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I miss the days when Hacker News would root for startups and brave innovators instead of the stogy old incumbents




But would the responses be any different back then? Energy innovations like battery tech were also looked at critically back then. There's even a template doing the rounds with a checklist for supposedly revolutionary battery tech.

Using a turbine to generate electricity isn't innovative or brave, it's been done, the technology has been around for over a hundred years, but it's not widely used because there's better ways to generate electricity.


I don't root for startups who will make the world a worse place.

There are multiple manufacturers currently making gas turbines that are exactly this size. They’ve been making them for at least 50 years.

This is not brave or innovative, it’s a cash grab during a bubble. You can call a Siemens or GE sales rep and place an order right now for the exact same thing.




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