Tesla Nevada gigafactory water siting

Tom argues the Nevada siting is a mistake because manufacturing requires enormous water input; recalls a similar GM Sloan-program team that proposed Nogales, Arizona for the same maquiladora-labor reason and was challenged on water access.

Something else came up this morning, and so it caused me to think: what's the single most important material for any type of manufacturing you can think of? It's why Tesla Motors made a mistake when they decided to site their new manufacturing facility in Nevada. Water. You can't manufacture anything without lots of water. The reason I thought about this is I went back to my office just a few minutes ago, and a guy who's an advisor to the governor of New Mexico is saying, well, we got lots of natural gas in New Mexico, they got more natural gas than Texas in the fracking business. So what if they built a plant to turn it into diesel, a liquid fuel, because it's hard to move that gaseous fuel around, very expensive — liquid fuel is a lot easier. That's why we make cars on gasoline not hydrogen.