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“Yes, China’s EV industry is barely scraping a profit. So what? For a measly $231 billion in subsidies, China has created $5 to $10 trillion in value for its consumers.”

How on earth do these two stations cost $500,000,000?

"It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential."

This op-ed lives up to the hype in my TL Claim: Chinese industrial policy flattens supply curves -- creating, e.g., a "Cambrian explosion" of EV firms --while in the West we cheer on our tech monopolies, confusing corporate profits with consumer surplus. asiatimes.com/2024/07/chinas…

"For people who care about ... building a better Wellington, there is no better place to be than the monthly Urbanerds drinks" 😊🫡 Stoked to hear this about our nerdy gatherings from Joel MacManus Eh Mr M oliver bruce Isabella Cawthorn ! thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/15-…

An important gap we’ve noticed at council in discussions on urban form is the need to show and actually communicate visually what good higher density housing looks like. So we’ve published a toolkit for high quality higher density housing with WSP today. thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350342…

Honoured! Just the sort of discussion Urbanerds was created for!

At the height of the dotcom bubble, Cisco was worth 5.5% of US GDP. Today $NVDA market cap is worth 11.7% of GDP, over 200% higher...

An eye opening chart from the NZ Infrastructure Commission. Two-thirds of road spending is government subsidy! A lot of folk claim that not only are roads are all paid for by drivers, but they subsidize everything else too. If that ever was the case it sure isn’t now.

Giant 400Nm actuators still aren’t cheap but the price will fall fast. It’s just 3kg of steel, aluminum, and neodymium (nothing magical) but the base motor isn’t a common machine-wound drone motor size. Scale will fix the price. 400Nm is almost double that of a Honda Accord.

musically inclined people fascinate me so much, like damn you’re just decorating time from thin air like that

Simply put, the problem of combustion engines in the clean energy transportation system is their inefficiency. U.S. transportation uses 27,5 Quad Btu energy out of only 21% is put into a meaningful use today. 79% of the energy is lost. 1/4🧵

Stunning number of Chinese car brands. Among the EV players, only BYD and Li Auto are profitable today. In a market economy, most of these would have disappeared by now. But China's system of state capitalism encourages more players. People have been talking about

Excited to announce Surgical Robot Transformer🪡: Automating delicate surgical tasks with end-to-end imitation learning. It's still mind blowing to see robot autonomously tying knots, a task I did not think is possible even a few months before. Sharing some learnings in 🧵:

New: The Government has somehow produced an Emissions Reduction Plan that will see New Zealand do *less* than its predecessor, including fail to meet the 2050 net zero target. newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/17/nz-…

Life at Culdesac means vibrant courtyards, friendly neighbors, and easy connections to public transit. It's where community and convenience come together. That's what happens when you build for people.

Wellington officials were massively confused about why the port infrastructure for the Inter-islander ferries became so expensive. Yet no one asked the simple question. What was the minimum viable upgrade for the mega-ferries? interest.co.nz/public-policy/…

this is shenzen - pretty wild

TIL: there are more transistors in the AirPods Pro than in the CPU of a MacBook Pro from 2010 One is a professional laptop, the other earphones running on a battery weighing about 1 gram Moore's Law's one hell of a thing

So lovely to meet up with Oscar Sims for a beer in Amsterdam. And on the same day I got to have chats with Cr Shane Henderson, @PhilTwyford, Richard Hills and Christopher Worrall about housing. Cheers to better housing policy.