By Harvey Wasserman and Tim Judson, EcoWatch, 30 March 2017 Elon Musk’s SolarCity is completing the construction of its “Buffalo Billion” Gigafactory for photovoltaic (PV) cells near the Niagara River in Buffalo, New York. It will soon put 500 New Yorkers to work inside the 1.2 million-square-foot facility with another 700 nearby, ramping up to nearly 3,000 over the next …
Trump trumped by financial strip-mining: one of the 6 reasons he is too weak to save American jobs
By Les Leopold, Originally published on the Huffington Post, 6 March 2017 ✔@realDonaldTrump Rexnord of Indiana is moving to Mexico and rather viciously firing all of its 300 workers. This is happening all over our country. No more! 8:06 PM – 2 Dec 2016 Donald J. Trump, the most powerful man in the world, thinks he can stop corporations from shipping …
47% of Jobs Will Disappear in the next 25 Years, According to Oxford University
By PHILIP PERRY, 27 Dec 2016, Big Think British Musicians. Ms. Dynamite. Getty Images. The Trump campaign ran on bringing jobs back to American shores, although mechanization has been the biggest reason for manufacturing jobs’ disappearance. Similar losses have led to populist movements in several other countries. But instead of a pro-job growth future, economists across the board predict further losses …
DOE funding supports high tech factory automation, counting on transport costs to help America compete
Cross-posted from Clean Technica, by Tina Casey, 26 Dec 2016 When President-elect Donald Trump took credit for keeping Carrier factory jobs in Indiana, the victory came with a major downside. Carrier is still sending hundreds of jobs to Mexico, and a top executive in its parent company let slip that it would use a taxpayer bailout to finance an automation …
New manufacturing: seeing the way forward at Tesla
During Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting, Elon Musk told his audience that Tesla is putting much more effort into designing the factories of the future. By focusing on “physics-first principles,” Musk said, he believes the production capacity can be increased exponentially if the focus is on “building the machines that build the machine.” He says the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada is being …