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by gimmeThaBeet 799 days ago
Exactly, the tl;dr is energy storage, but I feel like it's sort of the Amazon approach. There was an interview where they asked Bezos why books as Amazon's first product, and his answer was basically:

"I read internet usage was going up by 2300 percent a year, so I decided to try and find a business that would make sense in that context."

"Cheap and ubiquitous solar power is coming, what products does the world need in that context to move away from extracting fossil fuels?"

Like a lot of things, current technology probably isn't there yet. But philosophically, if you wait for tech to catch up with your vision of the future, you might find yourself behind.