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DW Empower Keynote - From the electrodollar to the petrodollar: America, money, and the grid
I gave this talk for the Digital Wildcatters Bitcoin Conference back in March. I meant to post it and totally forgot about it. It still feels like a…
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July 2022

AOE Part II: The God of Efficiency is Dead, and Electrification Has Killed It
DERs and the need for local resilience will drive radical changes in how users interact with the power grid
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May 2022

Part I: The Age of the Electron
Electricity is supplanting oil as the most important commodity in the world
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April 2022

Age Of the Electron Part IV: The ElectroDollar, a Possible Answer to the Fraying US Global Currency Reserve System
What do China, Bitcoin, Renewables, and the US Petro-Industrial Complex have to do with each other?
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March 2022

David Energy Announces $20.5M Series A
Accelerating our mission to build a cleaner, cheaper, more resilient grid
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November 2021

Coming soon
This is James’s Newsletter, a newsletter about trying to figure out how to build new institutions in the energy transition.
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March 2021

AOE Part III: A Cultural Awakening for Electricity
On average, people spend just six minutes a year thinking about their electricity bills. And when they do, it’s probably not because they…
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February 2021

Spot on! I’ve certainly drawn a lot from Taleb… You’re right in that I should reframe this a bit: a…
Spot on! I’ve certainly drawn a lot from Taleb… You’re right in that I should reframe this a bit: a distributed system may end up looking inefficient…
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March 2020

Introducing David Energy: A New Kind of Energy Company
In conjunction with our recently announced $1.5 million Pre-Seed financing round led by Box Group and Greycroft with Great Oaks, Oceans…
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September 2018

PART IV An Introduction to Blockchain and Retail Electricity Markets
The conversation surrounding blockchain in energy seems to recycle the same tired arguments for or against without much nuance. We know…
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July 2018

PART III Creating the Modern Electricity Provider: The David Energy Roadmap
A distributed future with retail electricity markets means offering the electric consumer something previously thought unimaginable —…
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June 2018

PART II Collocation and Franchise Rights: Infrastructure on the Modern Electric Grid
It is said that towards the end of his life, Nikola Tesla was attempting to use the acoustic frequencies of the earth in order to transmit…
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