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by diafygi 9y ago
What should you rely on?
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Our roadblocks in cleantech aren't money, but logistics. The tech is economical, and we just need to roll it out as fast as possible. So while contributing your money is good, contributing your talent is an order of magnitude better.
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by diafygi 9y ago
Howdy! I work in cleantech, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :) To start, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's
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by diafygi 9y ago
Well...yeah. It's kind of by design, right? I mean, it's either "work" or centralization, so that's the trade off bitcoin makes. The work is the disincentive against cornering, right?
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Well...yeah. Trello is free, and the expectation is that if you're not paying, you're the product.
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Seems this was post was buried. Was the repost the reason? Or the flaming? Energy discussion not interesting to YC?
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A whopping 5% of oil isn't burned[1]. Take away burning oil, and your industry is 20x smaller. Not so big anymore. [1]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm/index.cfm?page...
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The thing you have to remember in energy and transportation is that capital costs are high, and margins are thin. What do you think happens when a new innovation comes in and takes 20% of your market share? This is what happened in oil with
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Here's a recent example with the shale boom-bust: http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2015/11/04/boom-to-bust-5... This is extremely typical in the history of energy (wood, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, wind
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Sure you will, but maybe later. Super cheap energy makes bio-plastics competitive. Massive solar farms passively making carbon chains when the sun is up. The reason no one is talking about it is that the transportation transition is lower h
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Fun fact. Afghanistan has huge lithium resources. https://nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html
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Good. Bloomberg estimates the transition will be a $10 trillion upside for those upgrading and replacing fossils[1]. It remains to be seen who the winners will be. Incumbents (Excelon, Shell, SA, etc.) have market share, but will have to st
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Sure! Here's a good study. https://priceonomics.com/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-l... And that's just the residential sector. If you add in businesses and utilities, who's executives are overwhelmingly R
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by diafygi 9y ago
I work in cleantech, and here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!" So what can _you_ do about it? Work at a new energy technology company! Ma
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The Duck Curve(en.wikipedia.org)
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by diafygi 9y ago
Howdy! I work in cleantech, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :) To start, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's
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by diafygi 9y ago
I work in solar, and your panel really, really, REALLY needs to be secured from wind. Luckily, they make ballast mounts that don't require screwing into the roof[1][2]. [1]: http://www.orionsolarracking.com/commercial-r
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Energy Dept – $46.2M for 48 Projects to Advance Solar Power Technologies(energy.gov)
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What are examples of situations in other industries where producers were able to change consumers' willingness to pay?
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There's a fantastic report from UK that studies what would happen to oil companies if demand decreases at the rate needed to hit 2 and 3 degrees warming. In general, it see oil prices falling and sovereign oil selling the most since th
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Oh man, I can't wait to hear about a botnet of garbage bins.
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Plex does this by generating a private key at install then issuing a real ssl cert for it. That way the private key never is seen by Plex or anyone else. Really cool technique. https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https
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Will there be a v2 staging domain like there is for v1?
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I will update acme-tiny, letsencrypt-nosudo, and gethttpsforfree.com to support ACME v2 when it is released.
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That's fundamentally how a wired GFCI works. So, yes, a wireless equivalent should be built in by default.
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I have a cleantech startup, and in the industry we see this decision as only having a negative impact on deep red states. Most other states will implement mandates in line with Paris on their own, which will grow their local energy economie
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Will there ever be a way to have constant-time functions in WebAssembly? Relying on WebCrypto primitives is fairly limiting.
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World changing products often don't come from just billionaires, they come from all over. Billionaires just tend to be the ones that are good at monetizing them. Others are good at doing other things with them. How many valedictorians
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Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court(mobile.reuters.com)
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Whenever you burn something to do work, you are limited by a principle in thermodynamics called the Carnot cycle[1]. It basically says that converting heat to work has a maximum efficiency (depending on the situation). So the rejected energ

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