Wildfire

“You might have 80 to 300 old logs per acre in a burnt out conifer forest, and after a couple years of undergrowth whether it's invasives or natives, like, they get super dried out, you get a lightning strike, boom, you got the next wildfire again”

“And in some cases, simultaneously exposing a million plus structures. So you have so many structures exposed at the same time that it is impossible for firefighters to be everywhere all at once.”

“Fire grows exponentially, and so if you can get to a fire in the first 1015, 20 minutes, and so the cost to put it out, the amount of apparatus, the amount of suppression payload, you can actually take out a fire that's a couple hundred square feet with much l…”

“The data shows world's getting hotter and drier. And that means there's going to be more fires. It's very clear correlation.”

“So in my opinion, I think over the next five to 10 years, we will see exactly what you're talking about drones to do rapid initial attack. So you see you know, you get an ignition that's detected from a camera or satellite. And drones are pre-positioned can ge…”

“Honestly, I think three things stop large wildfires. The weather changing, the ocean, or really large, massive aircraft dropping, you know, jets dropping huge amounts of retardant. You can't drop huge amounts of retardant in neighborhoods. It's too destructive…”

“You know, I actually think there's a really big national security issue here around wildfire that doesn't really get talked about, but like, you know, okay, one thing to do to a neighborhood, but what about a military base? You know, what about a nuclear power…”

“PG&E in, in, in 2002 22 had a 1.3 billion dollar rate case, right, for the wildfires that happened that year over a three-year period.”

“And the fires of twenty-twenty in our state wiped out 15 years of progress, and if wildfires were a country, they'd be ranked number four behind China, U.S., and India in terms of carbon emissions.”

“The Moore Foundation in San Mateo County, where you used to live, which experienced A very major fire a few years ago. They did a study showing that for every 15 minutes that you get to a fire, 15 minutes earlier, you save billions of dollars, hundreds of bill…”

“We just launched an XPRIZE for wildfires. You can monitor a thousand square kilometers, detect a wildfire, add ignition, and put it out 10 minutes automatically.”

“Many of the models either don't include permafrost at all. The very few that do don't account for these abrupt ground collapses that are happening. They don't account for the impact of wildfire and permafrost, which can greatly accelerate thaw.”

“I mean, and actually if you look at those acquisitions, None of them really have gone on to meet, to be meaningful.”

“I mean, and actually, if you look at those acquisitions, None of them really have gone on to meet, to be meaningful.”

“So it, and that would indicate to me that they were bought prematurely. You know, they weren't mature businesses. They hadn't figured out what, why they existed and what they were trying to solve for.”

“Most of those acquisitions were great for the companies that were acquired, but they, the business model did not work out the way a lot of those big companies thought.”