
This is a great excerpt from a two and a half hour podcast interview. There's another great discussion, this one about what the realistic political considerations will be if Taiwan is invaded.

Employment in all sectors is higher than pre pandemic, except for leisure and hospitality, which are nearly there.

Batteries are getting cheap so fast that we're beginning to noticably flatten the duck curve even though we're only beginning to roll out utility-scale batteries.
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