# ![@Gaurab Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::18433952.png) @Gaurab Gaurab Chakrabarti

Gaurab Chakrabarti posts on X about china, ai, solar, science the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  16% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #2780 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  4% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  3% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  2% [finance](/list/finance)  2% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  1% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1% [products](/list/products)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) 11%, [ai](/topic/ai) #4006, [solar](/topic/solar) 6%, [science](/topic/science) 4%, [air](/topic/air) 3%, [black](/topic/black) 3%, [$6t](/topic/$6t) 3%, [sun](/topic/sun) 3%, [metal](/topic/metal) 3%, [rare](/topic/rare) 2%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Japan's bullet trains created sonic booms you could hear [---] meters away when exiting tunnels. Then one engineer who birdwatched on weekends noticed that kingfishers dive into water without splashing. The tapered beak doesn't build up a pressure wave. They redesigned the [---] Series nose into a 15-meter steel beak. The train got 10% faster and used 15% less electricity. The best solutions are often in a different field entirely. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019924092267450735 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019924092267450735"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2019924092267450735)  2026-02-07T00:00Z 14.5K followers, 51.2K engagements


"In [----] the Soviet physicist Pyotr Ufimtsev published a paper on electromagnetic diffraction. Moscow left it unclassified because they thought it was too abstract to matter. When the Air Force translated it in [----] a Lockheed engineer realized the equations could predict radar cross-sections of complex shapes. That paper became the F-117 Nighthawk and B-2 Spirit. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021374634504094067 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021374634504094067"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2021374634504094067)  2026-02-11T00:04Z 14.6K followers, 169.6K engagements


"Our first reactor @TungstenSeanide and I built it from Home Depot parts in three weeks. Rented a lab behind Dallas Love Field had to rip out the ceiling panels to fit it. That machine started a multibillion-dollar company. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. A year earlier I was [--] doing my MD/PhD studying how pancreatic cancer hides from the immune system using chemistry. The mechanism Cancer cells were producing hydrogen peroxide to blind immune cells. But the enzyme doing it It was more efficient than anything in industrial chemistry. Cancer was outperforming a $6 trillion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022092667606409236)  2026-02-12T23:37Z 14.6K followers, 117K engagements


"Tomahawk cruise missiles and M16 bullets need the same thing to fire: Black powder. It's not the main explosive but the igniter that starts the chain reaction. It was invented in the 9th century in China. Until June [----] a single plant in Minden Louisiana made all of it for the U.S. military. Then it exploded. The military imported from overseas while rebuilding. A 1100-year-old chemical was the single point of failure for 300+ modern munitions. The Pentagon has identified [--] more critical chemicals with zero U.S. production. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015953912155799786"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015953912155799786)  2026-01-27T01:04Z 14.5K followers, 100.9K engagements


"Your body is mostly water. Your car tires are mostly oil. Your phone screen is mostly sand. They say software is eating the modern world. But physical reality always outruns code in the end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2016662598490702056)  2026-01-29T00:00Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements


"xAI's Memphis facility now runs [------] GPUs. Behind every chip: silicon wafers from Japan (40% of global supply) fabrication in Taiwan (92% of advanced nodes) gallium and rare earths processed in China (98% and 90%). I've spent a decade in chemicals. You can build a plant in two years. The supply chain takes [--]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749762825764952 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749762825764952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2017749762825764952)  2026-02-01T00:00Z 14.5K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Always carry a fresh whiteboard marker. He who controls the whiteboard controls the narrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2018029849097523324)  2026-02-01T18:33Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Software is getting easier to build and harder to defend. Hardware is the opposite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2018112164838662406)  2026-02-02T00:00Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Musk says Tesla needs a TeraFab for AI chip production. But making a wafer takes 100+ chemicals. 60% of them aren't produced domestically at scale. Tungsten hexafluoride. Hydrogen fluoride. High-purity acids. To properly reshore semiconductor production you also need to secure the chemistry. @Benioff Starship should be able to deliver around [---] GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit maybe [---] GW. The per year part is what makes this such a big deal. Average US electricity consumption is around [---] GW so at [---] GW/year AI in space would exceed the entire US @Benioff Starship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2019199325365227607)  2026-02-05T00:00Z 14.5K followers, 635.5K engagements


"Lunar soil is 43% oxygen by mass. Electrolyze it at 1600C for life support oxygen. The leftover metals give you iron aluminum and silicon. Sinter the regolith at 1100C for bricks 3x stronger than concrete. Melt it into basalt glass for fiber insulation. South polar ice splits into LOX and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel. Over half the mass of a permanent moon base could come from what's already there. The Moon's surface is a mineral feedstock that space weathering has been pre-processing for [---] billion years. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020663694997467424"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2020663694997467424)  2026-02-09T00:59Z 14.6K followers, 77.5K engagements


"Boring on the Moon might be more practical than building on the surface. In [----] Marc Isambard Brunel watched a shipworm bore through timber at a dockyard and built the first tunnel boring machine around the same idea. The worm cuts at the front and secretes a structural lining behind it. Two centuries later the Moon might need the same boring solution. The surface hits you with 200x Earth's radiation 300C temperature swings and dust toxic enough to kill 90% of lung cells in lab simulations. Two meters of regolith overhead handles most of it. Lunar lava tubes stay stable at up to [--] km wide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2021023064700617165)  2026-02-10T00:47Z 14.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"People have no idea how vast the chemical industry is. One of our customers: An 80-person water treatment company in rural America quietly doing $250M in annual revenue spending $150M on chemicals alone. There are thousands more like them driving billions of chem spend per year. This is why it's a $6T market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2021739282973831654)  2026-02-12T00:13Z 14.6K followers, 56K engagements


"ABF substrate is the insulating film that AI infrastructure depends on. A Japanese food company controls 95% of it. Their main product Umami seasoning powder. Ajinomoto spent 20+ years doing materials R&D on MSG byproducts. Again the bottleneck is chemistry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015575429579677986)  2026-01-26T00:00Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@RaghavSing66481 I guess solar + battery would be a good start"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2020690584646877445)  2026-02-09T02:45Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@dr_chrisjones pchem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2020700756920373664)  2026-02-09T03:26Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@dr_chrisjones Yup. Thats the takeaway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2021024610993500410)  2026-02-10T00:53Z 13K followers, [---] engagements


"@JeremyFing17646 Its such a sleeper market. Those courageous enough to do it are rewarded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2021749434338382305)  2026-02-12T00:53Z 14K followers, [----] engagements


"The water in your body is older than the Sun. Much of Earth's water couldn't have originated in our solar system. It started as ice in interstellar space survived the Sun's birth and arrived on asteroids 4.5B years ago. Every glass you drink contains molecules that existed before the Sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2002915743470342552)  2025-12-22T01:35Z 14.2K followers, [----] engagements


"You're right @MinuteofZombie @Chris_E_Qld_Au @BillTheRadioGuy. No black powder in M16s or Tomahawks. Black powder IS still used in 155mm artillery igniters. Will do a corrected post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2016207401746366573)  2026-01-27T17:51Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements


"A tank primer (like M125) is a long metal tube (12 inches for 120mm rounds) filled with benite. The tube has vent holes drilled along its length. When fired benite burns and flames shoot out these holes to ignite the surrounding propellant. The problem: Benite is hygroscopic (absorbs moisture from air). Wet benite doesn't burn reliably. Those vent holes are entry points for moisture during storage. The solution: Lacquer plugs. A resin varnish that is thin enough to blow through when the primer fires but keeps the moisture out during storage. But it turns out it also comes off during handling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2017391138307723704)  2026-01-31T00:15Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Lets go solve it @Gaurab Yes it is extremely difficult @Gaurab Yes it is extremely difficult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2019391941037994201)  2026-02-05T12:45Z 14.6K followers, 24.8K engagements


"@paultoo Best yc group Jared and Paul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022405155883536675)  2026-02-13T20:18Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements


"An M16 primer ignites [--] grains of powder in a sealed brass case. A 155mm artillery primer has to ignite [--] pounds in cloth bags. It can't do it directly. So you need an intermediate step that catches easily and spreads fire: black powder. Even the army's new HERO primer for 120mm tank rounds leverages this medieval chemistry. They use benite in the primer tube: black powder embedded in nitrocellulose. With a distributed propellant the primer can't reach directly you can't skip the intermediate step. Black powder isn't the only option but it still dominates every fielded artillery and tank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2016306457386615191)  2026-01-28T00:24Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Within [--] years every major tech company will become a manufacturing company. Or they'll pay rent to one. Stop working in SaaS folks Join or create a hard tech company Everything below a certain complexity cutoff is not safe from being one-shotted by AI Luckily there is plenty of complexity in the world of atoms Time to do hard things again Stop working in SaaS folks Join or create a hard tech company Everything below a certain complexity cutoff is not safe from being one-shotted by AI Luckily there is plenty of complexity in the world of atoms Time to do hard things again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2017024981126041965)  2026-01-30T00:00Z 14.6K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Weekends in 2017: I put chemicals in my car and drove to float spas around Dallas. Poured them into customer tanks myself. @TungstenSeanide had his day job. I was finishing med school. That reactor in the warehouse couldn't afford process controls. We'd pray it wouldn't overflow. Bioforge today on the right. 📸 @sethbannon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2018474558421119133)  2026-02-03T00:00Z 14.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"In two years NVIDIA made air cooling physically obsolete for high-density AI. GB300 racks pull [---] kW each. Air can't remove that kind of heat. The liquid cooling market went from $2B to over $5B since [----]. We sell water treatment chemicals. Data centers became our fastest-growing customer segment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022487713287688344)  2026-02-14T01:47Z 14.6K followers, 117K engagements


"Tungsten hexafluoride is one of the most critical chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing. 85% of the world's supply goes directly to chip production. It fills the contact holes that connect billions of transistors layer by layer. China controls 80% of the raw material used to make it. In [----] Chinese tungsten prices jumped over 200% and export volumes dropped 40%. The US runs nearly [--] front-end fabs today. [--] more are under construction. Every one of them needs this chemical to operate. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020286469567574133 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020286469567574133"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2020286469567574133)  2026-02-08T00:00Z 14.5K followers, 62.7K engagements


"Goal zero. Only kpi that makes a great business @TheZvi Because everyones job is safety. Its not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders. Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts. @TheZvi Because everyones job is safety. Its not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders. Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022717167511171228)  2026-02-14T16:58Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@dr_chrisjones Just build something cool af"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022719853279261151)  2026-02-14T17:09Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements


"E.I. du Pont built his family's house in the blast zone of his own gunpowder mill in [----]. His wife and kids could see the powder yards from their windows. In [----] an explosion killed [--] of his workers because a foreman had been drinking. Du Pont banned alcohol on site that year. By [----] DuPont was 10x safer than all of US industry. In chemicals we call it Goal Zero. Every operator on the floor has stop work authority. Chemical plants run reactions at 800F. We use enzymes that do the same chemistry at room temperature in water. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022843311850164596"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022843311850164596)  2026-02-15T01:20Z 14.6K followers, 14.6K engagements


"@dr_chrisjones Best case your pH is off. Worst case dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2022854127689126258)  2026-02-15T02:03Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Granada engineers built the perfect water system. Today most architects can't replicate it. They moved water uphill without pumps electricity or external power. Here's how forgotten knowledge could revolutionize cities:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927394428714459590)  2025-05-27T16:00Z 10.5K followers, 137.2K engagements


"It's 13th-century Spain. Christian armies are conquering Muslim cities across Iberia. Cordoba fell in a single night. City after city toppled. But one fortress remained unconquered for 200+ years: Granada's legendary Alhambra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927394517822414938)  2025-05-27T16:00Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"The Alhambra's secret weapon Water. In a masterpiece of engineering its designers solved an impossible problem: Moving water [---] meters uphill to a palace high above Granada's river. The solution reveals engineering genius we've largely forgotten:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927394604313096563)  2025-05-27T16:00Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"When full water entered a curved siphon pipe. At the curve's top it created a vacuum seal. Surface tension pulled the remaining water emptying the bowl in seconds. The cycle would begin again a 14th-century automatic water clock"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927395126248190202)  2025-05-27T16:03Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Beyond timekeeping they built thermal baths with heated marble floors and adjustable steam rooms. The system included hot and cold plunge pools alongside temperature-controlled showers. All powered by water flowing through wood-heated copper boilers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927395209219838181)  2025-05-27T16:03Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Water flowed into a container with a bottom hole. As it drained it created a whirlpool generating low pressure that sucked air down. This air-water mixture became lighter than regular water. When forced into a thin pipe it rose higher than its entry point:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927395457958822359)  2025-05-27T16:04Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This system wasn't just clever it was sustainable. [---] years later much of the Alhambra's water system still functions. Before calculators or modern pumps these engineers created a self-regulating hydraulic system still studied today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1927395541215768619)  2025-05-27T16:04Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"At Solugen we take your hydration seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1932874261125083436)  2025-06-11T18:55Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Most people underestimate just how huge the chemicals industry is. One of our customers: An 80-person water treatment company in rural middle America quietly doing $250M/year revenue and spending $150M/year just on chemicals. There are thousands more just like them driving billions in chem spend per year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1942769007368544539)  2025-07-09T02:13Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Zuckerberg (meta) and Herbert Dow (Dow Chemical) are two understudied yet remarkable founders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1871270778228142285)  2024-12-23T19:04Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"26 years ago one book made four chilling predictions. In the last years three of them came true: Russian invasion ✓ Worldwide pandemic ✓ Global financial meltdown ✓ Now its final warning is about to unfold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1889711332196503908)  2025-02-12T16:21Z [----] followers, 197.7K engagements


"Great Depression World War II The cycle before that: Civil War And before that: The American Revolution The book made specific predictions in 1997:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1889711707507007727)  2025-02-12T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"1. A global financial crisis [--]. A pandemic with martial law [--]. Russia would invade a former Soviet republic All three materialized. But there was one more prediction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1889711784946520294)  2025-02-12T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Want to be part of America's industrial renaissance Follow me @GaurabC for insights on: Manufacturing innovation Industrial technology The future of chemicals Let's build a stronger foundation for the next [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1889712173213167618)  2025-02-12T16:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] scientists exhumed Amelia's body. After [--] years in the ground her remains were still powerfully radioactive. When placed near detection equipment her bones created a crackling sound showing ongoing radiation. What caused this horrifying death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1914660656923730297)  2025-04-22T12:40Z 11.2K followers, 108.3K engagements


"Radium. In [----] the Curies discovered this luminous element that seemed magical. By the 1920s Americans were obsessed with radium's "healing powers." Companies marketed it as a cure for everythingaging impotence cancer. And thus began America's deadliest health craze"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1914660781045768215)  2025-04-22T12:41Z 11.1K followers, 107.9K engagements


"One photo shocked the entire aerospace industry: SpaceX's new Raptor engine looked too simple to work. Their biggest competitor thought it was fake - now they're scrambling to catch up. Here's how Elon's Algorithm changed manufacturing forever:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1915012865075106199)  2025-04-23T12:00Z 12K followers, 45.9M engagements


""The best part is no part." This wasn't about cutting corners - it was reimagining what's truly essential. Through relentless iteration SpaceX integrated hundreds of components into unified structures. The results defied all expectations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1915013049486049341)  2025-04-23T12:01Z 10.5K followers, 221.2K engagements


"But Hubbert wasnt a neutral scientist. He was a founding member of Technocracy a movement that wanted engineers to replace markets. He advocated a full system overhaul that made socialism look tame. That ideology shaped his approach to resources:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1920146956107796489)  2025-05-07T16:01Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Meanwhile critics who got it right were ignored. Richard Gonzalez predicted U.S. production would exceed 200B barrels. Today weve produced over 239B and counting. McKelvey whom Carter fired said tech would expand resources unpredictably. He was right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1920146968669753477)  2025-05-07T16:01Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"The engineers needed more water pressure than the canal provided. So they dug a storage pool high above the palace. Water from the Royal Canal flowed into an underground pipe below this. Here's where it gets clever:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1927394783061819454)  2025-05-27T16:01Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements


"They installed a waterwheel with buckets at the top of a 60-meter well. Powered by animals this lifted water to create a 400m reservoir. This massive water volume pressurized the system created drought backup and enabled efficient distribution throughout the palace:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1927394861126213813)  2025-05-27T16:01Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Pyrex catalog from from [----] with hand-drawn lab glassware. Time to bring Intricate hand-made objects back https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1982890820006228403)  2025-10-27T19:23Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielleFong @lightcellenergy How're you all handling the salt recycling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1988661705787007339)  2025-11-12T17:34Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Reject the man cave embrace the study"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1989517552037359685)  2025-11-15T02:15Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@pronounced_kyle And a fridge full of Diet Coke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1989531662917435808)  2025-11-15T03:11Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@beffjezos First Nobel laureate to run a $T co"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1989532033958203782)  2025-11-15T03:12Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"People have no idea how huge the chemical industry is. One of our customers: An 80-person water treatment company in rural America quietly doing $250M annual revenue with $150M spent just on chemicals. And there are thousands more like them. This is why it's a $6T market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1989765624159957075)  2025-11-15T18:41Z 10.5K followers, 45.6K engagements


"What happens when model efficiency gains outpaces compute growth Compute requirements per user plummet after capex has already been committed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1989908024782446821)  2025-11-16T04:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Why not use the deep seas free 1000-bar pressure and cold temps to grow high-pressure optical crystals Doing this on land is insanely expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1990599080847028273)  2025-11-18T01:52Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@FracSlap Im biased but founders fund has done some really good vertical ai investments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1990792401208946926)  2025-11-18T14:41Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Love it when @shaunmmaguire talks chemicals. Shaun we gotta show you our CL-20 demos -) https://youtu.be/62X1vm3QBuEsi=UvJMbh-__HUxN40s&t=1874 https://youtu.be/62X1vm3QBuEsi=UvJMbh-__HUxN40s&t=1874"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1990898802815861016)  2025-11-18T21:43Z 10.5K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Came back from a Disney cruise. Wow. Disney is excellent at [--] things: [--]. Crowd control [--]. Maintaining a cult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1994069189951103256)  2025-11-27T15:41Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@kyleanthony Looks like ChatGPT did a great job copying Andurils website"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GaurabC/status/1994099912586506482)  2025-11-27T17:44Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Water can destroy steel. When it moves fast enough pressure drops and vapor bubbles form. When those bubbles collapse they create microjets that pit metal one tenth of a millimeter at a time with temperatures near 8600F. It's called cavitation and it eats ship propellers limits how fast dolphins can swim and is why your kitchen tap groans at certain settings. The 2-inch pistol shrimp evolved to weaponize it. @Jordan_W_Taylor https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/ https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1996644828927393989)  2025-12-04T18:16Z 10.5K followers, 13.9K engagements


"In [----] investors told us chemicals manufacturing was boring. Today they call it "reindustrialization." Nothing changed about the $6T market. They just needed @elonmusk to make factories cool again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1998055885495541892)  2025-12-08T15:43Z 10.5K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@Julian @Criconeel @xai juliraub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1998871849934131554)  2025-12-10T21:46Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"3 biggest problems of the chemical industry: [--]. Supply-driven system: huge plants force the wrong incentives [--]. Externality risk: for every person the supply chain touches [--]. Sustainability: carbon emission & supply chain uncertainty The solution is decentralization and that's exactly what we're doing with chemical mini mills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2001020741559705817)  2025-12-16T20:04Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements


"O'Neill built a working mass driver in [----]. On the Moon your launch cost is electricity. Lunar solar is essentially unlimited. @IterIntellectus When the mass driver on the Moon gets going Im not sure money will be relevant @IterIntellectus When the mass driver on the Moon gets going Im not sure money will be relevant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2001396445690331453)  2025-12-17T20:57Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Our first reactor @TungstenSeanide and I built it from Home Depot parts in three weeks. Rented a lab behind Dallas Love Field had to rip out the ceiling panels to fit it. That machine started a $1.8B company. People keep trying to throw it away but it still works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2002135773471178931)  2025-12-19T21:55Z 11.1K followers, 65.1K engagements


"Giga Texas Cortex. [------] GPUs running at full capacity since June. Up to 40% of data center energy goes to cooling. But it isn't even the bottleneck. Earth's grid can't scale to terawatt AI. 24/7 solar in orbit is the only path. Space data centers trade fans for radiators and water for thermal coatings. The constraint is still materials science. 📸 @JoeTegtmeyer https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002502873276367063 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002502873276367063"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2002502873276367063)  2025-12-20T22:14Z 11.1K followers, 138.3K engagements


"@zethedeuce What would have to be true for the heat to be dissipated efficiently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2002534295433297944)  2025-12-21T00:19Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@EricLDaugh This is true of all of academia Future of teaching/r&d is private companies driving the agenda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2002537807752147073)  2025-12-21T00:33Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Solar-powered AI satellites in deep space. Factory on the moon built by Optimus robots. Mass driver shooting satellites towards the Sun. Will need some gnarly materials science. Insane amount of work between here and there but it is possible Insane amount of work between here and there but it is possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2003088671839527384)  2025-12-22T13:02Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements


"2 million years of evolution compressed into [--] years. Lenski's long-term evolution experiment: over [-----] generations of E. coli still improving. We use the same principle at Solugen. Our enzyme improved 500x in [--] months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2003585103709241686)  2025-12-23T21:54Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Each second the Sun shoots [---] million tons of solar particles into space. Earth's magnetic shield deflects them. Mars doesn't have one. Thicker walls won't save us: cosmic rays shatter metal into even more damaging secondary radiation. The solution is lighter atoms. Kardashev runs through materials science. 📸 @NASA https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004335116991238333 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004335116991238333"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2004335116991238333)  2025-12-25T23:35Z 11.1K followers, 100.2K engagements


"@Jordan_W_Taylor A chemical engineers Disney World"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2004593655915725232)  2025-12-26T16:42Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Raptor [--]. 51% more thrust and 27% lighter. Christmas tree plumbing gone & heat shield eliminated. But one won't be enough. We'll need [--] of these on Flight [--] in Q1 [----]. This is what takes us to Kardashev. 📸 @SpaceX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2005283960344219657)  2025-12-28T14:25Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements


"NASA wants to turn Mars' moon Phobos into a giant plasma factory. Why Because Mars can't generate its own magnetic field. Its core has been dead for [--] billion years. Without one any atmosphere we build gets stripped into space. The plan: nuclear reactors on Phobos vaporize surface material. Solar radiation ionizes it. Then we accelerate it into a charged plasma ring around the planet. Current from charged particles creates a magnetic field. Same physics as any electromagnet. Wrap it around a planet and you get a magnetosphere. This is not a joke. NASA's chief scientist co-authored the paper:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2007548156331102461)  2026-01-03T20:22Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements


"VCs walk around with a $1000 iPhone [--] in their pocket and say they don't like investing in hardware. YC partners told us "do not expect to raise any meaningful money. No one understands what peroxide is." Sean and I brought a running reactor to Demo Day anyway. Air compressor was so loud they made us turn it off after [--] minutes. Raised our first round"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2008299419620594094)  2026-01-05T22:07Z 11.6K followers, 28.8K engagements


"@trevorjharmon Absolutely. Its a process ripe for process innovation (not science). And yes couldnt agree more with the [--] year overnight success"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2008744718256271735)  2026-01-07T03:37Z 11.2K followers, [--] engagements


"90% of our military TNT comes from one plant in Poland. We won't have domestic production until [----]. 70% of the world's antibiotic APIs are made in China. Reshoring focuses on semiconductors because chips are visible. The chemical supply chain underneath isn't. Only when it breaks. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009401458421354566 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009401458421354566"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2009401458421354566)  2026-01-08T23:06Z 11.3K followers, 90K engagements


"90% of our military TNT comes from one plant in Poland. We won't have domestic production until [----]. 70% of the world's antibiotic APIs are made in China. Reshoring focuses on semiconductors because chips are visible. The chemical supply chain underneath isn't. Only when it breaks. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010096024728092810 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010096024728092810"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2010096024728092810)  2026-01-10T21:06Z 11.8K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Why is China running the (periodic) table They're the leading producer of [--] of [--] elements. 98% of gallium. 83% of tungsten. 90% of rare earth refining"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2010508522610470918)  2026-01-12T00:25Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"@BowTiedCrow You are referencing an outdated academic paper that no one uses. Show me the actual MIL-SPEC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2011252603813036433)  2026-01-14T01:42Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@BowTiedCrow Im fairly certain that you dont know what youre talking about. We actually scaled back IMX-101 production in favor of tnt in [----]. Do you know why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2011253211173380480)  2026-01-14T01:45Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Boring on Earth. Home on Mars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2011943494596649039)  2026-01-15T23:28Z 11.8K followers, [---] engagements


"China banned antimony exports on December 3rd [----]. Now one smelter in Thompson Falls Montana is our ammunition supply chain. Population [----]. The last US mine closed in [----]. Prices hit $51500 a ton up from $12000 in [----]. Last September the Pentagon signed a $245M contract with that same smelter. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2025/mcs2025-antimony.pdf https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2025/mcs2025-antimony.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2012309899288654019)  2026-01-16T23:44Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Every F-35 since [----] contains Chinese magnets. 850+ jets. We didn't know until a subcontractor told us in [----]. The part was buried four tiers deep in the supply chain. China now controls 90% of rare earth magnets. We can't build fighters without them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2012660997652410831)  2026-01-17T22:59Z 11.9K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Much of the physical world is made in China. Much of the digital world will be made by Indians. Seems I didn't get that memo: I moved from India to Texas and started building chemical reactors. Physical reality always outruns code in the end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2013761219434553699)  2026-01-20T23:51Z 11.9K followers, 11.6K engagements


"Dysprosium and terbium. They mean nothing to most people. But without them an F-35 can't fly. They're in flight control actuators guidance fin motors the radar magnets. A single F-35 contains [---] pounds of rare earths. A Virginia-class submarine [----] pounds. An Arleigh Burke destroyer [----] pounds. They're in Tomahawks Sidewinders Patriots Stingers. Every precision-guided weapon in the U.S. arsenal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2014485485272629723)  2026-01-22T23:49Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"@dr_chrisjones Supply chain planning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015113827226997094)  2026-01-24T17:25Z 11.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@_chandlerl We need more trades training asap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015989184746455543)  2026-01-27T03:24Z 12K followers, [---] engagements


"Half the people alive exist because of one reaction: Haber-Bosch. No fertilizer - no crops - no food for [--] billion people. Chemistry is the most vital infrastructure no one sees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2013037443914891436)  2026-01-18T23:55Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"Rare earths aren't rare. They're everywhere. The bottleneck is chemistry. There are [--] rare earth elements and they all occur together in the same ore. Separating them requires multi-stage solvent extraction. Until April [----] America's only rare earth mine shipped its concentrate to China for processing. To the same Chinese company that's a major shareholder in Greenland's Kvanefjeld deposit. China has a 40-year head start. If we want to secure the military of the 2030s we need to close that gap. https://t.co/G7GNgKIdLx https://t.co/G7GNgKIdLx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2014837053167685932)  2026-01-23T23:06Z 12K followers, 22.7K engagements


"@dr_chrisjones Costco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015987930578223295)  2026-01-27T03:19Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"Step [--] is to stop calling it cleantech climate tech sustainability tech etc. It cheapens any perceived value proposition that a customer cares about today What The Cleantech Industry Can Learn From The Star Wars Holiday Special https://t.co/2FwpzFPd7c What The Cleantech Industry Can Learn From The Star Wars Holiday Special https://t.co/2FwpzFPd7c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1873223281765171616)  2024-12-29T04:23Z 12.1K followers, [----] engagements


"You can just do things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/1978814690672119823)  2025-10-16T13:26Z 12.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


"The Greenland "purchase" isn't land. It's two of the world's largest rare earth deposits in the south: Kvanefjeld and Tanbreez. Kvanefjeld alone holds an estimated [--] million metric tons of rare earth oxides. Its largest shareholder is Shenghe Resources. Tanbreez is now controlled by a New York company but 90% of global processing still runs through China. Owning Greenland won't solve this bottleneck. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015213539108233260 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015213539108233260"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2015213539108233260)  2026-01-25T00:02Z 12.1K followers, 28.8K engagements

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