Colin Ho

Engineering for existential risks. Co-founder & CTO @hgenenergy
Ex-@spacex lead engineer, imploded robots at #openrov.
Husbando to @pinkcloud

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

I'm super duper excited to announce @YangMolly and I have been selected to join @Breakthrough's second cohort of Innovator Fellows!🎉 The funding and support will help accelerate @HGENenergy on our way towards decarbonizing industries through cheap, scalable clean hydrogen

[Hgen @HGENenergy]

Excited to announce that Hgen has been selected to join @Breakthrough Energy's Fellows, part of the BE network founded by @BillGates. The funding & support will help us continue our work to decarbonize industry through cheap, clean hydrogen.

https://t.co/UMQFaLZQSK

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@apsabelhaus yayyyyy the warm fuzzies

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Huge congrats @ShashankSamala and all of Heirloom, super excited to see you all scale towards gigaton carbon removal!

[Heirloom @heirloomcarbon]

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $53m Series A, co-led by @Carbon_Direct, Ahren Innovation Capital, and @Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with participation from The @Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund.

Read more from Bloomberg here: https://t.co/ubXR0xZjTQ

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@pinkcloud @rebeccakaden @YangMolly

[Sarah Shewey 🕊 @pinkcloud]

Anyone want to join a remote book club with me & @ohcolinho? We’ll read the IPCC report and take collaborative notes 📑 https://t.co/N9QyVCNWlW

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to get anything done - Valcav Smil, Energy and Civilization (image: a matrix of energy conversions)

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@samsonellis Glad you enjoyed it! I wish my chinese was as good as yours

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

"The aircraft engine [is] a machine bent on destroying itself mechanically while busily trying to incinerate its exhaust valves"
https://t.co/cPpkbDy9kG

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Wish more engineering papers tackled open ended questions like this. Knowing the "why we can't" frames "what we could" do

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Loving the premise of paper - what does it take to manufacture at twice the speed? https://t.co/C5mGay16fF!

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Super good TLDR of the fundamental physics that limit speed of material processing

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

You know you're in Taiwan when you use public wifi, and they feed you a Keyence ad selling metrology equipment

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

It's days like these that remind me to be thankful for simply being alive and well

[Sarah Shewey 🕊 @pinkcloud]

Our place is the 2nd floor with lights on the left. Thankful @ohcolinho and I are ok and were out fast with laptops, important documents, and grandma’s jewelry in hand.

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@pinkcloud *nervously laughs*

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@turtlekiosk People seek instrinsic fulfillment and accomplishment, and games offer a low-risk pathway to feel like youve accomplished something with little of the real world risk. (achievements and leveling, social interactions and progression through rpgs)

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@christinegre99 yup, the objective function of capitalism is to max out growth/return, so other values get ditched. But to hit max impact, disengaging from capitalism completely doesn't scale; public benefit corps are a step towards enforceable frameworks for other values, but prob aren't enough

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Ideally all tools/systems could be designed to embody the values and ideals of the future we want to live in (accessibility, openness, equity, privacy, etc). However most of the time, it seems like the societal effects are accidental.
How can it be more intentional?

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

Made a beat + music video to capture some of the drizzly vibe while quarantining for the last 2 weeks in Taipei
https://t.co/1qIx3tKnqB

[Colin Ho @ohcolinho]

@virgilvox Taiwan - the silicon island behind silicon valley, most progressive democracy in Asia, oldskool deep hardware tech roots (OEM/ODM electronics, machine tools), and very favorable immigration policies (check out the gold card visa)