Kerouac, but also Hemingway, Salinger, Bukowski, Orwell. What drew you to storytelling in that medium of writing? What aspect of the human
kerosene which comes from oil. Well right now you can't get gas for your car. So is launching a rocket to the
kerosene lamps illuminate the room in which geez those parents live to bear light bulbs hang from the ceiling but
the kerosene heater. And so those things are still here.
by kerosene lamp anymore.
using kerosene so where do you see where do you say the next big what's what's the big opportunity waiting for Volta
excretes kerosene ethanol gasoline so if you couple class laus CO2
little kerosene lamp and he'd call all of us cousins we'd all sit around the
We had kerosene lanterns.
and liquid kerosene-- is the fuel they use instead of hydrogen.
So you can imagine kerosene lamps in a reed house on a reed island is not a great recipe.
Most people relied on kerosene, take buying little bits of kerosene every day by which they would read at night with a lot of smoke
"On the Road," Kerouac.
The romanticism of the kerosene lamps is long gone.
We were still using kerosene and stuff.
Actually using a kerosene lamp requires filling the lamp.
whether that was kerosene for their kerosene lantern, diesel for the diesel generator, or whatever they might use.
spent on kerosene, for kerosene, for what it started, it's a tremendous amount going in there.
But filling most of the tanks was kerosene, so we were back in the old era of the hurricane lamp and launching rockets with that chemistry.
The first major product for petroleum with kerosene as kerosene lamps, not the motors or the automobiles that we think of today.
So it's absolutely clear that kerosene is the most efficient way to fly-- on the short term.
Premal Shah: The fumes from kerosene kill more people every year in the developing world than malaria.
That was the cost of kerosene and the amortize cost of a kerosene lamp. Back in 1800 and you'd have to work for six hours--on the then average wage--to earn the price of a candle
Except solar doesn't burn off like kerosene, and after 12 months they own the asset outright.
- So you're kind of like a German Kerouac type character, but moved a few decades forward.
but he also had a posher mistress called Louise de Keroualle about the same time, and she is now thought probably to have been a French spy.
over Bangladesh. Only the kerosene lamp comes up with the very feeble kind of light that you get.
We ask them how much money you spend on kerosene every month.
And our deal is you give me the kerosene money every month, whatever was spent.
So you also don't have to buy kerosene.
School with a solar torch and a dream to eradicate kerosene 10 years later has brought light and electricity to 72 million people around the world.
So some editor bought a copy of "On the Road" by Kerouac to show to me that every sentence is in past tense.
The one on the left is called a kerotakis, the one on the right is a tribikos.
but alcohol, kerosene, diesel, vegetable oil, peanut oil, Chanel No. 5, vodka, tequila, VO5 hairspray. They'd actually do demonstrates running the cars on these things.
So let's suppose you've got a tank full of kerosene and one day you're driving down the road and you get low-low on fuel and you don't, can't find kerosene, well you pull into a
I mean I don’t want to go into Kerouac here but the mad ones.
And his neighbor's son was burned in a kerosene accident, and this boy was totally burned.
What it does is it refines the oil from crude oil into the kerosene that people are buying.
But it's clear that the challenge to have batteries rather than kerosene.
Is very high. Because one pound of kerosene gives you the same energy than 35 pounds of batteries.
- ... across the United States and then wrote a book about it? Or just to take Kerouac as an example. Anyway, sorry. You went just-
- I wouldn't compare myself to another writer, but I think Kerouac is pretty cool.
I remember even on the refugee camp, I was selling kerosene at night so that people can light their lanterns to study.
And a connection between household is usually that they're borrowing and lending money, kerosene, rice.
you know whatever they did with steam engines at first and then gradually you got oil and then gasoline kerosene gasoline and natural gas and became this
The key to cheap lighting that is improving what they have, which is kerosene lamps, which is-- kerosene
So eventually, there is a price point at which what you didn't spend on kerosene has paid for the lamp.
And also, what about the beat generation, or Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg?
and revamp it. Thank God for people like Jack Kerouac and Angela Davis and all these people who've kind of like reinvented it and made
A lot of us go through this stage, but Jobs being Jobs couldn't just read Kerouac.