It's good to be the boss
Mar. 29th, 2012 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tesla_botOne thing that a lot of people forget is that Tesladyne is more than a think tank.
They prototype their own designs.
They make limited production runs with and of new technology.
They test things other people simply will not work with or even think about.
So when Robo tells Ellen he, ‘should be able to get my hands on a few wind generators’ what he really means is he will send a memo down to the alternate energy division asking for what they have that can be built out of scrap metal and run forever with minimal maintenance.
After he filters out the ranting about how there is no such thing from the reply he picks out a couple of things that look like decent compromises and puts together another memo for a set of five wind generators to be put together using spare manufacturing capacity and a full copy of the plans to be bundled with the instructions.
After that it is a matter of putting together the references for dealing with radio signals to and from orbit.
He probably goes overboard there too. Alas.
They prototype their own designs.
They make limited production runs with and of new technology.
They test things other people simply will not work with or even think about.
So when Robo tells Ellen he, ‘should be able to get my hands on a few wind generators’ what he really means is he will send a memo down to the alternate energy division asking for what they have that can be built out of scrap metal and run forever with minimal maintenance.
After he filters out the ranting about how there is no such thing from the reply he picks out a couple of things that look like decent compromises and puts together another memo for a set of five wind generators to be put together using spare manufacturing capacity and a full copy of the plans to be bundled with the instructions.
After that it is a matter of putting together the references for dealing with radio signals to and from orbit.
He probably goes overboard there too. Alas.
