electricity

14 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2022 by Rebecca Dell · across every show →

Everything said about electricity, oldest first

Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Dell: Electricity Supplies Only 10% of Total Chemical Sector Inputs
“40% of the total inputs are being used for energy, so 10% of the total inputs, so a quarter of the energy, is, today it's electricity.”
Rebecca Dell Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 28:09 The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals
Feb 25, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
DeWitt: Nuclear systems produce heat much more cheaply than electricity
“Nuclear systems fundamentally produce heat that we then do things with. And so they actually produce heat much more cheaply than they even produce electricity.”
Jake DeWitt Feb 25, 2022 ▶ 21:20 Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Insight
Kann: Nuclear fusion will not inherently provide the cheapest electricity
“It's not inherently true that it's going to deliver the cheapest electricity. That is available on the market, even if it is fusion. It, that doesn't mean that it's cheap because you still have, you could have very expensive capital costs to build a fusion pla…”
Shayle Kann Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 19:29 Averting water wars as we decarbonize
Dec 8, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
O'Donnell: Hydrogen heat requires 2 units of electricity per unit of heat
“Making it from clean electricity. It's about two units of electricity for one unit of heat. The production equipment, the electrolyzers are expensive today, and they're coming down in cost. That two to one ratio, though, is not something that's going to change…”
John O'Donnell Dec 8, 2022 ▶ 15:45 Solving the conundrum of industrial heat
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kann: Electricity accounts for around 20% of US final energy consumption
“Electricity in the U.S. Today is somewhere around 20% of final energy consumption which means there's an 80% of the prize, even assuming no growth in overall energy consumption, 80% of the prize is open to electricity.”
Shayle Kann Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 9:09 Navigating the electricity gauntlet
Aug 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Dell: Electrifying a single standard steel mill requires four gigawatts of power
“If you were to fully electrify this process, that might be something like four gigawatts of electricity. Average load. Not peak load. Average load. So we're talking about, like, four nuclear power stations to run one normie steel mill.”
Rebecca Dell Aug 2, 2024 ▶ 28:40 Pathways to decarbonizing steel
Aug 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Dell: Electrolysis to hydrogen incurs a 25% to 30% energy conversion loss
“If we can save the, like, 25 or 30% of the electricity that we would lose converting to hydrogen in the middle, that would be very valuable.”
Rebecca Dell Aug 2, 2024 ▶ 29:04 Pathways to decarbonizing steel
Jan 2, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kann: Lithium is a smaller market than major commodities but grows faster
“It's a much smaller market than any of the others I just mentioned, I should note, but the demand growth trajectory is also steeper, and it's got all the makings of a super volatile commodity landscape.”
Shayle Kann Jan 2, 2025 ▶ 2:21 Lithium’s wild ride
Jan 15, 2026
Assertion Contradicted
Kann: Global electricity spending has historically never exceeded oil spending
“We've never spent more of GDP on electricity than oil historically.”
Shayle Kann Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 14:36 2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies
Jan 15, 2026
Assertion Supported
Bullard: Electricity spending has stayed range-bound between 3% and 4% of GDP
“Electricity, meanwhile, is essentially completely range-bound. The highest it's ever gotten is, like, close to four percent, and the lowest it's ever gotten is three percent.”
Nat Bullard Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 12:57 2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Kann: Markets underappreciate electricity as a driver of future economic growth
“I'm not sure the market is actually bullish enough about electricity as a cornerstone of economic growth in the coming years, not to mention energy growth globally over the coming years.”
Shayle Kann Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 0:39 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026
Assertion Supported
Kann: Electricity accounts for only 20% of global final energy demand
“As a reminder, electricity is only 20% of final energy demand as it stands today.”
Shayle Kann Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 0:47 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 18, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lubershane: A home humanoid robot will use 3-4x a refrigerator's annual power
“If you were to sort of extrapolate from the humanoids that are being built today and you were to run one for five or six hours a day doing various types of tasks around your home and your garden, sort of, you know, the theoretical robo-butler, that would consu…”
Andy Lubershane Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 26:36 Enter the electric supercycle
Sep 10, 2026
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Sep 2026
Lubershain: Electricity accounts for 1% to 1.5% of average personal income
“The average consumer, it's been between one and 1.5% of average personal income over that period and declining a little bit over that period since 2010, ah, so far.”
Andy Lubershane Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 32:23 Do data centers actually increase electricity prices? No...and yes
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