The Ledger, every show
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China does not suffer from NIMBY infrastructure bottlenecks
“They don't have this problem. I'm confident of that. And so, yeah, it is one of the biggest differences between the two countries.”
Advanced nuclear power at scale in the US is 10-15 years away
“By the end of this decade, I think we'll be, have taken some small steps there, but we're probably looking 1015 years to really have advanced nuclear be at any scale in the United States, and that's best case.”
The small modular reactor industry has too many companies and faces fallout
“I worry that there's going to be a falling out in the industry. There's probably too many SMR companies and it would be better if the industry can kind of coalesce around three or four different technologies and focus the resources there.”
Solar power purchase agreement costs are up over 50% since 2020 lows
“Meanwhile, you know, the cost of a PPA, a power purchase agreement, for solar is well off the lows. What kind of lows happened around twenty-twenty, and it's the cost, again, of delivered electrons from solar is, you know, probably 50% plus more expensive than…”
Classroom technology adoption increased over 20 years while outcomes declined
“We've adopted more and more technology in the classroom over that 20 years, and outcomes have gone down.”
Skin substitute manufacturers exploit a six-month federal reimbursement price loophole
“Right now, one of the big things is skin substitutes.
So if you get a burn, you need some type of new skin on there's regs about how those get reimbursed and
You know, the first six months whenever a product is released, they are, there's not history of to h…”
China has launched anti-involution policies to curb domestic tech overcapacity
“And so China has, you know, started this new process of anti-involution, of like trying to support the winners and make sure that they can build up to be healthy, strong companies and be really global competitors and not just kind of brought down by this overc…”
Being the top gas market maker lowered slippage and revealed competitor positioning
“I was for a long time the largest market maker in the business which I did both for because it was profitable as well as maybe more importantly it allowed ability to put on and off positions with lower slippage and with fewer people knowing what my position wa…”
US data center energy demand has clear visibility through 2030
“Visibility through kind of, 2030 is pretty clear. The investments are being made. The actors that are making these investments are the largest, most profitable companies that have ever existed on this planet. They're also, many of them are growing at very heal…”
Healthcare will forever have third-party payers and tight regulation
“And we are going to have a healthcare system that has, you know, third party payers forever and the need for very tight regulation.”
NIO built an EV factory and produced a car in 17 months
“So they went from, you know, first shovel in the ground to the first car coming off the line in 17 months, which was just phenomenal.”
Most subsidized Chinese robotics companies are currently unprofitable due to intense competition
“One of the end results is that most of these companies aren't very profitable today because it's just intense competition and a lot of times over capacity because of the province level subsidies and supports.”
Most 2000s transmission developers abandoned stalled decade-long projects
“Most of the developers who had gotten started with projects in the 2000 Kind of gave up. They started things thinking these were going to be five-year projects, and they were 10 plus years in, and many of them hadn't broken ground yet.”
Rising lithium prices will translate into higher battery costs
“And so we've seen lithium prices, for instance, just in the past few months, be up more than 50%. And that's going to translate into higher battery costs, all things being equal.”
Advanced geothermal tech is proven and leverages existing oil and gas labor
“There is, you know, the skilled labor force that exists in this country already. It comes largely from the oil and gas sector, and you know, it, the technology has now been proven out.”
Geothermal energy could be the most exciting US industry in five years
“But I can see kind of in five years that the geothermal industry could be the most exciting in the United States.”
China currently has over 100 different electric vehicle manufacturers
“And so right now there's apparently over a hundred different manufacturers of EVs in China.”
There are currently over 100 robotics companies in China
“The number of robotics companies? There's over a hundred now.”
Commercial flights between the US and China are down 70% since 2019
“The number of flights between the two countries is down 70%.”
The number of American students studying in China is down 90%
“The number of American students studying there was down 90%.”
Centaurus investors offered more capital during drawdowns due to built trust
“Whenever we had a down month or a down time period, which we had, they weren't calling to redeem, but they would call up and say, do you need more capital? Because we had earned their trust, and we had done, you know, forced distributions along the way”