Im scott mcgrew. When it comes to american independence good news. Lots of natural gas. Bad news, natural gas is not the kind of gas you need for your car, not without significant modification to the car, but what if you could modify the natural gas . A San Franciscobased startup sald siluria is turning natural gas into gasoline because natural gas is so inexpensive the company says it can manufacture gasoline for 1 a gallon. Investors love the idea. The company has raised 100 million in funding. Ed deneen is ceo of siluria. Has 35 years of experience in the petro business joined by david baker of the San Francisco chronicle and hanna kuchlor of the financial times. Considering i got a c in chemistry, is this chemistry or alchemy, something nobody else has done before or somebody that really knows Petro Chemicals knows what hes doing . Well, the chemistry is actually old. Its been around 40 years or so and the industry worked on it 10, 20 years, you know, so 20 years ago and was not su
Radar is starting to light up and those lightning strikes are becoming more numerous and widespread, especially over the last hour or so. Just off the monterey coast this activity is trending to the north, so the north bay, youre going to see the shower activity first. Its going to be very light and spotty, and as i mentioned around this afternoon its going to move through. You can see the timing on this, north bay and the santa cruz mountains, include it there, youll notice 3 00 thats when the heavy rain pushes in and after that, its going to rain everywhere pretty much for about an hour or two and be very heavy rain. We are still talking about the potential of ponding on the roadways and even the potential for downed trees and power lines. What you dont see here are the extremely gusty winds that are going to move through. Well time line the storm and when its going to move out and our next system, the chance to move in sunday night. Well talk about that coming up in that next report
Store closed and the floor covered in two inches of water. As i came to get my meds, here i am. Reporter cvs employees told him to drive to another store after the weight of the rain caved part of the ceiling. Inspectors deem the building potentially unsafe. Before dawn in san jose, a woman drove through an underpass submerged in water. Her car got stuck and she had to wade in three feet of rainwater to get to dry land near the s. A. P. Arena. For some the storm brought headaches but also brought an unfamiliar and welcome sight in los gatos the reservoir is full. There is still a long way to go even with all this rain. The majority of the reservoirs in Santa Clara County are still less than 30 full. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. We saw michelle handing out sandbags in Mountain View. It has been getting dangerous here the past two daze. We have seen more rain in two days than we could even come close to getting in about threemonth period over the past year. As you
Satellite, and what youll notice just off the coast, the clouds are blossoms. The moisture is gathering. And this will all be pushing to the east over the next several hours. Bringing us that chance of some wet weather. So future weather will begin late tonight. 11 00. You do notice the clouds are in place. Shortly after midnight the rain will start developing. First it will be spotty in nature as were headed out the door to work and school on your thursday morning. 6 00. Just some light showers developing. But watch as it gets to midday. Some downpours are developing. And the heaviest of the rain will wait until the afternoon to move into the bay area. Well time out the rest of your thursday and show you how long that rain lingers at the full accuweather sevenday forecast in just a few minutes. All right. Great, drew. Thank you. The engineer who was driving the amtrak train that derailed in philadelphia last night claims he has no recollection of the crash and his attorney tells abc n
Sense. Some people think the future is very right. They will do 35,000 cars this year. They want to scale up. They mentioned that the giga factory. That is a big deal and critical to them trying to achieve this goal of getting to multiple thousands of vehicles or year. As i understand it, tesla consumes our is one of the largest consumers of lithium ion batteries in the world. How much would a giga factory help . I think elon has said that it helps and changes everything. It will potentially be the largest battery factory on the planets. It will have more Production Capacity then all of the self production in the world. This single facility will have more by 2020 is the target. It would provide them a very low cost potentially. That is the company goal. A very low cost to feed their plant in california and maybe other production operations. If you have also said they are trying to get partners investing in this with them. Panasonic, their main battery supplier has already been identifi