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Request for Startups: Climate Tech
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Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech
#62Some thoughts:
1. We know for a fact that mangroves can mitigate tsunami damage. I've been looking into this and a lot of tree-planting programs really suck and are basically failures. Additionally mangroves are tropical plants and -- so far -- I am failing to find an alternative for colder climates.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051028141252.h...
2. We certainly need energy solutions and I'm happy to see people work on that, but we could use more companies working on passive solar solutions as well. Most passive solar solutions are best implemented from the get go (from breaking ground on a new building), but some can be added after the fact. There is likely lots of low-hanging fruit in that second category.
3. Middle-eastern countries and their architectural traditions have many practices that help mitigate heat levels inside buildings and even at street level. These seem to be largely unknown outside such countries and we are missing a huge opportunity to export or adapt such traditions to other places to try to adapt to hotter temps.
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#63> In the not-too-distant future, vehicles will charge when excess solar is available
Emporia Energy's smart EV charger can already do this. So can our $9 smart plug. Disclosure: I work there.
Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech
#64All this is relatively pointless (save "potentially profitable") without removing fossil fuels from general usage.
Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech
#65I've worked in "climate intelligence" for many years. The list overlooks one of the largest and most immediate opportunities around that market: the data infrastructure and analysis tools we have today are profoundly unfit for purpose. Just about everyone is essentially using cartography tools to do large-scale spatiotemporal analysis of sensor and telemetry data. The gaps for both features and practical scalability are massive.
It has made most of the climate intelligence analysis we'd like to do, and for which data is available, intractable. And what we can do is so computationally inefficient that we figuratively burn down a small forest every time we run an analysis on a non-trivial model, which isn't very green either.
(This is definitely something I'd work on if I had the bandwidth, it is a pretty pure deep tech software problem.)
Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech
#66Do people really believe we can innovate our way through climate change?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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.
This is why parent said only innovation Tesla has managed is name recognition.
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#68I'm confused, I searched for both "crypto" and "web3" on that page and there are no results?
YC has generated enough wealth from these and other endless consumption ideas for a thousand lifetimes. The billionaire's playbook now dictates you focus on building your legacy by using disruptive technology to save the world.
Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech
#69I've worked in "climate intelligence" for many years. The list overlooks one of the largest and most immediate opportunities around that market: the data infrastructure and analysis tools we have today are profoundly unfit for purpose. Just about everyone is essentially using cartography tools to do large-scale spatiotemporal analysis of sensor and telemetry data. The gaps for both features and practical scalability…
Where could I read more about this problem and how it's being tackled today?
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#70> 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 came here to post this as well. For one, it doesn't even make sense. Tesla is a car manufacturer and makes objectively worse cars than the competition. They just happen to be EVs. Making any thing "Tesla" inside my house means it will be flashy but work less well than existing solutions, in addition to removing all knobs. All of which is the opposite of what I want. I've already de-smartified my Nests because, surprise, they aren't actually smart and end up being worse than me controlling them.