The desalination thread! This is the Ras Al Khair desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. One of the world's largest, it outputs over 1 million cubic metres of water a day. But how is desalination done? Get ready for lots of head-melting schematics...

Real.

Dyson created the first bagless vacuum and used the cyclone tech for related products: air purifier, hand dryer, fans and hair dryer. It took a big swing on EVs and missed ($500m+ on R&D). There was also a washing machine flop. But the most random product line? A strawberry

Yes or no -- Anduril Industries named its new Aircraft, Fury, after Toothless (a Night Fury) from DreamWorks Animation How to Train Your Dragon.

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise. First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use. Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

Cutting the fat Hoping a market down turn teaches climate founders the value of producing a product with inherit value (eg reducing cost, time, or risk) not focused on sustainability (a positive externality)

Had a chance to visit the Array Labs HQ last month, amazing tech by amazing people.

BREAKING NEWS: per his website, Joel Salatin has been contacted and agreed to be one of six advisors to the Secretary of Agriculture, who will be Thomas Massie Are ya’ll awake now?! THIS IS HUGE One of the legendary pioneers in the regenerative agriculture movement working

Puts things into perspective

Melting/growing ice caps is a normal phenomena. Our view of the planets geography is a snapshot in history. The problem is not change, it’s the rate of change.

The evolution of the U.S. power grid—from Edison to EVs—is unique and needs to be considered to power today's ideas: 📡 Smart grids 🔋 Storage and SMRs 🚘 EV infrastructure 📉 Regulatory bottlenecks 💡 Real solutions #climatetech #energytransition #sustainability #grid

A fantastic read from Cory Anderson and the Contrary Research team on the past, present, and future of America's electrical grid. Coauthored with Alexander Stratmoen and Aryan ⁂, who are working hard to fix it!

Excited to share what I’ve been working on with Andy Konwinski, Mike A. Merrill, and Ludwig Schmidt at Stanford & Laude. Introducing Terminal-Bench! A benchmark and framework to quantify how well AI agents accomplish complex tasks in a terminal environment. We believe that the

Evaluating agents on benchmarks is a pain. Each benchmark comes with its own harness, scoring scripts, and environments and integrating can take days. We're introducing the Terminal-Bench dataset registry to solve this problem. Think of it as the npm of agent benchmarks. Now