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		bob1029 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs ... We should be focusing on how to build large turbines and transformers more quickly. A lot of transmission projects are blocked on equipment. There are warehouses full of photovoltaics that we cant use because of other industrial bottlenecks. We can build an entire PV plant before we can obtain a single custom transformer for a substation.

ourmandave 42 days ago [–]

Fear not citizen! Ya boi Elon got you covered with the new Megablock.

Ta da! It's 3 Megapaks wired together with a transformer. Now that's innovation.

See? Without billionaires, who would save us from billionaires?

Tesla’s Megablock: Breaking the Transformer Bottleneck https://www.rebellionaire.com/post/tesla-megablock-transform...

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