"Tunnel Up Close & Personal" Tesla Gigafactory Texas 12/29/2024 9:20AM

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[@DessieDoolan]

Thanks Brad. *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* 0:28. Wastewater Treatment plant. A possible worksite of the ‘Giga Texas Offsite Wastewater Interceptor’ project. Looking for the contractor’s name ‘Ward and Burke’ to confirm. 2:15. Southend, east. Through the window openings. Lots of scaffold around the tanks in the Tank Farm. Some pipework visible. 5:50. Westside, Tunnel Project. MotherTruck. No sign of screw fixing of the cladding. No deformation along the joints that would suggest welding. Cladding appears to be adhesive fixed only. 5:56. Westside, Tunnel Project. Portal. Roll-up door channels visible cut into the retaining wall and above. Chain for manual operation on the left.

[@Frank-gt7me]

5:50 hopefully they didn’t use the same adhesive as the battery roof membrane!

[@benguthrie49]

off topic. did you catch any of Australian Jazz Conference?

[@DessieDoolan]

@@benguthrie49 Hi Ben. No I didn't. I have a 'difficult' relationship with Jazz! There's some jazz that I really like, and the rest.... I'm not a musician (my kids are, weirdly). A very good friend has a successful Jazz band that I go and see a couple of times a year. Plays at the Paris Cat, a popular Melbourne jazz venue.

[@DessieDoolan]

@@Frank-gt7me 5:50. Probably a urethane adhesive, but not a foaming adhesive as used at Battery. Maybe one of the Sikaflex range specifically for metals. I would guess double sided tape to locate each piece while the adhesive sets.

[@philipanderson5831]

Great Music. I was floating through space!🥐

[@garyhenderson8178]

Awesome music selection! Thank you for sharing your work!

[@JimRobbinsAccordion]

Brad I love your music choice and cinematography on this video. We drove by GigaTexas yesterday afternoon for the first time! I am still stunned at how big it is!!!

[@stevencaskey8502]

Love the classical music.

[@brucedubbs6939]

Great video Brad. Again.

[@jimprimo4068]

Thanks for these cool fly overs. Happy New Year, Brad.

[@benguthrie49]

Thanks Brad.

[@terrysmith8655]

Great video Brad! Thanks for the close-up views of the surrounding areas across the river, it was very interesting to seetwo 6-stack cooling systems in the same screen. Also, great music!!! Alnd, thanks for the tunnel update.

[@rory-red]

Sometime in the future Tesla is suppose dig a boring tunnel under the river to their horse ranch at the end of Tesla road.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@rory-red I think the permit for that tunnel expired. But.... They will be boring a smaller tunnel (7' diameter) under the river as part of the wastewater interceptor project. The far southeast end of the project can be seen @ 0:30

[@terrysmith8655]

@ i've heard that there might end up being a few tunnels around giga Texas. Will be interesting to see.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@terrysmith8655 Possibly one more tunnel under 130 done by TBC to the EOL facility. By the way, the wastewater interceptor project is being done by a different company, using a different technology called micro tunneling.

[@davidsalisbury50]

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nnat 7’ diameter they can use pipe jacking techniques with a non- man entry TBM (micro tunnelling). Although the term “micro tunnelling” tends to be associated with smaller diameter pipe jacking where man entry, even for repair, is not possible. ( I. E. Less that 4’ internal diameter).

[@Jeffrey_Bezos_Amazon]

Have a nice weekend and a happy New Year to you.

[@snate2.0]

Strauss!!!

[@josepecanocano1587]

Video muy bonito para el fin de año, saludos desde España

[@louisstanwu]

Cooling towers to cooling towers, nice intro. Happy New Year.

[@andreandre1051]

Merci👍👍👍

[@jeffreylapointe2061]

Love the music.

[@bobbysuazjFhvcfgh]

Toooo loud

[@BTSflyer]

What! you don't have volume control?

[@bobbysuazjFhvcfgh]

@@BTSflyer u don’t know how to set the volume on the video? Why do I have to turn it down? I can just turn the whole videos off 🤣🤣🤣

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

Thanks Brad for the view south of the river! Wastewater Interceptor project: @ 0:30 Likely the southeast end of the project. The wastewater treatment plant is in back (top). Right..... Stacks of conduit? Parallel orange fences likely mark the alignment. No large cranes or ring forms for TBM shafts yet. The part of the project we have seen up until now is @ 7:24 (Upper left) where the 2 cranes are. Tunnel: @ 5:54 Good close up view inside. Does the tunnel take another dip down further back? Also.... Unusual that there appears to be no sprinkler or fire suppression system, given the fire danger from Lithium Ion batteries. Yet there is a permit fire a alarm system. I guess in Texas companies can do whatever they want.

[@DessieDoolan]

5:54. A traction battery fire in an EV couldn’t be estinguished by a fire sprinkler system. In the incredibly unlikely event of such a fire, flooding the tunnel would be a possible fix. No fire sprinklers in the Las Vegas tunnel either.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@DessieDoolan Even if the fire couldn't be extinguished, couldn't it be suppressed? Spraying water would cool the tunnel walls, possibly preventing damage. Also it could prevent a fire from spreading to other vehicles. I remember a 40 story building built in the 1970s. No sprinkler system even though the technology existed. That is, until years later when they did a remodel and were required to install it after codes were changed.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@DessieDoolan In my opinion, the Las Vegas Tunnel is a disaster waiting to happen.

[@Frank-gt7me]

There did appear to be a fire main installed under the floor decking (large black pipe with red couplings), but I don’t see any sprinkler risers or heads. Maybe someday we’ll get to see a fly-through (or drive-through) and get a better look. Businesses do get fire inspections, although likely not as often as they should. Likely one needed to close out the building permit though.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@Frank-gt7me I saw the fire main too. Which is why I'm surprised that there no visible sprinkler heads. I think the problem is building code requirements. They should be required to have fire sprinkler systems in tunnels.

[@richardrhodes-gc2ko]

Retooling Time!:)

[@Bivs_setup]

Thank you for the continued Giga Texas Flyovers. Here's to a prosperous 2025. 😊 Space Odyssey at it's best. 👏🏼👏🏼

[@mestizomad88]

I might missremembering, but didn’t they say a few weeks ago that they might be using the tunnel with Cybertrucks by the 16th Dec?

[@davidsalisbury50]

Back in January of this year it was due to be operational by April 2024. Then in June it was July. It looks like they will run some vehicles through it before new year to say it was all done in 2024. (Physical work started in December 2023).

[@memrjohnno]

Elon time.

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

@@memrjohnno "Elon time" is a nice way of saying Elon lied. 😊

[@tunnellingsalisbury7605]

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn As a specialist in the tunnelling field, I would suggest he has no idea what he is talking about. However, he did get some investors to pump $650M into the company based on his comments.

[@memrjohnno]

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Vastly overoptimistic.

[@patrickspader4062]

Didn’t know Texas could be so green

[@johntherat339]

Whats the tunnel for?

[@soldermonkey]

Moving finished cars and trucks across to final inspection and load out to go to the railyard in Frane Switch Texas

[@bobbysuazjFhvcfgh]

Bro how did u end up on this video?? 😂😂