Looks like they put the oversized load on a boat for as long as they could, but have to do the last leg by road.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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I mean, everyone has been crying and whinging for years, decades even, that the USA needs to ramp up semiconductor fabrication in case shit goes south in Taiwan. We are finally getting some domestic production power and we're getting outraged by the traffic delays? America will sink itself because of our people's own addiction to comfort and complaining about any slight to that comfort.
Is this going to raise gas prices!!?!
The top two things any given American will complain about on a local level.
- The terrible condition of their local roads
- Roadwork to fix the terrible condition of their local roads.
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I don't even think this is complaining about mild inconvenience, it's just outrage addiction that has taken over most of the country.
Yep, the fab plant is a little east of Columbus (just south of where I live actually). This is one of like 2 dozen "super loads" that has to make its way from the Ohio River up to the plant. I swear there is a website somewhere that keeps track of when the are coming, the routes they take, and the closures involved but my Google-fu is failing me now.
If it makes you feel any better it's probably Google that's failing, not you
Even before Google stopped working, I'm not sure the results of googling "super load" would have been what you are looking for.
Look at the bright side, once intel gets this new plant up and running cranking out next-gen chips, Google will be able to fail you even faster!
As excited as I am to see my home city actually growing and gaining national attention, I miss the chill cow-town vibes. Traffic is only gonna get worse from here.
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The biggest news here is that semiconductor production is amping up in the states, which is good for national security and reduces reliance on Taiwan.
Slightly less good for the people of Taiwan.
Ehhh. We are really just hedging our bets. As I understand it we are focusing on production of the older generations of chips. That frees up Taiwan to focus on the bleeding edge chips. Losing Taiwan would still be a massive blow to the global economy.
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The bigger news here is something from his administration is coming to fruition that creates American jobs and reduces foreign dependency on a major commodity for both civilian and military applications.
True. That's definitely a fact / good thing that's getting overlooked.
And not a single photo? The thing in the main photo aint it
Not sure if this image from the DOT is actually of this specific shipment because I found this image from April when they moved the eighth part and it's less that half the weight. Here's a two minute video of it.
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But how many football fields does it weigh?
Well a football field is 57,600 sq ft, and a cubic foot of dirt weighs between 110-140 lbs depending on composition. That means that an average football field at a depth of one foot weighs around 6,912,000 lbs.
This thing weighs 916,000 lbs. So it is 0.1325231481 football fields.
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They did something similar with some transformers here in Australia, and unfortunately there were some possibly associated traffic incidents where people might have not been going the right speed and got rear-ended. One man died, even.
Please avoid the route, even when it is pulled over to "rest", as your fellow motorists may not be able to resist rubbernecking.
Why didn't the transformers just drive themselves? Or better yet turn into airplanes?
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This is why ultrasized cargo airships need to be a thing. Just sling that bad boy underneath a kilometre long hydrogen dirigible and fly it to its destination.
Or, historically, when you’re building a new factory, the first thing you do is build a rail connection right next to it
This is also good, but, on the other hand, airships are awesome
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Isn't Angstrom 10^-10 meters? And nanometers 10^-9 meters? So 20A (assuming A = Angstrom) is just 2nm?
Are they trying to say that by moving to this new era, they'll go single digit Angstrom i.e., 0.x nm?
Yes, but that is long past an actuall transistor size and just a marketing term.
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Wish they had a photo of the thing. That's not a 280 ft trailer.
It was a 280 foot trailer but due to Moore's law, it has undergone multiple shrink cycles while still maintaining 280 feet worth of storage inside.
Neat!
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