About every two weeks, there's some new update on the Tesla factory going up in eastern Germany. N-TV had the latest 'issue' this morning.
The Gigafactory to be built over in Brandenburg.....has this one unique issue brewing.
The head-guy of the local water association (in the region of Grunheide)....says there simply isn't enough water to supply the Tesla factory with what it needs.
The comeback to the statement? Musk made a comment to the effect....if there's not enough water....trees wouldn't grow in the local region. I should state here....simply blunt truth....this is a highly wooded region, and would make the comparison that this area around Grunheide is kinda like the New Jersey wetlands (mixed woods, swamp, and a fair number of springs).
Where this is going to lead onto? You have basically two scenarios. Either Musk is correct, and there's more than enough water, OR you have a factory going up with limited water supply....then triggering locals to be suddenly fearful of a water shortage.
In the second situation, the factory would suddenly shutdown, jobs disappear overnight, and massive chaos brewing.
The biggest consequence with the factory shutting down? It'd suddenly prove the point why so many companies avoided putting up new factories in eastern Germany....that things are just stacked against you.
The thing that gets me....if you go drive south of Grunheide....making a big circle within 20 miles....there must be a least twenty different lakes existing. If you head west of Berlin (not that far away)....there must be at least twenty lakes existing there within a short 30-minute drive of West Berlin. Tons of water is flourishing in the region.
If this whole Tesla plant idea crumbles? It'll take a decade for people to get over the chaos created, and plant this idea that VW, Mercedes and BMW probably also will face the same issue....a shortage of water for the development of battery-cars.
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