{[citation needed]}

watched ironman? tony stark is based of elon musk

[Dissitesuxba11s]

2 minutes ago, ADM-Ntek said:

how is that news? he has already said that in march. 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/14879246/elon-musk-tesla-battery-farm-australia-blackouts

Technically this is more of an update than just new news.

[You_are_a_cunt]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

li-ions are surprisingly resilliant to that stuff, and i'm sure he's clever enough to build in protections.

@Comic_Sans_MS is too close for the protection to matter.

[manikyath]

Just now, revsilverspine said:

@Comic_Sans_MS is too close for the protection to matter.

its okay, @CUDA_Cores is gonna steal all the lithium and strap it to his E-bike anyways.

[rn8686]

5 minutes ago, ADM-Ntek said:

how is that news? he has already said that in march. 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/14879246/elon-musk-tesla-battery-farm-australia-blackouts

He officially was awarded the contract, that was just him claiming he could do it. 

[comicsansms]

Just now, revsilverspine said:

@Comic_Sans_MS is too close for the protection to matter.

Oh goodie, someone who cares about the state of my life as much as I do.

[WkdPaul]

@Dissitesuxba11s Thanks for the edit.

 

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[captain_to_fire]

It would have been so much better if Elon Musk invested on emerging technologies that will address shortcomings of the current Li-ion battery like Graphene unless he can improve Nickel-Cadmium batteries which is very unlikely and much worse than Li-ion.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

I guess the previous replies relating to editing got deleted. Oh well.

 

2 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

It would have been so much better if Elon Musk invested on emerging technologies that will address shortcomings of the current Li-ion battery like Graphene unless he can improve Nickel-Cadmium batteries which is very unlikely and much worse than Li-ion.

But any way, like I said earlier I agree with you. With his capability, Mr. Musk needs to look into improving the existing problems with Li-ion. On the other hand, this project is a great way to test the limits of scaling Li-ion batteries to such great heights. Maybe it can even lead to faster manufacturing practices for large scale batteries since he is giving his company such a strict time constraint.

[Julian5]

Can't wait to steal all those 18650's for my new portable thermonuclear reactor

[Dash Lambda]

41 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

But any way, like I said earlier I agree with you. With his capability, Mr. Musk needs to look into improving the existing problems with Li-ion. On the other hand, this project is a great way to test the limits of scaling Li-ion batteries to such great heights. Maybe it can even lead to faster manufacturing practices for large scale batteries since he is giving his company such a strict time constraint.

I wonder if the Gigafactory would put any particular damper on that. I mean, he's shown to be a rather extreme case of "I don't care about the money, I just want to make things," but investing so much in manufacturing one type of battery might make changing the type of battery rather impractical.

That is, unless the Gigafactory can be easily modified to accommodate the change.

[MoonSpot]

2 hours ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

watched ironman? tony stark is based of elon musk

Watched Ironman?  Tony Stark is based off the Tony Stark from the Ironman comicbook, first released in May 1968.  3 years before Elon was born.

 

OT: Good, batteries are required to make green energy tech worthwhile.  But still realistically need a nuclear plant as a base for any advanced society of worthwhile size.  Don't think there are any in use in Oz.  It's simply best to mesh a few different energy generation types together and use them all at the same time so you can capitalize on each techs strength when appropriate to do so.

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Dash Lambda said:

I wonder if the Gigafactory would put any particular damper on that. I mean, he's shown to be a rather extreme case of "I don't care about the money, I just want to make things," but investing so much in manufacturing one type of battery might make changing the type of battery rather impractical.

That is, unless the Gigafactory can be easily modified to accommodate the change.

That isn't the only planned Gigafactory. Also, alternative battery types aren't developed enough to put them in production.

[Dash Lambda]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Also, alternative battery types aren't developed enough to put them in production.

Yeah, which is why he would need to invest in their development...

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Dash Lambda said:

Yeah, which is why he would need to invest in their development...

Which is entirely different from creating production batteries right now...

[dalekphalm]

20 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

Watched Ironman?  Tony Stark is based off the Tony Stark from the Ironman comicbook, first released in May 1968.  3 years before Elon was born.

 

OT: Good, batteries are required to make green energy tech worthwhile.  But still realistically need a nuclear plant as a base for any advanced society of worthwhile size.  Don't think there are any in use in Oz.  It's simply best to mesh a few different energy generation types together and use them all at the same time so you can capitalize on each techs strength when appropriate to do so.

Robert Downey Jr. based his performance of Tony Stark largely on Elon Musk. Not entirely, of course - as much inspiration was drawn from the original comic book character. But the current MCU iteration was definitely modelled after - to some degree - Elon Musk:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-story-elon-musk-robert-downey-jr-tony-stark-ashlee-vance