aspiretoreality

Re:Ask HN: Is gravity a renewable energy source on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:57PM (#12379923)

Thanks for your sharing. Perhaps in the future once gravity is better understood, we will know if it can be depleted.

I imagine 200 years ago nobody worried overly much about burning coal or later, kerosene etc. The atmosphere is a pretty huge volume and besides, the rain cleans the air. ... one can imagine sentiments like that being directed at anyone complaining about air pollution.

Re:Ask HN: Is gravity a renewable energy source on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:12PM (#12374738)

Hmm... for example, the scheme of solar or tidal energy to move water uphill, then grab hydroelectricity? is an example of storing gravity? is that a valid characterization?

And yes, you immediately got the worry; that accessing gravity would at scale over a few hundred years, be a danger.

Ask HN: Is gravity a renewable energy source

Posted by aspiretoreality on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is gravity an infinitely renewable resource (source of energy) or, if a company harnessed it, would it be catastrophic over the long term, affecting Earth's rotation or orbit. Another way to put this: can gravity be used up ?

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Ask HN: Common ratio; hours of work invested to equity retained, in startups?

Posted by aspiretoreality on Sunday August 21, 2016 @03:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Let us consider 2 web applications, which are pretty far along in development; posit they are both very close to MVP; further, an experienced VC team feels that both apps have rouphly equal potential. The team developing application A, has invested 3,700 hours and the team developing application B, has invested 1850 hours. What percent of a company might the devs for app A get for their...

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