DaniFong

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by DaniFong 11y ago
I would really appreciate any references on this.
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Thanks for the H/T. ;-) We're fans of the project too
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Perhaps even better; the one of the most prominent inventors of the Lithium Ion batteries is a man named Goodenough.
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Compressed air tanks are tested very rigorously; including the gunfire test, bonfire test, impact test, sulfuric acid test, over test, over pressurization test... It is definitely safer than gas supplies, which strike me as an insane idea,
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Another example, Standard Oil: don't just sell the oil. Refine it, and sell the kerosene, and the lamps, and also sell the gasoline, and when you're left with paraffins invent paraffin candles and sell those too...
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Thanks for the credit; we think we can give them a run for their money. :-)
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Wright brothers: focus on wings or controls or engines! you only have room for one! Apple: focus on hardware or software! Macs or iPods. You only have room for one. Edison: focus on lights or electricity! You only have room for one. Uber: f
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by DaniFong 11y ago
I wish it did; we are very far from harmonizing all the different utility rates. Once that data is clean up and available, an interactive website should not be too difficult to build. If anyone is interested in doing a paid internship to h
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by DaniFong 11y ago
Spot on. A lot of what's very challenging for today's web startups, like hiring, is easy for startups in cleantech, since there's so few funded startups. Conversely, it feels an order of magnitude more challenging to raise th
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by DaniFong 11y ago
That is absolutely not true. The much more sensible reason is to take enough off the table to align investors and the management by (a) making sure the management isn't worrying about personal cash day to day, and (b) allowing the mana
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Mr. Hoffman, you are right to desire specifics, but you are dragging them out of me. Insurance 2.0 is a problem we want to solve, but we are not in a position to pitch a business plan today! We both run companies which require our attention
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by DaniFong 12y ago
These are good questions. I added a section here, on how this helps everyone. http://www.strikingly.com/s/pages/391635/edit?s=142622426534... Foremost, I think that this will create an example. Wronged people
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by DaniFong 12y ago
What happens when an insurance company decides to not honor a legitimate claim? 98% of the time, the victim gives up. For the 2% of the cases where they take the insurer to court, the insurer can deny and delay, as they did with my family f
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Insurance failed us; now we're crowdfunding to make them honor their promises(goliathmustnotwin.com)
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Ok, thanks. Crazy. You all should just reform the Holy Roman Empire... ;-) </sarcasm>
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by DaniFong 12y ago
"the best weather, culture, food, wine, beaches, etc, you name it." Hmm. Why not go there, write some code for the broader world, start the business somewhere else?
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Hi there, This is Danielle Fong -- I'm also a longtime HN'er. 1 container is 750 kWh at 200 bar. We adhere to the ASME codes which have an impressive set of tests you need to pass -- for example you need to cycle 60000 times in an
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by DaniFong 12y ago
These cost assumptions are where the analysis falls down. Try to calculate what the cost of suborbital rocketry should be. There's a good case it should be even cheaper than today's jumbo jets.
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Just one data point, but I never applied to the lists we got on, and I don't think Sam or the other YC founders did either...
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Good post. But it should be added, a) if we did this, you can bet on vastly improved automation and efficiencies, and much larger plants. Solar jobs are vastly dominated by rooftop installation, which isn't at all what you'd get i
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Equity raising challenges > Technical Challenges > Selling the system
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by DaniFong 12y ago
That was once true, but not any more; solar and wind are way cheaper than oil based power today, and have been since about 2004. The tax breaks help of course, but there's still more than 50 GW of electrical capacity worldwide that wou
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by DaniFong 12y ago
We're remarkably close. Solar is already cheaper than oil and more geographically available. It's just not temporary as available -- that's the energy storage problem, and that's what we're working on. It is very di
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Wouldn't that argue in favor of the magnitude of the achievement?
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by DaniFong 12y ago
The quotes from that game were amazing. They were my introduction to works of classic philosophy and literature, science and economics. It was a critical piece of my education
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by DaniFong 12y ago
I proposed that Trulia integrate Walkscore almost 7 years ago. Feels good to know someone did it, though I hope it stays open
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by DaniFong 12y ago
I show my side of the debate by making technology that could have been developed 100 years ago, and was desperately needed then as now.
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Thiel is actually diametrically opposed to Tyler Cowen on one important point: He doesn't believe that the issue is at all that the low hanging fruit are gone. "I would argue that there was never any low-hanging fruit; it was alwa
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Now a quora answer, lightly edited. http://qr.ae/iKZQV
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by DaniFong 12y ago
Ok, so usually I really like your posts, and I understand how you can believe this because it is written across the internet in some difficult to assess ways, but I believe you are very mistaken about this. During and after the liquidity cr

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