colin_mccabe

It’s hard to argue that Intel is critical to national security when we have TSMC making chips in the US now.

Sorry, but I don’t find it a very insightful comment.

(Removed comment about it being AI-generated since that might be unfair.)

PE is not VC. VC is targeted at early-stage companies, which Intel is not.

Intel is not funded by venture capital.

I was mainly thinking people could charge EVs at non-peak times. It's interesting to think about using the cars as batteries, but I don't know if they're set up for that.

In theory, electric vehicles could help stabilize the California grid, if we could charge them at times of peak solar production. There are definitely logistical challenges with doing this, though.

Is this sarcasm, or do you really think Apple should get 30% of the revenue from all phone plans?

TL;DR: Dark Mode in medieval times

Someone did that and called it MEGA

It seems questionable to evaluate what happens when you cook without any ventilation. You need ventilation to avoid smelling like food later on. Poor ventilation also has other bad consequences.

> ...avoiding the need to build the gas infrastructure results in significant savings and so does skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens

I agree that skipping the gas infrastructure will save some money. However, you can't skip all the chimneys, vents and fans for the kitchen because heating foot produces particles and sometimes smoke.

> Thus, for example, wine that has been casked in wooden barrels is often said to have a pleasant smoky smell, even if the barrels are not actually burned.

Those barrels are always burned. There are various levels of "toast": light toast, medium toast, heavy toast.

> And to create initial demand in new buildings, where you are actually making significant savings by not hooking up gas at all, is just an easy slam dunk decision.

I mean, it saves money for the builders, but will probably cost more money for the people who live or work there. Unless electricity prices go down drastically, which doesn't seem likely.

On the plus side, it's nice not to have gas lines around if there is an earthquake.

My point was that commuting causes pollution, not that cities are always polluted.