There's already such intense competition for grants that many professors spend most of their time on grant proposals. Adding more people to that system accomplishes little. Outside academia, a business degree is a better financial choice than a physics degree.
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There aren't jobs for more hard-science people in America. But there *is* a surplus of capital floating around, that could fund jobs. I think the problem is a failure of allocation, and the success of an absurd VC investment models shows the amount of inefficiency present.
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i’m not sure you and i are in any way disagreeing
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Right, I misunderstood what you meant by "production" of elites, & how much you meant "the current university system" by "education". Sorry. But I still feel there's some dispute... Investors do *try* to invest in the kinds of people you suggest, and then keep losing money.
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So the question is, what are they doing wrong? And I think we have some disagreement on *that* point. Bill Gates invests in, say,
@DanielleFong. She's smart. She has an idea. The startup fails. The pattern repeats, again and again. So what's the problem?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Would you *like* a more in-depth analysis of your particular case? I can do that, if you're sure you want one!
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there’s probably no way to do a very good job at this without details that have not been published, so i deleted my tweet the background situation of 4 cleantech funding busts (07-09,11,14,15 china, ‘16) & exponentially dropping li ion cost is probably the single biggest factor
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No, compressed air energy storage was never economically viable. Not with underground caverns, but *certainly* not with compressed air tanks. I told you at the time that if you could actually make much cheaper compressed gas tanks then you should sell them as CNG tanks instead.
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And that's what LightSail tried to do, towards the end. But more fundamentally, gas turbines aren't efficient enough for CAES to be worthwhile. Pumped hydro works fine because water turbines are much more efficient, but CAES needs to buy electricity for half its sale price,
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we increased the efficiency of our reciprocating compressor by a *lot* we more than doubled the round trip efficiency, and you can use the waste heat and cooling that produced in buildings, use waste hear during expansion cycles
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