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Efficient markets will weed out ideas that fail this analysis in time. Incentives like the Automotive X-Prize will accelerate this process, leading to solutions that are smart for …

Global warming will be defeated by incremental increases in efficiency across the board.... think of it as the death of a thousand cuts. Everything from better internal combustion …

I think you're right about the cost & time increases for building hardware, but I'm not sure many fundamental changes would be required for hardware startups. If the hardware mod. …

Todays airplanes might as well be powered gliders... one company builds the engines and another builds the airframe. Nature measures the efficiency of the combination of the two, s…

I've enjoyed many thoughtful responses to the "Ask YC" threads, so I figured I'd ask about hardware. As a hardware hacker focused on powered aerodynamics, I've been wondering about…