With 90 percent of Puerto Rico still without power, Elon Musk has made hurricane-wrecked island an offer its governor couldn’t refuse. The Tesla CEO tweeted Thursday that his company is capable of rebuilding Puerto Rico’s power grid, much of which was destroyed by Hurricane Maria, to run on solar power and batteries. “The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands … [Read more...]
Elon Musk wants tunnels to resolve the traffic problem
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX moved his attention from space and the Mars to the Earth. He intends to build at least one road tunnel as a solution against the traffic, which he finds exasperating, and the works will begin in about a month according to what he wrote on Twitter. The billionaire caused amazement in December when he informed, through his Twitter account, that he … [Read more...]
SpaceX’s failure could really set the company back
The satellite was, in part, leased by Facebook as part of its project to deliver internet access to Sub-Saharan Africa, marking the social network's first foray into space-based internet delivery, in a partnership with the satellite company Eutelsat. "As I'm here in Africa, I'm deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's... failure destroyed our satellite that would have … [Read more...]