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Linz tram 012 pauses at the Hauptplatz stop, working a late evening route 2 service from JKU / Universität to solarCity.
This was one of only a few trams I saw which did not carry advertising liveries, and it was the only one I photographed in this white and orange scheme (as opposed to the silver, black and orange scheme ) - and I don't remember seeing this livery when I last stayed in Linz back in 2016.
Getting shots from this angle was much harder, as taxis drove in front of you, and pedestrians were much more likely to wander in front of you than when shooting the opposite way. I managed just one frame of this working before the tram began to move, but I didn't delete the second frame (with a blurred tram) as the two people under the shelter at the stop are completely still in that one (one was moving in this frame), and the people under the arch on the right are less blurred. It wasn't possible, however, to remove the light trails from further back as I didn't take any frames without any moving vehicles there before I moved the camera.
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I just finished Eric Berger’s book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX.
This photo is from the “Command Van” (mobile mission control trailer for Falcon 1 launches) for the first customer satellite launch success. Many of the early employees in the book have paper name cards at their stations, with Elon Musk next to Tom Mueller, the first SpaceX hire. Tom is to my right fully engrossed in the sensor readings from his Merlin 1C engine design.
In the comments below are some of my flickr photos from the pivotal era as Falcon 1 transitioned from a string of early failures to success (2008-2009).
Elon’s reflections:
“The crazy thing is that I originally budgeted for three attempts,” Musk said. “And frankly, I thought that if we couldn’t get this thing to orbit in three failures, we deserved to die. That was my going-in proposition.” (p.165)
By 2008 “I had to allocate a lot of capital to Tesla and SolarCity, so I was out of money,” Musk said. “We had three failures under our belt. So it’s pretty hard to go raise money. The recession is starting to hit. I didn’t even have a house.” (182)
“As bad as Flight Three had gone, he wanted to give his people one final swing. In the factory, they had the parts for a final Falcon 1 rocket. ‘Build it,’ he said. ‘And then fly it.’ What they did not have was much time. If this rocket crashed and burned, well, everyone pretty much knew what that meant.
The period that followed would be the most memorable and arguably important period of the company’s history, hardening its DNA and setting the stage for SpaceX to become the most transformative aerospace company in the world.” (183)
X marks the spot at SpaceX HQ, formed by 4,000 PV panels from SolarCity.
Meanwhile, as of 3am this morning, the Nevada Senate voted 21-0 and the Assembly 39-0 to approve the four gigafactory bills. "It doesn't get any bigger than this. This is some of the most important legislation that's hit this state in perhaps our history," Republican governor Sandoval said. "We have changed the trajectory of this state, perhaps forever." — WSJ
Oh, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher ♫ ♪
The Tesla gigafactory will be on Electric Avenue. I will be driving by there tonight and then launching some celebratory rockets to take it higher. =)
Finally!
Been following this electric car’s development closely for two years (photos)...
The high speed charger is on the left, and thanks to SolarCity, it connects to the solar panels. No more gas!
Participants were asked to send a text message to Congress.
Rally for Medical Research supporting investments in medical research and NIH, Carnegie Library, Washington, DC
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You can watch the Q&A with him starting at minute 5:30 at www.tesla.com/shareholdermeeting
Elon: "Vote tally shows ~85% of unaffiliated shareholders in favor of the Tesla/SolarCity merger! Thanks for believing."
Elon spoke at TED and then slinked off to launch the CRS-2 mission to the International Space Station.
What a nice candle to light for my birthday this morning!
P.S. And then came the TEDxJetBlue Birthday Serenade... details below...
Salon sprzedaży w San Francisco ....sierpień 2013
Elektryczny samochód osobowy Tesla Model S produkowany przez markę Tesla Motors od 2012 roku.
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Grudzień 2013 - pierwszy samochód tej marki - w Polsce !
We just watched the forthcoming movie by Al Gore, and it was more inspirational and confident than the original, more of a cinema verite travelogue than a Powerpoint preso.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, introduced the film, and I took a video. At the end, Al Gore and my classmate Jeff Skoll do a Q&A with Lisa Jackson (former EPA Administrator, now at Apple). Jeff spent the past five years convincing Gore to do a sequel.
Gore:
“In order to fix the climate crisis, we have to fix the democracy crisis. Our democracy has been hacked.”
“Despair is just another form of denial.”
“There has never been a more important time to speak truth to power.”
SolarCity plays a central role in the film as Gore attempts to persuade India to agree to curtail new coal plan construction and agree to the climate accord:
“The hopeful story of what has developed in the last decade since An Inconvenient Truth came out is that the cost of electricity from renewable sources, principally solar and wind, and now the cost of energy storage, principally in batteries —all those costs have come down so rapidly that they’ve created a new world of opportunity that is irresistible for business and industry and investors. The sustainability revolution that is now unfolding in the world is in the historical sequence of the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, information revolution, but it’s unique in this sense: It has the breadth and scope of the industrial revolution, which completely transformed our world over a century and a half or more, but it has the speed of the information revolution. It is happening extremely rapidly, and it is changing everything.”
“For any of those who have any doubts, “just remember that the will to act is itself a renewable resource. We are going to win this.”
Entrepreneurs change the world. Elon asks “Why stop there?”
I finally watched Bloomberg’s extensive profile on Elon Musk and forgot that I held an impromptu interview on the subject after a board meeting several moons ago. What a pleasant surprise.
There was something about the cartoon rendering of the image above that caught my eye. When we took our first tour of the former NUMMI plant, I noticed a fish-eye safety mirror overhead, and when I zoomed in, it made for a cool effect. So I asked Elon to look up and smile for the camera, and now as I look at it, I see a Bloomberg photographer following suit, from a rotated perspective of the same scene.
Elon quotes from the profile:
“When I was a little kid I was really scared of the dark, but then I came to understand that dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength, 400 – 700 nanometers. Then I thought: it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark after that.”
“An engineer is the closest thing to a magician that exists in the real world."
And more on the Iron Man footage in the profile.
Bloomberg caption: "Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who helped create PayPal, built America’s first viable fully electric car company, started the nation’s biggest solar energy supplier, and may make commercial space travel a reality in our lifetime. And he’s only 40.”
What an incredible diversity of industries... I will also be interviewing him for the Churchill Club Legendary Leader award next month.
The same guy who invented PayPal, created the Tesla Cars, plans to create “SolarCities” and developed cars that will make money for you when you don’t use them, has ANOTHER brilliant idea.
Elon Musk plans to launch 4,000 low-orbit satellites in order to give free internet access worldwide.
The ...
...that you’d ring the NASDAQ opening bell?
Congrats to the Rive brothers today (for the SolarCity IPO).
I first met them in April 1999, and invested in their first company Everdream. At the time, the brothers sold IT services door to door by skateboard in Santa Cruz. The photos here and below are from the January 2000 profile in Business 2.0 (which I can’t find online).
Lyndon, Peter and Russell Rive built a great business solving the IT headaches of small businesses, while playing indoor ultimate Frisbee in the open bays at their Fremont HQ. Elon was also on the board.
Eventually the company was sold to Dell, providing the capital that their cousin Elon needed to save Tesla in darkest December of the financial crisis of 2008.
Tonight, please lift a glass to the Rive brothers and the American dream.
There have been a number of great speakers recently, like Lyndon, pictured here.
I just found a profile interview in today's news:
The idea for SolarCity came to Lyndon Rive on a trip with cousin Elon Musk to Burning Man in 2004.
"That's when the light bulb went off," Rive said.
A decade later, SolarCity is among the largest solar companies in the country, with operations in 19 states, 15,000 employees and 300,000 customers.
In '99, we got our first funding from DFJ. Steve Jurvetson led that round. At 20 years old, I got my first $2 million check. I went, "Wow. OK."
Q: Is there competition between you, your brothers, your cousins?
A: Business competition? No. There is no competition. Elon trumps all.
=)
When solar panels are cheap, and you know how to install them, what better way to build conference room tables.... =)
Seen at SolarCity HQ today.
A sneak peak of my Tesla on the manufacturing line in the U.K. Peeling back the covers, it looks like the doors still need some carbon fiber. =)
SolarCity is connecting the plug to the solar panels today... so the driving will be free.
(more Tesla photos)
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This is the most decent picture, did not have much luck with cannon and the distance. Churchill club always has front tables reserved for different companies and my company does not like or know about Churchill (although our partners Cisco and others do). So i was too far and taking pictures was hard. This picture was taken with my camera by my one of my table neighbors, Scott Thompson, VP of FBR Capital Markets (what a small world it is, he was visiting from NY), so he was kind to help me since I was too shy to get closer to the stage. My other pictures turned out to be very bad. Envy some other people here with their fantastic portraits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk - about Elon Musk. It is very amazing how he started SpaceX while learning rocket science by doing. Admire people who can challenge status quo. Steve Jurvetson is one of his investors. He was also a flickr investor and hotmail. He is one of the amazing people in the valley working hard to change this world by investing in innovative companies and thus expanding our technological horizons. I am explaining this for some of my flickr contacts and visitors of my photostream who are not brothers and sisters yet:D The rest do not need this silly explanation:D
Corrected some of the mistakes, phone typing...
wanted to add that in terms of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, i found this quote (trying to put things in perspective):
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”
― Plato
for me, Steve Jobs is an accomplished one, although this ratio is different in our days, may be one in 6 billion:) Elon and Steve are heroes.
Also Elon and Steve remind me hobbits in Lord of the Rings in a good way - one found a ring and started carrying it... another helped...whatever it takes and did not really think about them-selves in the process... admire people like this.
Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born, Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity.
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September 23, 2014, Buffalo - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces and breaks ground on a new, one million-square-foot site for the future SolarCity GigaFactory facility, which will manufacture solar panels at the RiverBend site in South Buffalo. The project will create more than 3,000 jobs in Western New York alone and a total of nearly 5,000 jobs in the state. The SolarCity facility will be the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
From the Strategic News Service archive: “Earth on FiRe: Rapid Response to Climate Crisis, Continuing the Necker Island Discussion”: A panel with Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and Chair of Tesla Motors and SolarCity; and Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity; hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service – SNS Future in Review (FiRe) 2008 conference, May 21, 2008, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, CA. Photos © Sandy Huffaker Jr. and Strategic News Service