🤝🏽

So I guess you managed to resist.

non-aplicable

This is great. Gonna send it to my dad. Thanks Lyn

“When countries adopt cultural views or government policies against energy density for the sake of optimizing some other variable, they’ll generally diminish their share of the world’s economic output, either knowingly or unknowingly. They can make that decision, and the rest of the world will move on without them, until they choose something different.” Still working through it but this describes so much of where the US political agenda took us off track imo

Serious question Lyn. Have you personally done the work on WHEN the existing cost curves of Solar, Wind and Batteries MIGHT converge to provide local system (not grid scale) energy density that would rival existing fossil fuel systems? I have an intuition that this will be required for humanity to move to the next stage of civilization organisation. Interconnected independent local systems instead of large scale centralised ones. Thx 🙏🏻

I think we'd need to reach like, self-replicating solar satellite bots for that. Until then, energy dense sources win. In the meantime, I also think OTEC is among the best ways to capture solar energy in the long run for equatorial coastal communities, who can also export it. It lets the solar energy concentrate in the ocean and then captures it. There's a bunch of bitcoiners working on that.

It was hard, but yes. And yet, I still threw the phrase "science fiction" into my newsletter at the end.

@Guy Swann when read episode ?

Do you have any back of the envelope work product to show this is still (definitively) a long way off? The reason I ask is that I’m close with a well meaning independent think tank of systems engineers that believe we are within 5 years of the cost curves of solar, wind and batteries not only being competitive but surpassing fossil fuel energy density. At the local level, even. I’m skeptical, but I don’t have the detailed understanding of the cost curves and physics that would validate or disprove their claims…. And I’m too lazy to spend the time recreating it all from scratch. Was hoping you were my shortcut 😝

Nah, one of the few things that hits my inbox. RSS >>>

Nice, thank you!

Hyper fixation is "always" a strength 😉