implies taking some of the best years we've had of building new wind and solar, and doing that every year for the next number of years, doubling , tripling, quadrupling those numbers over the next 30 years.So this is just a mobilization that we've never been able to pull off before.
book is embracing your other miss not scrubbing it off not erasing it but doubling down on it hitting the gas on it because it's your other miss your uniqueness that's where your gifts arethat's where all of your potential is
So places that women had gotten birth control or gotten their cancer screenings. And uh it has absolutely impacted women's health. We've seen a doubling of the maternal mortality rate in the state of Texas. And the thing to me, and it's something that I think weshould also think about in terms of the impact of these policies, the folks that it hurt are the women who have the least
it would cost 4 cents okay so that's the power of doubling and doubling and doubling and doubling now my chapter on this uh is called what the hell happenedin 2007 2007 what's this guy talking about this
Now that's the kind of thing if it's sustained that changes economies and people's lives because if you're growing at 10%, which is roughly where China's been recently, you're doubling every 7 years. It means in a 30 year period you're 16 times as well off as you were before unless you have an awful lot of population growth.I won't spend a lot of time this morning but I get asked by investors and other people a lot who are interested in, "Well, they're growing fast can they keep this up? Are they
of the sunlight cools things down, and you don't have to reduce a whole lot to have a meaningful impact. The common measurement for climate sensitivity is to think about doubling of CO2 emissions and what would that do to the raising of the temperature of things.Well, to offset the warming of the doubling of CO2 emissions, you only have to produce one or two percent of the sunlight, so it's just a little bit and it could have a big
such a lovely job of describing your experiences in the book. And doubling back and talking a bit more about there really is that heavy burden of shame that in our culture is imposed on people who need financial assistance, and we're operating in a culture, in a world that often ties self-worth and societal value
And if what you're counting on is some technological silver bullet, you have to imagine that it's going to be-- if it hasn't been invented already, So doubling in four years.
And we have examples of that in the Antarctic, even on our own planet. The doubling time for cells that are living in sandstones in the Antarctic dry valleys probably only reproduce once every 20,000 years.
meter to the Rope You Pull the Rope up at one point is 20 giraffes okay to being doubling and you would be interested that this is actually was worked out from a scientific paper and
And so then you have very slowly growing things like animal brains, humans growing-- doubling roughly every quarter million years-- farmers doubling roughly every 1,000, industry doubling roughly every 15,000. If this trend were to continue, then the statistics of the last few modes suggest roughly
But when you start, you know, continue to double a number and you start with a small number. The initial doublings aren't very interesting. Keep doubling the big number now, and every next generation of change gets that much more disruptive because you're doubling a bigger number. And so if you run this forward to the present take the Playstation 2, say that's 22 million UNIVAC's, to store them, you would need a space
If you look closely, you can also see some significant drops like this 1918 dip from the Spanish flu pandemic or over here, what appears to be So for every doubling of a city's population, you get around 2.2 times as many criminal cases or around 120% more crime as opposed to the 100%
If you look closely, you can also see some significant drops like this 1918 dip from the Spanish flu pandemic or over here, what appears to be meaning that for every doubling in size, you get around 120% more of each.
So, for example, when we talk about the increase in lifespan of, for example, people in the United States over the past 100 years, it's profound. There's been a doubling of lifespan. And that's obviously a part of longevity, but it's not the only part.
But if you listen to the language of so many leaders, it becomes very clear that they actually don't know the game they're playing in. But I'm also doubling down on humanity.
It's doubling . It's doubling .
It's been doubling , doubling , doubling .
And it keeps doubling , just like lily pads on a pond.
then a doubling of income is actually not very much at all.
you end up doubling the number of initiatives.
And this is doubling the power roughly every four months, and it is dragging neuroscience along, and it is dragging flow science long.
Median age is doubling around the world, Africa the only exception.
It's basically a doubling in just four years.
But they're also doubling up.
And that doubling and halving, doubling and halving with the average of 500 stocks is really smoothing the ride.
get a chance to read the book Intel's Engineers to try to explain to people once the power of the exponential of microchips doubling every 24 months once did a back of the envelope calculation just for fun they said what if a 1971 VW Beetle improve improved at the same rate microchips had
It and its doubling time is shorter. In the boxes you see 26 years, 21 years,
a more than doubling of price for exactly the same ingredients served to exactly the same people, simply by getting the eye appeal, jut right.
company by doubling revenues by 2020 while reducing environmental impact by 50%, which is a huge task because they're going from a 40 billion
You just kept doubling .
we're looking at doubling the atmospheric CO2 content from preindustrial values by mid-century, and at least tripling it by the end of the century.
And then we started doubling in growth.
We know that the doubling time just using reported cases-- and again, I'm sure this is obvious to all you nerds out there-- that reporting capacity is
And then keep doubling the grains of rice until you get to the 64th square.
And the doubling every three years, my way of thinking of that was that if you buy a stock at less than half of what it's worth--
And about doubling your workload, that should be exciting, as long as you take your time, go to the gym, whatever you do.
to keep doubling , to by the time my lovely little daughter is in her 20s, 70% to 80% of the American public
I'm doubling this over because it's such a mighty cut, that one length just won't really do it.
It kept doubling and was finished seven years later.
It's doubling every two years.
For every doubling in oil prices, coverage of solar wind and biofuels shot up 400%.
Jon Koomey: but doubling time for computations per kilowatt hour, 1.6 years or so for all computers, 1.5 years for PCs and slightly
ago was doubling the worth of Wick um Wick dollars and food stamps at local farmers markets so you think about the
technology uh doubling time depends on what you measure but it's generally around a year so these technologies will
combustion engine so doubling the efficiency of an internal combustion engine would be a great thing to do and
making uh the doubling the budget of all of the National Science Foundation other
It was only seven doublings from 100%.
It's only seven doublings at two years each from 100%.
only eight to more doublings to go we also studied storage because of the intermittency of sunlight uh but it's very easy to