Chris Bradley
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 29 Mar
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So does that mean I need 8.5 times more energy?
No, because remember I also said we've got our magic pet tradition, the world improves.
And one thing we improve at a lot is efficiency.
Like if you think a Google data center, what that does with a kilowatt hour of energy versus an aluminum smelter, it makes many, many times more economic value.
So we get better and better at turning energy into economic value.
So when you plug all that through, you need about three times more energy.
So by the way, straight away, that means any talk of energy transition,
becomes kind of a weird idea because we don't need an energy transition.
We need to continually grow and add new energy.
So we need an energy renaissance is what we need, not an energy transition.
So you need three times more energy.
But what thing many people will realize intuitively because they're putting fuel in their tank, but maybe mathematically they don't know is only one in five parts of energy come in the form of electricity at the moment.
In China, it's actually closer to one in three because they've got a lot of coal.
So they've got this strong urge to electrify their economy.
So we're in a world that's going to be clean and going to make all these constraints happen.
And by the way, where are we going to get the new energy from?
Because it's very unlikely we're going to scale up our oil system 3x.
is going to be an electron.
So we've got to electrify the world.
So three times more energy, but we need actually 12 times more electricity, right?
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