Jesse Peltan

Technology changes fast in solar.

For years, polycrystalline silicon dominated. It was cheaper than monocrystalline, but then solar got so cheap that higher efficiency of mono won out.

The whole industry shifted in ~5 years.

We saw a similar rate of change with PERC. And now https://t.co/Aq9oGY5Fb4

If God wanted us to build Type 1 Civilization, he would have:

1. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky
(emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K)
2. made 28% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (~1.1 eV or so)
3. filled the oceans with an alkali https://t.co/F22ffomEZ8

China is winning the race to Type 1 Civilization and we're not even aware it's happening.

By 2030, China will have the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. worth of generation from solar and storage alone - every single year.

The flow of energy is what drives physical

Technology changes fast in solar.

For years, polycrystalline silicon dominated. It was cheaper than monocrystalline, but then solar got so cheap that higher efficiency of mono won out.

The whole industry shifted in ~5 years.

We saw a similar rate of change with PERC. And now https://t.co/Aq9oGY5Fb4

If God wanted us to build Type 1 Civilization, he would have:

1. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky
(emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K)
2. made 28% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (~1.1 eV or so)
3. filled the oceans with an alkali https://t.co/F22ffomEZ8