Balaji Srinivasan
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Podcast Appearances
Yep.
Right.
So what if you had the plural version?
The singularities are here.
Right.
Meaning there's actually many curves that are going like this.
you know, up into the right or down into the right very fast, right?
And let me show you some of them, okay?
So this is like the solar singularity, which is showing that in Africa, solar power is just absolutely mooning.
It's wild.
yes and this is kind of like when smartphones just started working when smartphones started working they just went like you know the when the economics work it gets taken to its logical conclusion and just suddenly they started getting snapped up in africa they solar panels have gotten so robust so cheap they're resistant to like rocks hitting them and so on you know the glass doesn't shatter they can just work anywhere you know i'm a big nuclear guy i love nuclear but it's really nuclear and solar not ore and the reason is
Solar is just so easy to set up relative to nuclear.
You can just roll it off the truck or whatever, set it up.
You know, it's much, much easier permit wise, everything wise.
It takes up way more horizontal space.
It's not as scalable.
It doesn't provide like, you know, reliable power in the same way the batteries are improving that.
Anyway, point is, though, solar is real.
It's no longer like it can work in Africa without subsidies.
OK, so that's the solar singularity.