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>Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about A squandrable abundance of free and clean energy means we solve the cl
by morphle 2y ago
>Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about
A squandrable abundance of free and clean energy means we solve the climate change and sixth mass-extinction crises in the next few years! It should be the only future we fund today. Just cheaper solar cells would do that. No new inventions needed.
Cheap clean energy is the most important next step for humanities survival. It will only cost 100 million, maybe a few hundred million dollars at most [1].
It also means we would get a money free economy as depicted in Star Trek The Next Generation. Even interstellar travel by solar laser and solar sail would become possible if energy is nearly free.
[1] Alan Kay, How? When “What Will It Take?” Seems Beyond Possible, We Need To Study How Immense Challenges
Have Been Successfully Dealt With In The Past https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf