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Can Brian Chesky Save Airbnb?(theinformation.com)
2 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
Great question. Some points: 1. That source is a mess; three of us spent a couple years trying to update it only to be foiled by classic alpha Wikipedians who are happy to see an article rely on 10 year old price estimates, but not to see s
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Why are nuclear reactors expensive?(whatisnuclear.com)
1 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
Thank you for this wonderful work.
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by spenrose 7y ago
Wind and solar don't scale as well as the nuclear plants that aren't being built would scale, if they were being built at scale, but they're not. Wind and solar scaled better in 2019 than the Chinese were hoping nuclear would
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by spenrose 7y ago
I am rooting for lots and lots of new nuclear, but this piece is silly. Let's dig in: "But what if there were sources of zero-carbon electricity that didn’t require heavy-handed regulation to make them viable in the marketplace? .
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Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount(theinformation.com)
2 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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As Airbnb Ponders Timing of Listing, Stock Grants Impose Deadline(theinformation.com)
3 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
Thank you for the correction and the "correction". When I Google, the top 3 results all show that: 1. 60% is too high for current turbines; 45% is about what recently installed turbines do. 2. Only old (and outmoded) turbines are
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by spenrose 7y ago
Good points. Note that you could make the same comparison with offshore wind farms, which have similar nameplate capacities at much lower cost per watt, run at about 60% of nameplate over time, and are, unlike nuclear reactors, actually bei
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by spenrose 7y ago
https://medium.com/otherlab-news/how-do-we-decarbonize-7fc2f... "There is enough wind in the world to supply the entire world’s energy needs. Solar supply exceeds even that by many times and is by far the largest
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Uber Should Pay Congestion Charges(theinformation.com)
2 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/contributors/lear...
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by spenrose 7y ago
An important Google developer who created a product most of you use was a BMUG member, as was a current Siri developer, a former head of MacOS ... devrel IIRC, and others. BMUG probably deserves some credit for my own 20 year career as a pr
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by spenrose 7y ago
That's the price range for the Hawaii projects. The cost for the (much larger) Eland and Gemini projects is $35 MWh (previous and [4], respectively). WRT intermittency, the point of this conversation is that hydrogen generation is a so
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by spenrose 7y ago
When I Google large recent projects, I see 4hrs [1][2] or (at 1.3GWH!!) 2 hours[3] of storage at much more than 10MW, and at lower prices today than the people selling nuclear hope to reach in 10 years. Nuclear is good! We should deploy it
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by spenrose 7y ago
Not sure how to parse this comment, but 11 months ago bid prices for solar plus storage were about $35 MWh [1] [1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-levelize...
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by spenrose 7y ago
The earliest and cheapest we will get new nuclear at low-gigawatt scale, according to the people building it , is in 10 years at which time if everything goes right the cost will have fallen to $65/MWh. Today we can deploy on-shore
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by spenrose 7y ago
"User" is a perfect encapsulation of the mindset we need to leave behind. For the people who use web browsers, Google's ad tracking is the least of their worries. Here's Schneier: https://www.nytimes.com&#
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by spenrose 7y ago
I left Mozilla (brief undistinguished tenure; briefer overlap with you) in part because I felt it simply refused to acknowledge that the Internet of 2005 (dominated by 500M people using web browsers in democracies) was not the Internet of 2
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Uber CEO Khosrowshahi Struggles to Find Formula for Success(theinformation.com)
3 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
After 10 seconds of Googling, here are the new (BEV: 11 models / PHEV: 9 models) models shipping in the US next year : https://evadoption.com/future-evs/new-electric-vehicles-in-2... I will leave as an exercise f
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by spenrose 7y ago
Toyota is ready to make BEVs at scale: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28424/toyota-subaru-suzuki-and... And is investing in making solid-state batteries affordable at scale: https://www.sae.org/news
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by spenrose 7y ago
Maybe nuclear reactors will be easier to deploy in China, where the government has more control: https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1162772916125126656
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Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’(theinformation.com)
2 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
Tucked near Mississippi's border with Louisiana, deep in Entergy Corp.'s territory, rests the largest single-unit U.S. nuclear power station. It's called Grand Gulf, and it boasts a 1,443-megawatt capacity. But it hasn't
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Downtime at 'Aging' Nuclear Plant(eenews.net)
1 points by spenrose 7y ago|1 comments
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A Facebook Employee Helped Trump Win–But Switched Sides for 2020(wsj.com)
2 points by spenrose 7y ago|0 comments
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Calm Before the Storm(typeinvestigations.org)
35 points by spenrose 7y ago|18 comments
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by spenrose 7y ago
The phrase comes from the article, and I think it is silly.

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