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by clomond 5y ago
Well good news: LFP is likely to become the dominant chemistry in most transport applications that don’t have specific or very high capacity energy weight/volume density requirements, the lower end of EVs and passenger vehicles include
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by clomond 5y ago
I see these as one in the same actually. Clarity I think comes from being “part” of the world or some specific part of it. While many and most “live” through it, the Artist sees the inverse of a sorts of it - the “big picture within some le
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by clomond 5y ago
It would definitely be challenging. This situation is not unique to Saudi and has actually been defined in political theory as the situation of being a “Rentier state”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state
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by clomond 5y ago
*unless we are talking about energy systems and therefore VARIABLE costs matter significantly.
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by clomond 5y ago
The history of human's connection to alcohol extends even further. One of the anthropological theories is that it was a core reason for humans to take up agriculture in the first place and to domesticate certain grains. And, the geneti
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by clomond 5y ago
Also off topic, as an FYI: it looks like your HN profile has a link to an unrelated website. Maybe you lost that domain / didn't renew?
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by clomond 5y ago
I am hoping that VW and others can get to scale quickly. If priced correctly (not too high), I don’t see why VW won’t be able to sell every car they are able to make. The key thing when looking at these metrics are that it is primarily a su
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by clomond 5y ago
While I won't dispute that Tesla's share price is high given where the company is at right now when valued as an auto business, there are a few things I think are worth mentioning and commenting on in your post. > Building an e
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by clomond 5y ago
We already have it, it’s called electrically synthesized methane/propane. If the carbon is captured from the atmosphere and merged with water via renewable sources, that is it. We don’t do it and it isn’t proposed because the efficienc
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by clomond 5y ago
Yeah While on one hand I am supportive of more money going to clean energy tech / infra build out, I can’t help but be disappointed that this legislation ISN’T technology agnostic. We are at the point now where there are enough “option
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by clomond 5y ago
The value of the dollar has not halved.... Against a basket of currencies, the US dollar index is approximately 10% lower than it was from the start of the pandemic. Pointing to the fed money supply chart as evidence is woefully misleading.
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The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music(vitling.xyz)
1109 points by clomond 5y ago|255 comments
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by clomond 5y ago
One thing that this article only briefly skims over (Turkish lira’s dropping and issues in management at their central bank) are in their own way burying the lede. Historically (re: recent history of Venezuela, Argentina, Zimbabwe ) crypto
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by clomond 6y ago
> Unfortunately, even a very small amount of noise in the data makes is basically impossible to know where you are in an S-curve. While true, my point is that when combined with the fact that we are pre-inflection point, and the economic
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by clomond 6y ago
Except when you consider where each technology fits within its own S-curve of adoption (X axis over time, Y axis is % of the technology adopted by the market). When factoring in the shape of the exponential decreases in costs, and that pene
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by clomond 6y ago
Maybe I’ve been spending too much time on FT, the Economist, and Bloomberg but is it just me or is this pretty low quality for an economics write up in a major paper? These two things can be simultaneous true: - The USD and it’s position in
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by clomond 6y ago
Its a technical & medical term, rather than one that is meant to be useful for broader discussion. Efficacy in vaccines == people who were prevented from being confirmed COVID positive (symptoms sufficient to prompt a test, leading to a
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Commoditize your complements (2002)(joelonsoftware.com)
62 points by clomond 6y ago|25 comments
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by clomond 6y ago
Agreed - calling it a battery is definitely a massive conflation with calling it an “energy sink”. While you could call it (generously) a form of embedded energy, it fundamentally can not turned back into a form of energy directly, making t
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by clomond 6y ago
No one care about efficiency, sure. But efficiency in this case is the “tax” that must be paid in all cases. And you are missing my point: That as far as the options go for “tapping excess energy” hydrogen is overblown and overstated as a s
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by clomond 6y ago
Why I think you are both right: - what you describe about SV isn’t as much a culture, as it is psychographic homogeneity that is in its own way unifying [1] - but about how “weird” as a culture can be good and important, I see that as the e
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by clomond 6y ago
> The reason is that electrolyseurs aren't free, the capital costs are high. While this is definitely the reason, there is also a bigger one - that the process of turning electricity into Hydrogen is fundamentally wasteful(Energy lo
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by clomond 6y ago
> 'In theory, Tesla shouldn't be worth what it is' With all due respect, I would like to articulate and counter your point with some insights. Tesla as it stands today at ~$600B is priced at monopoly status - that they hav
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by clomond 6y ago
A really interesting application of this came to mind that seems like an optimal use of this “iron heat battery” from a pure physics perspective. Each kind of “energy storage application” can be broken down into different properties /
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by clomond 6y ago
Not my understanding of his premise - I don't feel like your statements have actually countered his point. I have actually been looking for a true counterargument to their approach and so far everything I've come across I don&#x27
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by clomond 6y ago
Also, PhDs which are either useless or do not map to employable skills. I recall the last PhD taxi driver I had when discussing this had their PhD in “Geography”.
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by clomond 6y ago
I love how “technical & analytical” your interpretation is. My view: In the same vein but a different lens - enlightenment has a component where it is a “state of mind”/feeling(a kind of ah-ha)/a new perspective where ‘mountai
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by clomond 6y ago
I.e. it’s all good as long as you don’t rock the boat.
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by clomond 6y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem like, with both social media and “tech” in general, that the ‘regulation axe’ is grinding - and that it is only a matter of time that these algorithms core to these companies’ business models ‘suffer’ from lik
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by clomond 6y ago
Couldn't agree more that the sentiment doesn't make sense given what they have actually done, all of their proof, all their products, patents etc. (disclaimer: I'm long TSLA) I'm just relaying what I have heard and read.

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