Palmer Luckey
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11 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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The reason it's so interesting to me is that Tibet seems so misapportioned.
You have so much money going into battery electric vehicles and electrification of electrical infrastructure that's not moving.
And almost nobody betting that you can build systems that make dollar per gallon hydrocarbon fuels using either biological processes like algae farms or mechanical processes, however you're making the synthetic fuels.
And of course, if someone figures it out, they're gonna really knock a whole bunch of stuff sideways.
And we talked about this before, but it's especially interesting because lots of companies make poor technical decisions and they decide to go down a product path that doesn't make sense.
I personally feel like this is a case where you have dozens of governments around the world have decided to commit to a particular product path
that isn't optimal.
It's not the optimal end state or the optimal near term.
And they're dumping hundreds of billions, maybe trillions of dollars into that bet.
It's something that I'm worried about.
Well, in this case, it's 1950s era Department of Energy documents regarding potential energy futures for the United States accounting for what they assumed would be a nuclear future.
I always find it interesting when I go into an area that I don't understand to try and understand it better.
Even I want to understand what's going on in the modern day.
You want to go back to the future and say, what were people saying back then?
What are the ideas that people aren't even discussing right now?
Because I don't want to be too pessimistic on present, but if you look through a lot of the academic literature and government literature today on energy solutions for the United States, they're really, really narrow-minded.
They are really, really politically driven.
It's all about what is aligned with the current debates going on between political parties.
The people in these agencies are largely tied to the things that have already been deemed important.
And if you go back, on the other hand, to let's say post-World War II America, where we were really thinking from first principles, what do we want the world to look like?
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