Americans are just too damn stupid.
Well if it did all of those things then it probably would get picked up. I imagine BP would snap them up in a jiffy. Maybe they still will. There might be some innovation in the company that's worth buying. In the long run, from the perspective of the company, that's probably the best outcome. .... googles.... oh aparently Scott and Julie hold no patents on the technology ... which is cool because free software and all that ... but now BP will fuck them til they look like tubes.
This actually makes me sad. He and his wife seem like a cool people but they just needs to cover their bases and reign in the ideas.
Here's a TED talk Scott did:
I didn't watch the whole thing, but skipping through he starts talking about creating a water filtration system from road surface run off. And covering roads with recycled trash. And recharging electric cars (why no nuclear cars
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He just needs to be reigned in. His wife is probably just as bad as him in terms of untethered dreams.
Think about Segway. Segway was a brilliant, largely finished product, that did a simple thing based on innovative sensors and software. According to the hype Segway was going to revolutionise the world. Roads and cities were going to be rebuilt around this new device. It never happened.
Now imagine if Segway was covered in special paint that made it more streamlined and efficient, and it had special sensors that were linked to a satellite network so you could perform maintenance checks remotely, and it had lasers to detect nearby electrical charging points.
Now imagine all these features were only half developed. Now imagine how even less successful Segway would have been.