Jason Badeaux
@jasonbadeaux
Cofounder of Anode Labs. Bringing energy independence to every home.
Jason Badeaux
So, policy, philanthropy, and individual behavior do have roles to play, but the real solutions to the carbon nightmare will win because they’re cheaper, better, faster, stronger, simpler, and just plain cooler than what’s available today.
Lowercarbon Capital • Act II: Lowercarbon Capital
Tesla’s innovation strategy — which focuses on transforming the auto industry as a whole — offers enduring lessons for any innovator, especially in terms of how to win support for an idea and how to bring new technologies to market.
Jeff Dyer • Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to Innovation
Tesla doesn’t want to limit the scale of battery manufacturing to the number of cars it can produce. So Tesla is selling its batteries to other car manufacturers. This is pretty astonishing. Tesla has developed a material technology advantage over its direct competitors. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that tec... See more
Kyle Samani • Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani
Though it will require enormous upfront investment in the coming decade, laying a quilt of DERs over the nation’s distribution systems is the best thing we can possibly do to enable the rapid emission reductions we will need in the decade after.
Volts.wtf • Rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable
A system is a public utility if it is permissionless, rent-free, and does something useful.
Mike Goldin • Mike’s Cryptosystems Manifesto
A system is self-sustaining if it would continue to function normally in the indefinite absence of its creators.
Mike Goldin • Mike’s Cryptosystems Manifesto
Financial assets are promises to trade certain things in the future, if certain events happen in the world. The financial system is the market for promises.
Not Investing Advice • The Market for Promises
In other words, crypto's use case is the one that it claims: decentralization. It's use case is to cut out middlemen, break up monopolies, and fight aggregators. It's certainly not the case that crypto is entirely useless.It may still be the case that crypto is "more bad than good", but the claim "after 13 years, there are still no use cases for cr... See more
Evan Conrad • Where are all the crypto use cases? | Evan Conrad
Renewable Energy and
Early on in an energy transition, there is often more attention on how well they can do existing things. Examples include how well coal could heat and oil and electricity could light. But the larger impact for any energy transition, like other new technologies, is to enable us to do brand new things.