why aren't all 11 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 1 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Opinion
EV Demand Will Prevent Lithium-Ion Batteries From Scaling for Grid Storage
“I don't think lithium-ion can really work in the grid for whatever its challenges are, and lithium will always get a priority to the vehicles, and again, there's a supply-demand deficit there already.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gogri: Fusion Won't Scale by 2050, but Matters Post-2050
“I would say fusion is not the solution to the climate crisis right now. But it's an important tool when you go beyond twenty-fifty to 2100 for that, that society.”
Prediction Held up
Gogri: Gen-IV Small Modular Reactors Should Come Online by 2030
“Ok, so the point is that my hope is around this generation four reactors, which, again, there is a hope element to that, but they should be getting online by the end of this decade, and they are more smaller than the big power plant.”
Opinion
Gogri: Direct air capture is too energy-intensive to scale without new tech
“Direct air capture, which is there. I think it is just too energy intensive. I think it is like the current numbers are, it's three megawatt hours. Again, not taking the numbers, just too energy intensive. Right now, I really don't see a pathway to energy inte…”
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2060
Gogri: Global population is projected to peak around 2060 at 10 billion
“The population peak I think they are saying it's around 2060 at ten billion. So by 2100, your number is not going to be that, any case.”
Opinion
Gogri: Bioenergy and waste management are India's best climate venture opportunities
“I think for my sense, bioenergy and everything around to do with bioenergy, waste management, and circularity. I think if you look at these three elements, which are sort of interconnected in a ways because it promotes circularity. I think that's in India very…”
Assertion Supported
Gogri: Aarti Industries Scope 1 Emissions Are ~650k-680k Tons
“We have been doing our sustainability reports now, so our emissions would be, scope one would be like, 650,000 tons, six 80. Scope two will be one 40”
What-if
Gogri: Earth would be 30 degrees colder without greenhouse gases
“If there was no greenhouse gas on the same logic, The earth's average temperature would have been 30 degrees lesser than what it is, and it practically wouldn't have any life.”
Assertion Supported
Gogri: India will require roughly 200 GWh of grid storage by 2030
“I think India's number is, if I'm not wrong, it's around 200 gigawatt hours by 2030.”
Assertion Supported
Siberian Permafrost Contains More Carbon Than the Entire Earth's Atmosphere
“So basically permafrost is frozen soil, largely in Siberia and all those regions. So it has more carbon stored in the Siberian, in Siberian permafrost than the whole of atmosphere right now, which is a pretty big number.”
Assertion Supported
Gogri: Startup Designed MCC-Approved Aerodynamic Cricket Bat
“We made a cricket bat, which was more aerodynamic in nature, and the edges wouldn't travel to the slips... We got it approved from the Maryblown Cricket Club. We sent it there. They said that it's legally allowed.”