Isaiah Taylor

civilizational level technology, which we should not replace quickly.

One more example of this is actually distribution.

This is very counterintuitive.

So I like to point out to people, we talk about the energy grid, the electrical grid, and we think of the electrical grid as the way that we move energy around the world.

But the electrical grid is actually a very, very small fraction of how we move energy around the world.

It's very tiny.

How we actually move energy around the world is by shipping hydrocarbons.

The numbers here is about 8%.

8% of energy movement is electric.

92% of energy movement is hydrocarbon.

So just an example.

We talked about different scales of power, gigawatts and megawatts.

the largest electrical site on planet earth is the three gorges dam in china right so it's the largest concrete structure ever created by humans massive massive hydroelectric dam in china it has a nominal nameplate generation of about 22 gigawatts and practicality makes about 17 gigawatts huge huge energy facility and it distributes these through massive electrical cables that snake all throughout china

We have a pipeline coming down from Canada called the Keystone Pipeline.

The Keystone Pipeline is a pipe about this wide.

It's standard steel, right?

About that thick.

And you can calculate how much energy does that thing push.

And you can, this is gonna be a chemical energy figure, not electrical, but it's basically the same thing.

It's just energy.