Jason Badeaux

Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.

The future grid will be built from the bottom up, driven by new technologies, DERs, that are in many ways superior to their predecessors.

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.

A system is a public utility if it is permissionless, rent-free, and does something useful.

We can pump out a number of other popular use cases, and for each one, I'll let you move the goal post to not include that particular project.

• Filecoin - A commodity market for storage that's currently 0.0011% the cost of S3.

Elon Musk explained his commitment to the Model 3 launch, when he said: “The reason I slept on the floor was not because I couldn’t go across the road and be at the hotel, it was because I wanted my circumstances to be worse than anyone else at the company on purpose. Like whatever pain they felt, I wanted mine to be worse. That’s why I did it. And... See more