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In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:
💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
I'll post a few to kick things off...
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That's why in charts like the one I tweeted last night you'll see that our need for graphite for our future gigafactories is actually GREATER than our need for lithium. Look at the height of the bars! But cathodes are sexier than anodes so no one pays much attention
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The Humber Refinery in NE England.
This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products.
It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries.
But bear with me
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Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.
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In 1965, nuclear power generated slightly more electrons than renewable power. That gap widened for 40 years, tightened for 15, and now Renewable Power > Nuclear.
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Your periodic reminder that Nobel Prize winning is mostly driven by chocolate consumption.
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GOING CRITICAL — a 🆕 interactive essay!
How to prevent disease, control nuclear reactions, and encourage the spread of ideas. All with playable simulations.
meltingasphalt.com/interacti…
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BREAKING: Elon Musk, Tesla charged with fraud by SEC cnb.cx/2xUiZmy
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A survey of Chinese intl students at Purdue was conducted in early 2016 and again this year. When asked how their perceptions of the US have changed since arriving:
2016:
Became better: 26%
Became worse: 29%
2018:
Became better: 16%
Became worse: 42%
purdue.edu/crcs/wp-content/u…
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages bit.ly/2uUxOGe
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In the 1970s the cost - and size - of calculators tumbled. Business tools became toys; as a result prestige tech companies had to rapidly diversify into other products - or die!
This is the story of the 1970s great calculator race...
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Most of US economic history: The past wasn't as good as you remember, the present isn't as bad as you think, the future will be better than you anticipate.
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My wife predicts divorces & failed relationships with stunning accuracy and I have learned a few of her tricks
relationships are fucking hard, and to work they need a sort of functional “economy” (gratitude, laughter, kindness) and waste elimination system (pain, resentment)
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Great chart shows the big picture #history of #energy consumption over the last 150 years. via @MaxCRoser's ourworldindata.org
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In 1800 it took 6 weeks to travel from NYC to Chicago; today it takes less than 3 hours. That's a decline of 99.7%. buff.ly/2LLnppK
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Percentage of the foreign citizens in each European country - brilliantmaps.com/europe-imm…
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#Map shows US towns with animals in their names and the current range of that animal. Source: buff.ly/2ASWNhA
