davidbirk

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   by davidbirk 19y ago

   Efficient markets will weed out ideas that fail this analysis in time. Incentives like the Automotive X-Prize will accelerate this process, leading to solutions that are smart for the planet and smart investments, too.
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   by davidbirk 19y ago

   Global warming will be defeated by incremental increases in efficiency across the board.... think of it as the death of a thousand cuts. Everything from better internal combustion engines, electric motors, improved solar energy technology,
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   by davidbirk 19y ago

   I think you're right about the cost & time increases for building hardware, but I'm not sure many fundamental changes would be required for hardware startups. If the hardware mod. can be approximated fairly well by computer simulations
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   by davidbirk 19y ago

   Todays airplanes might as well be powered gliders... one company builds the engines and another builds the airframe. Nature measures the efficiency of the combination of the two, so why not set that combination as the design goal (instead o
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   Hack YC: How would you change the YC model for a hardware-based startup?

   6 points by davidbirk 19y ago|5 comments