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do you know how much light plants need to grow successfully? is it theoretically possible to have a layer of solar panels above farmland with some light leaking through available for plants beneath, so we can use the same patch of land for both energy and food? so the plants are
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Even 1 panel per person is transformative.
That’s the difference between total energy poverty and being able to run a refrigerator, a washing machine, an electric cooktop, a reverse osmosis water filter, a laptop, a cell phone, and an e-bike.
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Our goal for the next decade should be to get everybody on the planet above the 1 panel line.
And for the following decade, the 10 panel line. x.com/magattew/statu…
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a single solar panel does not generate ~110W of power on average
that's like 33% capacity factor, so those numbers are off by roughly 2-3x
Pakistan is going to be first poor country to break the 10 per person barrier. They probably did close to 1 per person just this year.
- teach sand to compute (works pretty good)
- teach sand to generate energy (getting better consistently)
- teach sand to think (WIP)
15 panels per capita, so a family of four needs 60 panels... how much does a 60 panel install cost these days? how much roof area does one need?
I know there are online calculators but they all want my home address so fuck em.
Aside from your company, do you also make stock market bets on your beliefs?
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what i learned after living in america for half a decade is that not one single american cares about what europeans think of them
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Adrian Hilton
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Perhaps someone should tell her that people in Belfast have voted for convicted terrorists.
No one hates to see a European succeed as much as European regulators.
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Matt Bateman
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The French Polymarket whale commissioned polls with a specific alternate methodology, the “neighbor method”
1. What a baller
2. What a killer example of how betting markets can surface contrarian, high quality signals