Palmer Luckey
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1,661 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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What do we want the United States to look like?
And what are all of the ways we could get there?
They were thinking very expansively.
And so this idea of extremely cheap, synthetically manufactured biofuels that would get rid of strategic dependence on limited oil supply or allow us to sell off our oil supply to make money in the near term while still having a robust renewable base of energy to power our industrial machine, our war machine, you name it.
That was an idea that was of interest to people in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s.
I think mostly all of this fell apart when it became clear that we were not going to be a nuclear economy, mostly, again, for political reasons, not practical or technological reasons.
So this was a case where I didn't actually have to be a big thinker.
I just had to go say, what were people thinking when they were allowed to think whatever they wanted and when they could think really, really big things?
And it's not even just on fuel.
There's other interesting things they were thinking about back then, like today.
If you say, what's the best way to help the environment in the United States?
It's actually very calcified.
There's very little consideration for things that are better than what currently exists.
Preserving the status quo is the ultimate good.
There's very little consideration for what is better for people, what would be better for more animals.
And if you look back again, the earlier parts of the United States history, there were serious proposals by the Department of Interior to say, what should the United States ecosystem look like if we could make it whatever we wanted?
What animals would we have?
Would we have hippos?
Would we have rhinos?
Why not?
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