My team and I are going to start doing data dumps of intriguing things we’ve found. Here’s the first one. In a month, as a team we generally look at several hundred charts and graphs many times for the purpose of figuring out how we will acquire customers and distribution for a new product or […]
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I’ve written this piece because I’m often asked about topics on energy and more. I will periodically update this post. I do not believe that mankind should optimize for having the lowest CO2 emissions and am weary of renewables. I think this is a false goal that ignores the true stochastic complexity of pollution in […]
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Dumb civilized westerners think the 3rd world needs plastic solutions, no the answer is we need viable baseload electricity sources — — Nuclear. This is a useful exercise in information for anyone who hasn’t studied civilizations, energy grids, chemistry, physics, and geology. I spend lot of time in Silicon Valley reminding pissant web developers, […]
Kumar ThanguduI spend so much time thinking about energy. Every decade or so the hype-scientists want us to be infatuated with the latest technologies instead of real solutions that are viable and work today. Biofuels Are All The Rage They were all the rage until they weren’t. Biofuels didn’t pan out at all, turns out […]
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My view of smog above San Francisco on Twin Peaks. Can Solar Power Save Us? A lot of friends ask me if “Solar power can save us?” The answer to this is quite complex, but it is no. In Silicon Valley, when I voice this viewpoint, I am viewed as a heretic who doesn’t […]
Kumar ThanguduEdit: Banking industry folks are firing shots at BTC for its electricity consumption costs. I think these people are the last people who should ever criticize bitcoin for its electricity costs. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/dutch-bank-suggests-bitcoin-mining-consumes-much-electricity/ 24 BN of gold takes a lot of energy/time to move. https://amp.ft.com/content/f08e7e00-3602-36a3-ab78-be34d66cb6e7 … Banks use a ton of paper: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/banks-use-more-paper-despite-e-statements-popularity […]
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tldr: Clean coal isn’t necessarily something we can do at scale that will solve problems on any reasonable time-scale. Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page_header/public/shutterstock_133998776.jpg?itok=DbbVckc6 Humanity can’t grow a several trillion dollar carbon sequestration industry over night, a few years, or even a single decade. Clean coal is unreasonable on any relevant time scale with current technologies. I did […]
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tldr: India and every developing country on the planet needs the west to give it access to Uranium, nuclear IP, and the rights to reach energy parity at large. My History With Nuclear Policy I’ve been thinking about Nuclear policy in India one way or another for the past 20 years of my life. You might […]
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There’s been some recent news with positive sentiment toward Solar Power in Germany creating super positive outcomes, but I believe it’s worth pointing out that this is much ado about nothing. Germans produce power semi randomly. They then put strain on the power-grid and pretend it’s renewable. Customers didn’t and won’t get any money from the power […]
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I encourage everyone to write a blog post about their unconventional or non-common beliefs. If you do, feel free to share it with me: @datarade. Intellectual Property is counterproductive to the advancement of humanity and we should abolish it. The golden ticket is for great markets to reward prolific monopolists, not oligarchal non-creators. The riches should belong […]
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