Abhi Tripathi
@SpaceAbhi · Aug 29, 2026
Fun fact: the blades inside the Merlin turbopump were amongst the hardest things to get across the finish line for human certification. Engineers really had to understand any cracks and how they form and how they might propagate. Some really good engineering knowledge accrued!
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Aug 29, 2026@TeslaBoomerMama SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible, but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years.
The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades & vanes. By doing
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
We spent so many years on the turbine blade cracking problem
11:24 PM · August 29, 2026 · 387.9K views
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