Jake Hamby

Silicon Valley Sadness

This is the first of two essays exploring the reasons why I fell into a deep depression while living and working in Silicon Valley. The Bay Area distills some of the worst excesses of American capitalism. This essay focuses on the deep sadness and loneliness that built up inside me over…

There isn’t very much evidence that oil is not a fossil fuel. Wikipedia has a very thorough entry for “abiogenic petroleum origin”, and I didn’t find the evidence for that theory convincing.

Besides, the issue isn’t that we’re running out of fossil fuels. It’s that we can’t afford to burn up the supply we have at the rate we…

With all due respect to your work experience, the big change now is from advances in battery technology, as well as dramatic improvements in the efficiency of photovoltaic arrays. Without advanced power storage technology, you’re correct that solar & wind present storage problems.