Jason Badeaux

@jasonbadeaux

Cofounder of Anode Labs. Bringing energy independence to every home.

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This is a very new technology. It could be decades before it is developed enough to be put into a car. The high levels of cobalt could also be a huge issue. Not only is cobalt more than twice as expensive as any other battery metal, but its mining is environmentally and humanely dubious. Many companies, including Tesla, want to have cobalt-free... See more

Will Lockett • Tesla’s Four Million Mile Battery

The work token model captures ~100x more value than the proprietary payment currency model.How is this possible?If you instead use a utility token as a right to perform work on behalf of the network, it becomes valued at a multiple of the operating cash flows that the system generates rather than as a fraction of revenues paid to service providers.

Kyle Samani • New Models for Utility Tokens

More so than crypto mining helping the grid, there will be more and more industries with high-electricity operating costs looking to use the cheapest, cleanest energy available. Colocating these high power users with the clean power plants helps create more demand for clean energy, without making interconnection queues worse or requiring more... See more

Tsung Xu • The transition to clean energy is accelerating

The underlying theme across all 8 of these bullets, except perhaps the last, is that each drives scale of battery production.

Kyle Samani • Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani

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evanjconrad.com • Where Are All the Crypto Use Cases? | Evan Conrad

Electric lighting, for example, did not simply replace candles and oil lamps on a 1-to-1 basis, but instead opened up entirely new residential, commercial, industrial, artistic, and scientific applications. Refrigeration did not just replace ice boxes on a 1-to-1 basis, but instead found new applications ranging from air conditioning and... See more

Version One • Zero Marginal Cost Energy

Using the proposed approach, nine different-by-design value capturing mechanisms were identified: value transfer*(1), work “staking” token(2), protocol consensus token(3), dividend(4), backing by another asset(s)(5), discount token(6), internal product governance(7), meta-governance(8)**, and hedonic value(9)