land
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2022 by Shayle Kann · across every show →
Everything said about land, oldest first
May 12, 2022 bearish
Kann: Land availability will become a major bottleneck for decarbonization
“Land, I think, will become a big one. Kind of no matter how you slice it in terms of what the big swaths of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation Solutions are going to be. They're going to be pretty land intensive. Solar and wind obviously are very land intensi…”
Jun 2, 2022 positive
Lubershane: Solar PV and motors require 50x less land than animal power
“But the total efficiency, if you take solar PV and then run that electricity through an electric motor to do useful work, It's on the order of probably 15 to 20%. So the upshot here is we need like 50 times less land today to get the same amount of energy, use…”
Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Janous: Land represents just 1% of a data center's 15-year total cost.
“I mean, on a total cost basis, you know, over a fifteen-year period, and, you know, TCO is the way we think about it in the world, land is about one percent. Of the cost to operate a data center. You know, the full stack with servers and everything.”