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<thread> Tesla & #Lithium - a decade in the making
A lithium refinery has been in Tesla & Elon Musk’s @elonmusk thinking for ~10 yrs now & in (a serious way) for the best part of 3 yrs
The logic is sound
2020: 70-80% of lithium ion battery costs are raw materials
2010: 20-30%
A lithium refinery has been in Tesla & Elon Musk’s @elonmusk thinking for ~10 yrs now & in (a serious way) for the best part of 3 yrs
The logic is sound
2020: 70-80% of lithium ion battery costs are raw materials
2010: 20-30%
Tesla has filed to build a lithium hydroxide refining facility in Texas (Gulf Coast).
This is a revisiting of its 2020 plan to build a spodumene conversion facility to make lithium hydroxide at #GigaTexas
Originally planned to launch Q4 2022.
This is a revisiting of its 2020 plan to build a spodumene conversion facility to make lithium hydroxide at #GigaTexas
Originally planned to launch Q4 2022.
This #GigaTexas lithium refinery would have been using a new hydromet process, as not to be reliant on sulphuric acid.
Our estimation was a smaller refinery to start with 15,000 tpa lithium hydroxide. Could now be 25,000tpa
@benchmarkmin story>>>
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Our estimation was a smaller refinery to start with 15,000 tpa lithium hydroxide. Could now be 25,000tpa
@benchmarkmin story>>>
benchmarkminerals.com/membership/exc…
Imagine being in a factory where the workers never stop 24 - 7, just like these #GigaBerlin presses
These presses are relentless
Using moulds like these: 
In the past months I got a lot reactions about the permit process according #GigaBerlin. I will shed a bit light on that komplex topic. What is the Bundesimissionsschutzgesetz (Federal Immission Control Act) and what is the status quo of preliminary approvals? A thread:
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At first a little history lesson.
The BImSchG went out of the business regulations law from 1883 and was established in 1974. The US clean air act served as a model. Back than industrial emissions were recognized as a serious problem for the environment and human health.
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The BImSchG went out of the business regulations law from 1883 and was established in 1974. The US clean air act served as a model. Back than industrial emissions were recognized as a serious problem for the environment and human health.
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Target is to protect people, animals and plants, the soil, water, the atmosphere as well as cultural and other material assets from harmful effects on the environment. That provides the law with 8 parts and in total 73 paragraphs. §8a is importand for #Tesla #GigaBerlin.
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Monthly #briefing of #Tesla #GigaBerlin construction - Part 1.
These are the topics I will dive a bit deeper.
It is a thread.
1. Progress of construction
2. Waiting for next permission
3. Compensation of lost time
4. The team spirit
5. Next steps
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These are the topics I will dive a bit deeper.
It is a thread.
1. Progress of construction
2. Waiting for next permission
3. Compensation of lost time
4. The team spirit
5. Next steps
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1. Progress of #GigaBerlin construction
The drive unit is completly closed. Inside works begun a few weeks ago. This building acts as a template.
Paint roof is ready, BIW, GA, ST almost done. Roofing CA begins.
Machines get loaded into the painting since end of Ocotober.
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The drive unit is completly closed. Inside works begun a few weeks ago. This building acts as a template.
Paint roof is ready, BIW, GA, ST almost done. Roofing CA begins.
Machines get loaded into the painting since end of Ocotober.
2/12
2. Waiting for next permission
The permission will include among other things tree clearing and machine integration. The reason for waiting is that the descission needs to be legally incontestable. Therefore a verbatim record needs to be analysed.
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The permission will include among other things tree clearing and machine integration. The reason for waiting is that the descission needs to be legally incontestable. Therefore a verbatim record needs to be analysed.
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Musk visitando a #gigaBerlin hoje.
Descontraído, ele deixou muitas informações no vídeo de 9 minutos:
-ressaltou rapidez de construção da fábrica com partes pré-fabricadas
-visitará a fábrica com frequência e elevará seu filho na próxima viagem
Musk visitando a #gigaBerlin hoje.
Descontraído, ele deixou muitas informações no vídeo de 9 minutos:
-ressaltou rapidez de construção da fábrica com partes pré-fabricadas
-visitará a fábrica com frequência e elevará seu filho na próxima viagem
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-baterias tbm serão fabricadas no local, que tbm terá um centro de engenharia e design para desenvolvimento de novos produtos
-paint shop no local será o mais avançada do mundo
-🚘s produzidos no local serão radicalmente diferentes em termos da estrutura central do veículo
-baterias tbm serão fabricadas no local, que tbm terá um centro de engenharia e design para desenvolvimento de novos produtos
-paint shop no local será o mais avançada do mundo
-🚘s produzidos no local serão radicalmente diferentes em termos da estrutura central do veículo
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-deu crédito para a VW por estar levando eletrificação a sério.
-convidará toda a vizinhança para a festa de inauguração da fábrica.
-a fábrica pode ser a mais limpa e eficiente do mundo, e reciclarão o máximo de água possível.
-deu crédito para a VW por estar levando eletrificação a sério.
-convidará toda a vizinhança para a festa de inauguração da fábrica.
-a fábrica pode ser a mais limpa e eficiente do mundo, e reciclarão o máximo de água possível.
