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Investing in companies leading the energy transition @energyventures. Studied @texas_univ @Stanford. Worked @IDEO @Accel @SunEdison @SolarBridgeTech @SunPower.
Jul 27, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
You can increase energy storage duration by overbuilding capacity. You don't necessarily need a new chemistry or fundamental storage mechanism. The biggest competitor to multi-day storage like @FormEnergyInc will be very cheap lithium-ion. And V2G. Remember how CPV was so much better than regular PV because it had much higher efficiency? Turns out just adding more cheap panels was the winning solution. I believe we are massively underestimating how cheap Li-Ion is going to get. So many incremental innovations in the works
Nov 11, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
1/ Thread on the coming internal combustion engine death spiral (which needs a better name). A hypothesis.. 2/ #energytwitter talks a lot about the utility death spiral. Still a theory - I think - as most utilities who haven't set their state on fire seem to still be doing pretty well. Shouldn't we expect the same kind of thing to happen in the internal combustion engine value chain?