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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by tdaltonc »

> Tarpit Ideas

> Carbon removal credits on the blockchain. Using blockchain technology to solve the double-counting of carbon credits is an attractive idea but in our experience it’s just a technology choice and a small piece of the product you ultimately have to build.

I can't believe how often I hear this reasoning from people: Carbon credits have a double-counting problem? Blockchains prevent "double-spend"! Perfect solution! But as the quote points out, double-counting of carbon credits is not a software problem.

At Jasmine, we're tokenizing climate assets but not to prevent "double-spend." https://medium.com/jasmine-energy/why-is-jasmine-building-on...

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by agilob »

ravenstine wrote: post #9

> Tesla for home appliances: re-inventing home appliances (water heaters, induction stoves, clothes dryers, etc) to create better consumer experiences using specific advantages of electric technology. > Tesla-like experience for home energy management: smart hub, including smart charging, load shifting, software-based load shedding for improved resiliency, and better circuit-level energy use measurement. With how Tes…

I would be a great disaster if Tesla or HP produced water boilers. If would be success if Brother or raspberry pi made them.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by fabianhjr »

SalimoS wrote: post #19
ravenstine wrote: post #9

> Tesla for home appliances: re-inventing home appliances (water heaters, induction stoves, clothes dryers, etc) to create better consumer experiences using specific advantages of electric technology. > Tesla-like experience for home energy management: smart hub, including smart charging, load shifting, software-based load shedding for improved resiliency, and better circuit-level energy use measurement. With how Tes…

The way I see it when talking about Tesla it’s talking about the pre/post Tesla (aka the transition from ICE to EV in all auto makers) and not the build quality of Tesla per se !

Why not pre/post electric Lada of the 1980s and associated R&D?

https://www.reckontalk.com/electro-russian-tesla-first-elect...

The biggest manufacturer of electric cars worldwide is BYD

The biggest driver of sales (trough public policy) has been China and Europe, including things like announcing bans of ICE in city centers/cities:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Electric_car_use_by_country

Tesla started as a luxury brand (Roadster and then luxury sedans) and the only innovation they have managed is name recognition; even the adoption they have driven in the US has been mostly trough public policy like tax incentives.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by robin_reala »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #34
Grustaf wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla is indeed a strange choice for a simile, considering that Tesla cars use prodigious amounts of energy compared to other electric cars, or other cars in general. I doubt they're even more environmentally friendly overall than a compact combustion engine car. Tesla made electric cool by building an over the top luxury car, what we really need is the opposite.

There are some cars coming out next year that are more energy efficient than a Tesla, like the Hyundai Ioniq 6, but I don't know of any currently widely available vehicles that are.

By energy efficient do you mean kilowatt hours / kilometer (or equivalent units)? The standard range Model 3 – the most efficient one – is apparently 15/16 kWh per 100km, which is pretty much exactly the same as a VW ID3 (15.5 - 15.7 in Pro spec) and only a little less than a Hyundai Ioniq 5 (16.8).

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by mjhay »

Attempting to solve climate change with virtue-signalling consumption and production is worse than useless. That doesn't mean such things are necessarily bad startup ideas, though, but few things turn me off more than this sort of thing.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by slg »

fabianhjr wrote: post #44
SalimoS wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way I see it when talking about Tesla it’s talking about the pre/post Tesla (aka the transition from ICE to EV in all auto makers) and not the build quality of Tesla per se !

Why not pre/post electric Lada of the 1980s and associated R&D? https://www.reckontalk.com/electro-russian-tesla-first-elect... The biggest manufacturer of electric cars worldwide is BYD The biggest driver of sales (trough public policy) has been China and Europe, including things like announcing bans of ICE in city centers/cities: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Electric_car_use_by_country Tesla started as a luxury bran…

Because very few people will know what you are talking about if you go up to a random person and ask them about Lada or BYD.

Musk is an egomaniacal idiot that most of us dislike. There are countless valid reasons to dislike Tesla as a company and the cars they make. However, that shouldn't cause people to overthink things when their name is simply being used as shorthand as it clearly is in this instance.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by pclmulqdq »

avalys wrote: post #32
r_hoods_ghost wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do people keep spouting this nonsense? Yes there is a place for nuclear in the mix, but renewables have already moved the dial in a lot if countries. I the uk about 40% of our energy is from renewables, mostly wind at 25% and biomass for much of the rest. Or does that not fit your narrative? Or do you not consider that moving the needle? It's a damn sight easier, quicker and cheaper to put up wind turbines and so…

Nuclear reactors are expensive because we don’t build any of them. Solar and wind occupy way more land for the same power production and can’t produce baseload power without battery storage systems that cost 5x as much.

Bingo. Solar panels were outrageously expensive 15 years ago, but that didn't stop us from investing in them as a technology.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Post by jerrygenser »

bokohut wrote: post #29

A great list to start with yet there are still several items missing from their projected speculations. As a core software architect and founder who has built multiple acquired ecommerce systems prior to and since the dotcom bust long ago I feel it prudent to emphasize to those that lack the experience to see what is happening yet again in an even more critical modern societal industry. The coming energy opportunitie…

This paragraph seems gpt-like
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