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Kugelmass: Replicating 1968 nuclear blueprints would cut global energy costs fivefold
“If you, if we just like went into those facilities, like looked at the blueprints and the Built them exactly how they were built. We would decarbonize the entire planet, and every human being would have energy that's, like, five times cheaper than they're payi…”
Jaffe: Northvolt could have worked if investors forced focus on one factory
“And if their goal and focus and their investors had pushed them very hard to get that one factory to work right, do anything you can to get that one factory to work right, and then we'll figure out everything else later. I, you know, I think it could have work…”
Divesting Colorado's Pension From Fossil Fuels Would Have Added $2.7B
“If they had divested from fossil fuels in 2012, they would have had 2.7 billion more dollars. In that fund. It would have been about an additional 4100 dollars per pensioneer for that.”
Bhatraju: Arcadia remains valuable even if all utilities build APIs
“If tomorrow we woke up and every utility in America
Created like an incredibly well-documented API for their utility.
We would still provide an incredible service that is a single meta API for all thousands of those, just with probably better data being piped …”
EU gas tightness was exacerbated by simultaneous nuclear and hydro shortfalls
“If we didn't have that problem, then we could have had a reduction of gas demand in the power sector, and the situation would be much less tight.”
Kann: Modern renewables would not exist at scale without 2008 stimulus
“I think it's pretty easy to make the case that most of what we see today in this space, certainly in the case of renewables, at least would not exist, at least not at the current scale. Had that bill not deployed billions of dollars across an array of technolo…”