Khosla said "we" discovered a brand new thermodynamic cycle, and that nobody had really commercialized a new thermodynamic cycle in 50 or maybe even 100 years.
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Reasoning
Claim about commercialization history of thermodynamic cycles is vague and unspecified.
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Vinod Khosla, “Khosla said "we" discovered a brand new thermodynamic cycle, and that nobody had really commercialized a new thermodynamic cycle in 50 or maybe even 100 years.” (said 23 December 2010). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_fa9c30549081, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fa9c30549081
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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