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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and this has been analyzed, there are papers, but Bill Gates just has Nathan Myhrvold (who doesn't actually know jack shit besides how to be a patent troll) think about things for a couple minutes instead of having somebody actually competent do technical evaluations.
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With the inefficiency of CAES, since natural gas power is being used *anyway* it's clearly more economical to shift natural gas turbine generation times than to store power.
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you seem to be assuming we’re using a technology that our entire idea was supposed to move beyond. if you want a theory of why hard tech startups are hard, imo you’re going to need a sense of the details, because any one of dozen of problems will get you. startups are fragile
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