Ethan Loosbrock
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In Energy and Civilization,
@VaclavSmil
shows that societies progress with the Energy Density of their fuels and the Power Density of their motors (including efficiency). Our energy transitions can be seen as moving to higher and higher energy densities:
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Woah 😳
El Salvador is beating homicide rate projections made in May of this year.
They are on track for their safest year ever, and all it took was locking up their criminals.
As of June, Nayib Bukele has a 92.9% approval rating, 90.9% reelection support, and 92.4% crackdown support.
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Those German chemists then went on to cure hunger worldwide and save more lives than any humans in history
In 1910, two German chemists invented a way to pull nitrogen from the atmosphere & produce ammonia.
Today, 50% of all of the nitrogen in your body has gone through that process.
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Things the US will build in the next 25 years:
1. Mile high skyscraper
2. Hypersonic jets
3. Flying cars
4. Blimp/subsea cities
5. Terraformed deserts
6. Colonies on the moon and Mars
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Me and the boys about to take back manufacturing in the US
a few brothers go out to receive a contingent of parameter drones returning to the monastery for maintenance.
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I never want to see the world’s tallest building in another country again.
We invented skyscrapers and we should DOMINATE building the tallest buildings ever dreamed of.
The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai just lit up in the American 🇺🇸 flag on the
#IndependanceDay
of U.S.A. !
Happy
#4thofJuly
to all our American friends.
Love from the UAE 🇦🇪
@USAinUAE
@UAEEmbassyUS
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Rachmaninoff was an Angel investor?!?
After hearing that Sikorsky had started an aviation company, the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff showed up & wrote him a $5k check (~$85k) to complete his first plane in the US, the Sikorsky Yorktown. An early airliner.
Sikorsky at the plane's christening, May 8, 1925
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THIS IS AMERICAN DYNAMISM
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If any Apple employees who worked on the car battery are interested in developing better lithium ion batteries and happen to be following me, reach out !
BREAKING: Apple, $AAPL, winding down electric car plans, ending decade-long foray, per Bloomberg.
Some Apple, $AAPL, car employees to be cut, many will shift to AI
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If you’re a chemE, chemist, or matsci grad/dropout/savant and interested in building the future of energy, DM me.
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Incredible turnout at the
@HardTechMiami
event on Monday.
Get in loser, we’re building the future!
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I’ll play devil’s advocate here.
If being a founder is high status, people will found companies just to be called a founder.
I’m not sure that dynamic is what we want.
A better paradigm may be if people feel compelled to create/solve things because if they don’t do it no one
This is a good thing.
Founders should be cooler than movie stars — that's how you get more founders, and faster progress.
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Rather than regressive policies like this, I suggest we once again *build* our way out.
Underground ped crossings. Added retail space. Safer, eases traffic, and grows GDP.
Win, win, win.
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I will be traveling to the following cities in the coming weeks:
LA: February 26 - 28
SF: February 28 - March 2
Dallas/Austin: March 2 - 4
NYC: March 5 - 8
Chicago: March 9 - 11
DM me if you want to learn about the future of batteries.
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Only took me 11 years to rack up 500 followers. Here’s to the next 11 years 🚀
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Battery Successes, Graveyard, and the Walking Dead: post- and pre-mortems 🧵
s/o to
@EricJorgenson
for the inspiration
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We need to manifest destiny and connect these 3 river systems.
We need…the Wyoming Canal!
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America is BACK 🇺🇸
Oklahoma City Planning Commission votes to approve plans for tallest building in America, sending proposal to the City Council for final review
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Everything should look like this
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My prediction is that 5+ kids will be a status symbol in the future
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Will be very awkward when Americans do this FOR the aussies after they become our 55th state
@ADoricko
@micsolana
When Australia eventually does this, it will be OVER for the rest of you.
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The way I see the fertility crisis is a stacked filter of :
Desire to have kids
Ability to have kids
Resources to support kids
We seem to be failing on all three
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American Dynamism 🇺🇸
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THE RIGHT TO BUILD:
No one (Fed, State, Local gov) should be able to stop you from building ANYTHING on your own land.
The ONLY thing gov should be able to say is ‘you need to fix X so it doesn’t kill people’ but only AFTER the fact.
+ transparent standards = MAX BUIDL
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The failure of the US to unite the Mississippi and western seaboard watersheds for shipping is abominable
America is such a geographic lottery winner:
extensive internal waterways, vast arable lands, biodiversity, climate diversity, many natural harbors, two massive oceans, abundant natural resources... and now more lithium than anywhere.
Everyone else is playing on hard mode.
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Ingredients for industrial society:
Steel
Concrete
Fertilizer
Electrons
Guns
Oil
What am I missing?
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Indeed
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Request for startup:
The world’s ships 🚢 are made in East Asia 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇯🇵
Cc:
@ElbridgeColby
@jacobhelberg
@Noahpinion
@GerardAraud
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Ditto for robot arms, chips, solar panels, lithium ion batteries
There is not a single computer manufacturer in the entire United States. We invented this shit, it should be our birthright.
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This is a cool advance, 10s of milliwatts instead of microwatts could open some ultra low power applications. Still a ways off from the 600-700 mW for an iPhone but good progress. 60% efficient though so caps out below 200mW.
Cc
@semiDL
Major breakthrough in nuclear battery technology! Infinity Power has developed a nuclear battery that is over six times as efficient. Article link in reply.
That means that it could provide the same amount of power with less than one sixth as much radioactive material. It
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The stagnation generation is dying
On the bright side, the
#NuclearEnergy
renaissance seems to be accelerating daily...
Go
#uranium
!
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Me when I see one of the homies
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It’s over for the rest of the world.
They had their chance.
The US will take off the gloves soon (regulations, doomerism, distractions)
2023 is peak boomer retirement and younger generations will restore American dominance.
🚀
Europe’s 🇪🇺 corporations and its overall economic power are in decline 📉
(1/2)
Cc:
@Noahpinion
@BrankoMilan
@Nouriel
@MaxBoot
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Even most ‘deeptech/hard tech’ VCs only invest in software
Massive opportunity for those with the appetite and patience
Hence my confusion why so many VCs now "only invest in software."
Is software still "tech"? Some of it is.
And some is still a great business, regardless.
These things are worth parsing.
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Most of you don’t know this but they found
@ADoricko
washed up on the shore of the Potomac as a baby. His overdeveloped musculature swaddled in an American flag, with mullet locks over his eyes. As he was lifted from the basket, a bald eagle overhead screeched and the second
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Let’s give the idiot children machine guns
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Investor calls on the 4th with British firms hit different
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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me…
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One common mistake is looking at energy density of fuels and power density of motors as isolated components, when they should be evaluated at the system level.
For example, the energy density of gasoline is 13.1 kWh/kg but due to efficiency of combustion only 2.62 kWh/kg are
In Energy and Civilization,
@VaclavSmil
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Random thoughts on the Exowatt announcement: 🧵
What is a thermal battery?:
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@chigrl
What is the source here? Last I checked according to NREL the carbon payoff happened in ~2 years
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I would pay to see a live streamed debate on Solar + Storage vs Nuclear as the future of energy in America.
For S+S:
@CJHandmer
@JessePeltan
For Nuclear:
@isaiah_p_taylor
@BrianGitt
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Can’t wait until the reality version of Silicon Valley drops
Just had a great phone call with
@jasonjoyride
We talked about Humane, Airchat, and tech broadly.
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We’re so back. And just getting started
For the first time in over a decade, American manufacturing is outpacing the rest of the world
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Can anyone tell me what these three things have in common?
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This could be us but you’re playing
Serious question: Is there any jurisdiction in the US that allows building taller than the Burj Khalifa?
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It also becomes much much weirder. Sci-fi and fantasy have nothing on reality
The world becomes a much more beautiful place once you decide to try to understand how things work
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I am one of the 12
Just 12% of Americans — mostly men — are eating half of our beef supply: new research
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For the China shills insinuating that Chinese LFP batteries are selling for profit at $47/kWh or $56/kWh, I refer you to this tidbit from
@LimitingThe
's recent video.
Excess capacity, not prowess in technology/mfg is driving price reductions.
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Me waiting for
@johncoogan
to fulfill his destiny and make drinkable nicotine as a meal replacement
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Worth pointing out that each new massive lithium deposit undermines the credibility of claims that sodium ion is cheaper.
get ready to hear a lot about human rights in pennsylvania
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I’m begging the feds to stop subsidizing corn ethanol as a fuel and just rewild and/or build solar
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Some takeaways I've learned over the years as a result of following battery startups are:
1. Use cheap, abundant materials. Straightforward.
2. Use simple, cheap chemical processes. This can be a little trickier but you can assume that processes that only operate in 2
Battery Successes, Graveyard, and the Walking Dead: post- and pre-mortems 🧵
s/o to
@EricJorgenson
for the inspiration
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@Ourosenergy
is going to unlock the coolest of all tech trees. Scifi future is not as far as it seems
Can anyone tell me what these three things have in common?
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This is the future I want
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Here’s to the next 3 decades and another 98% reduction
lithium-ion prices down 98% in 3 decades
miracles do abound, anon
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The forbidden crème brûlée
How molten metal is transported between parts of a foundry
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Midwest supremacy
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Sicario was a documentary
I never understood why this news didn't trigger international headlines, Congressional hearings, and prosecutions of US officials.
"Prosecutors admit US signed a cooperation agreement with a Sinaloa cartel leader...dismissed a major case against Sinaloa cartel lawyer Humberto
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💧
Announcing
@RainmakerCorp
‘s $6.3M seed from
@LongJourneyVC
@1517fund
@starship_vc
@tamarackglobal
@dayoneventures
and angels like
@garrytan
and
@balajis
Our farms and ecosystems at risk of collapse because we are running out of water. Rainmaker’s cloud seeding solves this.
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We
@Ourosenergy
can do this, and we will.
Arpa-E announces an ultra-longshot stretch $30m program to produce batteries reaching 1,000 wh/kg of specific energy, for use on planes, trains, and ships (also good for EVs!). As context, the industry has yet to produce 500 wh/kg batteries, or even 400.
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For some of us, they are.
Guys. Hear me out:
what if our plans were measured in centuries?
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Bits with my atoms? Why, no thank you, I don’t think I will
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While I want this to be true, it's indefinite optimism.
1. Wrong -Energy Density is flat
2. True
3. 'AI' is incremental (see ML and Big Data)
4. Diamagnetism not SC (also it's 2020's now not 2010's)
Imagine parroting Stagnation Theory during the 2010s
And then humanity proceeds to:
- massively improve battery energy density
- launch + land orbital rockets every 3.5 days
- willed life and intelligence into sand
- create room-temp superconductors
How wrong you were...
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The US is going through a massive manufacturing CapEx boom
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Great piece by
@refreshmiami
, thanks
@zanevangreuning
!
Excited to share an article I wrote for
@refreshmiami
, a publication with the mission to grow South Florida’s tech and startup ecosystem.
The piece is a spotlight on
@Ourosenergy
, who is building the next generation of batteries 🔋⚡️ Thanks for sharing your story
@ELoosbrock
.
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If you like this episode follow us over at
@Ourosenergy
and feel free to reach out to me direct!
Are you underestimating new battery technology?
Today,
@ELoosbrock
and
@elidourado
on:
- When 5-10x energy density batteries arrive
- How Electric Vehicles will have 2,000+ mile range
- What's coming in transportation and electronics
- Fully Off-grid electric
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Great time to be starting a company
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1/This is my first and likely last thread. Marriage, Masculinity, Femininity viewed through a mimetic lens. Inspired by:
@PeytonElroy
@DeFiNatrix
@rawmilkhoney
@TrinaNugget
et al
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Batteries make electricity cheaper.
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No, the solution to this problem is better chemistry to go farther for cheaper
The solution to this problem is for policy makers to step in and incentivise smaller lower price EVs and build out the charging network.
IMO this will be a difficult prob to solve as OEMs try to convert consumers to EVs by matching ICE performance
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Miami/FL w another W
Big news today for
@InstituteCicero
homelessness work as
@GovRonDeSantis
signs HB 1365, the toughest homelessness law in the nation.
-Ban on street camping
-End of “Housing First” in FL
-Accountability for cities/NGOs
We’ve been working and fighting on this for years. It
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Petition to rename this animal “snek”
The Arabian sand boa looks like a child’s best effort at drawing a snake. But it's real.
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Request for Startup:
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Tech brother 🤝 Tech brother
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Future Tech for Li Ion Batteries: Many companies are focused on new materials for lithium ion batteries. They can be grouped into two buckets: Anode and Cathode
Energy can only be increased by 1. Increasing the active/inactive component ratio or 2. Using higher energy materials
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