Скачать или смотреть Tesla Corpus Christi Lithium Plant Review & Discussion! 3 June 2024 Construction Update (9:00 AM)

On my way to Starbase to watch and provide Live Stream coverage of Starship’s 4th launch and the Tesla Lithium Plant was right on the way so I was able to stop and get in an updated drone flight of the site and show some of the significant progress sine my last update in March 2024.

Big changes in the past two months, with much more superstructure & equipment installed, expansion of construction across more of the site, electrical & water services for the facilities now functional & the huge raw materials processing structure steel assembly!

In the video introduction, I show you a ground-level view of how the site appears when arriving on the frontage road, and discuss a few of the more significant changes you’ll see in the video I also show how the view from the arch with “Tesla Lithium” has changed from the ground breaking in May 2023 through initial construction in November 2023 to today, which gives a dramatic look at how much has been constructed so far!

We then discuss many of the significant changes to look for throughout the video, including some illustrations and other amplifying information

Timestamps:
Introduction & overview with discussion & illustrations: 0:06 to 2:46
Lithium Plant Drone Flight & Narration: 2:57 to 17:49

A few additional highlights:
The rotating kiln and cooler assemblies on top of the massive foundations is making great progress on the first half of the production facility, with a lot of supporting structures already assembled and installed around these two gigantic “tubes” that form part of the pyrometallurgical portion of the processing portion of the facility. We also see clamshells being installed around the rotating cooler which is most likely related to maintaining the correct temperature necessary to transform Spodumene Concentrate 6 from the alpha (inert) to beta (reactive) material ready for the next step in the processing.
Much of the hydrometallurgical portion of the first half of the facility is also under construction now, including reinforced slabs and mounts for the tanks necessary for this stage of processing. Additional foundation and footing construction is observed around this area, including trenching through the mid-point of what will be the two mirror image processing lines of the completed facility.

Finally, the new electrical substation to supply electricity to the site is now functional on the far north end of the facility, and we can see new power poles along a dirt road to the north which connect to the new substation to the Lithium Plant. This is a critical part of getting the facility operational . In addition, we see what appears to be a set of water pipes and manifolds, suggesting there is some water service, likely processing form the water detention ponds so this means there is at least some level of utilities service on the site now.

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Drones used are DJI Mini 2, Mavic Air 2 & Air 3.