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Lot's of awesome nuggets in there > My first line of attack is to empower consumers to fix their own electronics and expand product lifespan. If products last
by gandreani 8y ago
Lot's of awesome nuggets in there
> My first line of attack is to empower consumers to fix their own electronics and expand product lifespan. If products last twice as long, then we net half as much e-waste. And that’s why I’m going to prison, because in helping you fix it, I got in the way of a much larger, very profitable but very disposable industry.
He still infringed on IP but I like the mile high perspective. He's going to jail for reducing waste. What a world!
> I got a bunch of Canadian solar panels that were damaged in storms, cut out the working parts, and assembled enough that they now cover the roof of my 65,000-square-foot building in Los Angeles. We get free power from this fusion reactor we call the sun, and store it in hybrid car battery packs from totaled cars. We use this free power to run a blockchain mining station that creates currency that is exchanged for the U.S. dollars that pay my employees. So, today I can proudly say that every single employee in my company is paid for by the sun through utilizing recycled garbage.
Ugh why did he have to ruin it with the block chain. He probably has enough solar and battery capacity to power all his nearby neighbors every day 24-hours a day
- fnwx17 8y ago> Ugh why did he have to ruin it with the block chain. He probably has enough solar and battery capacity to power all his nearby neighbors every day 24-hours a day Technically, it's mining cryptocurrencies. Probably at peak crypto mining profitability (around Dec-Jan) it was making significantly over what he could sell to the neighbors; also implying his neighbors would just switch to his infrastructure, that would be a bit of hassle. Maybe if he hooked up all those GPUs to a render farm, it would be an alternative.