Hans C Nelson 🗽
@HansCNelson · Aug 30, 2026
99.9% of you have no idea what level of manufacturing voodoo magic @elonmusk is taking about here.
These turbine blades have to survive temperatures that would melt any other machine under forces that would crush any other machine.
And they have to do that continually for
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
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True, it’s a tough problem, but SpaceX has one of the best advanced casting technology teams in the world
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