# Mother of Hydrogen > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [155]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2012-11 (from the career record), https://github.com/rrthomas/moh. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Pointer to the novel containing Harappa. - Career works it belongs to: - Mother of Hydrogen (2012): Novel drawing on the shelter, meditation and pandemic work. - Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): Rocky Mountain Institute study, Pentagon co-sponsored, on getting the US off oil profitably. Technical... (suggested by machine) - In a Page (2010): A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet. (suggested by machine) - Above the Basin and Tashkent Horizons (2010): Two short stories: an outbreak on an orbital factory, and an agent of a guerrilla EPA in a post-crash... (suggested by machine) - Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur (2015): Contributor: wrote chapter 1, Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works, for a collection on warlords as... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (through a work suggested by machine) - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - transport: tribike and cars: Vehicles: the oil-efficiency car work and the tricycle. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Open government & anti-corruption (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Mother of Hydrogen (4 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); accounts (1 here; 51 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.78 (1.00 is the top), number 19 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [822] [Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md): same career work: Mother of Hydrogen - On the same works, just before: [402] [Meaning Conference hangout 6 @meaningconf (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md); [399] [Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/399.md); [395] Open Data Ireland 25 October inaugeral meeting (2012) - On the same works, just after: [390] [Big Picture Days Session 2 (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/390.md); [302] [Vinay Gupta - Protecting History (blockchains) Maker... (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/302.md); [194] [Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North... (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Mother of Hydrogen, document, 2012-11, https://github.com/rrthomas/moh; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [155], https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://github.com/rrthomas/moh) Origin: live GitHub - rrthomas/moh: Vinay Gupta's novella "Mother of Hydrogen" · GitHub Skip to content Navigation Menu Sign in Products Platform GitHub Repository hosting, code review, and collaboration Copilot AI coding agent for tasks, projects, and automated work Build & Ship Actions CI/CD and automation Code Quality Quality analysis, fixes, and enforcement Codespaces Cloud development environments Secure Code Security Vulnerability detection and remediation Secret Protection Secret scanning and leak prevention All Features Developers Learn Documentation Training Certifications Build Build with Copilot Customize Copilot Integrations Explore Trending repos GitHub Sponsors Developer articles Changelog Changelog Your source for the latest features, improvements, and fixes across GitHub products, all in one place. 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Footer navigation Terms Privacy Security Status Community Docs Contact Manage cookies Do not share my personal information You can’t perform that action at this time. --- End of [155] Mother of Hydrogen. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [390](https://guptaoption.com/texts/390.md) Big Picture Days Session 2 (2013); the most closely related, [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md) Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.