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Tesla says world’s largest battery installation is halfway done
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At a Jamestown, South Australia event on Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company was halfway done installing a 100MW/129MWh utility-grade battery bank near the site of the 100MW Hornsdale Wind Farm.
The battery bank will be the largest grid-tied system in the world when it’s complete. (Currently, the largest grid-tied system is a 30MW/120MWh facility built by AES Energy Storage in Southern California.) The project grew out of a Twitter bet between Australian software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Telsa and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. In response to Cannon-Brookes’ incredulity about the speed that Tesla was claiming it could install grid-tied batteries, Musk promised to deliver a system to South Australia, a state that’s suffered debilitating blackouts in recent summers, “in 100 days or its free.”
But “100 days or it’s free” didn’t include time negotiating contracts, and after the bet Tesla went though a competitive bidding process with the state of South Australia for access to an A$ 150 million ($ 115 million) renewable energy fund to cover the cost of the batteries. Earlier this year, Musk gave estimates on Twitter that suggested a 129MWh system would cost $ 32.35 million before taxes and labor. Tesla won the bidding round and partnered with French company Neoen, the owner of the Hornsdale Wind Farm in the mid-north region of South Australia. Musk later commented that if Tesla missed its 100-day deadline, the company could stand to lose “$ 50 million or more.”
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OneDrive done right is back, and now it works properly
OneDrive placeholders are back. A new OneDrive client is available for the latest Windows 10 Insider build, and it brings back seamless integration with OneDrive cloud storage under the name “OneDrive Files On Demand.”
With cloud storage services, it’s very easy to have large amounts of storage and data “in the cloud” that you don’t necessarily have room for locally. The traditional solution has been some kind of selective sync; some folders are nominated to be stored locally, while others are visible only through the service provider’s Web interface. While this addresses immediate size constraints—it means that your hundreds of gigabytes of cloud files won’t overflow your laptop’s paltry 128GB SSD—it typically represents an awkward usability trade-off. Those files that aren’t synchronized locally become invisible to the operating system, so you can’t browse and manage them in Explorer, and neither can you open them directly in your applications.
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Patriots coach ‘done with’ Microsoft Surface
In a five-minute rant from a man famous for five-word answers, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick this morning tore apart and then swore off using the Microsoft Surface tablets that are provided to teams by the National Football League.
“As you probably noticed, I’m done with the tablets,” Belichick told reporters. “They’re just too undependable for me. I’m going to stick with (paper) pictures, which several of our other coaches do, as well, because there just isn’t enough consistency in the performance of the tablets. I just can’t take it anymore. …”
It was only two weeks ago that Belichick threw one of the tablets in frustration on the sideline during a loss to the Buffalo Bills.
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