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SPI 2019 Day Zero Interview with Raghu Belur of Enphase Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glSXghzDZcs&feature=youtu.be...

An NPR article on the topic: "Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy" https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste... "...Ninety percent of a turbine's p…

"Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy" https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste...

FWIW, and this does involves battery, but it is an off grid power solution. https://zolaelectric.com/

Bingo. "Yo dawg, I heard you're thinking of a new way to make money...so I wrote a book about thinking of a new way to make money so you can think about a new way to make money whi…

I would strongly suggest perusing through the resources of Stephen Few over at Perceptual Edge. Library: http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php You could do a lot worse than bec…

How come when I posted this same link on Hacker News, HN flagged my post? Guess the same hive mind that runs Google runs the show at HN.

There's the formal definition of "exponential", and then there is "exponential" in the sense of completely disruptive and transformative as in the example Tony Seba gives. I am ref…

No, it has not taken off exponentially yet in the way the Tony Seba video demonstrates with a picture of 5th Ave in NYC in the year 1900 where there are lots of horses used for tra…

We could be at the point where solar adoption takes off exponentially. On a big picture view: Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

P.S. One of the companies in the solar space I follow closely is Enphase Energy. https://enphase.com/en-us There is a cool little demo a solar installer from Australia made to show…

Tony Seba has an interesting perspective on "Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation", with one of the main takeaways being as options like solar become more viable, their take…

Windmills do have controversy surrounding them, and whatever the case may be, I would neither want to live by a coal plant nor a wind turbine. Adverse health effects of industrial …

Ok, thanks; not as many barriers to entry I suppose compared with larger health institutions.

Are you able to share any info regarding the type of customer (B2B or B2C), the number of customers, and the method of customer acquisition? Depending on the nature of the product …

There is a problem with the materials the packaging industry uses. Are there any start-ups or big companies working on a solution?

> "It drives me crazy to think that some exec came up with SPA-ing everything as a sales pitch to clients" In other companies, I wonder if this is just as often due to: (a) develop…

"As utilities fight distributed generation, electricity is getting less reliable" https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/03/as-utilities-fight-di...

Well, I'm aware of at least one company based in Texas trying to supply homes not just in Texas with solar. https://www.sunnova.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sunnova…

I think that is about to change in the near future. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/08/20/enphase-going-einstei... https://enphase.com/en-us/ensemble

"...a single component in an energy mix". And that mix relies on the grid? With nuclear or other centralized power source, yes.