With the increasing frequency of civil aviation issues, one can't help but wonder what the future of air travel looks like. It may not be as business-as-usual as many today anticipate.
If Apple had their foresight of yesteryear, they'd realize the electric car market is already beyond reach and move on directly to hydrogen powered jetliners. Replacing Jet-A with liquefied hydrogen is the next great market behind EVs.
I wonder what a YC application with such an idea might look like. Design the plane and the fuel containment/loading systems at 2 airports. Start America's first "carbon free" aviation route. Maybe move freight instead of people at first for an easier regulatory pipeline. It's absolutely crazy and would almost certainly fail but so are most of the revolutionary startup ideas that deal with earth heating in any meaningful way.
Patio11, I have much respect for your work and _love_ reading your email digests, but your comments of late about Bitcoin have such a decidedly negative slant that they become hard to digest at face value.
Yes of course businesses built around the Bitcoin protocol will melt down occasionally, as many businesses do within the course of operation -- but don't you see how your attempt to conflate Bitcoin businesses (Exchanges, specifically) with a discussion about the new model of trust employed by the p2p network is probably a bit deceptive?
Yes, Bitcoin is scarce and therefore commands a market price. Commanding a market price has some qualities that suck. One of them is that you have to deposit assets in a market to keep an order book to discover a price. This is fallible. But it has nothing to do with how we (the human race) have discovered a way to create a scarce and transferrable peer to peer asset over the internet. Perhaps you should stop and consider how you can personally deconstruct some of the negative bias you have against Bitcoin in your public discussions of such.