ClaimsVinod Khosla

“What wind really needs is storage and storage hasn't yet started to scale.”

Vinod Khosla, investor, interview answer 23 December 2010 Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution (Scientific American) archived copy

Factual Technology

As of 2010, energy storage has not yet started to scale.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

'Started to scale' is undefined and subjective.

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Vinod Khosla, “As of 2010, energy storage has not yet started to scale.” (said 23 December 2010). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_eecd4ba719be, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_eecd4ba719be

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