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I wrote this article, and I'm happy to field any questions
Or more simply, 500 million tonnes.
> ... 500 million metric tons. Or more simply, 500 million tonnes.
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It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males. Carmichael Roberts agreed with me. His words were that my question felt "piercing" because he was not at liberty to tell me about some of the companies outside the US with diverse leadership, but he said he will soon say more. Rodi Guidero agreed and said to look at the BEV team. It's very diverse: http://www.b-t.energy/ventures/team/ We…
"It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males." Sure, not what gp said, but agreed. "but if you want to elevate those that don't come from privileged backgrounds" Just some unsolicited feedback, the original race/gender quote from the article and this statement leads me to interpret that you either value equality of outcome (EG: all of these startups should have proportional distrib…
Also, there is no historical bias towards 6-foot people. But there was, and is, a lot of bias towards white males. For me it's fair enough to call that out.
> ... 500 million metric tons. Or more simply, 500 million tonnes.
A metric ton is substantially different to a ton in the old English
It avoids any ambiguity -- the 5% of the planet still struggling with imperial measurements can continue to confound each other with ton, while the rest of us can confidently talk amongst ourselves about thousand-kg units (tonnes).
I wrote this article, and I'm happy to field any questions
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'It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males' That's a straw man argument because I did not assert that (and obviously wouldn't because it would be a stupid thing to think). Maybe he thought your question was piercing because it implied you suspected he was racist or sexist or not concerned with gender and race bias. Fwiw I'm from one of the excluded categories. I think they should…
I think you can do both. If anybody has the resources to do that, BEV does.
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I'm curious about why you included this sentence: 'The startups announced by BEV so far are all North American, and most of their leadership is also largely white and male' I mean, isn't it enough for BEV to help fund a small sample of companies tackling some of the most challenging problems on earth? Probability of success in such an endeavour is already vanishingly small without adding further constraints. Aren't i…
It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males. Carmichael Roberts agreed with me. His words were that my question felt "piercing" because he was not at liberty to tell me about some of the companies outside the US with diverse leadership, but he said he will soon say more. Rodi Guidero agreed and said to look at the BEV team. It's very diverse: http://www.b-t.energy/ventures/team/ We…
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A metric ton is substantially different to a ton in the old English
Hence the nice people behind metric came up with the tonne. It avoids any ambiguity -- the 5% of the planet still struggling with imperial measurements can continue to confound each other with ton, while the rest of us can confidently talk amongst ourselves about thousand-kg units (tonnes).
I wrote this article, and I'm happy to field any questions
No question. Just cool that you are here responding to them. Really interesting article. Also read the CFS feature. Also very interesting. Should note the link to the Carbon Cement feature goes to the CFS feature instead.