Divyansh Saksena @divsksna
Thinking about climate & energy / @BerkeleyIEOR @berkeleyecon alum / 🇮🇳 divsaksena.substack.com San Francisco Joined November 2013-
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This (carbontracker.in) with @grid_status type dashboards and broader optimization projects-- I need to work on this
Good reads over the last week: 1. On data center heat: opencompute.org/documents/2024… 2. On building: acruisingvoyage.com/p/war-for-our-… 3. The next phase of Indian growth: economist.com/special-report… 4. And on loss: joinpaperplanes.com/the-art-of-los…
Coming straight for the duck curve, slowly though. On a similar note, interesting that Delhi's demand peak has shifted from evening to an early afternoon. What's the equivalent of the duck curve here? I'd imagine it's far too early in the infra story.
Coming straight for the duck curve, slowly though. On a similar note, interesting that Delhi's demand peak has shifted from evening to an early afternoon. What's the equivalent of the duck curve here? I'd imagine it's far too early in the infra story.
Insane that I've only just come across the Straussian Moment by Peter Thiel
Biggest infrastructure reform which Bharat 🇮🇳 will witness in 2024-25 Smart Meters Govt of India have already awarded tenders for 19 crore homes under RDSS scheme. Smart Meters will allow consumers to track power consumption of every electronic gadget.
blixt.tech is so sick the deployment of these in any EM will be massive especially if they can also detect theft and curtail it(?) very niche use case but massive impact
5 posts I enjoyed reading this past week: 1. ember-climate.org/insights/resea… 2. restofworld.org/2024/riders-in… 3. thegeneralist.substack.com/p/watershed 4. privatebank.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jp… 5. empirical.net/wp-content/upl…
Look, I’m a simple guy. I just want cost effective fusion to power a future where no one ever has to worry about energy again.
Solid article
Everyday I read more about the electric grid in India and realize how years of the bandaid fix of load-shedding has held us back in making material changes to the dynamics of the grid. We could've been so much further along the journey of diversifying from the village level
We need a company like @Lilac_Solutions (brine primarily) in India to tackle the problem of extraction from clay so that the less-than-ideal, newly found deposits can be made commercially viable
Huge if this happens
Someone needs to build a multiplayer Pokémon emulator asap I need to run some Emerald
I've been writing again. This post is about the EV ecosystem in India and the way forward: divsaksena.substack.com/p/charging-ahe…
pat cummins aapki shakal bohot sundar hai par aap aadami bade suar ho
Joined a zoom early. Minimized it. Started grinding in Excel and forgot about the meeting for the entire half hour. I have to imagine what they saw on my camera was like watching MJ in the 90s.
sabun ki tarah ragad diya, kapdo ki tarah dho diya, bartan ki tarah baja diya fr fr
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Having the biggest week of my career. Bet on yourself and give it absolutely everything you have. You wont fail.
@khushkhushkhush @divsksna Wait why 🥲 also a solid spot imo
A good metric if you are living a good life: If 13yr old you would think you are a cool guy with respect to what you do & who you hangout with
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Incredible turn around by the ICICI management over the past 2 decades. Now considered one of the top (if not the top bank in country). Excerpt from @dsundheim’s VIC post in 2004.
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Tesla is a near-fully verticalized electrification company — why would anyone bet against this
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