Impulse Labs

17 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2024 by Sam D'Amico · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Oct 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove qualifies for a 30% federal tax credit
“Because this thing has a battery and because that battery is Three kilowatt hours. We get a. 30% tax credit on the product.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 26:39 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam D'Amico: Impulse will become the grid's key storage power broker
“Once we sell these to a bunch of people, we've then basically backdoored ourselves as like the key storage power broker on the electric grid, because we'll have batteries in everyone's house.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 1:59 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sam D'Amico: 8-10 kWh per home drastically cuts grid blackout risks
“If you distributed like over 10 kilowatt hours per home in the U S like. You can ride out pretty major like outages. And the big story with like a heat wave is heat waves are really bad for the grid because essentially everyone's turning their AC on full blast…”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 36:58 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam D'Amico: Every household electrical device will eventually integrate a battery
“Everything will have a battery because batteries would be basically cheap or free effectively. If everything has a battery and you can, they can choose when to charge. And I'm sure you've seen like the iPhone pop up where it's like your iPhone can choose when …”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 35:19 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove is 3x more powerful per heating element
“We've built the world's best stove. And it's three times more powerful per like heating element and more precise than any other stove. And we enable that by embedding a lithium iron phosphate battery into the stove itself.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 1:32 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024
Insight
Sam D'Amico: Nonstick pans exist because traditional stoves lack exact temperature control
“The entire existence of nonstick pans is driven by the fact that people, like, basically stoves have, like, incomprehensible zero through 10 settings versus an exact temperature.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 29:17 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sam D'Amico: The raw battery cells in an Impulse stove cost $300
“The raw battery cells that go into our product, I think order magnitude or 300 bucks now.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 41:39 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves account for only 1% of home energy consumption
“The average us house uses something like 20 or 30 kilowatt hour, all electric house is about 20 to 30 kilowatt hours of energy a day. My understanding of if you go look at the energy star standards for induction stoves, An induction stove on average uses like …”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 9:36 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Impulse Labs plans to ship its battery-integrated stove by late 2024
“We are we're shipping the product end of this year.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 29:48 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 negative
Insight
Smart features fail unless appliance startups outperform incumbents on core specs
“If you're a new entrance to the space, you wouldn't necessarily be able to compete with the incumbents or someone who like knows what they're doing around the kitchen. You wouldn't be able to compete with the incumbents because like you weren't actually better…”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 4:31 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Sam D'Amico: Edge energy storage makes the grid resilient like the internet
“Moving the control sensing and like energy storage out to the edges means that any sort of centralized disaster doesn't do as much damage, right? And so there's like, there's a second, like awesome characteristics about this where basically we've taken like a …”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 38:01 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Impulse cooktops achieve 240V performance on standard 120V outlets
“Typical stoves use, like, 60 amps or something like that. We can run on as little as, like, at 240 volts. We can run on as little as a 120 volt outlet. So you can just plug this thing in with, like, your normal, like, AC power cable and get the same stove perf…”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 21:26 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery delivers 4-5x more power into the pan
“In our case, we can do that in about a minute because we can push order of magnitude Four to five times more power into the pan than pretty much any other stuff. Because the battery is right there able to give us DC power straight to the coils.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 15:04 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's playbook is Trojan-horsing batteries into homes via appliances
“The initial playbook and thinking around this was very clearly build the most awesome appliances and you Trojan horse batteries into everyone's home.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 5:52 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Three to four battery appliances equal a home Tesla Powerwall
“If you have like three or four appliances per home, you've now deployed about a power wall per house. And so once you have a pop, like once you, which is like, let's say, 12 kilowatt hours or something like that, that is like half the energy use of a typical A…”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 33:29 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 4, 2024
Assertion Supported
Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves run above 24 kHz to stay inaudible
“If you make it like lower than 24 kilohertz you'd hear it or like your pets might hear it or. Your kids might hear it or something, like something like that. So you have to put it just outside the human hearing range, but low enough that it's still efficient.”
Sam D'Amico Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 18:20 Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 31, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mendler: Operators cannot reliably control dynamically maneuvering spacecraft
“All of those use cases where spacecraft are moving dynamically around in new ways in the space environment. They basically just don't have a solution for how to connect and control that spacecraft.”
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