Author Nationality

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Nationality : South Africa

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you’re not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it’s actually space that’s moving.

Nationality : South Africa

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that’s also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.

Nationality : South Africa

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Nationality : South Africa

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’

Nationality : South Africa

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Nationality : South Africa

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Nationality : South Africa

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Nationality : South Africa

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

Nationality : South Africa

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

Nationality : South Africa